MS Embassy & Intelligence

[Kaleb]

"from both you and MS"

(thanks for sending the note btw )

 

[Kaleb]

I've sent a chase up message to MS as we need to hear back from them:

Hello Scientists!

We haven't heard back from you about our request for Gold. We do need Feudalism, but not urgently. What is more urgent is the chance to take a key city off from SANCTA.

If you can help us with Gold we will:

a) be able to research Machinery faster (and of course give this tech to you)

b) be able to upgrade units quickly

We've already received 60 from Team Cav, can you send us a similar amount this turn please?

We will of course not forget any such gestures and also want to remind both of our allies that so far we have contributed the most technology to the alliance.

Once Cav discover Paper and we are able to trade with each other, what resources are you most in need of? Could we have your ivory in exchange for something else?

Regards,

Kaleb

 

[Indiansmoke]

We have trade routes with MS now...can we send a gold for ivory deal in game?

 

[Kaleb]

I already pm'd them to ask what they needed in exchange for Ivory, not heard back

 

[donsig]

What do we have that we can give them? I thought we sent our extra gold resource to Team Cav?

 

[Kaleb]

MS haven't said what they want yet!

The latest from the great communicators:

Hello Scientists!

We haven't heard back from you about our request for Gold. We do need Feudalism, but not urgently. What is more urgent is the chance to take a key city off from SANCTA.

If you can help us with Gold we will:

a) be able to research Machinery faster (and of course give this tech to you)

b) be able to upgrade units quickly

We've already received 60? from Team Cav, can you send us a similar amount this turn please?

We will of course not forget any such gestures and also want to remind both of our allies that so far we have contributed the most technology to the alliance.

Once Cav discover Paper and we are able to trade with each other, what resources are you most in need of? Could we have your ivory in exchange for something else?

Regards,

Kaleb

Hello
I haven't get a PN from you about money, the last was a question about oB with SAN.

Btw
We haven't enough money now,

Regards

HUSch/MS

 

[Indiansmoke]

Send them an in game trade screen...ivory for gold....saying can we borrow for 10 turns to build some elephants since we are at war?

 

[Kaleb]

I'll keep pestering Husch until he says what they want for it. If we have Ivory we may as well get Stat of Zeus in Haz as well. That will be basically +200% on production

 

[Indiansmoke]

Statue gives artist points...do we want that?

It would be nice to have....but not in capital IMO. maybe Pavlodar after forge.

 

[damnrunner]

I think building it in Haz would be OK. It will dilute our GP pool a bit but will also increase overall GP production. And it will build much faster there.

But either way we should hold off on building it until we feel that we have a strong enough military.

 

[Kaleb]

the sooner we build it thought the sooner SANCTA get double war weariness. especially useful if we are actually killing some of their units!

btw I got this pm from Husch:

Hello
1. We need for at least 2 turns the luck (ie happiness) of ivory, so I 'll give you ivory for wine.
2. We 'll reduce our research and have some money for you in your turn.

I 'll play in 4 hours and look here again in 12-13 hours, so you can give an answer and we can deal.

HUSch

Great! Should mean we can get our first elephant on our coming turn with the chop

 

[damnrunner]

That sounds great - ivory for wine is good.

How quick could we build the Statue of Zeus in Haz?

 

[Kaleb]

Messages sent and received by Husch:

Hello Kaleb/cav scout

Do you need some money this turn, then replies so.
We can send 55 this turn. I 'll look here in 15 hours.

we see your 2 ships like cats near Phoenix, but our warrior Ana sees no way to you. Is there a way from us to you or need we go across SAN-territory?

HUSch mad Scientist

My reply:

Thank you for the offer of help with money. We've gotten the gold we need from Team Cav this turn but we'll need 63 from you next turn if that's ok?

Team Cav will get Paper in 2 turns so your workboat won't need to explore any more as we will give you all of our maps. Could you instead send your workboat East to lookout for any SANCTA ships coming along the coast?

What's your latest estimate on when you think you can get Feudalism? After that would you be willing to run at 0% as we will soon have 2 academies and we can tech faster. We will of course need to talk more closely with you to make sure we are researching techs that you need to as we would be researching for both of us.

 

[damnrunner]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Kaleb]

Got another PM from MS:

Hello
For your intelligence

Your enemy SAN makes a tech-proposal to us.

Aesthetics and Literature (448 + 299 ) for HBR (373) or 130 .

We will decline, that isn't the question. I'm surprised about the value of for them. 130 for HBR.

btw there is real no way to you, we (warrior Anaxagoras) are near the SAN-town in the north of the mountains near your land.

Good luck
HUSch

This is cool - they have a warrior north of the mountain pass. We should encourage him to explore SANCTA lands for us get with Paper

 

[damnrunner]

Interesting - I wonder how much of this is an actual attempt by Sancta to trade for tech vs. an attempt to spread misinformation about their intentions.

 

[Kaleb]

They are pretty good on the misinformation front. What do you want to bet they are after HBR now?

I chatted with Husch a bit and they'll use their warrior to map out SANCTA lands. He also told me SANCTA have 4 cities along the coast.

 

[damnrunner]

Only 4 coastal cities - that is good. With the G lighthouse they get a big boost for coastal cities. It also means their ability to spam a navy is less than it could be.

Sancta may declare war on MS to kill the warrior and gain xp. Just a thought.

 

[Kaleb]

Message from Husch:

Then we will go at drama, I think, one of you has Music so there is no need to make it fast. we can reseach with low rate, but we train a scientist, so there is some research to do.

Ana is at the moment in Ti kuan Yin, I 'll send a picture to your email at the eot. In the moment there is a barbwarrior at nw of town and round some SAN-units, but no unit in the town.

HUSch

I think Drama is fine.

Great they have a warrior on TKY! the city is undefended and there is a barb warrior lurking around...

 

[damnrunner]

MS is in pretty bad shape. Maybe seeing Team Cav empire will encourage them to grow.