Ah, as if an ad for AT using an ax in AW. Am thinking AP, ay?

[AutomatedTeller]

ahh - right.

Well, that's not good.

[AutomatedTeller]

We are off!!

Why I need to kill KJN's city:



That's MY spice! or, at least, it was. he's pressing my city hard with culture and if I don't kill it soon, he's going to be able to walk up to my city.

Demos:



Power:



I can't really wait - I'm going to drop a stack in next turn. he can't really see where I'm setting up. I think it may fail, because I really don't have enough catapults, but we'll see...

Oh - we have a new player



Celiazul has changed the name of the Civ to reborn and renamed his cities - I have Jesus and Phoenix in my top cities list. His horse city is Romulus (up by Be) and the other two cities I see are Gandalf and Achilles. (I guess I should bone up on my mythology - I didn't realize either Romulus or Achilles were reborn.

[Cornflakes]

KJN's city appears to have just a single skirmisher. How many war chariots can you get onto the hill 2S of the city? Of course you'd move the catapults and other stuff up too, but a quick 2-mover strike off that hill on the following turn may work if he thinks that you'll wait for the siege to walk up. 4 WC's should be plenty for a single skirmisher, and 3 would probably do it as long as both of your first two WC's get a hit or two in.

[AutomatedTeller]

A lot - 6 or 7.

The thing is, he has engineering and I believe he has a reserve of 3 or 4 crossbows nearby.

That will be the plan, though - dump a large stack there, see what happens.

[NobleHelium]

Well Romulus became a revered deity which is kind of a rebirth. Achilles was resurrected and became an immortal proper, yes.

[AutomatedTeller]

I did dump a stack in KJN's land. I doubt it will do anything other than worry him a little - 13 units, but only one catapult is not going to scare a guy with pikes and crossbows.

[AutomatedTeller]

Got his attention!!




I don't see me taking that city, but I'll have to run a sim tonight to see.

I believe KJN and sticks are fighting - someone else got a GG (and look! There's an attached GG!) Interestingly, he attached his GG to his initial warrior for the free upgrade. Why is that interesting? Cause I think most people would not have done that...

Well, more update tonight after I sim an attack (that I am 99% sure wouldn't work) - just not enough seige. if I had 3 more cats instead of war chariots, that would be one thing.

[AutomatedTeller]

I wimped out.

I ran a simulation that had me killing half his defenders, but losing 10 of my attackers... and that's without giving him a CG3 pike

hmm... the pic doesn't seem to be workign now...

That said... I'm going in a few turns with more maces and cats, so that city is probably toasty. I'll have 4 maces, 4 cats and a lot of other units...

[AutomatedTeller]

so, in 3 turns, i'll head back with a stack of:

4 or 5 cats
4 maces
xbow
axe
spear
7 war chariots.

I should win (a battle for that city, that is)

[AutomatedTeller]

one thing I should mention - I built an explorer a while ago and am using it to scout out their lands, mainly trying to get visibility on cities.

Right now, only maces get odds on one if it lands on a hill or a woods, and, frankly, as long as I am careful not to land on important squares, people seem to want to leave me alone.

Catwalk/Celiazul has 3 holy cities (buddhism, hinduism, judaism). I don't understand why catwalk did that, but hey.