[Civforum PB90] Cornflakes Ventures Out of the Realms Beyond, and into the Unknown

[Cornflakes]

Can either of my dedlurkers cover Turn 119 and/or Turn 120 if needed? At this point it looks like Hurricane Ian will not be a direct hit on my area but in reality they don't know where it is going. So I may not miss anything at all, or I may be out for a week

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I put a bunch of signs on the map for T119 actions, and took screenshots that I will post with additional markup for T120 if I get a chance.

[Ramkhamhaeng]

Good luck with the storm

+1

[Cornflakes]

We won! We won our victory condition!!! 



   

[Cornflakes]

Some additional details. I had my stack adjacent to the last Germany city last turn but 2 of the axes had trailed a turn behind and were not able to attack. I sent my CR3 axe in at 85% odds vs the top fully fortified archer defender and won with just a single hit of damage. Given that nice roll and a promo-heal available with C1 added to the CR3 I decided to pause for a turn so that I would have everything available to clean up and ensure victory.

The future outlook is dire. Our horses have been captured by TR. Empirate declared last turn and is threatening to capture copper this turn, probably 50/50 chance he can do it with the forces that I see, but I expect he has a couple more chariots in the fog. I can't get any reinforcements to my copper city for 2 more turns so ultimately I'll be left with just my starting island and the German island and no strategic resources

We now start fresh with a new scenario. Our goal: Survive to the end of the game! This will be a tall task considering income is -20 gpt right now, my home island cities are heavily whipped and have happy cap of 2 and my newly acquired German island has two size 1 cities

[klops]

Gratz on winning this PB. You are the unriveled king of this pond.

New scenario or whatever happens to distant wastelands in the future... well, that's bonus.

[Amicalola]

I'm late to the party but congrats on meeting your win condition!

[Cornflakes]

TR is building forts to allow his navy to access my sea Epirate is fielding Catapults + Keshik near my copper city Income is -20 gpt with 80 gold in the treasury after the turn roll

I see one path forward to live a little longer. Capture Empirate's city that is next to my copper for an infusion of ~100 capture gold plus reduce some military maintenance, and offer the city back to secure 10T peace and ensure that I can keep my copper for another 10 turns. Then shuffle everything south to put pressure on TR and try to secure a peace treaty just before our peace with Empirate expires, then shuffle everything back north.  Right now I have a numbers advantage but if I sit and do nothing Empirate will continue massing and he has cultural control over the 1st ring of my copper city so he can get in the first-strike with his catapults.

Here is my attempt:

   

   

   

   

I did not sim this out but I have nothing to lose. My units will disband from strike if I do nothing, and like I said he can get in a first strike with catapults already due to culture control. Might as well try

[Cornflakes]

Interesting ... naufragar logs in > Empirate score decreased -3 ... looks like an autoraze? I don't have contact with naufragar but this might just allow me to survive a little longer. However Empirate whipped 4 times for 2 pop each so more Keshik or Catapults incoming to one or the other of us.

[Cornflakes]

Keshik was missing out of the city, so I sacrificed my worker to scout before advancing ... and found another stack hiding behind the city. With the 2nd stack I don't have a 2:1 numbers advantage that is needed without cats ... add his 4 catapults into the equation and my stack will be wrecked I retreated back but left the worker alive and offered peace. Maybe he will accept the worker as a peace offering?

What about strike, you ask? Well ... Superdeath, you're my hero this game! ... he gifted me 10gpt! I reconfigured off of food resources on the home island and started working the cottages. Overall that brought me to -3 gpt which I can maintain until the next happiness wears off and I can work more cottages. Also the sliver mine will be coming online in 5 turns. Oh, and whenever Empirate can get this Keshik stack mobilized in my direction my stack is dead.

[Cornflakes]

Could I get a lurker to cover this turn? Spoiled or not, it won’t make a difference. We have a peace treaty with TR, and Empireate has been building a large stack 1SE of his city Francium. If that stack is still there, just queue and axe in any empty build queue and end turn. If the stack has finally decided to attack our copper city then it still doesn’t make any difference in our movements. Just queue axes in any empty build queues and end turn.