Played turns

Niklas · Jun 30, 2009

Summary: We sink 9 FREE transports, despair over the sabotaged Apollo build, and otherwise continue as usual.

We received 124 gold from BABE. We should thank him!

EWS notes:
Full EWS run, after finding the FREE stack.

MM stuff:

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Military stuff:

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Pre-build planning:

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Research to 50%, 466 g, -379 gpt, satellites in 3 it reads, more likely 4 or 5 depending on how much we can sell.

donsig · Jul 13, 2009

Summary: SABER has 15 stealth bombers, a stealth fighter, 46 jets and 9 armies, among other things. FREE has 20 stealth bombers, 10 stealth fighters, 22 bombers, 14 transports and 16 settlers among other things. They both still need space flight, nuclear power and miniaturization as well as other techs. Exposing SABER's spy would cost 134g/201g/268g (immediately/carefully and safely). No costs are shown for FREE.

News flash! The Council close to launching first satellite. With a record number of scientists on the job (33) The Council should be able to put a satellite into orbit within ten years.

Pre-paid advertisement: For sale, cheap - barracks and granaries. Cathedrals sacrificed. Bank assets being liquidated. Coal plants scrapped. Special deal on factory.

No peace offers.

Builds:
The Squeeze: worker ---> wealth

EWS notes:

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EWS report:

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Moves:
Workers rebuilt 3 roads and began another. Other workers moved to tiles needing roads.

Buildings sold:

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The Silo (-9f), The Chamber (-1f), The Treasury (-1f), The Gulag (-5f) and The Bayou (-2f) are starving (food shortage with no food in the bin). The Gulag and The Bayou can grab tiles to stabilize, the others cannot.
OGI switched to SAM battery to continue getting civil engineer bonus.
Cops changed to scientists (except for one in The Arboretum).

Drafted in The Chamber and disbanded the unit there. Rookie mistake - no shields gained since it's working on Battlefield Medicine. Ooops. :blush:

Well, the city isn't starving any longer.

Pre-builds:

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Science rate set at 70%

668g, -515gpt, satellites in 2 turns.

And I forgot to take pictures.

donsig · Jul 28, 2009

Summary: We garrison The New Yard and The Nursery with 27 units each. Use other land units to secure the rails into these cities and the projected landing zone. Our navy heads for The Pier while our air force continues to try to control the skies. We used only one plane for recon so we do not know if the missing SABER transport or any FREE transports are within landing range.

All libraries and universities sold as we shut off research. Running 31 scientists we are two turns from satellites. We exposed both SABER's and FREE's spies and are set to build Apollo next turn in The Arboretum. The Treasury and The Silo are still starving. We begin training new workers.

The Arboretum riots.

Moves:

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SABER has 30 marines and 9 armies for a potential of 39 attacks. They have 16 stealth bombers that can reach the two threatened cities from their mainland. They also have 7 carriers that can hold 28 planes with lethal bombardment. That's 30+9+16+28=83 possible kills. We have a few mobile SAM's and The Nursery has a SAM battery but SABER also has 32 ships that could bombard. So we'd need 84 units in each city to guarantee their safety. We have only 136 or 68 per city and that leaves all our terrain open to SABER's bombers. Garrisoning with less than 68 units may be safe but I have no idea how to go about calculating the odds. Paul said use 40-50 units, dl said 40 and Yilar siad 15-20. I went with 47.

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Fortified 7 tiles (5 mountains and two flat) leading to the cities and landing zone with 6 units each (basically 2 marines and 4 armor each).

Workers that did not build roads are positioned on cratered tiles to build strategic roads next turn.

Set science rate to 0%.
Sold all libraries and universities. This raised 730g and lowered our maintenance costs.
Spent 268g to try to expose the SABER spy and 256g to try to expose FREE's spy. Success!!!

Switched The Gulag to Manhattan, switched The Arboretum to Apollo (dumping 60 shields) then switched The Gulag to a palace.

Prebuild status:

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Switched to one turn workers in The Bayou, The Pier, The Phoenix, and The Red Tape; a 2 turn worker in The Ways and a 4 turn worker in The Dislodged.
The Silo and The Treasury are starving (-5 fpt each).
Drafted a unit in The Silo and used it to protect our iron.
Running 31 scientists.
0% science, 30% lux. 371g, +135gpt and satellites in 2 turns.

donsig · Aug 11, 2009

Summary: The Pier is abandoned. We are set to build eight space ship parts next turn. Researched upped so we can finish satellites next turn. The Bayou and the two threatened mountains are garrisoned. Our lone arty shells SABER cruiser.

