Post making contest 5.0

This is episode #12.

Bit of a shorter one yesterday since it was the end of the session, but that didn't stop it from containing a lot of action:

• Trott: "Sjin taking the city has hampered my movement dramatically" OPEN BORDERS AGREEMENTS EXIST
  
• (although let's face it, we're talking about getting Sjin to accept a deal here... he won't notice it for two turns, then he'll feign ignorance of it for another three, then finally when he thinks no-one is looking he'll just dismiss it...)
  
• Smiffy's settled again! It's a bit late but fuck it, I stopped caring about the "when" a few thousand years ago...
  
• SJIN JUST SUCCEEDED IN DISMISSING THE CITY BOMBARD CURSOR, SO COME ON GUYS. IF SJIN CAN DO IT...
  
• Sjin why are you parking your navy at the south pole? Did all your admirals decide they really wanted to go and look at the penguins?
  
• SJIN IS LYING THROUGH HIS ARSE YOU CAN TRADE A CITY FROM THE MOMENT YOU GET IT no courthouse required
  
• Smiffy: "guys, how do you take a city?" YOU'RE ASKING NOW?!
  
• oh my god Smiffy took Sydney
  
• part of the reason that Babylon isn't growing is because he's covered some of his best food tiles in trading posts... this being a thing that I pointed out would be a problem several episodes ago...
  
• Smiffy: "I can't build courthouses, I don't have the technology" YOU NEED MATHEMATICS TO BUILD COURTHOUSES I AM VERY SURE YOU HAVE THIS
  
• YOU JUST HOVERED OVER IT WITHOUT SEEING IT
  
• "It's not fucking there guys" THE TOOLTIP POPPED UP AND EVERYTHING
  
• Sjin continues to come up with completely bullshit excuses for why he's not giving Trott Yu-Gi-Shit...
  
• Rythian's tourism honestly should not be threatening. It's just that everyone else is shit at culture.
  
• AND MARK'S DOWN THAT ONLY TOOK EIGHTY MORE TURNS THAN IT SHOULD HAVE
  
• Sjin considered selling a building in Yu-Gi-Shit before trading it away. That's the Sjin we know and love.
  
• OH WOW NO HE'S RAZING IT AND HOPING NOBODY WILL NOTICE
  
• RYTHIAN IS AT STEAM POWER THAT IS actually a bit behind for this turn number BUT COMPARATIVELY SPEAKING THAT'S RIDICULOUSLY FAR AHEAD

tl;dr - how do I take city?

End of message.

I think an ETG Civ series with Sruix ranting at all of us would be pretty good