[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

1. Based on your new sims: what kind of losses are we expecting if we go forward with A1?

About six knights, four muskets. Have a sim - I think its missing the C1 on some of the axes, but pretty good otherwise. Firing cats then Axes into our stack kills 0-1 units, sending all 25 longbows in afterwards kills about ten units. There may be a better order to attack us in or he may be better off just waiting us out, but I'm pretty happy with this setup. Of course great generals will muck things up...

So this assumes that we stage at A1, suttree puts all the cats and axes into Madrid, then we bombard defenses and then he attacks out. Right?

I assume that attacking when suttree has 60 % defenses would be ugly even when we use suicide cats, but if defenses are first bombarded down and we then send cats in, we lose fewer hammers than what you simmed out earlier?

I should do the sim myself instead of bugging you..

How about using outdated axes and bowmen as sentries?

Sure!

Depends if we spend the next five turns building units or infra...

I mean, cities like A,C,H&L, could definitely benefit from commerce multipliers. Building infra is a more optimistic approach that assumes that we can hold mack back for a good time so that extra beakers become valuable. Or ever better: Mack stars warring with Pindicooter (&plako) and we get a some kind of a crazy backdoor chance into this game. At this point it would need miracle after another though. When forgetting our doomed geopolitical position, 30 turns ago only Mack&Pindicooter had thanks to their easy wars significantly better position than what we had. Despite our suttree missery, we were pretty much on the par with dtay and plako, and maybe even had some kind of a lead compared Ichabod, Commodore & Lewwyn/Bigger. Now I assume that we are still holding our ground tech-wise against some of those teams, but in big picture all those teams surely have better demos and also better chances in this game than what we have.

So what I'm saying: I'm fine with building some infra as that is the right call if we want to gamble on having some kind of future in this game, but I think it's also reasonable to accept our fate and just focus on military and keep warring until every single one of our cities has been whipped down to size 1 and captured.

Btw, nice effort reg GPP calculations.

PS. Finland-Sweden semi final hockey game in 2 hours at olympics. The whole country is watching the game and praying. I heard that >50 % of the whole population already watched the quarter final game against Russia. These matches do not tend to go too well, but.. Why can't we send some cats in first in order to improve our hockey odds..