OB08 - Tall Poppy Syndrome
- Thread starter Ozbenno
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True but worth thinking about. Sphener would also be good (Righteousness).
Well thankfully my dual install worked and I can load this baby up.
All looks good so I keep going. Faeryl is getting out of sight, we are probably going to have to go after her/Basium at some stage. Research is et to Mathematics as the extra movement from Engineering would be very handy.
We maraude our way to Argenteria and decide to add it to our collection.
Auric is helping out and capture two cities of Alexis'. In turn Faeryl is destroying him.
We take Acaia as well.
Well we get Sorcery!
Prespur is razed as it is swamped in vampire culture.
Stopped at Engineering and set course for Necromancy again!
I've set us up for taking Morr'ta'nar and then heading towards Dwarves tyaking/razing as we go.
Its all about grabbing points now. We lost one axe in the whole 15 turns. I haven't upgraded any axes to Champions yet, when we grab the next city, might be worth dropping to 0% for a few turns and doing so.
There are re-inforcements heading towards the front but will take a little while to get there, missionaries heading there as well.
All looks good so I keep going. Faeryl is getting out of sight, we are probably going to have to go after her/Basium at some stage. Research is et to Mathematics as the extra movement from Engineering would be very handy.
We maraude our way to Argenteria and decide to add it to our collection.
Auric is helping out and capture two cities of Alexis'. In turn Faeryl is destroying him.
We take Acaia as well.
Well we get Sorcery!
Prespur is razed as it is swamped in vampire culture.
Stopped at Engineering and set course for Necromancy again!
I've set us up for taking Morr'ta'nar and then heading towards Dwarves tyaking/razing as we go.
Its all about grabbing points now. We lost one axe in the whole 15 turns. I haven't upgraded any axes to Champions yet, when we grab the next city, might be worth dropping to 0% for a few turns and doing so.
There are re-inforcements heading towards the front but will take a little while to get there, missionaries heading there as well.
Xenoborg, we're back to you. You able to play?
Ooops, yeah I got it, will play after work. Didn't realize we were down to this few.
Our play is to finish off Alex and the dwarves, and probably Auric too if FV doesnt do it first.
Dain is our best bet for 3rd player, and if we can get him we'll be in a pretty good position.
After the little ones are gone we should go after FV to end with a 1/3 power split.
I'll raze for the most part, but we will need a city to upgrade and for land points.
Our play is to finish off Alex and the dwarves, and probably Auric too if FV doesnt do it first.
Dain is our best bet for 3rd player, and if we can get him we'll be in a pretty good position.
After the little ones are gone we should go after FV to end with a 1/3 power split.
I'll raze for the most part, but we will need a city to upgrade and for land points.
I think we don't raze but keep cities at this stage (unless they are completely swamped culturally), we need to start making some headway points wise.
Start turn
Things all look pretty good
578
Auric loses Grottiburg to FV
Have our hawk take the perfect lyre we just captured to Jubilee for culture.
579
Necromancy in, start on Righteousness (27)
I decide to put entropy on our second node for rust. Haste wont speed up our cats, dance of blades is pretty weak, blur is good but not as good as rust.
Auric loses Aldworth to Dain
I spend 5 turns to throw up Heroic Epic in Vallus, will pay for itself in 10 turns.
580
FV loses Gigno back to Auric
I accidentally attack a Nightwatch in Dains land. It has his flag though so I didnt even notice it was a HN unit. The attacker was a catapult who retreated so no harm.
581
Auric loses Gostai to FV
Take Morrtanar from Alex with no losses.
582
Auric loses Maron to Dain
Privateer kills one trireme, and it killed by the other, but not before he pillages the clams.
Take Gaudium from Alex with no losses.
583
Auric loses Tenura to FV, hes really getting pounded.
Khazad are no longer vassals of FV. I sign peace with them for way of the wicked since we wont be in position to attack them in 10 anyway. We are his worst enemy so he wont give us taxation for anything .
584
The 10? Turn peace treaty to Khazad ends early?
Auric loses Barduk the Burning to Dain.
Valin runs down some longbows in the field because he is cool like that.
585
Aruic loses Caltakk to FV
Were starting to run low on cash so I set research down to 70, now making 31 per turn. Righteousness goes from 21 to 29.
586
Auric loses Garduk to Basium and Pavunar to Alex
587
Auric loses Sludgehome and Nininsnal to Dain
We get a GM and the bulb is ½ of taxation, so I use him for a GA.
588
Auric stops trading horses, banana, pig, dye, fur, gems, and ivory to us for spirit mana, probably because he lost them himself.
Dain will gives us gems and horses and 6 gold for spirit.
Auric gives us pigs and dye and 8 gold for iron.
Auric loses Lakis to Basium.
Valin takes Nubia with no losses.