Builds:

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EWS report:

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Moves:

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Sold harbor and platform in The Pier, draft a unit there and abandoned that city.
Also drafted in The Treasury and The Silo where there is starvation. Used these two units to guard the rails S of The Treasury and E of The New Yard.

Moved our lone artillery to the southern most threatened mountain and shelled the SABER ships in range. Nicked the elite cruiser for 1 hp.

We begin building our space ship:

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We did not mobilize since we do not have enough pre-builds left. If we mobilize we cannot build the palace or manufacturing plants. I'd rather not dump the extra pre-builds just yet.
Raised science rate to 10% and it shows satellites in one turn. I keep the scientists as insurance.

We have 588g, +26gpt and satellites in 1 turn.

donsig · Aug 26, 2009

Summary: We learn satellites and complete 8 spaceship parts. We make peace with SABER and then put space flight on the table. We lost both our spies in failed attempts to expose enemy spies. We have mobilized and begun producing armor again. We have five cities working om the two remaining spaceship parts. We begin clearing damage near The Silo. The starvation in our cities has ended.

Accept SABER's peace offer and put space flight on the table without accept.

We have learned the secret of satellites. We begin research stealth. We have a complete world map now.

Builds:

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EWS:

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Post EWS moves:

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Preparing to mobilize:

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The Greenhouse switches to a cruise missile (1 turn) so it can begin a worker next turn.
All scientists (but one) switched to taxmen.
Research set to zero.
Tried to expose a SABER spy for 136g. Shouldn't have been so cheap, our attempt failed blowing our spy's cover.
I spent 256g (the safest) to expose FREE's spy. This also failed. Now we have no spies.

Artillery moved to The Admiralty, shoots at FREE ships and misses.

219g, +82gpt and stealth in 50 turns.

donsig · Sep 6, 2009

Summary: We had another turn where no one bombed us and were able to get a couple tiles near The Silo back in shape. This, some micro-managing and an increase in the luxury slider gets us within six turns of completing the engine. Thrusters set to build in three turns, though we may want to delay this to match the engine. We'll have a couple more jets and more workers next turn. We sent offers to both FREE and SABER (without accept).

SABER accepts our offer of space flight but didn't put any money up. I clear the table.

The New Yard: radar artillery ---> worker (1 turn)
The Greenhouse: cruise missile ---> worker (10 turns)

EWS notes:

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EWS report:
We've spotted only on new stack of ships in the north. They are FREE ships with half a dozen transports! The stack also contains 3 cruisers and 7 destroyers.

Put space flight back on the table and send it to SABER without accept.
Put peace ans space flight on the table and send it to FREE without accept.

Moves:
Nuke subs move back to The Dislodged and The Nursery. Another moves 2NW and ends along the coast two tiles from The Admiralty.
One transport moves into The New Yard, the other moves 4S.

Sold harbor in The Beach for 15g and abandoned that city.

MM stuff:

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As noted in the spoiler I raised the lux slider to 40%.

Pre-builds:
The Silo: Battlefield Medicine (3 turns), 346s, 52spt, 640s in 6 turns (+18s)
The Igloo: UN (24 turns), 363s, 28spt, 640s in 11 turns (+31s)
The Gulag: Manhattan (23 turns), 411s, 17spt, 640s in 14 turns (+9s)
The Institute: Engine (12 turns), 280s, 30spt, 320s in 2 (+20s) or 640s in 12 (+0s)
The Treasury: Thrusters (3 turns), 305s, 7spt.

Switched The Aerie and The Arboretum over to jets. These will complete next turn and we'll also have 6 new workers.

Spent 116g to successfully plant a spy with SABER and 108g to successfully plant a spy with FREE. FREE does have a leader. They have 14 transports, 21 marines, 16 settlers, 21 stealth bombers and 3 carriers among other things. SABER has 20 transports, 9 armies, 1 settler, and 46 jets among other things.

We have 29 units on the two threatened mountains and 72 units in The New Yard. I put 7 armor on the hill NE of The Shallows.

92g, +18gpt and stealth in 49 turns.

Niklas · Sep 22, 2009

Summary: Lots of bombings continue to crater us. We try to recover as best we can.

