 It's worth noting that I just got a message from Scott shortly after I took my last turn And I think I'm actually gonna read this the transcripts from rim versus Scott. You can see that the domestic front has settled down the foreign offices are doing very well the these guys here have had some fun and Pretty much. Oops Everything's coming up millhouse as of this turn So how did this come to pass because this came to pass very rapidly? Let me scroll up in this conversation with Scott Quote Scott. No, I deleted my try room for money and then you made a try-range me. I was waiting I Don't think I could have won anyway. The terrain is so bad I couldn't get Barbarios to kill them making my Siv's power irrelevant Siv had two powers. He's bitching that his two powers were irrelevant in this map one of his powers is awesome amphibious assaults and Safe embarkment if he wanted to expand into the map all he had to do was make a small force with like a settlers or whatever And just move them over here They could defend themselves on the water and they could defend themselves on the coast He could attack me from the coast He would have been real dangerous if he'd started putting units out here But he didn't and to his other power is religion. He didn't do shit with religion I have a religion. He formed a pantheon way after me and I don't know if he'll even get a religion in the game at this point So what exactly happened one? My army was able to deal with a barbarian So I haven't dealt with this one yet after I build the shrine notice I'm building two shrines I'm gonna push religion hard because why not? I'm gonna move up here take care of this barbarian with a new military unit this guy's gonna take care of that I assume this guy's gonna take care of that and then I've decided what to do with this military yet I might just have these guys slowly start filtering over to be ready to further bother Scott I might have this guy camp here to await settlement. I might just build another settlement like right away in this area But I only really need one unit for the time being to hold all that In fact as long as I don't push science I'm just worried about that at all because Scott is not going to get more advanced units meaning the barbarians are not gonna get more advanced units He doesn't have enough money or else he would have upgraded these to composite Bowman, which I am sure he can make by now Actually, I can make them. I don't know if he can make them Yeah, he doesn't even have any money So even if he did he couldn't upgrade Uh Yeah Allying with these guys by continuing to kill those barbarians I am now strong allies and soon when I get that those truffles I'll be even more allies So these guys are gonna be my allies for us the game and I might just enact Plan Scorpion where I start sending these guys over just cranking out military every turn and gifting them all to the city State so this is giant angry power that I don't have to pay anything for just waiting right there So I expanded here I'm gonna expand here like as soon as I can like in the next 10 or 15 turns I'm gonna crank a settler out and send him over there I've got two triremes and he deleted his triremes. So I can destroy all of his naval stuff. I'm not gonna attack the cities I'm not gonna risk that because if I attack the cities I probably won't take them though. It doesn't look like he built walls in either one of these places So maybe this small army could just take them, but I'm not gonna I'm gonna play super conservative These armies are just going to the technical term is fuck up his shit So I've pillaged all this stuff now look he rushed guys over to repair this iron and protected them with the spearmen So I just went around and this is gonna be far more devastating. He's not gonna be too happy on his turn I pillage that I didn't pillage these truffles yet because it was kind of a pain But I'm going to pillage them that's just there because I haven't seen this area of the map yet And I guess the barbarians like to collect giant bones, but I digress I Pillage this and I also pillage the road Disconnecting his cities which is gonna hurt his economy pretty badly. I don't think he can take this out So maybe he can't this guy. Oh, I forget if his power is to go over the rivers It's a tiny chance if that's one of his powers this guy could attack here After bombard bombard bombard and kill that companion cavalry. There's a small danger. I lost this guy, but I think he'll be okay I suspect he will still be in my army next turn He will not be able to repair all this because he can't protect this guy as soon as these two guys move off of that spot I'm gonna go right back in and pillage it again The only other interesting thing as soon as this road gets finished in two more sets of building Jerusalem will be my ally and then the only city-state left is Prague. Oh Prague is under attack by those barbarians It would be worth if it weren't for the fact that this is being so effective at disrupting Scott's economy It would have been worth it to instead swing down and take out these barbarians thus gaining favor with Prague But probably give me incense and culture. It's actually not super important to be allied with Prague right now So I can actually wait. I'll deal with Prague later Prague is also much more well defended than gow or Timbuktu Scott's pretty much done in this game And once again, all I have to do to beat him in these games is Bottle him up make him a little bit afraid of expanding out and then he's done He needs to expand a lot quicker under the map or he needs to build mega cities and actually use the power of a sieve Immensely he needed to have units out in this water where I couldn't easily attack him with these land units And he really needed to be pushing religion, which he wasn't