Diplomacy Correspondence Tracking thread

[scooter]

Message from WPC detailing that they got owned pretty bad this turn.

Hi Scooter. Round two was not good for us. I made a fundamental error last turn. What I should have done was reduced the city to zero, and sit tight waiting for this turn. They brought a couple more units up, and with war elephants (all those promos they got from my poorly advised attacks of last turn), and horse archers, really decimated our stack. We lost 19 units. They lost an axe.
 
We fired off the weak catapults, which would probably lose by flank attack again next turn, consolidated our survivors and brought up reinforcements. The only positive news here is that thet have not pulled anything away from our front to face you, and everything in their two stacks is pretty beat up.
 
Also, coming up the road through the mountains, albeit strung out for a few turns back past Great Plains, are 25 units of our reinforcements.
 
My sense is that the Germans are going to take another run at us next turn, and keep their forces facing us. Hence we stood our ground rather than pull back. Their thinking is either:
 
1. They plan on defeating us and then turning south. With constant reinforcements, we should be able to keep them engaged continually around Warendorf.
 
or
 
2. They see the inevitable conclusion to the war (it must have been obvious to them on turn 150), and they are more miffed at us than you (especially given our earlier attack on them) and want us to pay dearly for this war. Which we are.   They may also believe that this allows you to get their cities and shuts us out. :dunno:
 
Anyways, congrats on your success in the south and taking the capitol.
 
Bummer about the RNG and your war chariot. We could have used one less war elephant facing us this turn.
 
Anyway - with the absence of your war chariot and its intel, the pics above give you the infoon the German units.
 
Strength (well a little less this turn) and honor!
 
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