Diplomacy:
SABER offers Peace and 5400 gold without accept. I add Space Flight on our side, accept and send.
FREE offers Peace for Space Flight with accept. I accept.

Builds:
The Ways: worker -> worker
Chamsuri's Cove: worker -> worker
The Arboretum: jet fighter -> jet fighter
The New Yard: worker -> worker
The Nursery: worker -> worker
The Marina: worker -> worker
The Dislodged: worker -> worker

EWS report:[/I]
No FREE transports in range.
SABER has their large stack just out of range from The New Yard, near the ruins of The Bayou.

Moves and MMing:
Improve and rebuild around The Silo primarily. Join one worker.
No units are in range of The New Yard, spread its (72) defenders to cover tiles around The Silo and The Gulag.

Pre-builds:
The Silo: 370 s, 29 spt. 640 (+20) in 10.
The Gulag: 427 s, 19 spt. 640 (+15) in 12. Starving.
The Igloo: 367 s, 18 spt. 640 (+15) in 16.

The Treasury: 312 s, 7 spt, 320 (+6) in 2.

Sorry, forgot the screenshots. :blush:

Niklas · Oct 6, 2009

Summary: We rally around The Silo and hope for the best.

Builds:
The Aerie: Jet -> Jet
Chamsuri's Cove: Worker -> Worker
The New Yard: Worker -> Worker

EWS report:
No FREE transports in range.
SABER has their large stack out of range from The New Yard, near the ruins of The Bayou, and near The Chamber.

Moves and MMing:
Improve and rebuild around The Silo and The Gulag primarily. Shave one more turn off The Silo after join two workers.
Keep defenders spread out over the land surrounding The Silo in particular.

Military fun:
Artillery misses Battleship
Radar Artillery puts Battleship at 3/4.

Pre-builds:
The Silo: 399 s, 34 spt. 640 (+31) in 8.
The Gulag: 441 s, 14 spt. 640 (+11) in 16.
The Igloo: 385 s, 18 spt. 640 (+15) in 15.

The Treasury: 319 s, 7 spt, 320 (+6) in 1. In other words, completes Thrusters unless sabotaged.

Paul#42 · Oct 14, 2009

The Treasury finishes SS Thrusters. :banana:

The Ways, Chamsuri's Cove, The Nursery, The Marina worker -> worker

Our army is at 92 MA, 35 MechInf, 13 Marines, 3 TOW and 9 SAM.
SABER 117 MA, 85 MechInf, 30 Marines. 22 Transports, 26 Stealth bombers. 9 Armies.
FREE 82, 79, 21. 14, 22. 1 MGL.

18 SABER transports 5SE of The Chamber.
I run partial EWS and don't find anything important... :shifty:

I successfully expose SABER's spy at highest confidence for 272g. :splat:

I mobilize. :salute:

Switch some worker builds to cav to gain shields.

Join 2 workers to The Silo, 2 to The Gulag.
I sell all plants because we wopn't build any factories anymore. :ack:

Use a bomber to confirm it's useless against that fleet stack. :mad:

A jet takes care of it... 2gpt unit support spared... :dunno:

Play with cruise missiles. One hits elite destroyer to 2/5.

Another wounds a vet to 2/4 :coffee:

3rd 3/4
4th 1/4
5th 2/4
6th 2/4
7th 3/4 -> 2/4
8th sinks 2/4 :woohoo:

Nuc sub loses to 2/4 destroyer -> 1/4 :wallbash:

unit upkeep down to 286gpt :smug:

Place 32 units into The Admirality. :scared:

18 each remain on the coastal mountains.
Could they finally attempt a landing, please? :rolleyes:

donsig · Oct 29, 2009

Summary: We set our defenses and hope for the best. We bombed SABER's armies causing a little damage and losing two bombers. We have 90 armor in The Chamber and a radar tower SABER can't reach. The units SABER landed do not account for all their transport capability in the area. Most of our jets were send to The Chamber and we did not do any recon. We sent four spaceship techs to FREE with accept. We lost our spies unsuccessfully trying to expose other spies.

SABER offers peace without accept. They must have forgotten to clear the table. I press 'escape'.