Building summer Palace in Acaia (in the middle of Alexs land) to offset high city costs.
589
Auric loses Roxar to Basium, hell be dead by the end of this set.
590
Take Poena for the loss of a suicide cat.
591
Arg, Auric manages to sign peace with everyone who was dogpiling him. Hes now by far last in score so we will have to end him too.
Take Krinera for the loss of a zero xp chariot.
593
Take Santaron for no losses, and Krinera for a cat and a green crusader
595
Take Pavunar and Adonias.
598
Uh oh, FV, Basium, Kandros, and Auric all declare on us Weve got some decent forces on FVs border, but most of them have almost no xp. All our cities are also now unhappy and unhealthy from the loss of a lot of trade resources.
Our army in Alexs land is pretty strong, but a bit spread thin to defend all these cities.
Things all look pretty good
578
Auric loses Grottiburg to FV
Have our hawk take the perfect lyre we just captured to Jubilee for culture.
579
Necromancy in, start on Righteousness (27)
I decide to put entropy on our second node for rust. Haste wont speed up our cats, dance of blades is pretty weak, blur is good but not as good as rust.
Auric loses Aldworth to Dain
I spend 5 turns to throw up Heroic Epic in Vallus, will pay for itself in 10 turns.
580
FV loses Gigno back to Auric
I accidentally attack a Nightwatch in Dains land. It has his flag though so I didnt even notice it was a HN unit. The attacker was a catapult who retreated so no harm.
581
Auric loses Gostai to FV
Take Morrtanar from Alex with no losses.
582
Auric loses Maron to Dain
Privateer kills one trireme, and it killed by the other, but not before he pillages the clams.
Take Gaudium from Alex with no losses.
583
Auric loses Tenura to FV, hes really getting pounded.
Khazad are no longer vassals of FV. I sign peace with them for way of the wicked since we wont be in position to attack them in 10 anyway. We are his worst enemy so he wont give us taxation for anything .
584
The 10? Turn peace treaty to Khazad ends early?
Auric loses Barduk the Burning to Dain.
Valin runs down some longbows in the field because he is cool like that.
585
Aruic loses Caltakk to FV
Were starting to run low on cash so I set research down to 70, now making 31 per turn. Righteousness goes from 21 to 29.
586
Auric loses Garduk to Basium and Pavunar to Alex
587
Auric loses Sludgehome and Nininsnal to Dain
We get a GM and the bulb is ½ of taxation, so I use him for a GA.
588
Auric stops trading horses, banana, pig, dye, fur, gems, and ivory to us for spirit mana, probably because he lost them himself.
Dain will gives us gems and horses and 6 gold for spirit.
Auric gives us pigs and dye and 8 gold for iron.
Auric loses Lakis to Basium.
Valin takes Nubia with no losses.
Building summer Palace in Acaia (in the middle of Alexs land) to offset high city costs.
589
Auric loses Roxar to Basium, hell be dead by the end of this set.
590
Take Poena for the loss of a suicide cat.
591
Arg, Auric manages to sign peace with everyone who was dogpiling him. Hes now by far last in score so we will have to end him too.
Take Krinera for the loss of a zero xp chariot.
593
Take Santaron for no losses, and Krinera for a cat and a green crusader
595
Take Pavunar and Adonias.
598
Uh oh, FV, Basium, Kandros, and Auric all declare on us Weve got some decent forces on FVs border, but most of them have almost no xp. All our cities are also now unhappy and unhealthy from the loss of a lot of trade resources.
Our army in Alexs land is pretty strong, but a bit spread thin to defend all these cities.
Are we at war with everyone but Dain?
Oh dear, should be fun.
Lobsterboy is up!
Oh dear, should be fun.
Lobsterboy is up!
Maybe Alexis and Auric both vassalised to Arendel? We should seriously think about Crusade and world spell now.
I dont think there was any vassalizing.
We do still have 3-5 turns left on our golden age so we can swap whatever civics we need quickly, and I think its time to go crusading. Also in ~10 turns we finish research on righeouness and can make paladins and sphener (though should we consider saving sphener for player 3?)
We do still have 3-5 turns left on our golden age so we can swap whatever civics we need quickly, and I think its time to go crusading. Also in ~10 turns we finish research on righeouness and can make paladins and sphener (though should we consider saving sphener for player 3?)
reverend oats
King
Good luck. Are you aiming to switch to Auric or Dain?
Lobsterboy
Immature crustacean
I cant remember offhand if there are any civic changes we can make for happiness, we have 3-4 unhappy in most cities now. Crusade will help with the WW, but we dont have very much of it atm, most is just from size and wanting republic.
Might also be worth it to use the culture silder.
Might also be worth it to use the culture silder.
I'd go Sphener, if we try and leave it for 3rd civ, our old selves will just build it anyway.
Lobsterboy, how is it going?
