Pax Pamir, Languish PBEM

[Tamas]

I've done all I can. I welcome our new British overlords.

What, exactly, have you done?

[Berkut]

ALL I CAN

[Solmyr]

The British found the Afghan Bank of Kandahar as part of their program of economic domination of the area.

1. Play Bank. Gain 2 rupees from Leveraged Impact. British roads to Kandahar-Herat and Kandahar-Kabul.
2. (free) Travel, 1 spy to Bolan Pass.
3. Purchase Anarkali Bazaar, gain 2 rupees from it.

Discard Arthur Connolly due to being over Tableau Size limit.

[celedhring]

Might I recommend my Afghan, er, friends and the losing British player (that'd be you, Cel), do something to forestall the win?

You forced me to turn my coat with your military exploits, abd and I am gonna stay British while there's 552555 red cubes surrounding my power base :p

I am up, I suppose?

[Solmyr]

You are.

[celedhring]

The mighty Orange Coconut confederation dares not raise the sword against the mighty British 
armies while the red coats are stationed in its vulnerable capital. But might some subterfuge be able to divert them away?

1. Purchase Nuristane Terrace Farms from the market, taking 1 rupee, and paying one
2. Play Nuristane Terrace Farms, putting a Kabul-Transcaspian road and a Kabul-Herat one. Since the British side is out of cylinders, I take those from the Kabul and Punjab armies.
Free (Intelligence War). I move (McNaghten card) the spy in Dost Muhammad to Royal Guard. I trigger counterspionage (Charles Masson card) to eliminate the purple spy there - no risks taken since that spy is way too close to my turf and Berkie can assassinate. 

To the savages: British army power is down to two. Judicious usage of the Akhali Sikhs and the Arsenic mine can lead to a failed topple.

[celedhring]

Did Berkut pay me for the second Kabul card he has on his tableau? I should play more attention... 

[Berkut]

Yes, I can see why I would be totally incented to cause a failed topple since you just spent your turn screwing me.

[Berkut]

(Free) Travel with Khan
Send cube from Mirza to Royal Guard
(Free) Counter-Espionage
Kill cels cube
Buy and play Akali Sikhs to Punjab
Two Afghan Armies to Punjab

[Tamas]

So if I understand this whole thing correctly, thanks to Orange (who is Celed, right?), who just can't be bothered to not side with British imperialists, Britain would achieve Supremacy in an Intelligence Topple, since Orange and Yellow (Solmyr, right?) has more spies than rest of us combined.

However, if I flip the Regime to Military Struggle, then nobody has Supremacy, for the time being anyways, and it gives Habbaku the chance to go Cossack on all those British roads, right?

[Habbaku]

That's correct.

[Tamas]

Ok so, accordingly, I have made a meaningless move for myself by buying and playing the Bakh Arsenic Mine card. We are now in Military Struggle.

[Habbaku]

You also inexplicably placed the road built by the mine adjacent to Kandahar instead of Kabul.

What connection do you really want to place the road on?

[Berkut]

Damn, you just handed the game to Habbaku. Well done.

[Habbaku]

Berkut, I would like to buy Count Ivan Simonitch and play him to keep counterbalancing the bickering tides of Afghans and British, but his location is in Persia.  Would you be willing to consent to another freebie so that I can prevent the British spy network from running away with it?