Builds:

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Turn log:

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Send Satellites, miniaturization, superconductor and nuclear power to FREE with accept.
Four jets on the mountain NE of The Gulag put on air superiority. All other Jets moved to The Chamber.
Sold buildings in The Ways for 60 gold and abandoned the city.
Moved all 29 units from The Admiralty to The Chamber, sold buildings and abandoned The Admiralty.
Used 3 slaves to build a road N of The Gulag.
Used a slave to build a radar tower W-NW of The Chamber.
SABER has 4 mobile SAMs with their stack but there's no point in our bombers sitting around so I send them against the stack. Battle log:

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Summary of battle log: Saber now has 16/20, two 16/16, 15/17 and two 14/16 armies and we lost two bombers.

Sent an armor out to pillage the bunker NE of The Chamber. Thought I'd be able to move it back but can't.
Used another slave to build a radar tower 2W of The Chamber. SABER can reach that one. (Unless they go through The Chamber.)
I don't see how we can station workers to build a road into The Chamber since all the tiles are in reach of SABER's armies. I'm a bit concerned since I counted seventy odd SABER units though they have 18 transports in the naval stack. They could have other units off shore and if all our units are in The Chamber and cut off from transportation we'd have a serious problem. Well, I guess we have a serious problem already. SABER has 32 bombers/stealth bombers so adding these to the 70+ units that landed they could potentially kill over 100 units. So I'll send all our armor to The Chamber. We have 90 armor fortified in The Chamber along with 4 mech inf and 17 jets. Also moved in our radar artillery.
Cover our iron, coal, aluminum and radar tower (2W of The Chamber) with a mobile SAM, a marine and two mech inf each. Used the remaining units to guard tiles around The Silo. Airlifted a vet mech infantry from The Old Gong Isle to The Arboretum.
Switched The Treasury to a barracks.
Build a road SE of The Silo and SW of The Gulag. Add one of the new workers to The Silo. It works the tile S of the city which is mined by 2 workers and 2 slaves and then railed by 6 slaves.
I raise our lux rate up to 40% just in case.
Move some tile allocations around to avoid food shortages in The Chamber and The Gulag and free up a railed and mined plains tile for The Silo.
Add another new worker to The Silo.
Used a worker and 4 slaves to rail our coal. Remaining workers cleared pollution and began clearing damage SW of The Silo.
Our two subs moved counter-clockwise along our coast. Our transport moved to The Greenhouse.
I tried exposing SABER's spy for 136g and we lost our spy. Guess I should have been more careful. Ok, I tried it on FREE for 256g with the same result. Then spent 108g each trying to unsuccessfully re-plant our spies.
Switch over one taxman to a scientist.
Rushed armor in The Phoenix for 132g and in The Red Tape for 144g. The Meeting Room will also build one next turn. Switched The Marina to armor and drafted a unit. Switched Chamsuri's Cove to armor. Drafted a TOW infantry in The Chamber.
Don't see anything else useful I can do.

We have 4793g, -56gpt and stealth in 48 turns. We are in a war time economy.

donsig · Nov 9, 2009

Summary: We have no EWS so the best we can do is put a small garrison in each of our coastal cities and hope for the best. We began to redeploy jets to the airfields for future recon. Also start building cheap privateers for recon. Workers and slaves move into position to reconnect the roads into The Chamber. We attack the SABER landing force and win a terrific battle though our armor unit does not get the promotion it deserves. Our bombers rebase to The Institute to better cover our lands. We stop work on the engine in The Institute which has been bombed down to population 2. Maybe that was a bad decision since now SABER knows not to bomb it. :dunno:

Added workers to The Igloo and The Silo which can now complete the engine in 9 and 12 turns respectively. Unsuccessfully tried planting spies. Sent the laser to FREE without accept.

Peace offer from SABER (without accept) pops up. I press 'escape'.

Builds:

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The 18 SABER transports are still off our coast. The troops in those transports do not threaten any of our coastal cities. Spent 116g trying to plant a spy with SABER and 108g trying to plant one with FREE. Both attempts failed. We have 16 jets in The Chamber and they are all wounded. Any recon they can do would give us minimal coverage. I guess we'll just have to bite the bullet and trust that FREE or SABER do not sneak in the back door. :dubious:

Send the laser to FREE without accept. I guess we should write to them.

