[spoilers] Pindicator and Regoarrarr - Bismark of Ethiopia

[regoarrarr]

Later tonight: watch as pindicator tries to convince Regoarrarr that they should push out from Superfans with half a dozen knights to raze Ash'arak!

[pindicator]

Ducked in and Krill tried to trade me:

He opened a trade chat and then threw down

40gpt
200g
Gold
Marble
Stone

I put Gunpowder in my side and then he exited.
Was very tempted to break the rules and say "gotta talk it over with Rego" but I didn't. No diplo sucks for trying to figure out trades.

This is way, way, way too cheap a price for a 3000 beaker tech. Maybe if he were giving us 3 times as much gold... Do we give a counter offer? Would want at least 2000g total, and more if he is offering it as a gpt deal. Then again, I don't know if Gunpowder is what he is after but it's the only thing I can think of.

[pindicator]

Turn 195 Aftermath

I'll try to reconstruct the turn, but it was hastily played because neither Rego nor I had much time earlier. And I probably should be doing other things but the story must be told!

We actually attacked in the north first, but I'm going to save that for last. Instead, let's start where most of the action was: the south

Belshir and Shakuras both added a longbow from when we last saw them, but we still felt confident enough to attack. First we went against Bel'shir, sending in our non-knight units first to soften up the CG longbows:

F2 Horse Archer vs. CG2 Longbow - Withdraws and gets in 2 hits!
F2 Horse Archer vs. CG2 Longbow - Withdraws but no damage
Shock Crossbow vs. CG2 Longbow - Loses, and does 1 hit to longbow
Shock Crossbow vs. CG2 Longbow - Loses, does no damage
F2 Knight vs. CG2 Longbow - Wins at 20% odds!!!
F2 Knight vs. CG2 Longbow - Wins at 20% odds!!!
C2 Knight vs. 86hp CG2 Longbow - Loses at 50%
C2 Knight vs. 84hp Longbow - Wins at 70%
Shock Knight vs. 67hp Longbow - Wins at 77%
Shock Knight vs. axe - Wins at 77%

Bel'Shir was renamed to Roseannadanna and came with a ton of infra: Lighthouse, Harbor, Forge, Market, & Grocer

Then against Shakuras:

F2 Knight lost to CG2 Longbow at 20% odds, but brought it down to 15hp
C1 Knight wins against Axe at 70% odds
C1 Knight wins against Longbow

Shakuras was renamed to Sprockets (I don't know this skit, Rego) and has a Granary, Forge, & Courthouse.

The south now looks like so:



I took liberties with moving the sentry HA, but I had a feeling that Ash'Arak is ripe to take. It has 1 CG2 longbow, 1 axe, and 1 warrior inside - we have 5 knights inside Superfans that are all 90hp or better. I propose that we move all 5 of those knights onto the same hill as our horse archer to threaten Ash'Arak We can move the WE and spear inside of Matt Foley to garrison Superfans - and we can move a pikeman that came from Wayne's World to cover Matt Foley from Korhal.

Rego just got online, so the rest will wait

[regoarrarr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprockets_%...ht_Live%29

[pindicator]

So summary before I head out:

* I moved 7 knights onto the same tile as the HA. If Yuri gets more troops into Ash'Arak we will probably just back off. Otherwise we'll burn it next turn.
* 1 more knight went to Sprocket; that should keep it safe from whatever was whipped in Aiur this turn.
* 1 knight went to the red square to defend our wounded knights.
* 4 knights went into Roseannadanna

Next turn we should be able to move a good amount of knights against Aiur.

[spacetyrantxenu]

That is, until Apple sues them for infringing on their patent of uniquely arranged letters to describe 'a person who does logistics'

Hey, don't give them any ideas!

As for the reports, thanks for the details. Your warmongering meets with scumbag lurker approval. However, I fear the war is so one sided it will soon be over, which means the amount of carnage will be more limited than it otherwise could have been. To compensate for the briefness of Dutch suffering, do you have plans to raze [strike]some[/strike] many of the remaining Dutch cities on your continent?

[regoarrarr]

We are planning on razing Ash Arak next turn. Also, in other news, as you probably are already aware, Commodore declared on Yuri at the end of this turn. I am assuming that he has moved his forces to take / raze Monlyth this turn. Then it's a race to Mar Sara, which we want to raze and replace with 2-3 cities.

Unfortunately I don't see a way to communicate this to Commodore, and if he gets there first, he may keep the city.

I believe that Yuri only has two other cities on his mainald - his once and current capital of Aiur, and Pindicator's Bane (Kolhar). We'll be taking both in 2-3 turns, then it's time to set sail - there are 4 cities on Inferno Island, and I believe 3 on the island directly to Yuri's south. We shouldn't have much competition for those I would think.

[regoarrarr]

Yuri just played - 4 whips (1, 1, 2 and 3 pop). I'll log in here in a bit to poke around. I'm not sure we're going to be able to outrace Commodore to Mar Sara - I'll post a bit more when I can get a s/s.

[regoarrarr]

Battle of Ash Arak. There was a single CG2 longbow there, along with an axe and a warrior. We debated a C2 knight (28.3%), a F2 knight (11.9 / 26.4), or even using our 10XP knight to promote to C3 (32.8%).

We ended up deciding to send in a possibly sacrifical C2 knight, and since Pindicator was sending positive vibes to the RNG, he ended up winning.

C2 knight vs. C1 axe @ 72.8% - died, of course
C2 9XP knight vs. warrior @ 99.7% - win
Sentry HA vs. injured axe @ 97.6% - win



We razed it, even though it came with a Stele (and granary and courthouse)

[regoarrarr]

We misplayed our sentry HA there - we should have attacked with something else and moved the sentry to the hill 2SE of Mar Sara. We ended up moving a knight up there to find....




Oh boy that is some pungent

That could have made a pretty killer CG3 D3 longbow....