Krill Wrote:Yes, my economy sucks.
10 gold income at 100% gold? I hope someone else is paying you for the troops... (lend-lease?)
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RB PBEM 2 - de Krill of Fronce
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I have 884 gold saved, and I'm lucky enough that I can quite easily build wealth in my IW city (that's another 50 gpt...)
Other point is that my units won;t exactly be out of my lands for al that long. Next turn I'l atack Dreylins island. I have 9 units on boats to hit each of his cities, which are only defended by a cataphract, warrior, and archer (pics to come later). So next turn, if all goes well, I'll take out a third of Dreylins pop, and hopefully I'll have enough frigates there to sacrifice a few to take out his few SoL that I can see and a few SoL of my own to cover what I can. God I love 6 move Galleons. but a teaser: ![[Image: Civ4ScreenShot0050.jpg]](http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417/KevinRill/RBPBEM2/Civ4ScreenShot0050.jpg)
Knackered, been at a Funeral today (work collegue...) and been out with the other guys that were at the Funeral. And have to be up early tomorrow, might end up with a call asking for some overtime. I'll try to get the pictures up when I can though...
Pictures coming as I upload and add them in.
--- First things first, move ships to see if I can move my galleons adjacent to the cities...Nothern city has a chariot and warrior, so should fall to one Galleon. Southern city has an LB and a warrior, so might need the second galleon. Should still fall reasonably often to one galleon though. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0052.jpg http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0053.jpg Middle city has a mesket and cataphract. Definitely need 2 galleons there. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0054.jpg So far I have allocated 4 galleons out of the 9 I have fully loaded. Worst thing though is that Dreylin has a grenadier out, so I need to be able to protect against that unit, so I need to leave more units in cities or pillage roads. So, I'll start the attack in the north. 90.1% 7/2 Musketeer v chariot, win. 96.2% 7/2 Musketeer v warrior, Win, promote to CG3. No damage taken, keep Nicaea. Show 2 Dreylin Galleons 1SW of city, and 1 SL galleon. Are they up to something? http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0055.jpg Move down to the Southern city. 18.1% 4/8 C1, cover Musketeer v LB, Win (lucky...) 98.9%, 7/2 Musketer v warrior, Win, (see a pattern here?) Capture Trebizond. 2 cities down, no losses as yet. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...0056-1.jpg But what is this I see? I think Dreylin has planted a city that I did not know about. I'm not sure if I can cpture it, because I'm going to have to capture the middle city, drop off some Musketeers and hope the culture lets me 1 move it. So onto the Middle city, Nicomedia. First of all bombard with the 5 move/sentry Frigate, city defenses to 32%. And uncover a fort behind the city guarded by a musket. Hmmm. Sea canal. I'm not liking this Dreylin, were you going to backstab me? Anyway, on with the attack. Move down the Galleon with the 2 samurais (Darrell asked me to hide them, but I need their promotions to crack the 2 hardened combat units in that city). Rename them to Macemen and hope that works... 8.2% 6/8 CR2, D1, C1 Samurai v Musket, Win (WTF? I don't need this luck, I have a the units to win this sensibly). And losing 25 hp in al. 8.6% CR1, D1, C1 Samurai V Cataphract, Lose (finaly), Cat down to 8,2 health 20.1% Musket v 8.2 Cat, Win (...) Just the warrior remaining now. 99.5% 7/2 Knight v warrior, Win (8.7 health). http://i554.photobucket.com/albumsjj417/...0058-1.jpg Three cities down, and the culture has fallen away, letting me one move the last remaining city with Musketeers. Luckilly I moved 2 galleons, 1 of them full of musketeers to within 5 tiles of Nicomedia so I could land and move them this turn... Oooh, naughty Dreylin. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0059.jpg Anyway, back to the killing of Laodicia. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0060.jpg 64.5%, C1 cover Musketeer v LB, Win. 99.9% 7/2 Musketeer v warrior, Win, Capture city. Island is almost completely mine. Just a worker, grenadier and musket on the island. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0061.jpg Now for the navy.
On the naval side, not an awful lot happened:
73% C2 Caravel v caravel, Win. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0062.jpg Move northern Caravels around, spot a SoL able to kill my galleon...promote 8/2 Frigate to C1, F1, N1 to cover as sacrificial bait. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0064.jpg Attack northern mini Dreylin stack of SoL+2Frigates: 25.9% C3 Frigate v SoL, Lose (SoL 3.7) 67.9% C3 Frigate v Frigate, Lose (Frigate 4.8). I deserve that... 72.1% C3 Frigate v Frigate, Lose (Frigate 1.3...) I think my luck is about evens now, 'K? 97.0% C3 Frigate V 3.7 SoL, Win, 93.8% F1, N2 Frigate v 4.8 Frigate, Win 96.2% Caravel v 1.3 Frigate, Win Hmm, not great traded 180 hammers for 200 there, but I have the MFG upper hand, and all of my boats are made from drydocks, and I want to replace teh Frigates with SOL which can stand up by themselves, so I'll take it. http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...ot0068.jpg I then moved over a bunch of frigates to protect the 2 galleons outside the middle city, because they could get attacked by the remaining SoL and 4 Frigates: http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj417...0066-1.jpg Those units need to die soon. I have 2 SoL around them and all of thoe frigates. I'm fairly comfortable with dealing with them no matter what they do, but it will likely get ugly, because I also have to deal with anything else Dreylin has in the fog and I don't know anything about that. I didn't know about that hidden invasion fleet, for instance, but that should be weakned now. Now, Dreylin could land his troops and attack next turn, or atack from teh boats into the northern city, but I doubt he will do that when I have 5 musketeers in the city, one of them CG3. And I can take Dreylins capital next turn, if he has left it empty...decisions decisions. If only I had another 4 galleons for those goddamned cannons and the newly built shit back home...oh well, can't have everything, and this turn has been a great culmination for my game IMO, exactly what I've been aiming for.
Will you be able to hold Dreylin's capital or will you raze it?
"You want to take my city of Troll%ng? Go ahead and try."
Dunno. Probably raze it, it has teh AP, Buddhist shrine, and Oxford. I raze that game is over. If I could hold it I'd love to though. But that would be more for style points than me trying to win the game.
Still, 6 musketeers...not the easist shit to kill, when all are 2 promo. Krill Wrote:Move down the Galleon with the 2 samurais (Darrell asked me to hide them) ... Rename them to Macemen and hope that works... You, sir, are a fiend. I do believe the combat and event logs only show the renamed name. Dreylin can only figure out they were samurai if he somehow notices the extra first strikes in the combat log. Anyway, thanks to all for resuming the game so we get to see this...! |