Build changes:

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Nuke sub S of The Phoenix moves W-4SW. No ships in sight there.
Transport in The Greenhouse moves 4W-2N. No ships there either.
(4/4) armor NE of The Chamber moves and attacks the SABER marine standing on our coal. Armor takes one hit and kills the marine but no promotion. Radar artillery in The Chamber shells SABER (4/4) battleship for one damage.
Both SABER naval stacks have carriers so I see no point in using our bombers on them.
Artillery moves W of The Chamber.
Moved a mech inf in each of our coastal cities. Move new armor into coastal cities, too.
The 8 bombers rebase to The Institute and airlifr a vet mech inf to that city from The Old Gong Isle.
Moved 2 (3/4) jets to the northern airfield, 2 to the western airfield and one to the eastern airfield. The rest of the jets in The Chamber heal up. The jets on the mountain NE of The Gulag remain on air superiority duty.

Worker moves:

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Drafts:

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Changed The Institute to radar artillery dumping 181 shields.

So now we're not building the engine anywhere. Since it needs aluminum I move a conscript mech inf to help cover our supply.

4563g, -17gpt, stealth in 47.

donsig · Nov 26, 2009

Summary: We send techs to FREE, re-connect and empty The Chamber and garrison our engine building tiles. We manage to plant a spy in FREE's lands and we see they will complete Apollo in two turns!

Peace offer (without accept) pops up from SABER. I clear the table and exit.

FREE accepted our offer of the laser. I accept and then put robotics on the table and send it with accept. (We need FREE to become another target for SABER's anti-spaceship bombers.)

Builds:
The Institute: radar artillery
The Arboretum: armor

I took at look at the SABER diplo screen. They have space flight now. I can't remember if they had this before. They still need superconductor, miniaturization, satellites and the laser. Oh yeah, didn't we sell space flight to them? :hammer2:

Since we sill have over four thousand gold we might as well try to plant those spies again. Spent 116g on a failed attempt versus SABER but our 80g investment paid off and we now have an agent in FREEland. Here's his first report:

(For those of you who can't see the image, it shows FREE's capitol will complete Apollo in two turns.)

Built three roads into The Chamber. Swapped some tiles allocations around so The Igloo and The Silo are not starving. At this point they can complete the engine in 11 and 13 turns respectively. Send three worker/slave pairs to flat tiles near our engine producers so they can build roads next turn. I'm not sure how many are needed to build a road on a cratered forest tile. Also, will we lose the forest when we clear the damage? :dunno:

Ok, we can get The Igloo's build time down to ten turns if The Silo gives up a tile. This forces the latter into a food shortage so I'll irrigate and rail a plains tile to compensate. That took ten slaves. It also pushed The Silo's build time back to 14 turns. This is the same as The Gulag. That city has some damaged tiles accessible (and being worked) so I cleared and mined one. (This advanced The Gulag's build time to 13 turns.) There was no point in joining workers to cities since there don't seem to be tiles worth working.

Moved our units out of The Chamber and distributed them among the tiles around The Silo, The Gulag and The Igloo so that each improved tile is protected by 2 or 3 units. Also sent 7 or 8 units to the two mountains in the SE that SABER could land on.

Let wounded jets heal. Our nuke sub searched the waters between our continent and SABER's home (moving counter-clockwise) and only saw a lone destroyer. Our transport moved in the same manner and saw nothing. Our bombers remained idle. Our artillery moved to the mountain SE of our southern airfield and shelled a mini-naval stack of SABER's:

radar artillery: hit elite destroyer for 2 damage
artillery: hit vet cruiser for 2 damage
radar artillery: hit vet cruiser for 2 damage

The Chamber: switched to mobile SAM for shield bonus
The Greenhouse: switched to worker (next turn)
Hurried privateers in The Red Tape and The Meeting Room for a total of 236g. Added workers to their build queues. Also added a worker to The Marina's build queue.
Switched The Silo over to the engine just in case our aluminum gets cut.

4128g, -5gpt, war-time economy and stealth in 46 turns.

donsig · Dec 11, 2009

Summary: We are mostly blind and cannot see SABER's stack of transports. I garrisoned our southern coastal cities as best I could. I do hope SABER cannot attack them. FREE is set to build Apollo next turn. We are still eight turns (at best) from finishing the engine. Sorry I did not have time to do any consulting this turn.

We built an armor, 3 privateers and a worker. There are no SABER or FREE ships within our limited field of vision. Without making any adjustments, The Gulag is now closest to finishing the engine (12 turns). The Silo is next closest (13 turns).

