Post making contest 5.0

This is episode #13.

• ...ooh it's a third warning slate and apparently this is the last session? That does not surprise me...
  
• "REMEMBER THAT VIEWER DISCRETION THING? IT'S AN OPEN OFFER!"
  
• Rythian is influential over Smiffy with 44 tourism per turn. Eep.
  
• Honestly, both Sjin and Rythian are right: Rythian's tourism is a threat and it's entirely possible for him to win this way, but Sjin's culture pool is still substantial enough that it'll take him a while...
  
• ...oh the International Games got passed. Huh.
  
• COME ON RYTHIAN GET YOURSELF SOME SWEET ASS TOURISM or honestly don't with just 44 it probably isn't worth it build yourself some more units instead
  
• uh yeah sure broadcast towers those will definitely help sure whatever
  
• Sjin: "hmm, Yu-Gi-Shit demands silk" THEY ARE BURNING THEIR TOWN TO THE GROUND WHY DO THEY WANT SILK TOO
  
• THEY ARE HAVING AN ARGUMENT ABOUT WHICH SET OF NUMBERS IN THE TRADE ROUTE SCREEN SHOWS THE AMOUNT OF GOLD YOU GET FROM ESTABLISHING IT
  
• HOVER OVER IT AND READ THE FUCKING TOOLTIP
  
• WHY CAN NOBODY IN THIS GAME READ?! YOU ALL RESEARCHED WRITING... EVENTUALLY...
  
• Tom sent Trott a deal, the entirety of which was "Trott declares war on Rythian". Trott accepted.
  
• Rythian: "I came here to have a good time and am feeling so attacked right now." Sjin: "YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE COME HERE TO HAVE A GOOD TIME! You're here to get wrecked, son!"
  
• People are now discovering that Rythian has city state allies.
  
• Sjin is actually sailing that fleet towards Rythian. Roughly speaking, anyway. It is still a few thousand miles south of Morocco.
  
• Rythian has the capability to bring Attila's Court to its knees with a single lancer. I love that.
  
• Because Sjin has taken so long to sail to Morocco, Rythian now has ironclads. Huh. Wait, no sorry, an ironclad...
  
• Trott: "Fuck, how did Rythian become friends with Vancouver and Wellington?!" IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE FRIEND
  
• SJIN'S FRIGATE DID ONE DAMAGE TO RYTHIAN'S CAPITAL
  
• IT KNOCKED OFF ONE HIT POINT
  
• ONE
  
• Sjin: "Rythian's navy is better than mine, so this is a write-off. Do you want to just end the session?" RYTHIAN'S NAVY CONSISTS OF AN IRONCLAD
  
• seriously Sjin you used your Oxford for frigates a few episodes ago had you attacked then you may have stood a chance
  
• THERE'S AN ACTUAL BARBARIAN ENCAMPMENT BETWEEN POLAND AND MONGOLIA THERE'S A WORKER IN THERE AND EVERYTHING
  
• Yu-Gi-Shit finally burnt down. Nobody has mentioned this yet.
  
• RYTHIAN IS RESEARCHING PLASTICS GUYS
  
• apologies it turns out Rythian's navy consists of three ironclads the other two were just doing the exploration that I was praising previously fair enough
  
• Rythian: "I'm welcome for friendliness!"
  
• Trott: "Gatling guns are shit, aren't they? You really have to be right next to something..." Smiffy: "it's all about those roads" ...that is actually correct if you build enough roads towards the person you're trying to invade you can get both your blocker melee units and your gatling guns right next to the enemy units you want to dispose of
  
• Smiffy informs us that Sydney is apparently starving. Sydney has three fish tiles.
  
• ...I suppose a city state could be sending a caravel or something to Sydney?
  
• Rythian is making the most of his dip into Commerce to buy out all the city states. This is absolutely wonderful play.
  
• So presumably Sjin won the international games? Because Rythian didn't even try for them? So Sjin has doubled his tourism output for the next twenty turns, going from... oh, zero, to zero. Huh.
  
• seriously Sjin you just wasted about five turns of full production in all your cities
  
• (I mean you do get other benefits but you didn't need to worry about stopping Rythian he already knew it wasn't worth it for his presently rather paltry amount of suitcases)
  
• RYTHIAN HAS COMPLETED THE STATUE OF LIBERTY DOES ANYONE ELSE EVEN HAVE AN IDEOLOGY?

tl;dr - No One Can Stop Mr. Rythian

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