Hello, Ragnar Lothbrok.
I've had scan visibility of Ragnar Lothbrok for a long time but he was previously behind me on tech so I stopped checking, especially as he was fighting enemies/neutrals. However, this turn we heard reports of a 14k ship coward attack on Tzeentach (ZachSmack) which has woken everyone up to a renewed and more dangerous northern threat. My mental map also places Tzeentach bottom left so there must be another wormhole up north (which is probably a good thing, honestly. Rather Zach gets buried under those 14k ships than me.)
For reference. I have 19K ships total. I have been throwing them regularly into a grinder which is keeping my numbers down, but a single 14K fleet is a daunting total (currently my largest fleet is 3K). It's almost certainly the biggest fleet on the map and then behind it is 15 Terraforming which will be making all Ragnar's infrastructure upgrades cheaper. This is 4 levels above me and a MAJOR problem because it will snowball.
What's worse is we still haven't had our breakthrough attack in the south. Tube-pipe and friends continue to defend well and trade ships at ratios that favor them.
TdT wanted us to take Tube-pipe up on an earlier offer to accept ships for passage to new battlegrounds and NAP. I think this would be cheap and take the spice out of the game though so I've refused. We've had some discussion and I think we're all aligned now that we're going to attack the southern alliance with everything we've got. I'm OK with CRISPRs plan of attacking Major Tom in the west. The way to think about these situations is as if the whole alliance was one player and it makes sense. I can already feel this game slipping away as a potential win, I don't want to jeopardise an alliance win.
However, this is an interesting map from TdT (CRISPR) shared via Discord. With a single screenshot its hard to tell the timeline but it looks very much to me like he's had ample opportunity to attack Major Tom here and for whatever reason hasn't taken it. The MT ship moving east to west is also suspicious. Did they come to some sort of agreement to allow TdT to grow? He has now passed me on stars due to the bogged-down front line I have. Either way, what is is, I just need him to attack now.
Tactical Map
We both have options to attempt attacks this turn but I think with their inbound reinforcements they may be tempted to try and take a bite out of me. My warp gate has been up for a few turns now and it might be a tantalizing prospect. I looked at some of my own attacks - which work if their gates stay up - but compromise my position if they don't. As it is, I feel I need more reinforcements to make ground here so I'm going to drop my warp gate and watch and wait.
If all these stars were gated and they launched attacks they could potentially hit my rear star with an overwhelming 4.5K+ ships. They only see a Colonel on it so it might be quite tempting.
Research wise I'd planned to Manufacturing then Specialists before end of cycle but I think I need to respond to that Terraforming threat and go Manufacturing then Terraforming, forgoing the token.
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