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Thank you guys for all the comments!
As OH said our plan wasn't to attack Ichabod's mainland but those ships were just so threatening and because Ichabod gave us a chance to kill them.. we simply had to try.. Imagine Ichabod upgrading his ships and those 20 Frigates and 10 Galleons forking our cities. I did not find that thought funny at all..
Anyways, a true invasion is still completely out of the question. Ichabod's power is still respectable. We know that he has ~60-70 knights and IIRC we have seen around 20 cats there as well. So yes, if we would invade we would need to be able to handle an attack of 100 units.. I guess we could do it if we would commit enough troops, currently the tech situation favors us too: Ichabod has muskets, knights & cats, we have cavalry, rifles and cannons. However, Ichabod is only 1 tech away from Rifling, probably something like 3-4 turns from now he gets it if he went for it (he finished RP couple of turns ago).
The most important factor is still our super annoying central position. If we send 100 units and try to eat Ichabod, I wonder if mack and dtay would just cheer for us and leave our core alone.. Yeah, we (read I) barely have balls to commit those 15 units sitting in our galleons for this attack..
Anyways, now that we attacked Ichabod again I guess we should make the most of this situation.. Which means hurting his coastal production capabilities even further..
Here is the current situation. Ichabod moved his 2 galleons and 1 frigate into RockAndTheTree.. Either he did not care or did not believe that we still have steam to burn the city with 8 units in it:
But we might just have...
There are 4 unwounded rifles and we have 1 unwounded cuir and 1 unwounded cav.. And some cavs/cuirs have now or after promotion a decent amount of HPs.
We are currently chatting with OH how to do this. There is actually an interesting puzzle. Currently Rifles target pikes, but that will change when we bombard the culture. The thing is that we want to bombard the culture just that much down that our rifles still target pikes and clean the way for our 2-movers. If we bombard it completely rifles attack knights and our cavs/cuirs need to attack pikes, which should still work, but leads to slightly worse overall odds
Thank you guys for all the comments!
As OH said our plan wasn't to attack Ichabod's mainland but those ships were just so threatening and because Ichabod gave us a chance to kill them.. we simply had to try.. Imagine Ichabod upgrading his ships and those 20 Frigates and 10 Galleons forking our cities. I did not find that thought funny at all..
Anyways, a true invasion is still completely out of the question. Ichabod's power is still respectable. We know that he has ~60-70 knights and IIRC we have seen around 20 cats there as well. So yes, if we would invade we would need to be able to handle an attack of 100 units.. I guess we could do it if we would commit enough troops, currently the tech situation favors us too: Ichabod has muskets, knights & cats, we have cavalry, rifles and cannons. However, Ichabod is only 1 tech away from Rifling, probably something like 3-4 turns from now he gets it if he went for it (he finished RP couple of turns ago).
The most important factor is still our super annoying central position. If we send 100 units and try to eat Ichabod, I wonder if mack and dtay would just cheer for us and leave our core alone.. Yeah, we (read I) barely have balls to commit those 15 units sitting in our galleons for this attack..
Anyways, now that we attacked Ichabod again I guess we should make the most of this situation.. Which means hurting his coastal production capabilities even further..
Here is the current situation. Ichabod moved his 2 galleons and 1 frigate into RockAndTheTree.. Either he did not care or did not believe that we still have steam to burn the city with 8 units in it:
But we might just have...
There are 4 unwounded rifles and we have 1 unwounded cuir and 1 unwounded cav.. And some cavs/cuirs have now or after promotion a decent amount of HPs.
We are currently chatting with OH how to do this. There is actually an interesting puzzle. Currently Rifles target pikes, but that will change when we bombard the culture. The thing is that we want to bombard the culture just that much down that our rifles still target pikes and clean the way for our 2-movers. If we bombard it completely rifles attack knights and our cavs/cuirs need to attack pikes, which should still work, but leads to slightly worse overall odds