(September 29th, 2014, 19:26)TheHumanHydra Wrote: I'm actually surprised you offered peace so quickly; I thought you'd want to hash it out a bit more. That's okay though.
Yeah, might have been unnecessary. If Mardoc does not accept, it's completely fine and I think we move our stack N of THH hill next turn and then take Red (It allows us to create a bigger stack as reinforcements arrive, Infrared simply has so many bodies meaning that attacking isn't riskless and dancing around Red keeps our stack closer to our own borders --> it will be easier to react if Azza tries something). I don't think Mardoc will be able to do much against that, he has some interesting moves like threatening Carrot, but we should have counters for those.
The reason why we offered peace is that now that we were only able to take DP+Orange+kill his big stack, but not take Red+Infrared due to
-reasons, Mardoc has already had enough time to whip his empire down and there is not so much to gain in pushing immediately forward. If Mardoc accepts peace we could make our life a bit more comfortable in our backlines by finishing Azza off and we could then come back in 10 turns and keep pushing forward with a new wave of units. That sounds simply like a bit easier life. However, if I would be Mardoc, I would not accept the peace though (what's there to gain for him expect making us lose as many hammers as possible?) so I don't think you need to worry. I think the plan must be to first take Red, as it is more or less already available, then gather a bit bigger stack so that we can take Infrared, which gives us the control we want from the continent. Then we take a deep breath and finish Azza off, and finally take Mardoc's remaining cities gradually one by one. This should all be realistic, but it requires us (OH 
) doing correct tactical decisions so that we don't give unnecessary openings for Azza & Mardoc, and of course that our series of bad rolls eventually stops.