Team Info and Contacts - Banana

[sunrise089]

Guilds will be nice. We'll be able to own Templar crossbow+mace stacks which will otherwise be painful.

[regoarrarr]

So I was thinking about this and wondering how hard we thought we could push / suggest Banana?

I mean obviously they are our only ally and we dont' want to honk them off, but I was a bit confused by him saying that he couldn't close borders with PAL due to their NAP.

Unless that is specifically mentioned in their NAP, couldn't they do that?

Especially since it's looking like a Lib->Mil Trad beeline for PAL, does Banana think that they are not going to get a beatdown at the end of the NAP? How can we encourage them to think that and be ready for it?

[ruff_hi]

The best course of action for Banana re their expiring NAP is to have PAL worried about someone else. Now - who would that someone else be? TRB! From Banana's point of view, they have 35 (is it 35?) turns to get us to a position that we can realistically launch an attack on PAL (or to get us close).

[Zeviz]

We should probably warn them that they are about to face PAL curassiers, so they can't afford to play around with Paper and Music. I'd also send them instructions for setting up a Globe-powered draft city. (With a caveat that he doesn't tell anybody that we are planning to do this ourselves.)

[sooooo]

A draft email:

Hi Team Banana,

You can have drama this turn. We also can supply you silks for free if you need hapiness. Guilds would be really good to get before you research paper or music. It's your choice ... but if we can whip a few knights then they could do some damage against our opponents.

Could Louis Pasteur be used for an academy in your capital?

Rabbits closed borders on us, presumably because of some kind of deal with Imperio. It doesn't affect us because we didn't have trade routes with them anyway but it's a strange decision, especially as we helped them earlier in the game and have cordial relations with them.

We are slightly concerned about PAL's ambitions - they could be setting up a military tradition slingshot with liberalism and could be going for a curassier strike. We suggest that you set up one of your high food cities with the globe theatre, so that you can switch into nationhood once we get you nationalism and then you can draft an army. Also we consider that it would be very dangerous for you to trade guilds to them since that tech is needed for curassiers.

We notice that you have used the slider against templars and imperio - any information you can give us about their or PAL's research is always useful to us. We think PAL are using binary research so their time to the tech may not be accurate.

On our continent no one has made much of a move. Templars' stack is still on a hill in our territory, doing nothing. Imperio still have their big stack in a border city, staring off our equally sized stack. The current score against their combined armies is 7-1 in our favour.

Regards,

Realms Beyond

[Dreylin]

Looks good to me!

[ruff_hi]

Looks good. Do we want to include the thread link about the globe / draft city? Also, I think it is 9-1.

[Zeviz]

Sounds good.

[Dreylin]

Including the link is a good idea.

I think 7-1 is right:

Two Templars units on the hill
Three Imperio horses in the center
Two Templars spears in the center

[ruff_hi]

Well, then sooooo got it wrong here ...

I trust sunrise's judgement on that. But I don't think we need the 2 chariots against imperio at least.

Sunrise, you planning on making the moves soon? I'm looking forward to the 9-1 scoreline

and then 2 posts later ...

No time for a full report yet, but I'll do the fun stuff:
*Charsi at 99.6% on the Combat III Spear = dead spear
*Charismatic at 99.5% on the wounded Spear = dead spear and revenge

[Dreylin]

Well I checked the combat logs and it's definitely 7-1.

[timmy827]

Slight nitpicking - Guilds needed for knights, not curiassers.

[sooooo]

Hmm, you can build curiassers without being able to build knights? OK, I'll have to take that line out.

[ruff_hi]

Well I checked the combat logs and it's definitely 7-1.

Gees - quoting the game and expecting me to agree that it is right. Ok. Well, all I can say is that sooooo led me astray!

[Kylearan]

Message looks good!