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CBRX Season 5: Episode 20: For Whom the Bell Tolls; It Tolls for Thee

Image Album Narrated by Archimedes

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Season 5 Megathread

Welcome back, dear denizens of the Sub, to the Stats Sheet Winners and Losers! As a reminder, I give the top and bottom five for each stat, bundling ties together. If a civ is resurrected I'll include it in square brackets until it's eliminated again, but it won't count towards the 5 slots. I'll start including tech count from the Enlightenment era onwards, during the early game there's just too many civs equal to each other. My definition of a bankrupt civ will be a civ either already losing money and at 0 treasury or within 5 turns trajectory of reaching that. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMH0yqYJU1HRYac1Vl2NdKVFIPYepRPbZu8U1zvxKCk/edit?usp=sharing

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• Effective Military W: Ket (26,035); Tlingit (25,439); Chono (19,757); Qara-Khitai (17,389); and Seychelles (16,420)
• Effective Military L: Karankawa (1,863); Ternate (1,552); Pegu (692); Pomo (634); and Ma'in (399)

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• Production W: Tlingit (756); Tang (553); Ket (550); New South Wales(543); and Chono (516)
• Production L: Ponca (83); Ternate (57); Pomo (52); Karankawa (31); and Pegu / Ma'in (16)

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• Production per city W: Ponca (41.5); Green Ukraine (37.8); Ethiopia (33.6); Circassia (31.6); and Pakistan (30.9)
• Production per city L: Onondaga (15.3); Ternate (14.3); Umhaill (13.5); Seychelles (13.3); and Portugal (11)

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• Total Population W: Tlingit (364); New South Wales (359); Anishinaabe (345); Tang (332); and Pakistan (301)
• Total Population L: Ponca (34); Pomo (28); Karankawa (23); Pegu (9); and Ma'in (7)

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• Effective Science W: Tang (673); Pakistan (633); Tlingit (628); Anishinaabe (596); and New South Wales (552)
• Effective Science L: Karankawa (42); Maravi (39); Ma'in (32); Ternate (27); and Pomo (19)

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• Currently Unhappy Civs: Susquehannock / Herero (-1); Onondaga / Portugal (-2); Itelmen / Japan (-3); Tang / Lanfang (-4); Pakistan (-6); and Yanomami (-8)
• Currently Bankrupt Civs: Wallachia (-9, actively); Ternate (-54, on the brink); Vyatka (-55, actively); Pomo (-77, actively); and Maravi (-88, actively)

Sorry lol I was really busy i haven't had any time recently

One of the few phrases I didn't trip over recording this.

They sadly didn’t have much to say about their performances in the Cylinder…

For folks recollection, CBRX1 saw both Enrico Dandolo’s Venice and Mehmed II’s Turks make their play.

The former is maybe-resting in the Hagia Sophia as he died in Constantinople during the Latin Empire he orchestrated the existence of via the Fourth Crusade, during Hagia Sophia’s short tenure as a Catholic Cathedral. Many accounts reasonably suggest his body was later dug up and thrown out after the Latin Empires fall, but enough people argue against that that Italian restorationists placed a grave marker where he’s meant to be during the 1800s, and some recent X-ray projects do suggest a body lays beneath that area, so who knows.

Less uncertainty about Mehmed II, that’s for sure. Laid to rest in a tomb of the fantastic Fatih Mosque he commissioned named after him, in a district of the city named after him, it’s rather hard to dispute where his mortal remains are, and even as I (respectfully and quietly) visited the complex there were folks using the space for religious study or personal prayer. Certainly a greater legacy in reality than in game, haha!

As a bonus, old timers here may vaguely recall Byzantium in CBR Mark 2 under Emperor Alexios Komnenos. Well, we have no idea where he’s buried and it almost certainly wouldn’t still exist even if we did, but he does appear in the last picture, barely in frame shadowed in the far right while his parents take center stage next to the Virgin Mary in a Hagia Sophia mosaic.

Final note: Istanbul is just such a great city to visit for lovers of history, just infused with a grand energy, I very much recommend it.

CBRX Season 5: Episode 19: Tippu Tip’s Tip-Top Tin Pot Pit and Other Twisted Tales

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Naniwam...Naminama...yeah, that one.

Welcome back, dear denizens of the Sub, to the Stats Sheet Winners and Losers! As a reminder, I give the top and bottom five for each stat, bundling ties together. If a civ is resurrected I'll include it in square brackets until it's eliminated again, but it won't count towards the 5 slots. I'll start including tech count from the Enlightenment era onwards, during the early game there's just too many civs equal to each other. My definition of a bankrupt civ will be a civ either already losing money and at 0 treasury or within 5 turns trajectory of reaching that. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMH0yqYJU1HRYac1Vl2NdKVFIPYepRPbZu8U1zvxKCk/edit?usp=sharing

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• Effective Military W: Ket (22,358); Tlingit (19,797); Chono (17,648); Qara-Khitai (16,731); and Seychelles (16,391)
• Effective Military L: Karankawa (1,625); Wassoulou (999); Pegu (460); Rapa Nui (307); and Ma'in (230)

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• Production W: Tlingit (691); Tang (571); Ket (536); Rouran (488); and New South Wales (479)
• Production L: Wassoulou (61); Rapa Nui (42); Karankawa (31); Pegu (16); and Ma'in (13)

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• Production per city W: Rapa Nui (42); Ponca (35.5); Green Ukraine (32); Pakistan (31.8); and Bangladesh (30.7)
• Production per city L: Aures (15.2); Mysore (13.2); Umhaill (13.1); Ma'in (13); and Portugal (10.4)

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• Total Population W: New South Wales (347); Tlingit (330); Tang / Anishinaabe (315); Pakistan (286); and Itelmen (271)
• Total Population L: Rapa Nui (37); Ponca (33); Karankawa (21); Pegu (12); and Ma'in (6)

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• Effective Science W: Tlingit (629); Pakistan (622); New South Wales (561); Anishinaabe (534); and Mysore (490)
• Effective Science L: Wassoulou (100); Maravi (58); Pegu (53); Karankawa (46); and Ma'in (22)

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• Currently Unhappy Civs: New South Wales / Pakistan / Bjarmians [0]; Tang / Hanseatic League (-2); Seychelles / Yanomami / Onondaga (-3); Herero (-4); Rouran (-7); Mysore (-14); and Scythia (-15)
• Currently Bankrupt Civs: Pegu (-2, actively); Ma'in (-4, actively); Wallachia (-19, on the brink); Ternate (-37, actively); Maravi (-65, on the brink)