[Spoiler] Returning to Randomness: Thoth plays a happy, hippie builder game

[Thoth]

After a 1t delay, Krill sent back Gems--Wine.  He also asked for Gold-Iron, which I declined.


Superdeath joined the cool kids and DoWed Krill .    I've never been good at being one of the cook kids but I highly approve of everyone else dogpiling the world's strongest military while I see about grabbing some easyish pickings to my east.

GO TEAM! 

[Thoth]

Krill signed peace with Commodore and Pindicator.

Don't know if Commodore is ready to hit Superdeath and just wanted a NAP or if it was a border skirmish.

1st Calendar resources online next turn but I'm still looking at 3-4 more turns of saving gold before I can grab HBR (2 turns of teching) and liberate Yuris cities.

[Thoth]

17 Samuri and 3 trebs inbound. I missed the change where Samuri were available at Machinery......ooops.

This is gonna hurt.

HBR finished at eot and I've asked Yuri for his horses. I might be able to hold him in the desert pass west of Dayglo Abortions but both western cities will be captured or razed.

Chops will keep a 5xp unit coming out of Random Killing every turn for the next 4-5 turns plus whatever I can whip out of my other cities, hopefully Horse Archers but axes or swords if Yuri doesn't want to repay the earlier Copper gift. In which case I'm going to be very tempted to risk things in the west to go and take his horses.

Superdeath agreed to peace, he's got his own problems with Commodore at the moment. This has my large but weak army heading west

[Thoth]

It's not going to last long but I'm on top of the power graph for the moment.....





10 HA on the board right now. Not enough to deal with 17 samurai but we'll see what some good old fashion Russian style meatgrinder tactics can do.

I'll have 18 units in Murder Squad to his 17 Samurai plus around 20 further units on the desert hill adjacent to the city. His stack will be on flatland.

I'll send a peace offer next turn and see if he wants to take his gains and shift back towards Krill or take a chance on what I've got showing. I doubt he'll take it as I won't be showing my Horse Archers just yet.

I'm hoping that he takes enough hits attacking either Murder Squad (the easier target once walls are reduced a bit) or my hilltop stack that my Horse archers plus the other stack can take his stack out.
It's a lousy plan but it's about the best I can do with the units I've got available.

[Thoth]

Sent Pindicator a white peace offer and deployed my forces:





Vs 17 Samurai and 3 Trebs.   I don't like my odds here but this is the best shot I'll have so it's the shot I'll take.   Figure somewhere around 30-40% chance of wiping his stack next turn?   Better odds if I get lucky on the defence, worse if his forces come through their attacks unharmed.  He's taken a lot of drill promotions so he'll take little damage against spears and archers.   But I have 18 units in the city to his 17 hitters.   So I'll get a shot at his stack and if the RNG gods are kind I'll get to keep Murder Squad.

On the bright side, my unit costs are about to go way, way down and I might have a shot at getting Construction soon.

[Thoth]

"On death ground, fight"

[Thoth]

"Quantity has a quality all of it's own"

Stack wiped Pindator outside of Murder Squad, advanced a woody 2 axe in the north and ganked a worker pair (deleted).

Offered peace in exchange for the return of Reckless Upstarts.

Construction due in 5 t.

[Thoth]

17 Samurai, 3 trebs, and a pair of workers.


Never mind what my butcher's bill was.

[Thoth]

The taste of victory is sweet.








I didn't think I was going to win this one when I realized what was coming my way.  This was close.

Pindicator, I think you were a bit too cautious early and not quite cautious enough late.  If you'd headed straight in, rather than waiting for your siege,  you could have taken Murder Squad and threatened Dayglo Abortions before I could muster my troops to block you.  
My fear was that you'd head straight for the hills to the east of Murder Squad, once in the hills I wouldn't have been able to dislodge you.  As it was, staying in cover early meant you had to venture out onto flatland to siege the city. 

And I think you'd have been better off taking a shot at the city rather than the hill stack?   You'd have taken a lot less damage and made it tougher for me to start getting odds, as it was once the 4 undamaged Samurai
got plinked (and one lucky kill), I started getting decent survival odds for the rest of my horse archers.  

Though the RNG did play a role this could have gone the other way I was down to my last attacker or three taking out the last of the stack. There were a lot of 40-60% fights after the Horse Archers were done. T I think I won slightly more than I lost here but in the end even the losses were wins as they scored enough hits that my archers started getting decent (80+% odds).


My GPT went up by ~20 from last turn.  I haven't actually counted but I think I lost ~13 units to Pindicator's assault on the hill and about the same counter attacking.

[Thoth]

Looks like Commodore has been taking losses in Superdeathia. In spite of having lost 26 units recently, I'm still second in power with both Commodore and Pindicator taking major hits to their power.

Looking like the game is probably Krill's. He's ahead in demographics and thanks to recent battles is well ahead in power. But there's plenty of game yet to play. :hat:

Commodore built the Taoist AP. I've got Taoism in Filthy Radicals so I'll be spreading that around for the hammer boost. Nice play on Commodore's part, AP makes spreading his shrined
religion worthwhile for other people.

Bing built the GLH. I looked at building it a couple of times, but it just didn't seem worth the 200 hammers for a +1 commerce trade route in 5 cities.

Construction due in 2t, MoM due in ~7t.


I'd like to liberate Yuris former capital but that will have to wait while I get a settler built and settle to the north of Random Killing and capture a barb city up there. I'll also be fortifying the mountain passes against Pindicator pending our next war.

Power graph is looking hillarious, I'll get a screenshot next turn.