We have no trade connection yet and anyways, would you trust Monty ?Zitat von Hitru
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Interesting suggestion. What would the appropriate number be, 8 maybe? Might even be worth building a barracks . I'm not kidding, I'll consider this. It should be before he gets culture defense, so within the next 10 turns. But I don't see the peace treaty. Either I get his fortified super axes on the hill city down or the wave just breaks, either way I don't see a reason for peace.Zitat von Mjmd
But my whole point is that the neighbours are as terrible as they come. I don't even think the start was played mediocre considering what we've had to work with. I'm keeping records of whips, and we are above average despite being among the last starters.Zitat von Amicalola
As I wrote, the one plausible path I see is to outtech Ari and try something along those lines, but it still seems unlikely.
I need to remark though that I had a lot of fun losing both PB49 and PBEM64, both being pretty hopeless rather early into the game already.