March 17th, 2017, 22:03
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I'm not sure if Sullla will be the clear winner, at least, not to the extent that other players will concede defeat. There's some tension between Sullla and TheArchduke at the moment which might end up in a prolonger conflict sometime later, since both are Rome. Meanwhile, teh seems to be doing okay, if slightly behind Sullla, and yuris is still a contender in the game.
I feel the game will be decided by any conflicts after all the land have been settled. Who will be the first to subdue their opponent quickly and efficiency to consolidate land.
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Sulla's been a game sport at trying to make the game seem like it could still be competitive, but I don't think there's any doubt he'll steamroll Archduke, and the game will end shortly afterwards. I don't think Archduke could prevail against him even at tech parity & with a decent military, and I doubt when the hammer falls he'll have either.
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So, you are Archduke and you see Sulla building an encampment and getting great general points via policy card. Actions?
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His action should be to get archers and legions asap and then attack or stall Sulla. His central city will be so exposed to everyone. An attack will be possible from all directions.
So far Archduke seems to be thinking he got no chance anyway.
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Yeah, the veteran Jags may well run straight into Archdukes newly founded city  Sulla's biggest problem with his plan may well be that it's not quick enough
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Just got trough last teh´s post. For a moment I thought that he is going to settle central horse spot first (t46 - settler on move) and that could prevent Sullla´s T50 oasis spot. Not sure if teh could be there first anyway, but its out of question as he goes for copper spot first actually. This timing collide with Yurys Jags moving towards center and teh´s new city with one slinger will be easy pray for his veteran Jags.
Sullla with 4 cities soon, while claiming central location can anger rest of the group and their best chance will be dogpiling on him. Tripple amount of units to defend against may be too difficult even for Civ veteran. I doubt it will happen though due to too big respect towards his skills and situation in the game, so they may turn on each other instead in hopes for easier target. That would of course put Sullla even further ahead...
I believe, Sullla´s thinking process about his competitors - overestimating their skills may lead to him making mistake. Eg. assuming TheArchduke heading for best city spot at double river location could lead him to simply change his settler moving path towards supplementary location instead loosing time in process after it turns out best spot was not taken. He has fortunatelly counted with possibility that TheArchduke wont take best spot, but it looked like for a moment he was commited to change his settling plans.
Still, thrilling to follow each player to see reactions on what has happened in the game. For example TheArchduke bought mountains tile and copper tile, not due to strategic reasons, but to show unpredictable behavior against Sullla´s tactical planning imho, what could be a path, however more dependend on luck, than tactics.
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Yep unaghy and bob, Sullla is giving his opponents too much respect. The game will come down to who can kill someone first and take his land. Aztecs are a better choice than I admitted (Scythia is still better) and Germany won't have enough time (especially with the trade-route nerf).
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If I'm reading his post correctly, Teh isn't even in a settler race with Sullla. His planned central/horse city 2 tiles E of Everest would be valid even after Sullla plants his oasis city. It would also have no water of any kind though, and I guess he might imaginably be in a settling race with Yuris.
On Yuris: Was he aggressive enough with his Eagle Warriors? Gaining Lisbon was nice and all, but it was benefiting him - and him alone - as a city state, and would always be there for the taking. If he could have taken Stockholm, where he had no envoys, wouldn't that have been a greater coup? (Maybe it depends: What happens to your envoys when someone conquers their city state? If they're just lost forever, especially once Sullla placed two there, that would have made it a very aggressive move indeed!)
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I don't know - he said he was thinking of taking stockholm next - if he can indeed do that getting Lisbon and all those builders that are close now is better. The longer he's behind the harder it is to catch up.
Honestly though I definitely think the play here is to go rush someone - everyone seems to be running a fairly paper thin defense, though I don't really have a good grasp on what it takes to capture human cities and how easy it is to build military quickly...
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(March 19th, 2017, 00:11)Tyrmith Wrote: I don't know - he said he was thinking of taking stockholm next - if he can indeed do that getting Lisbon and all those builders that are close now is better. The longer he's behind the harder it is to catch up.
Honestly though I definitely think the play here is to go rush someone - everyone seems to be running a fairly paper thin defense, though I don't really have a good grasp on what it takes to capture human cities and how easy it is to build military quickly...
Battering Rams and the defender not having a 2x move bonus makes it easy to take out cities.
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