[SPOILERS] Lewger goes for the Bigwyn

[Bigger]

Does Commodore want to trade iron?

I wish.
we haven't made contact with him yet . But I guess we'll be able to trade with him when we do hehe.

[waterbat]

i didnt see any coastal cities for azza. did i miss one? he needs to have at least 1 on the coast somewhere.

[waterbat]

i'd go back and see if you can snipe it.

[Bigger]

his capital is on the coast - its working a netted fish tile, even. so was billy talent, that we razed (we razed it, yes, but we didn't have a trade network with azza before it was razed - only options for peace were to exchange cities).

[Bigger]

well azza played his turn. good news is he didn't take Beowulf - we have no score decrease on civ stats. I'm kinda scared to log in and see how many more praets are on the horizon tho, hehe.

[Bigger]

ok, beowulf held and I think it will hold next turn as well.
This is what azza did on his turn:

you can see the stack on the hill, which I assume is going to go where our warrior is now to cut off reinforcement of beowulf (and also retreats, if we needed to abandon city).

south of the stack is the praet, which was reinforced with a horse archer and nothing else.

Azza did make a mistake this turn. The C1 axe attacked our stranded spear, which is now dead . he is at 4.2/5 health. He shouldnt have a promotion, so thats good. His city raider axe is dead - he suicided it against our axe. I'm not sure why he did that, he only had 27.2 odds. I guess if he had gotten lucky and won that battle he could have gotten more agressive this turn.

Anyway, since his odds were so low we only got one experience, so no promotion . I'm really hoping that the archer will defend against the praet now so we don't lose our axe. not sure.
Anyway, our lone axe is at 20% fortify bonus, so at least he'll heal and pick up another 5%.

anyway, I didn't play the turn yet - we have 15 hours and I'm hoping to get some input from lewwyn (he said I'd have to play some turns as he'll be away for family reasons, but I'm not sure if that starts tomorrow or tonight). Input from ded lurkers welcome as well .

In the mean time, this is what we have in beowulf:


in addition we have the warrior 1N and chariot completed in the odyssey that can reach beowulf THIS turn. we have an axe making the long trek from gilgamesh that will reach the odyssey at the end of NEXT turn. we can whip an archer in the aeneid and the iliad this turn as well. we will 1 turn an archer in gilgamesh, but that archer will be required for the new iron city so cant be brought to the odyssey.

[Old Harry]

What have we got in the Odyssey? Is he by-passing Beowulf to get a shot at a better/less well defended city? Should you consider falling back from Beowulf?

[Bigger]

What have we got in the Odyssey? Is he by-passing Beowulf to get a shot at a better/less well defended city? Should you consider falling back from Beowulf?

i've thought about that. but at least we can reinforce the odyssey - we have another axe and archer incoming and an archer that can be whipped soon in theodyssey. if we move anything out of beowulf it falls for sure. we can always move the chariots back if we need to I guess.

[Bigger]

I didn't even notice Judaism spread to the aenid. drunk lewwyn pointed it out to me .

[Lewwyn]

Chatted with Bigger. Not a lot of options. Oh well. Traveling today to my Chinese in-laws so I expect my time will be limited until we settle in.