[SPOILERS]Will Catwalk learn how to wage war? Read on and find out!

[Catwalk]

mackoti decided to plow through my forested warrior in order to strike at my expansion 1t sooner. This means I won't have a spearman up in time. So I'm left with my Combat1 warrior (3.2 in a hill city) against his warrior and his war chariot (1.8/5). Lurkers should feel free to place bets on the battle and whether or not mackoti will attack I have no idea what the odds are, I feel they're on my side. If I win, I think I'm ahead in the game as my economy and my units are a lot stronger than his.

EDIT: Forgot the screenie

[Catwalk]

And it's over:

I forgot about his chariot getting a promo out of my warrior, giving him very good odds. Still, losing 75% HP from the warrior at 4.4% odds sucks

My one big mistake this game was not getting Hunting earlier. It would have given me AH sooner and would have let me get spearmen in time. I also should have scouted for your capital instead of getting distracted by your warrior. My feline nature shone through there

Thanks for the match mackoti, I had a blast! I think I did okay, and I would have felt quite confident of my chances if I'd stood up a proper defense in time.

[haphazard1]

Hi Catwalk! Sorry to see you defeated here -- the 4.4% result against the warrior was certainly poor luck. But the chariot would get the promotion (I guessed this the previous turn), so who knows.

Anyway, I wanted to ask about something from post #10, when you had a screenshot of Rome at size 1 building the warrior. Why were you working the grass forest? Plains forest would have gotten you to four hammers for an expansive bonus hammer (Shake is expansive, if I am remembering correctly), or you could have worked a flood plain for the same 3 (F+H) plus an additional commerce (if not expansive).

Good luck with the rest of your duels!

[Catwalk]

Thanks for the encouragement haphazard1 The war chariot could easily defeat me on its own, so the warrior hardly mattered.

I'm not sure why that screenshot shows a grassland forest being worked, I know that I had the plains forest being worked for the worker. Maybe I misclicked and didn't spot it. Good catch, I will be more careful not to waste resources.

What's worse about my tech path is that I could have gotten Pottery with Fishing + Wheel and bypassed Agriculture entirely for a while. I really think that would have given me the early boost I needed. Also, I could have moved the warrior back in the city earlier and bought myself that one turn I needed so badly.

[haphazard1]

I think not spotting the horses was pretty critical. Seeing them earlier could have cued you to push Hunting earlier, and even one spear likely would have made the difference.

[Catwalk]

Actually, I do know why I worked that tile. I had a chop come in the previous turn and switched from warrior to worker for a turn. It didn't matter any if I was on a grassland forest or plains forest for that turn, so I picked the grassland for whatever reason and forgot to change it for the next turn.

[Sian]

getting distracted by Barracks wasn't a great thing either ... sure when planing an attack i can see the reasoning behind them, but not when pressured

[Catwalk]

Yeah, those weren't ideal. My problem was that since I didn't have Hunting yet, I'd only be able to train axemen. I probably should have done that anyway, would have been enough to hold off the first war chariot and given me time to get spearmen out.

[DaveV]

So I know that mackoti settled his first city away from me, meaning he won't have copper yet.

Another kibitzer remark: you'll notice in your last screenshot that your capital borders had popped their third ring, bringing the copper inside your culture. So mackoti didn't need a city to claim the copper, just a mine.