670 AD - FP Minus 1!

[Master Zen]

Urgent Business


Bring out the champagne, our FP is just one turn away...

btw, sorry for not posting a report last turn, I kinda did the turn in a hurry and didn't have time to make it.

[Aggie]

I recieved the following from GS.........

"Hello to you MZ,

Forgive us please for asking you to reconsider your chosen route for acquiring Theory of Gravity - on the basis of GoW's best interests and GAUL's.

1. By obtaining it from Lego instead of GS you will slow down your entry into the IA by three turns, delaying your acquisition of Steam Power and Industrialisation with all their attendant goodies.

2. By trading Mil Trad to Lego this eliminates a possible distraction for Lego which might otherwise have diverted them from the fastest route to the the IA wonders which they must be denied.

3. By delaying Medicine, the best hope of denying Lego the ToE is dangling by a thread. Of GoW-ND-GS, only GS research output, including the two science Wonders, can get to Scientific Method before Lego. The timing of Medicine is everything in this plan. If GoW perhaps fancies a shot at the ToE itself, and hence has a motivation to obstruct the GS plan, only Lego will benefit from this.

If you are committed to your decision to again trade with Lego, so be it, but the GS offer is still on the table, and ToG will again be on your doorstep when the turn arrives

We too will inform Lego what we think of the Sistine situation in due course. As we have had no diplomatic relations with them for centuries, we have no channels at the moment.

The two science wonders are paramount for us, and we fully intend to get them, in accordance with our entire post-war policy of economically narrowing Lego's margin of dominance.

May Blockhead Mortar turn to Mush! Long live GAUL!"

I'll admit it seems strange to wait 3 turns tio start researching whne we could start now.

Also any update on the talks with LEgo abourt Eco and Adam smiths and sistine. If it would help I'll volunteer my self to make a "special trip" to lego to see what can be worked out.

Aggie

[Panzer32]

GS... the saviour of us from Lego

Screw them

[Master Zen]

Consider that these 3 turns have allowed us to accumulate enough $$ to fully upgrade our armies. Also consider that Lego could have gotten MT in 4 turns and that, well, we weren't going to war against them anyway...

Regardless of our recent "siding" with GS as of late, we made a deal with Lego before GS sent us their offer. GoW is not a deal breaker ( ).

As for Adam's, in case y'all didn't notice, Lego finished it last turn. Chatting with vondrack last thursday, I told him our team had been pissed that Sistine's had been used as a prebuild and that we should be released from the agreement not building it. He disagreed.

To be honest, I don't give a damn, if GS builds Copernicus or Newton's, I have every intention of switching to the Sistine's and snatching it from Lego. Aggie, if you want to be a "special envoy" and rough-handle Lego on this issue, be my guest

[Master Zen]

City Builds
- Camp Cod builds worker (named "Guardian")

Military

- 4 Pikemen upgraded to Muskets
- Galley Enterprise upgraded to Galleon
- Warrior in Irongard disbanded (useless and speeds Library by 1 turn)

Workers

- Guardian move S-S-S
- Chong moves NE
- Brezhnev roads at Skulgaria E
- Trip irrigates Alert S
- Skulgaria roads at Yellowknife S-SW
- Toyota moves SW
- Yang roads at Dreadnaughtica SE
- Cookie Monster moves to Iqualuit N
- Blockhead I, II move S
- Wilderness irrigates at Iqualuit NW-W
- Nader mines at Port Isolation NE
- Desolate mines at Resolute S
- Zen worker moves to Camuldonum NW-NW
- Hall irrigates at Macao S-SE

[Master Zen]