Free only needs music theory, economics, navigation, advanced flight and sanitation from us - they must have all the required spaceship techs. Perhaps the SABER fleet has moved off to bomb FREEland? :dunno:

Did some recon and found a stack of (transportless) SABER ships. Used our artillery on them:

Artillery shells 5/5 cruiser for 1 damage.
Radar artillery shells 5/5 destroyer for 1 damage.
Radar artillery shells 4/4 cruiser for 1 damage.

Garrisoned The New Yard, The Nursery and The Phoenix with 27 or 28 units each since we cannot see the SABER transports. Worked on improving and shuffling tiles around The Silo and The Gulag. Added a worker to The Gulag. The Gulag is down to eight turns to complete the engine and The Silo is down to nine turns.

Unsuccessfully tried to plant a spy with SABER. Spent 168g to investigate Freedom Central - they are one turn from completing Apollo.

Sent dyes and advanced flight to FREE without accept. Would be nice to get a luxury back from them.

donsig · Jan 2, 2010

Peace offer from SABER without accept. I clear the table and exit.
I accept FREE's deal. We get 500g and send them advanced flight and dyes.
The Silo riots. I'll deal with that later.
Builds:

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EWS:

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Moves:

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Spent 116g in an unsuccessful attempt to plant a spy with SABER.
MMed The Silo to avoid further riots.
We have 4173g and are running a deficit of 49gpt. We are in a war-time economy and will have stealth in 44 turns (running one scientist).

donsig · Jan 12, 2010

Accepted 70g from BABE.

Builds:
The Aerie: worker
The Meeting Room: worker
The Shallows: worker
The Marina: worker

The intel from FREE shows 17 SABER transports 3E-2SE of The Chamber. Our coastal cities are not threatened by these. The intel also shows two SABER transports off the coast of Estoc. These do not threaten our coastal cities unless they are part of a ship chain. So I will conduct recon south of The New Yard and The Nursery.

Did not find any new ships in that area. Was unable to recon a few tiles SW of the small SABER naval task force in the area. The intel from FREE shows those tiles to be clear.

Built four roads where able to.
The Silo is our best hope right now so I will look for improvement opportunities there. It is size 13 with only 21 fpt and nothing in the food box so food is a priority to avoid starvation. Since we just rebuilt the road on the plains wheat 2SW of the city I'll start there. Cleared, irrigated and railed it. Still two fpt short. Had enough workers and slaves to clear, irrigate and rail the plains tile NW of the city. It is no longer starving and we're down to 21 turns for the engine. So, we should be able to do the same to a couple more tiles next turn. Moved units away from guarding tiles around The Gulag and The Igloo and used them to guard tiles around The Silo.

Moved the garrison from The New Yard to The Dislodged and put a few units into The Greenhouse. Moved a couple units along with three mobile SAMs into The Silo.

Spent 116g in worthless try to plant a spy in SABERland.

We still have 4059g but are running a deficit of 80gpt.

donsig · Jan 23, 2010

SABER trade screen pops up. It's a peace off without accept. I clear the table and exit.
The Arboretum riots. I'll deal with them later.
The Meeting Room completes a worker.
The New Yard builds a privateer.
The Nursery builds a privateer.
Did some recon. The SABER transports are where FREE said they were. Didn't see any other ships. But The New Yard may be vulnerable. Moved the garrison from The Nursery to The New Yard.
Used our workers to clear, improve and rail two plains tiles around The Silo. Mined one and irrigated the other. Positioned workers to be able to road two more cratered tiles around that city next turn.
Hired a couple clowns in The Arboretum to quell the riots.
MMed The Silo. The engine is now 20 turns away.

Spent 116g to successfully plant an agent in the SABER capital of Baldric. (Finally!) :hmm:

We don't have a spy in FREE's capital? Spent 108g to try to plant one but this one failed. I hope CommandoBob doesn't get too upset.
Here are the units SABER has:

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We have 3746g and are running a deficit of 99gpt. We are 42 turns from stealth with one scientist running.

donsig · Feb 6, 2010

It is 1500 AD! [party]

We built a couple privateers.

