[spoiler] 2metraninja and ot4e make waves

[2metraninja]

Beauty:

[OT4E]

Dantski another just-planted city is empty and I dont see how can it produce anything by the next turn or what can he do with our char before we raze it. Of course Upper-dicker he will probably take back soon, but we got a worker as a trophy.




Zanth has got cooper in the capital's radius too.

[Dreylin]

You guys are just having too much fun!

[OT4E]

You guys are just having too much fun!

Lol, indeed I feel like I'have just entered my first multiplayer game and for the first time I have crossed someone's borders.

Btw, Dantski has steel nerves: he has played his turn in 4 minutes and hasnt even performed a single whip. 2metra, did you forget to send him notification that we are at war?

[2metraninja]

First thing first: Western expedition:

[2metraninja]

Their plant from this turn:

[2metraninja]

Dantski's front at beginning of turn:

[OT4E]

I have simulated our situation with Dantski, because my inner feeling advises me to take a risk or better say to let Dantski take a risk. He has performed 2 whips this turn, so there is a chance that he will have 2 axes next turn or axe and spear. He also has 2 warriors around. One of his axes has only 4.4 hp, it is important to evaluate chances.
I remind that we have axe + char. What if we walk to his cap?

In general I dont like relying on 50% chances, because it is always unpredictable and can result in 'no damage' for any side (3.1%). But in this situation we only risk with our units which can hardly bring us any goods soon and Dantski will have to risk with his cap, and even if we have minor chances it can be worth trying.

The spread of possible results is pretty simple and is shown on the picture below:


If the luck is by my side we can have axe with 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0 str left. It is 36.3% to have axe with 2.0 str and more.


As I mentioned the other axe is wounded and this means that his chances on chariot are just slightly more than 50%, 56.6% exactly (full hp axe has 75% against chariot).


Chariot has 43% and in about 20% of cases it still has nice chances against warrior.

The main thing I wanted to point out is that if we get lucky with the first 2 battles, warriors most probably wont be able to change it, because even very wounded axe or severy wounded char have decent chances against full-hp warrior. So it is about 15-20% to survive all his units, about 60% chance to exchange well and smth about 25-30% to lose all.

[2metraninja]

[OT4E]

Looks like the situation stagnated and we have time to make short overall report.

Here is the view of our main land:

We have 6 core cities, 2 of them are just planted. Though we have no granary, the only one granary we have in the former Egypt city. But we will make them really quick everywhere. The main reason we dont have them is that our cities are tired from slaving even without that unlimited growth. Base food were enough to grow quick and we have got no easy happiness resource to move growth limit higher.

Our next settling sports are located to the south from our capitol. Dont pay attention that we have so few roads. For a while we had just 1 worker (now we have 3), so by this time (T69) we have whole 3 roaded tiles :D . But the galley will deliver settler from Uppsala to the planting spot 2 in a single turn (on 4th turn from now we plant it), so the galleys provide the necessary logistics. And roads give nothing, right?



In demographics we do not let anyone share our 10th spot in GNP. We pay high maintance for our colonies, but the latest one gives us 2 coin trader routes, also military creates some upkeep. Of course you can do better having just 1 warrior in the city but we know how tragically it can finish.


In food and prod we are highest and we are planning to focus on growth so I hope we keep this leading position.

Some other news:
- Molach (Stalin of Mongolia) has completed stonehenge Great Wall
- Thewannabe (Elizabeth of Arabia) has converted Hinduism