Turn 96, 650 BC

[Harovan]

Originally posted by alva
PS;
How do you guys get this going, with the ' * ' sign, semi transparant..? Or do you just use colour code?

What do you mean, this?

/me shoots himself with both hands in both feet.

If yes, just write /me (will be replaced with your name) and what you're going to do.

If no, sorry, explain what you meant.

[asleepathewheel]

SR-

When you posted: "Since I see that I am not welcome to a degree of insults and personal attacks, and have tight time issues anyway, I leave this game out."

on the main page, were you referring to your earlier pleas on our forum to tone down the insults, or were you referring to the vox-gs trash talking. or were you commenting on Togas' comments?

If the former, then I apologize for anything I have done that has insulted you or made you regret your involvement in this team. I thought you did a great job of leading us and miss your involvement in the team, though I understand your time problems, as my time for this game is about to become nonexistant itself.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
When you posted: "Since I see that I am not welcome to a degree of insults and personal attacks, and have tight time issues anyway, I leave this game out."

I was addressing Togas' troll, of course.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph


I was addressing Togas' troll, of course.

Ah, thats what I figured. He's got some issues, thats for certain.

[alva]

That's what I meant SR, thanks.
I thought I tried that though, even with [ ] and < > tags
Learned something new today...
/me tests if it works...
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I to was thinking of Lego, on the other hand, much more action on BoB. Then again, the only option would GoW
Hmm, joining Vox should be interesting,

[DeepO]

For me the game would be over we'd lose, which would probably be a better thing for my involvement in Candle'Bre.

As to general diplo talks: you're probably right. I think Lego was still worth it to set them up against RP, and although we can't push it further, and it may not have done all it was intended for, it did us some good. If we could get them to buy Feud from us later, instead of getting it elsewhere, it would be great. It still looks like RP is getting to them, though, and it may be good to mention this in chat.

As to announcing this is going to be a bloody war: I don' fully agree. If we make it sound like it would be a very touchy situation, we could expect a Bob invasion instead of a war between Bobians. We should not tell we are going to walk over them, but we aren't going to walk over them any time soon, so there is no point in telling anyone that. At best, we could take out Vox by the time our GA ends.

One thing we should start discussing, though, is whether we want to have knights, or not. Are we going to get the tech from another team? In that case, can we have an eta on it?

Further open diplo questions:
- Have we told GoW already not to invade us if they don't want a war? No ruse!
- Could we get something to ND going, asking if they will be going for chivalry, and if so would consider selling it to us? (the price on chivalry should be a lot lower then the 200 gold we offered GoW, because there are two researchers, instead of one. I don't think GoW has any reason to get a better deal from us then ND would, ND might be the one needing our support)
- Vox peace offer: we could taunt them a little, by offering them a peace treaty, in which we agree not to attack them the next 10 turns, if they withdraw their troops, and give us 200 + 20 gpt gold in war reparations. Would be a lot of fun posting that, they will get pissed, and hopefully will be less careless. These will probably be the last turns they appear strong to us, once their first force meets our defense, we will be at least average to them. The whole point is that they should not accept, but if they would, we build defenses, and go for chivalry, which we can get in 5 or so turns.

- GoW screenshot: where is the last one? I hear some rumours about it, but haven't seen it... could anyone post it here, or in last thread, please?

DeepO

[Harovan]

On the last was only one warrior. I won't post the shot, though, because GF makes them very big.

Just a new shot arrived, with 2 regular spearmen and a vet immortal "Tom the Terminator".

The pic is available at our "secret" mail account, who wants to see it.

[DeepO]

Thanks got, it. It's a strange pic, though... I see one reg immortal in a stack, and another popup showing 2 reg spear and 1 vet immortal. However, I thought the upper right corner should be positioned at the unit that was clicked on, and in this case it should be beneath the popup.

At any rate, this shows 2 immortals in the shot, Sir Ralph, not 1. Not that it matters much...

DeepO

[alva]

What are we going to do with the northern WC btw.

Can we afford to have him go north. They might have to pull back 1 or two units to cover for him.

I would only move him one tile though, so he can't run in with anyone.

[Randolph]

DeepO, you really that one of the Bob civs would seriously consider the military investment necessary to attack us? If they were to attack us they would leave themselves wide open to an assault from fellow Bobers. Of course this certainly isn't something that I plan to push.
I tend to think that teams will be more militarily motivated by whom they perceive as a strategic threat opposed to whom they consider "easy pickings" (since they're really isn't a team that falls into that category, certainly not when you consider the complexity of an over seas attack).
have to go

[asleepathewheel]

Saves in, did I read that right, Vox said they took 3 minutes to play their turn, or is this another trick by Vox/RP?

[notyoueither]

Sorry to interrupt.

Dominae. read your PMs. Please?

[nbarclay]

The save is here. ND accepted our offer without offering anything back! That's obviously unacceptable, so I'm clearing the table.

[notyoueither]

Information we're not supposed to have yet deleted - Nathan. (Nothing earth-shattering, but I want to keep things as kosher as possible.)

[nbarclay]

I don't have time to play the turn right now, but I went ahead and forwarded it to the usual suspects and sent out an opening screenshot. It looks like a cat in Monsoon and maybe another in O.G. are our only good pre-turn rush options; we can rush the one in Monsoon without sacrificing our ability to upgrade our two warriors this turn, but not the one in O.G.

One thing that looks good if surface impressions are correct: it looks like Vox did not deliver their third immortal by Hurricane all the way down to where the first two are, so that buys us some extra time. That gives us more options and safety margin in considering upgrading one of Hurricane's swords (although we can't do that, upgrade both warriors, and rush the cat all three). Our cash is at 150 gold, and the cat rush would cost 16.