Hello sub, there will be a one week gap until Episode 42, with next week at the usual time a release of the full map coverage of the state of the game at T800.

Afterwards the following 4-5 weeks will see us to the end of the game and a dominate winner.

As a reminder, this season there was no need to reset the game on a smaller scale, and the slugfest that follows is a titanic clash with one civ standing above the rest.

Final Map Before Total War

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So I guess we're on, what..."Qarmback: Deep Qarm Nine" now?

SOUTH OF VAGUR, 2200 AD

It was New Year's Day, new century's day in fact, but it seemed to Lieutenant Dronemarshal Pomasa Akia, Fourteenth Survey Division, Northern Europe Task Group, Wahgi Expeditionary Forces, that there wasn't much to distinguish it from the day before. Same gray skies as yesterday, that was for sure. And as far as he knew, it looked to be a day much like the day before it. He'd woken up at a bit before six AM local time - he'd always been an early bird - and with his morning routine done, he was on his way to the base's command center to spend probably the rest of the day doing his job. The old joke was that "dronemarshal" was a polite way of saying "drone babysitter." In times of war, sure, it would be a prestigious thing to jack into the tactical net and direct whole swarms of UAVs, annihilating the enemies of Bol'im - but since when was that going to happen up here? No, not in this rundown, discipline-starved fortress at the base of the miserable peninsula the locals called Danemark or something. Not here, on the far side of the world. Not with the finances of the empire in the state they were in. One day they'd teach Goguryeo a thing or two, though, and that'd change, Akia knew that much. The pundits all said so.

At any rate, Dronemarshal Akia had his job, his cog in the great machine that was the Wahgi's vast network of overseas military bases on foreign soil. From here they could keep a close eye on, well, everything. His job, as one of the highest-ranking of the few actual personnel a Wahgi drone fleet required, was to monitor the drones as they went about their autonomous surveillance tasks, make sure they stayed out of trouble and ensure their instructions were up to date - as well as review the fruits of their labors. Speaking of which:

CREDENTIALS ACCEPTED - WELCOME DRONEMARSHAL

PANGLOBAL HIGH AUTONOMY NETWORK FOR TECHNICAL OPERATIONS AND MONITORING [P.H.A.N.T.O.M.] OPERATING SYSTEM ONLINE

DRONE RECONNAISSANCE MONITOR SOFTWARE ACTIVE

INPUT OPTION - TYPE &O FOR FULL LIST OF OPTIONS

open:theater_map

OPENING

And upon a C-shaped constellation of screens as wide as the span of Akia's arms, northern Europe stretched out before the Dronemarshal. This, he reflected, was the true genius of the great Bol'im's global strategy. The drone fleets scanned, surveilled and mapped every square meter of the world. No movement of troops could happen without the Wahgi being aware. And the sheer size of their forces was such that no other nation dared fight them, no matter where they were. Not after Bora-Bora. From here, through the eyes of the drones, Dronemarshal Akia could see everything. The Faroese had surrendered the megacity of Vagur to Latvia for peace a few months ago - sure enough there were their ships, lurking on the edge of the oceanic border. (Cowardly commies, as usual, Akia thought.) Zoom in and you could count each one. Drones swept along the muddy coasts in small flights like migrating geese; there were particularly slow days where Akia had just picked one and followed it for miles while listening to bootlegged-in Faroese atmospheric classical, a guilty pleasure of his. An alert from the south notified him to the presence of Goguryeo scouts. As he had done a thousand times in a dozen command centers, Akia queried the OS:

check:nation_state_goguryeo

NATION_GOG STATUS: NEUTRAL

No change. Akia instructed the drone that had sent the alert to ignore it and move on. The drones could do a lot by themselves, but a human element was - usually - still necessary. It had, after all, been some time since the last major update to their operating system. He returned his gaze to the maps before him, which updated in real time as the drones swept over land and sea, keeping close watch on everything from Latvian battlesuits (boondoggles, Akia thought, no match for the swarms of missiles the Wahgi drone fleet could send their way) to Bavarian missile silos (the primitive paranoiacs, who needed nuclear weapons?) to civilians going about their days in the rural lands, in the towns and in the megacities. Each and every one under careful observation, lest worse come to worst-

BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP

-And it was then that another alert ping drew Dronemarshal Akia's attention - this one from the system itself.

ALERT: IMMEDIATE UPDATE TO PHANTOM OS

PHANTOM OS UPDATING TO VERSION 4.9068TW EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY BY DIRECT ORDER OF SUPREME COMMANDER BOL'IM

UPDATING...

...UPDATE COMPLETE - PHANTOM OS WILL NOW REBOOT

REBOOTING...

ONLINE

FOREIGN NATION STATUS UPDATE RECEIVED

check:nation_state_all

NATION_LAT STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_BYN STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_SAM STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_FAR STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_SNG STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_ZHE STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_NON STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_PAL STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_HOL STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_YLW STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_GOG STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_AFS STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_SEL STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_SRL STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_NDO STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_PON STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_MOG STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_OSG STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_RME STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_DZG STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_SHA STATUS: HOSTILE

NATION_QRM STATUS: HOSTILE

MEMORANDUM FROM THE SUPREME COMMANDER INCOMING:

To all stations in the Wahgi Expeditionary Forces Global Network, this is Bol'im. Welcome to the new century. The final war to prove our supremacy and end our humiliation begins now. Let all the world beware the empire of the man who never dies.

load:drone_command

LOADING DRONE FLEET DIRECT COMMAND SOFTWARE...

