RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[Ruff_Hi]

Spullla is now in a 3 v 1 war. When are the other 2 coming and does anyone have a list of the current NAP arrangements?

[Cyneheard]

T105 is when Nakor & DMOC are planning to attack. The Roman 8-praet force should be leaving now, for a 12-turn journey, ETA 111 or 112.

*popcorn*

[darrelljs]

He thinks they might be dead now, just wait until Whosit shows up . They need to find a way to eliminate the enemy stacks ASAP, but don't realize that. I predict a game of cat and mouse, net result the CoW's staggered war declarations will end up not biting them as much as Justice demanded .

Darrell

[dazedroyalty]

Whosit will definitely cause destruction. He'll take out one city for sure. How much further it goes will depend a lot on how effectively Spulla deal with the others. The other factor will be if they can get construction quickly, that will be significant!

(I actually dreamed last night that Spulla attacked with their HAs at 28% odds and won without a scratch! But my dreams have never been particularly prophetic in nature... Of course, if it happens, I will claim prophecy anyways!!!!)

[Ruff_Hi]

[Fun side story]
I was playing a MP game on Saturday night. I had a Trireme guarding some fish when the other player's caravel came calling. I attacked and killed it at 9.9% odds ... picking up 18 Great General points in that battle (we also had the Great Wall).
[/Fun side story]

[McClure]

It will be real interesting to see how the CoW plays this. If they aren't impatient and are willing to stroll around pillaging, I think they could split Spulla into about four parts by the time Whosit hits the scene. Once Spulla's cities are isolated, defeat is inevitable.

Splitting the empire makes Construction worthless since they could never effectively move Cats between cities, and Cats should not be decisive if they can only be used 1-2 at a time, given the size of the enemy stacks.

Or we might just get giant stack vs. giant stack at Chancell... if Jowy/Kathlete get tired of paying for troops in enemy territory.

[Swiss Pauli]

Looking at the stacks, they've gone for too many axes and too few spears. Weight of numbers alone will make it touch and go for Spullla in this wave, but with Copper & Horses fairly deep in their territory I can see them doing pretty well...until Whosit turns up with his pokey-pokey swords

[m4gill4]

If CoW succeeds in crippling or even destroying team Spulla, it will ruin this game for me. Curse this insipid CoW gang-jumping!

[novice]

It will be real interesting to see how the CoW plays this. If they aren't impatient and are willing to stroll around pillaging, I think they could split Spulla into about four parts by the time Whosit hits the scene. Once Spulla's cities are isolated, defeat is inevitable.

Splitting the empire makes Construction worthless since they could never effectively move Cats between cities, and Cats should not be decisive if they can only be used 1-2 at a time, given the size of the enemy stacks.

Or we might just get giant stack vs. giant stack at Chancell... if Jowy/Kathlete get tired of paying for troops in enemy territory.

Good point about cutting the road networks. If the CoW delay too long pillaging other stuff they will get slaughtered by catapults in 8 turns' time. Whip a catapult in each city, two turns of moving and overflowing into new catapults, boom, bye bye invaders.

[antisocialmunky]

I'm kinda curious at how many hammers of whipping Spullla's cities have. Will have to count.

Edit: 26 whippable population.