Sure, the longer we take, the tighter we wind that rubber band, and the more powerful the move!is it really a power move if it takes this long to pull it off?
At 1744 now, a victory vote in 1748 (two turns away), then Sec Gen in 1756, then victory vote in 1764. Two more to dodge, but they may have a tactic ...Seems to me that the war is a godsend for them, as it makes them think about getting everyone to declare on HC. That might well get them the votes they need for the win. Even without the war, getting everyone to declare on HC is probably the right move (they should have done it sooner).I have played only a few turns since a new problem turned out. Mansa has declared on HC and has already taken Vilcamba. If he takes Berlin we could be in real trouble. I think the situation calls for some "deperate" measures and that's why I have stopped for discussion.
Mansa capturing Berlin would be very bad for our prospects. This mean that we must either declare on Mansa to prevent him from capturing Berlin or declare on HC and capture Berlin back. Best option seems to be to capture Berlin ourselves. This lead me to the somewhat risky idea of bribing as many as our friends as possible to go to war with HC. If we are lucky it will make them vote for us in the next elections because they will start disliking HC due to the war. I checked and saw that Mao, Hatty, Kublai, Caesar and Alex can all be bribed to go to war with HC. If we get their votes and manage to keep Gandhi and Vicky's votes we could win. If we fail we have to capture Berlin before any of our friends (and Mansa!) but that should be doable. Worst case we could cash rush a galleon in a city near Berlin and move some military over there. As far as I can see we don't have much to loose anyway. And we might as well act before the next election comes up in 1748.
No tiebreakers. You'd both get bronze (assuming the other unfinishec teams don't surprise us.)
Yeah, I read that but I haven't looked at theri save. THink I'll just wait it out, too busy preparing for the WOTM07. BTW, well done on 4OTM15, dV. I have a possible solution for your skill dabate. Someone takes Lexad's second-to-last save and milks it. My guess is that a good dairy farmer could milk his save for a lot more than 150K, because it wouldn't take too long to max out a lot of cities, so the pop could be similar to Jove's but V much earlier.Love to hear LC's thoughts about this development!
. So I'll just take your word for it and congratulate you with your 2nd place 
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The subsequent 15 pages of trash talk are much more interesting tho'.....
Big Pig said:
. He probably realized sooner than the rest of us that we would end this game in close competition with the likes of you and couldn't face this . Maybe he was the smarter one...
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I fear you may be confusing the BP DiploV gambit (TM) and the various wild ideas thrown together in the MB thread. To qualify as the BP DiploV gambit, the UN giveaway has to be successfully engineered to orchestrate an early DiploV. Having read the MB thread, I see no evidence of this having been applied....Before he left the team he had already described the so called BP gambit in post #37
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No shame in getting this idea a couple of months later and at least he says it's clever
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The definition of successful teamworkAnd wasn't it really you who had the wild ideas and LowtherCastle who orchestrated the win
Not so limited at all. Sadly, most posters here for whom English is not native command the language better than about half of Americans!
It APPEARS as IF that is true!I suppose it's the last two interpretations that best describe your relationship with LowtherCastle
da_Vinci said:
da_Vinci said:
. Trash talking comes natural to most danes whenever we meet a worthy opponent. It's the heritage from our viking ancestors to exchange some punches just for fun.