EWS moves and report:

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Roaded three tiles near The Silo. Cleared, mined and railed a bg. Cleared and mined another. Not enough workers to rail it. Still we cut the engine time to 17 turns.
Changed Chamsuri's Cove over to making us another worker and moved the garrison from The Dislodged into that city.
Used the garrison in The Phoenix to guard tiles around The Silo, The Igloo and The Gulag.
Wasted 108g trying to plant a spy with FREE. Since we have no spy I can't check on the sabotage values of FREE's cities.
I did take a look at the sabotage values of two of SABER's cities. Bingol would cost 126g (for safely) and Baldric would be 9952g! According to the F7 screen SABER is building the Manhattan Project there. Anyone care to take a guess as to how far along their are with this diabolical project?
We have 3522g and are running a deficit of 118gpt. Stealth in 42 turns with one scientist.

donsig · Feb 23, 2010

Builds:
The Chamber: mobile SAM
The Arboretum: modern armor
Chamsuri's Cove: worker

EWS:

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EWS report:

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Cleared, mined and railed two grass tiles in The Silo's BFC. This brings our production up to 20spt (22 with 2 wasted.) We have 379 shields in the bin so we need 261 more for the engine. We're one shield short of shaving a turn. There's a cratered tile that will give us that shield so I switch over to it from the lake. This costs us one food and one commerce. We're now up to 21spt (out of 23) and we're 13 turns form finishing the engine. Yeah, I'm still learning this MM stuff. Realized I wasn't working an improved tile. Using it took us up to 23spt and down to 12 turns. Joined a worker to the city taking us up to 24spt and down to 11 turns.
Moved two workers onto a cratered tile in order to build a road next turn. This will give us two tiles to improve next turn.
Switched some privateer builds over to nuclear subs.

Moved the 28 units from The Nursery and the 8 in The Greenhouse to Chamsuri's Cove. Added the new armor and mobile SAM. That gives us 64 fortified units there.

For next turn, perhaps we should start improving tiles around The Gulag. We already have 523 shields piled up there. I think we should have been working on that city instead of The Silo.

We have 473 shields in The Igloo.

Not sure if SABER is really building Manhattan. Sabotaging Baldric (safely) would cost 11,592g, but the same cost for Symitar is 13,980g. I guess they could be building a small wonder in Symitar. :hmm:

They need superconductor, miniaturization, satellites and the laser. Hey, you know what, that means they have space flight. Are we in a three way space race now?

We have 3389g and are running a deficit of 132gpt. We are 41 turns from stealth.

donsig · Mar 4, 2010

Builds:

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Moves:

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EWS:

Spoiler :

None of our coastal cities are threatened by the SABER transports we can see.

Cleared, mined and railed a plains tile and mined and railed a grass tile near The Gulag. Joined three workers to that city.
Irrigated and railed a plains tile near The Silo so avoid starvation.
Moved most of the units out of Chamsuri's Cove to garrison The Silo and The Gulag and tiles in their BFC.

The Silo is set to complete the engine in 13 turns, The Gulag could do it in 11.

We have 3271g and are running a deficit of 114gpt. Stealth in 40 turns.

donsig · Mar 16, 2010

Summary: I went ahead and played the turn. Betting that FREE's intel is good and that FREE will not attack us. Shifted our focus to The Gulag which could now finish our engine in six turns if it isn't molested by stealth bombers.

Builds:
The Arboretum: worker

EWS:
Wasn't able to uncover all the tiles we needed to. It's possible Chamsuri's Cove could be attacked by transports though they would not be able to enter the city. Same for The Nursery. The New Yard could be attacked and transports could enter. Note that this is only possible if there are enemy transports in the fog. FREE's intel accounts for 23 of the 24 SABER transports. So, unless FREE's intel has been fabricated, there is only one SABER transport that could threaten these cities. Of course, there could be FREE transports in the fog. I will place small garrisons (seven units) in these three cities.

Trying to build the Engine:

Roaded the plains wheat near The Silo. Engine in 12.
Joined the four workers to The Gulag. Engine in 10. Mined and railed a grass, joined another worker. Engine in 8. Cleared, mined and railed another grass. Joined one more worker. Engine in 7. Joined another worker to work a hills tile taken from The Treasury. Engine still in 7. We have 530 shields in the bin and are making 18spt after waste. Two shields short of six turns. Join our last worker to work another hill from The Treasury. Engine in 6 turns.
The Treasury is short on food now so I switch over to a worker.
Moved a couple mobile SAMs from The Silo to The Gulag. Added a few units to garrison The Gulag.

We have 3159g and are running a deficit of 82gpt. Stealth in 39 turns with one scientist plugging away.

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