Turn 250: 1300AD

[Aeson]

Opening the save.

[Aeson]

Opening Diplomacy:

RP sends 150g+WM accepted.
Vox sends Military Tradition accepted.

[Aeson]

Builds:

EotS finishes Bomber.
Bolderberg finishes Sub.
Tornado finishes Battleship.
Typhoon finishes Sub.
Sandstorm finishes Settler.
Monsoon finishes Sub.

[Aeson]

First look:

ND has placed 2 cities on Lego. They've got an undefended Settler ready to build a possible IW city.

GoW has placed another city on Lego.

Vox has placed another city on Lego.

ND has moved 4 DD into view of our ships on the W coast. The Frigate has moved S.

[Aeson]

Military Advisor:

ND:

1 Settler (-2)
38 Worker
20 Marine
14 Cavalry
58 Infantry (-6)
52 Tank (+12)
7 MI (+6)
1 Frigate
17 Transport
1 Sub
8 Destroyer (+3)
1 Battleship
18 Bomber
4 Ansar

GoW:

2 Settler (+2)
20 Worker (-3)
2 Explorer
31 Marine
10 Cavalry
48 Infantry
56 Tank (+1)
52 Artillery
27 Transport
6 Carrier (+1)
1 Sub
19 Destroyer (+1)
1 Nuke Sub (+1)
3 Fighter (+1)
24 Bomber (+6)
2 Rider

[Aeson]

Ok, ND has moved an Infantry onto the Uranium Mountain on Lego. Hmmm.

Killdaria safely sabatoge is 7212.
Borcem is 2646.
Tempest needs 7 turns to complete the UN.

[vmxa1]

GoW makes nuke sub, yuke. ND +12 tanks and converted 6 infantry to MI and +3 DD.

A bit scary, since they were just fine with what they had vs GoW. Either they want more defense for Legoland or they have expansion on their minds.

Do we have Uranium. I forget or do we even have the tech? Well I guess so if you know that UR is on a mountain on Legoland.

Do we stil want to drain off cash from RP or get them to do something useful with it to get defended or move?

Why make a 6th carrier? Is that the best thing to do?

[Aeson]

I am having CPU heat problems. Just locked up.

I'm going to have to figure out what the problem is before starting the game back up. My Athlon XP @ 2.0GHz never used to get higher than 46C at load with this setup, but lately jumps up to 53C+ when I start up a game and idles a few degrees higher than it should. This was the first crash though.

[vmxa1]

Try adding another fan, preferbly a quite one.

[Aeson]

I have 4 80MM case fans fans (all 31cfm and 21dba ). The ambient case temperature is good, staying around 32C Idle and 35C load. I took a look at everything and the video card's fan wasn't working (Old Radeon 8500 LE). Probably was that that caused the lockup, but I'm still in the dark why the CPU is running so much hotter than it was just a couple days ago.

[Aeson]

Well, underclocked the CPU and it seems to be holding up fine now. Starting back in on the save, everything replayed as it was.

[Aeson]

I just noticed our S Galley didn't wake even though there is a ND DD in range. Pulling back the 2 Galleys.

I'll post a picture of the situation on the W coast. Not sure what ND is doing. Moving their DD's out to sea and putting an Infantry on the Uranium looks like a blantant provocation on their part.

[Aeson]

Attacked the Barb Camp (on a Mountain... scary! ) with a Tank. First attack 5/5. Second attack 4/4 with a second Tank.

[notyoueither]

Are we ready? Events suggest something is in motion and it is most likely headed towards us.

[Aeson]

I'll post a summary screenshot. We're not ready, but we're close. If ND had hit us this turn they could've landed between OG and WW as we only had 1 MI fortified there.