There's only one city I can attack so I suppose I'll just send everything I have there. I haven't looked at the new turn yet so I don't know for sure how I'm going to do it.
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Can a lurker tell me what's the turn order between boak and Gav ? I'll try to get in on Gav's side for the sake of turn pace.
 It will take 6t to get all the troops there, maybe 5 if I get engineering in time to gain a turn. Then on the first turn of the war if I have enough knights I take AB with them, road the tile NW of AB and send the stack. If not the stack goes to the hill and I attack on the turn after that. I sent Gav the copper deal.  Demos are fine I guess.  I'm building a LOT of knights currently.
Gavagai has already played, according to the game tracker, so I'd assume he has the first half.
Completed: PBEM 34g (W), 36 , 35 , 5o, 34s, 5p, 42, 48 and PB 9, 18, 27, 57
Current: PB 52. Boudicca of Maya
February 6th, 2016, 11:48
(This post was last modified: February 8th, 2016, 06:14 by AdrienIer.)
Gavagai sent back copper for copper so I figured I should tell him when I was planning to attack.
 Here are demos and graphs.      Edit : I assume that the 1k GNP is Taotao. He looks like a clear runaway, but if Gav and I eat boak we're going to become fearsome as well. I don't have graphs on him because I'm putting all my EP on Barteq (with my 16 EP per turn I'm getting closer), my next EP targets are dtay and only after that taotao. He's very far away after all.
That's my luck... If I don't get the great prophet in Davies in 3t I might actually let go of the idea of a shrine.
 Boak has a worker on the tile I want roaded near his city. If he builds one it will make everything easier. If this worker is the first step of an attack it could go very well for me 
February 12th, 2016, 05:18
(This post was last modified: February 12th, 2016, 05:20 by AdrienIer.)
Well that was more eventful than I thought. I was pretty happy at first, with all the units in place for next turn's war declaration.
 So I let Gav know that I would be going in next turn.  But I'm sure you noticed the problem in the first screenshot : BOAK HAS A WB SSW OF NONU. He would have noticed that I had added a cat, swords(x2), a WE and a spear, in addition to the second FW for which there is no explanation but war preparation. So it was time for camouflage. That means he only sees an additional cat in the interturn (he has no way of knowing it's not the same WE, cat and FW he saw before). The FW is still shady as hell but there was no way around that, he had made his move.  So what does it change ? Next turn I expect several things : Boak's worker (who is building a cottage) may disappear. More importantly boak can (if he senses what's coming) send more units into AB (which is a shame, currently it's just an archer + a spear). That is a real possibility if he has engineering, less so if he's stuck with 2 move roads. For my troops the main change is that the units I took away from the city (ie the swords a spear a WE and a cat) can't be in AB at the end of next turn. I can still get 2 LB an axe 3 spears 2 cats and a WE in there so I think it will be fine. To summarize this all : next turn I'm taking AB with my knights, roading the tile where Boak's worker is on with my 2 FW and sending everyone in. Then I expect to see absolutely nothing in his back lines so I'll move forward immediately. Edit : HAK seems to have declared war on Boak as well. Dogpile incoming.
No idea what the 4 gold mean. I could have taken it for the (minor) profit but nah.
 Well shit  I should have sent the knights last turn. This slows me down considerably. Strangely Boak didn't close borders so I can take a peak. A CKN incoming and a single archer in Etruria Dock is good news.  The city has no chance of surviving, and then I'll have a shot at all this land.  Problem is : with engineering in, Boak should be able to reinforce this area rather quickly, and with annoying pikes. So how much land I'll be able to take will depend mostly on Gav and HAK's successes in the south.
Let's start with the war.
Surprisingly Boak went for the kill and used a pike to kill the HA that captured his worker. That's pretty strange : he's in caste system and these 3 pikes are basically all that stand between me and his capital at the moment. And this is a waste, as the lone pike was brutally murdered by my crossbow.  The city was taken at the cost of 2 catapults (3 others had bombarded it first for better odds, which allowed me to kill the last pike with my shock axe instead of a sword). It comes with a granary.  Good news of the day n°1 : the plain tile already had a turn of roading in, so my FW could finish the road this turn.  Good news n°2 : there's still nothing in Boak's northern cities. Pants down etc...  Now let's leave the battlefield and jump to good news n°3, the 60% Prophet that spawned in Davies ! +26gpt is already great, and it will only get better.  I found a dtay stack (and a smaller one) by Ichabod's border. Please let me kill off Boak before attacking me   Demos are still ok but not top tier.  A few other things. First I'm worried about Barteq. He spent like 400EP on me (I'm just catching up but still 2 or 3 turns before I get demos on him), I saw his stack a few turns ago (when we were finishing off AT) and now I'm seeing knights being built in his cities. He only has 3 neighbors (unlike me who, even now, still has 5 neighbors) which are Gav (biggest army in the world or close enough) Dtay (big army and his troops are nearby) and myself (ok army but currently in China). Second I'm researching CS but I'm a bit aimless right now. Irrigation will give me food in 2 or 3 important places but overall I need a plan. Maybe literature for the epics will be next. Finally, will you lurkers want a full t150 report ? I think I can do that, I have a week off starting friday which should coincide with t150. |
