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

[Old Harry]

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?

Yep, the situation I see is either:
1. We bombard his walls to 15%, he attacks out with everything, we mop up easily the turn after
2. We bombard his walls to 15%, he sits tight, we bombard to 0% with two cats then attack with seven cats then attack with knights killing 15 longbows and losing 5 knights

I'm not sure what his next move is in the second scenario, Attacking out with cats against injured knights won't do much good (will they absorb hits like our cats do or are they just ignored?), we just need to have enough stuff to kill the axes and longbows if they attack out too. It may be best if he doesn't attack out just to offer peace, or to send a small force of knights to capture Maximin.

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.

Dtay just showed us a cuir, but he accepted peace (more on that in a bit) so he's probably sort-of at equivalent-tech. Just with lots more land... I haven't been following the tech screen (so much other stuff to keep track of!) so I'm not sure where we stand in relation to the others, but yeah, we've been 7th in GNP for a long time now...

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..

Dogs work better on ice. What's the history between the two countries?