RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

[Ruff_Hi]

I think soooo should attack - he'll lose most of his cannons, but they'll hurt the machine guns, and take the edge off everything else. Then he can attack at good odds with the rest of his units, and still have a chance to promote and heal before ruff will be able to attack.

Str 12 v Str 18 isn't going to hurt the Str 18 unit too much (I hope). Hopefully, most of my MGs will still be strong enough to fight against his Cav.

I expect to take some collateral damage, but my Medic III unit is there so if I have to heal for a turn, no biggie ... it will just give me a chance to bring my second stack up.

[darrelljs]

I expect him to attack as well. However, I don't think he has nearly enough units to eliminate your stack. Between the Medic III unit and the reinforcements on the way, I think Sparta is certain to fall. However as the front gets further and further from your core logistics start to favor sooooo. You've got a technological advantage with Assembly Line due next turn, I'm really interested to see how effectively you'll be able to leverage it .

Darrell

[Square Leg]

I expect him to attack as well. However, I don't think he has nearly enough units to eliminate your stack. Between the Medic III unit and the reinforcements on the way, I think Sparta is certain to fall. However as the front gets further and further from your core logistics start to favor sooooo. You've got a technological advantage with Assembly Line due next turn, I'm really interested to see how effectively you'll be able to leverage it .

Darrell

It will be interesting. Your tech path hasn't been too disimilar to that of mine in a recent SP game and Infantry played a key role there - that was against AI though!

I think the upgrade cost is 80gp from rifle->Infantry. Are you planning on doing many of these or not?

[Jabah]

He should attack only if he has a very serious chance to flank and kill all the cannons so he will be able to keep hidding in his city without you 'collateralling' his units too much.

Is his army strong enough for that, I don't know...

[Ruff_Hi]

I have multiple tech advantage at the moment. My best advantage is railroads. If I keep razing his cities and RR'd to the front, then fresh meat to the grinder can be provided quickly.

[Ruff_Hi]

Ouch! My lovely stack of 53 units was reduced to a pitiful stack of 13 ...

chariot
5 x cav
3 x rifle
4 x machine gun

Sooooo stack in Sparta stands at 32 (3 badly injured cannons). For the cost of 40 units, Sooooo lost 25 units (mainly cannons).

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF: Rifle [1]
  
• LQ: Rifle [1]
  
• DV: Forge [1], Cavalry [1]
  
• BH: Cavalry -> Infantry [1]
  
• BS: Spy [1]
  
• AC: Rifle [1], Cannon [2]
  
• TN: Rifle [3], Cannon [2]
  
• KS: Spy [17]
  
• SL: Forge[4]
  
• Tech: fascism [6], -10g at 50% science, 97g in the bank
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • sooooo - Railroad [2], ?g, +?g @ 30% tech
    

Those rifles shown above auto-changed to infantry when I hit 'end-o-turn'.

[Ruff_Hi]

And here is the current situation. I have moved 3 badly injured Cavalry units to block food and hammer tiles - I guess every little less to Sooooo helps me. If he blows through my stack, they are dead ... but they would have been dead anyway.

[Dantski]

Do you think you can still raze Sparta or is your attack pretty much done until the Infantry upgrades?

[athlete4life10]

And last but not least I'm finally up to date here. Congrats on the great empire management so far and thanks for the great read!

Here's to hoping Soooo overcomes it all and wins but realistically I don't see that happening so you've got my next vote as to who I want to win and hopefully once ToG is completely gone you can give Dreylin a stern lashing .

Best of luck to you Ruff!