CBRX Season 4: Episode 41: Carpet Cleanup Crew

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Every 5 episodes, I do a brief on the tech count leaders, so strap in folks! An asterisks in the final categories indicates they technically aren't hitting the penalty limit, but are very much on the brink. I've decided to included civs in the bankrupt category if they're within 3 turns of total bankruptcy or are currently bankrupt. [] signifies a ressurected civ stats. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dbEll5KbCZnFDrRejZCYmdP93z_91Xz5efwP_fUT0mM/edit?usp=sharing

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• Effective Military W: Wahgi (3,873,792); Goguryeo (944,373); Osage (694,283); Faroe Islands (554,917); and Selkups (479,350)
• Effective Military L: Noongar (133,947); Mogadishu (107,650); Rome (105,519); Bavaria (84,160); Dzungars (11,651); [and Shang (533)]

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• Production W: Faroe Islands (26,723); Wahgi (21,070); Goguryeo (14,175); Yellowknives (10,988); and New Holland (8,978)
• Production L: Mogadishu (978); Bavaria (709); Rome (478); Ikko Ikki (425); Dzungars (362); [and Shang (43)]

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• Production per city W: Faroe Islands (468.8); Wahgi (339.8); Yellowknives (249.7); Goguryeo (211.6); and Afsharids (192.9)
• Production per city L: Pontus (87.1); Ikko Ikki (85); Zheng (81.4); Osage (64.1); Mogadishu (54.3); [and Shang (43)]

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• Effective Science W: Faroe Islands (11,950); Goguryeo (8,299); Singapore (7,095); Yellowknives (6,008); and New Holland (5,345)
• Effective Science L: Bavaria (763); Selkups (708); Palawa (311); Dzungars (269); [Shang (98)]; and Wahgi/Zheng/Osage/Ikko Ikki/Rome (0)

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• Non-resurrected Tech Count notes: As of Episode 40, the mean tech count is 96.8; the Median 92; and the Mode is 89
• Tech Count W: Faroe Islands (125, tech tree complete); Goguryeo (123); Singapore (115); Yellowknives (113); and New Holland (111)
• Tech Count L: Noongar (86); Rome (85); Bavaria and Dzungars (84); Ikko Ikki (82); Osage (80); [and Shang (56)]

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• Currently Unhappy Civs: Singapore (-13)
• Currently Bankrupt Civs: Mogadishu (-469); Pontus (-583); Noongar (-677); Rome (-970); Ikko Ikki (-3,433); Palawa (-4,045); Zheng (-4,216); Selkups (-5,218); Osage (-5,626); and Wahgi (-63,519)

Everybody loves Raymond, everybody hates Chris and everybody wants to rule Samara.

CBRX Season 4: Episode 40: Sunsets in Samara

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An asterisks in the final categories indicates they technically aren't hitting the penalty limit, but are very much on the brink. I've decided to included civs in the bankrupt category if they're within 3 turns of total bankruptcy or are currently bankrupt. As always, you can peruse the full table at this link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dbEll5KbCZnFDrRejZCYmdP93z_91Xz5efwP_fUT0mM/edit?usp=sharing

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• Effective Military W: Wahgi (2,846,740); Goguryeo (804,297); Faroe Islands (508,602); Yellowknives (389,787); and Selkups (364,738)
• Effective Military L: Kazan (17,635); Visigoths (4,136); Thule (3,869); Shang (3,136); and Qarmatians (2,134)

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• Production W: Wahgi (19,301); Faroe Islands (17,226); Goguryeo (9,899); Yellowknives (6,003); and New Holland (5,315)
• Production L: Kazan (113); Visigoths (67); Shang (28); Thule (19); and Qarmatians (8)

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• Production per city W: Faroe Islands (319); Wahgi (311.3); Yellowknives (158); Goguryeo (150); and Ndongo (113.9)
• Production per city L: Mogadishu (52.2); Kazan (37.7); Shang (28); Thule (19); and Qarmatians (8)

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• Effective Science W: Faroe Islands (7,205); Goguryeo (5,959); Singapore (4,844); New Holland (3,886); and Yellowknives (3,721)
• Effective Science L: Shang (90); Visigoths (85); Qarmatians (31); Thule (26); and Wahgi and Osage (0)

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• Currently Unhappy Civs: Faroe Islands (-11) (yes, despite their new happiness wonders)
• Bankrupt Civs: Rome (-709); Dzungars (-885); Osage (-1,897); Ikko Ikki (-2,132); Zheng (-2,486); Palawa (-2,493); Faroe Islands (-3,355); Wahgi (-28,927)

"I mean, sure, 'Qarmback: Phase II' was canceled that quickly for a reason, but this 'Qarmback: The Next Qarmeration' looks pretty good so far. That second-in-command, though...I think - yeah I really think that guy should like grow a little bit of a beard or something. I dunno."

CBRX Season 4: Episode 39: New World Nightmare

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