Pacal of the Indians: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Fast Worker

[WarriorKnight]

I'm around, but I'll probably have connection issues with you dave. Still, feel free to move my army with the stack if I'm not around when Shoot gets back.

Oh, also, we should name your GG Machine Gun Pat Benatar

We could go with anything, and of all things you choose that?!? We may be all fired up but cmon, there's better things to name our GG that'll kill a ton of units.

BTW, I wonder if you should promote him to morale now. Sure, the healing bonus would be useful, but the reason we made him a GG unit was to unlock WP which he won't do until morale. I don't see him dying anytime soon, being str18 with Drill IV facing muskets and worse, but if he does need to be healed then we risk the chance of wasting a GG. (on the other hand if Leewyn can kill him then we may not reach Beijing in the first place)

[oledavy]

We could go with anything, and of all things you choose that?!? We may be all fired up but cmon, there's better things to name our GG that'll kill a ton of units.

Eh, I thought it was clever

Have a name in mind?

BTW, I wonder if you should promote him to morale now. Sure, the healing bonus would be useful, but the reason we made him a GG unit was to unlock WP which he won't do until morale. I don't see him dying anytime soon, being str18 with Drill IV facing muskets and worse, but if he does need to be healed then we risk the chance of wasting a GG. (on the other hand if Leewyn can kill him then we may not reach Beijing in the first place)

That's a really good point. It's a pity we didn't get to gift him around before deploying him with the invasion force. I would hate to have to use another GG to unlock WP, but at the same time, it would be nice to heal him after Lewwyn sacks collateral into our stack. I'm really not sure. Shoot, what do you think?

[Gaspar]

Love is indeed a battlefield.

[oledavy]

Love is indeed a battlefield.

Was thinking more along the lines of hit me with your best shot.

[Jherek]

Was thinking more along the lines of hit me with your best shot.

How about Heartbreaker?

[Shoot the Moon]

You guys around?

[Shoot the Moon]

I'll let dave do a more full post, but here's what we're up against:

In Macau:



And then this stack:



Glad I moved that sentry knight that direction to view that stack.

I'll leave it as a bit of a cliffhanger for now for what all our stack looks like (at least until Dave posts).

WK, just waiting on gold from Rome, so feel free to end my turn.

[luddite]

Yeah!

Wait... no... I mean...

:catapult:

[oledavy]

I'm too tired to give the do a full write-up right now, so you lurkers will have to wait until tomorrow :neenernee

However, Armageddon is now live. Our army is not 1S of Macau, in the plains forest.

I'll be completely candid for a moment - neither me nor Shoot are extremely optimistic at our chances of success. Shoot pegs our chances of victory around 30%. Without a thrust from Team #1 at Milkshake, Team #2 may be able to overwhelm our stack through sheer weight of numbers. We're especially scared of what Lewwyn's Cho-Ko-Nus might do to our stack. The long and short of it is we just don't have enough units to do what we want, especially cannons and machine guns. If we had another 30-40 units or so, I would feel a lot better about our chances of victory. However, the game would be over by the time we got them in position.

At any rate, a rather stark analysis; but hey, "hope for the best, plan for the worst." Still going to give this thing our damndest.

[Shoot the Moon]

I'm too tired to give the do a full write-up right now, so you lurkers will have to wait until tomorrow :neenernee

However, Armageddon is now live. Our army is not 1S of Macau, in the plains forest.

By which Dave means now 2S of Macau. But yeah, as Dave mentioned, I really wish we had another 5t or so to get more units out. But we don't, so we've just got to go in with what we have.