AA03: DeGaulle's Aggressive Adventures

[GreyFox]

I think it doesn't looks as hopeless as it seems. For one thing, I am lucky.

Heh, two good events.

Well the other Civs are getting good events as well:

But I was wondering what had the worker done to warrant being exiled to Celtic?

I deleted him to end his misery. And also save us 1 gpt. It will be quite some while before we can bring him home.

Hammurabi came along demanding us to cancel our trade with someone.

Nah. I don't think so.

Which reminded me to extort tech from him since he is way weaker than us.

But we can't extort. Hmm... ??? Must be pholky and his stupid insistence on No Tech Brokering!

The dreaded time had finally arrived ... the peace treaty is over ...

But since when did we sign peace with so many people? As I recall, we only signed peace with the saladman.

I was waiting in fear for the war horn to blow, while concentrating our esp on JC alone -- no use spreading it over 4 civs. JC alone has enough techs to steal from

Finally, we have a spy there and he can steal Literature at 30% discount. I decided to wait 2 more turns for the full discount, but damn, the spy got caught the next turn!

To compound on it all, the war horn sounded as well.

JC goes to war!

Fortunately, we are not in the war. It is Mao DoWed on JC. Apparently the mole doesn't like the salad.

This may be good, may be bad. Good is we can probably wait for an opportunity to pound on JC as well. Bad is, Mao will probably go for us next if he finish off JC.

I had a replacement spy n place by the end of my turnset. The next guy can go ahead and steal Literature or wait for 50% discount at the risk of it getting captured again.

 

[pholkhero]

Good and lucky turns, Fox ~ do we have any sort of army to capitalize on the war JC is in now? (oh, and since the peace came via AP vote, everyone has 10 turns of peace.)

but i have to ask: wouldn't it be better to concentrate EPs on someone like Hammy who has techs like Engineering, rather than JC who has Lit?? further, shouldn't we concentrate on one of the vassals who may have access to better techs from their master's but only be able to muster a poor EP per turn number.

so, obviously, the next move is to field an army if we don't have one and go after JC i think, no? We're definitely not going to win this game sitting around. I say we go all out, whip/build an army as we can, and go with it. See what happens. One last all-out effort and that's that.

finally, i have to note: first, Agg AI sg i had Fox was in, we lose. After two successes in AA1 and 2, fox is in 3, we're losing. Hmmm. . .

settings cued in custom game

Roster:
beserks01 >> UP NOW
Imhotep >> on deck
pholkhero
mystyfly
negyvenketto
GreyFox >> just played

 

[berserks01]

Ah ... I've got it then. Let's close our eyes, cross our fingers, tie our hands behind our back, and hope for the best.

 

[pholkhero]

Ah ... I've got it then. Let's close our eyes, cross our fingers, tie our hands behind our back, and hope for the best.

now i'm going to imagine you playing by smashing the keys w/your nose.

"D'oh! I got snot on the mouse, and declared on everyone."

 

[mystyfly]

Looking much better

But I was wondering what had the worker done to warrant being exiled to Celtic?

That was started by me, I escaped from the capture of Tours with this worker. Seems negy moved him around a bit as well

 

[berserks01]

Taking a look around, I noticed that JC is concentrating his forces in defense at Rome. Most of his other cities have 2-3 defenders and most are Praets. Unfortunately, we do not have any army to nab some cities from him. Looks like I'll be rallying some troops this set.

Mehmed came and cancelled the incense for 10gpt deal.

Then JC wants CS for Mono I'm not about to give him access to Maces, so fergettaboutit.

Our spy is discovered and executed by JC, Rome fell to the Chinese, and we got a good event

The AP election

and results

I stopped when I saw JC with maces and building trebs.

We have a stack ready to move out at Orleans

Another stack that needs some more maces to move out at Rheims.

I thought I queued up another spy somewhere, but I don't see him so next player might want to do that.

 

[GreyFox]

Good urns.

Damn abt spy being caught. This means its better to steal techs immediately then to wait for 50% discount.

Who's up?

 

[Kodii]

lurker's comment:

Good urns.

I agree. A better vessel for holding body ashes I have never seen.

 

[mystyfly]

Damn abt spy being caught. This means its better to steal techs immediately then to wait for 50% discount.

I disagree. Rather wait for 50%. We need to steal as many techs as possible before they get security bueros (which we need to sabotage) so we need the EPs and should take the risk of losing 1-3 spies. But usually not that many are lost I think.

 

[·Imhotep·]

Got it, will play tomorrow btw...

 

[pholkhero]

i also agree that its better to wait. During the PH spy game, we didn't lose very many and we survived mostly on stealing.

good turns ~ i haven't been able to look at the save, but it looks like we're about ready for a dogpile here.

Roster:
beserks01 >> just played
Imhotep >> UP NOW and has it
pholkhero >> on deck
mystyfly
negyvenketto
GreyFox

 

[·Imhotep·]

Discussion alert:

Did anybody notice JC is the Vassal of Mao who has a power more than twice that of ours, not to mention he has better units ? As it is right now we can't declare on anyone. Thoughts ?

 

[GreyFox]

Arghh .... berserks must have missed the message amidst the clatter. Good thing is this happens before we declared on JC, else the results would be unthinkable

So, let's concentrate on spying then ...

 

[pholkhero]

Obviously none of us are that smart.

ugh.

i have one idea, and it starts with an "r" and ends with "estart"

 

[pholkhero]

crossed w/fox ~

and do what, then??

what VC would we be aiming for at this point? I'm all for playing from difficult situations, give me a reasonable plan, and i'm game. however, at this point, i can't see a way to a win here.

 

[GreyFox]

Damned ... is winning that important?

Go ahead if you want to restart. Personally I would want to see if if we can steal enough techs to possibly compete in the modern age. Chances are, though, Mao would be marching for us next.

--

 

[negyvenketto]

Is there chance to steal monopoly tech or is it too expensive? In that way we can trade it away and catch up with others.
Even if we are not going to win, I'm curious to see how far we can go, too.

 

[·Imhotep·]

Okay, I'm doing some spy action then...

 

[pholkhero]

make it so.

 

[mystyfly]

I don't see any way we could win tbh. We're SO small. We'll need to focus on espionage and neglect military. This means we'll either be in the stone age forever or we'll be overrun by the Agg AIs. We can go on of course but honestly, we won't be able to do anything.