Sharp eyes Fintourist! I'm not sure I agree with all your staging points though, especially if dtay doesn't have Optics. I've numbered mine here:
- 1 - This city is very well defended now, but may empty as dtay makes progress through Pindicator's land
- 2 - Only one Archer to kill here
- 3 - Agrees with your stage A - targeting three (currently) poorly-defended cities
- 4 - A hybrid of your B & C - allowing us to use as many units as needed on Regacha before sending the rest to Tarkir
- 5 - A similar approach - with five move galleons it might only take one unit to take Pyrulea, then they can hit Ravnica..
- 6 - Same principle again, Lorwyn and Mercadia.
If he does have Optics then we need to use your B, C, D and E. A and F won't work.
I think we're going to see Oromo Warriors in the coastal cities in the near term, but all that means is we need more units
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Fintourist's plan is to burn core coastal cities and capture CH's former lands. If we can get to Military Science then Commando Knights (we have one that is 2XP short right now) would be a massive help doing that. Unfortunately there are still a couple of stacks of Knights and Cats in his land that could cause us trouble with that goal. I'd like to take and keep former-CH-land, but I think it's more likely that we burn about half his coastal cities to prevent him building a fleet to dispute our naval domination. This version of events makes a BGN win or dogpile more likely while us and dtay batter the shit out of each other...
Ways to lull dtay into a false sense of security:
- Stop spending EPs on him. Let him get research visibility on us, so he can see we don't go for Astro. If we put them all on Pindicator it could make dtay think we're going to dogpile him...
- 1-turn Astro, as near to the attack date as possible. Already in hand
- Keep fighting Azza. As long as it seems like we're still slogging through him dtay is less likely to worry about us.
For info, this is what we're building now. Also from Azza's lands it'll take our Knights four or five turns to get back to the east coast, so we may have to cut and run before we can finish him off anyway.
- 1 - This city is very well defended now, but may empty as dtay makes progress through Pindicator's land
- 2 - Only one Archer to kill here
- 3 - Agrees with your stage A
- targeting three (currently) poorly-defended cities- 4 - A hybrid of your B & C - allowing us to use as many units as needed on Regacha before sending the rest to Tarkir
- 5 - A similar approach - with five move galleons it might only take one unit to take Pyrulea, then they can hit Ravnica..
- 6 - Same principle again, Lorwyn and Mercadia.
If he does have Optics then we need to use your B, C, D and E. A and F won't work.
I think we're going to see Oromo Warriors in the coastal cities in the near term, but all that means is we need more units
. Fintourist's plan is to burn core coastal cities and capture CH's former lands. If we can get to Military Science then Commando Knights (we have one that is 2XP short right now) would be a massive help doing that. Unfortunately there are still a couple of stacks of Knights and Cats in his land that could cause us trouble with that goal. I'd like to take and keep former-CH-land, but I think it's more likely that we burn about half his coastal cities to prevent him building a fleet to dispute our naval domination. This version of events makes a BGN win or dogpile more likely while us and dtay batter the shit out of each other...
Ways to lull dtay into a false sense of security:
- Stop spending EPs on him. Let him get research visibility on us, so he can see we don't go for Astro. If we put them all on Pindicator it could make dtay think we're going to dogpile him...
- 1-turn Astro, as near to the attack date as possible. Already in hand
- Keep fighting Azza. As long as it seems like we're still slogging through him dtay is less likely to worry about us.
For info, this is what we're building now. Also from Azza's lands it'll take our Knights four or five turns to get back to the east coast, so we may have to cut and run before we can finish him off anyway.
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld