Goz11- 5CC-Deity

[Mathias]

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Pre-turn- Change Delhi to cavalry. Waste of 80 shields.

IBT- Persians take Osaka. Darn.

1. Go to Kyoto, last remaining city, but discover huge Persian cav stack already there.

iBT- Persians take Kyoto, killing japanese. Build HE.

2. Error, restart from autosave. There are more dyes available according to mapstat, probably being traded to Japan. Then I thought maybe our rep is ruined, but it's not. Also our net income dropped.

 

[zerksees]

gozpel, please give us your thoughts on making war with Persia and who is next. Thanks

 

[gozpel]

Own is still on turn 2, then it should be Mathias, if not Smart find time to play.

We still have deals, so war with Persia isn't great right now. We can of course try to steal, as I noticed our research is still on minimum. But before we do anything drastic like that, we should have MPP with at least Sumeria (probably Korea as well) It would be costly though.

I also noticed our borders will expand within 2 turnsets, all 4 cities except the capitol that is. That will help us later.

We need a bunch of cannons too, before we can feel somewhat safe from any intruding X-men.

And yeah, we need to pillage some roads here and there, so Persia can't blitz us. It's an useful strategy to slow things down.

 

[Own]

Got it chief, finish up today. So I'll prepare for a war.

 

[zerksees]

Own - today was yesterday...

 

[Own]

Yeah, I had a lot of HW and chores. Finish up ASAP.

 

[Own]

Can't post turnlog again, too bad. Will post notepad file.

Summary:
Built up army, we should attack Persia when we're a little stronger, and when they're a little more gassed from Sumerian war. I'd suggest stealing steam power from Korea carefully, and workers are already in place to build first RR city connection.

 

[madviking]

lurker's comment: Ack! Persia spreading like a virus!

 

[Own]

Yes, but Sumeria and us will be great white blood cells .

 

[madviking]

[OT]You're thinking of bacterial infections, this a viral, WE NEED VACCINES!!![/OT]

 

[Own]

WBC's help cure both. Bacterial infections usually require antibiotics. Persia is a common cold, not the flu, so WBC's, not a vaccine will help.

 

[madviking]

WBC's help cure both. Bacterial infections usually require antibiotics. Persia is a common cold, not the flu, so WBC's, not a vaccine will help.

Yeah, but if Persia is AIDS, we're in deep trouble.

*spam mode off*

 

[gozpel]

Will rep hurt us if we sign MPP with Sumeria? I never understood how it worked with MPP, but in my head, we declare when they attack Sumer and therefore we break the deals. Can anyone confirm how it works?

In worst case scenario (if that happens) we have to use our abilities to steal even more effectively. Which means spies. A broken rep right now, would hurt us more than X-man, so we need to be careful. So in fewer words, we need to get to Espionage fairly quickly.

If Smart still wants to play, he's UP, otherwise it's Mathias. I haven't kicked Smart out, just regulated the rules, so if he wants to play I have no problems with that.

I'm too tired right now to evaluate the save, will do that first thing in the morning.

 

[zerksees]

If Smart still wants to play, he's UP, otherwise it's Mathias. I haven't kicked Smart out, just regulated the rules, so if he wants to play I have no problems with that.

I think it will be a skip for Smart - in his signature it says he is on skip til further notice.

 

[Own]

Yes, it will ruin rep. A good quote I read from someone in a discussion is "Will it hurt our rep if... Yes"

 

[Mathias]

Let's see what I can do, then...

Edit:
Um... I thought we were going to crank up research on Medicine?
And if we want war with Persia, why have we renegotiated trades in the last few turns?
I'll put this off until tomorrow, as I am a bit confused about which direction we are going.

 

[zerksees]

Mathias - I think the war with Persia is the way to go though it sounds like it will have to wait until the trade deals are over, therefore not during your turn. Not sure why they were continued either.

Just make the preparations.

 

[gozpel]

Another question about rep. If we try to steal something from Persia and fail, they declare, what does that do to reputation.

I never thought about stuff like that as in my own SP games I don't really care.

 

[Ansar]

lurker's comment: I dont think it affects your reputation, I think it just makes the AI annoyed or furious with you.

 

[Own]

It doesn't affect reputation, but you don't get -30 WW points. In Bamspeedy's "Beyond Sid" he rop raped egypt buy failing a steal and no rep hit.