Retrospectives Thread

[scooter]

I teach Writing, Speech and debate. In class now, during break.

So THERE'S where the werewolf skills come from.

[Lord Parkin]

Nicely done.

[thestick]

I refuse to say 'nice job' until the victory screen pops up.

[antisocialmunky]

We should be fine given the game was setup right and WB didn't mess anything up:
https://www.google.com/search?q=civ4+tea...=firefox-a

Nicely done.

Thanks, I hope you are doing well in PB5.

[Lewwyn]

I refuse to say 'nice job' until the victory screen pops up.

Thanks! I've been trying not to jinx this for ages.

Working on the combat write up from last turn. I'm sure that T3 has reported it, but I figure we should cover the bases.

[Lewwyn]

T4 is moving slowly in, so to start lets check on T1:



Yeah they brought another 3 units up behind their last stack...
Slow and Steady wins the race!

Next up T3. Here's their stack at the end of the combat:



You may notice a distinct lack of Musketeers and muskets. We slaughtered those on defense even with all the collateral done to us.

Logs:





These first few logs are just Cannons attacking and withdrawing so it looks worse than it is. Technically we're not losing any units.



Here we start losing lots of units to rifle attacks because the rifles are simply superior units and we're already shot to hell.



More rifles but now they are out of them and they've begun attacking with Muskets/Musketeers and we're holding our own.



Also the Log from the 66 Wonderland troops:



They held up well.

Of the 66 Wonderland troops only 9 died. 57 of those left and a good portion are muskets.

Of the 167 Chinese troops in Beijing 43 died. So in total we lost 52 units. That's all. We killed 42 units. That's nearly 1:1 even with all the cannon collateral.

Now imagine my surprise when I look at my units health bars and see half or more are already at full health this turn. Those GGs do their work well. Additionally I heal promoted just about every unit. So not only are the units now more healthy they are also tougher than before. Every unit I could promote to CG2 I did then C2 for everything else. T3's stack is sorely depleted because all the rifles are injured and spent, they lost a ton of muskets and all the other killing units are useless (I have pikes for knights, Xbows for praet and maces, lbs are too weak).

I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't attack this turn. They need to heal. If they do attack they'll just all die.

China mil screen:



Still got a ton of muskets/jans. All those CKNs are CG2 and are hard to break on a hill with fortification bonuses. It would take a long time to break.

I'm hoping if they do attack that either T3 posts a report or that I get a chance to take a look at the log.

One last thing:



I didn't realize that when a city goes legendary it shows up in the log. I guess everyone knows now. Though maybe T1 logged in and didn't check the log? Here's hoping that still get surprised when its actually their turn.

Man, going legendary looks cool in the log.

[Lewwyn]

Also the logs are so funny because usually when defending in big combat turns you start of with a lot of green and moves towards red as your weaker defenders start defending and dying. In this case we started winning more battles towards the end because we still had similar strength units to spare and T3 ran out of higher powered units. Super cool.

[antisocialmunky]

Stuff happened, many rages were quit. The party in Beijing was pretty epic this turn too.

[Lewwyn]

For those curious about the tech thread thing. I had logged in as LudditesGhost for posterity in China specifically without the apostrophe. ASM wanted to make it grammatically correct and crashed the server by adding the apostrophe. We have to reload. You have all been trolled by ASM.

[antisocialmunky]

Keep quiet until its finished

Also :neenernee