(January 7th, 2015, 08:37)Fintourist Wrote: GG Azza (if you end up checking here)!
Sorry for forcing you to hit enter so many times. First we became busy destroying Mardoc's production before he produces too many Elephants and LBs and then we became busy with distracting dtay...
Anyways, I wrote it already here before but I repeat myself: I highly respect the fact that you put in the effort and constantly logged in and whipped defenders until the end.
Eh, every turn I survived was a mini-victory to me, even if you could've crushed me earlier. In the end I was just aiming for as much whip unhappiness as I could muster since it's always good to have a goal, no matter how futile it is in the grand scheme of things.
Quote:More general observations about your game:
- I felt that your early expansion speed was good and in the early game we thought with OH that we were pretty unlucky with having you as a neighbor. Of course the conflict between you and Mardoc changed our luck.
- That being said it seemed to me that you spent too many hammers on monuments and too little on granaries as your early infra builds and you would have needed more/some cottages as research quickly became the weakest link of your economy
Definitely underbuilt cottages, but from memory I was building granaries as first build unless I needed the monument for food sources. Also, early expansion was strong, but you guys successfully forced me to the west (combined with failed scouting of the east) which seeded the conflict with Mardoc. As always seems to be the case on slightly larger maps for me, my initial expansion was strong but things didn't come online like I hoped they would in my head, I lost sight of the need to continue to expand and simultaneously failed to expand my economy, and ended up in a situation where I knew I was fucked well before the Mardoc wars.
Quote:- Regarding the above: Based on a wounded animal + that we were able to get so many huts it seems that you lost your scout early. That also surely contributed to struggle with research as tech costs are high in this game and one free tech or a pile of hut gold would have helped significantly
Sounds about right. I pretty much hadn't scouted any further than where my cities lay, so for a long time I didn't know that it was just the 3 of us on the continent. For a while I thought you or Mardoc might've been blocking a neighbour from contacting me, since I figured being wedged between two other civs wouldn't have been fair from a mapmaking perspective.
Quote:- After your conflict with Mardoc your economy of course started hurting more and we were able to attack you from a position of clear advantage. Tactic-wise I don't think there is too much to criticize you reg our war. Due to your conflict with Mardoc most of your forces were in the west and counterattacking e.g. your capital would have been suicidal. In hindsight dividing troops between Dental Plan and Boo-Urns was probably a mistake as concentrating everything in one place and sacrificing the another city would have stopped/delayed the capture of one of those cities. During the enter-pressing phase there were some turns when you could have threatened our closest cities and create us problems (sometimes we did have enough support in range sometimes they were a bit out of position), but of course you could not know when to do that and probably those gains weren't anyways worth the risk of losing all the units (incl. a bunch of archers) in the open.
Those are my first thoughts, happy to hear your side of things if you feel like it.
I knew a long time before you attacked that it was only a matter of time your troops got good enough that you wouldn't be afraid to just roll over me. The aim was to set up my galley for city razing to cripple Mardoc, and then hopefully roll through him and give myself some even footing for when you eventually did attack. Didn't pan out that way for various reasons, but I knew taking you on was doomed to failure so I focused on the war I thought I could win. Definitely agree that the movement of troops out of Dental Plan was an error, I thought I'd have a couple of extra turns to build fortification bonuses and Boo-urns was my best hammer city so at the time it seemed worthwhile to try to defend it, but I regretted it as soon as you rolled up those couple of turns earlier than expected.