Good news from NoStats - Pindi didn't recapture any of the cities we took 
. The other good news is that we put on 73 score points just from captured population - given that we've been drafting about 10 pop points a turn for the last seven turns that means we've broken even, right? 
Attack autopsy
To give you an idea of how well this turn went:
Our original stretch plan, if everything fell into place perfectly was to take eight cities on the first turn of the war. In the end we took six, with Madrigal and Avernus proving too much of a stretch. Madrigal needed two more workers than we had in range and for GoS to be empty so that one Commando could capture two cities. Avernus could have fallen, but then Pindicator could have counter-attacked to recapture it or Strand so we held back.
The other half of the original plan was to kill every Cat and CKN in Pindicator's stack. His moving that stack and adding eight more Cuirs put paid to this, but did allow us to wipe out all his scary hitters and half of the collateral-dealing units on t1 of the war - had he kept the eight Cuirs in the west there is a good chance we wouldn't have risked Commandoing the capital though, so I'm happy with how things turned out
. We got a bit lucky with this phase of the fight - I expected to lose five battles, leaving five Cuirs to promo-heal and hit back whereas we only lost three and only one Cuir can hit us back 
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The next phase of the war is to boat some reinforcement Infantry over and consolidate while looking for further Commando/railroad/2-mover opportunities. In theory our 2-mover stack could take the Shrine next turn, but I expect the CKNs and Pikes from Avernus to fall back and defend - in that case we'll probably advance four Infantry while our 2-movers spend a turn healing, but we'll have to sim how well they'll stand up to being hit by 10 CKNs...
Now we just have to wait 30 hours for the turn to roll
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Here's an unrelated question - Strand is size 15 but the Granary didn't survive capture - it probably won't ever grow again so is it worth building one just for the health? A harbour is going to be more use isn't it...
. The other good news is that we put on 73 score points just from captured population - given that we've been drafting about 10 pop points a turn for the last seven turns that means we've broken even, right? Attack autopsy
To give you an idea of how well this turn went:
Our original stretch plan, if everything fell into place perfectly was to take eight cities on the first turn of the war. In the end we took six, with Madrigal and Avernus proving too much of a stretch. Madrigal needed two more workers than we had in range and for GoS to be empty so that one Commando could capture two cities. Avernus could have fallen, but then Pindicator could have counter-attacked to recapture it or Strand so we held back.
The other half of the original plan was to kill every Cat and CKN in Pindicator's stack. His moving that stack and adding eight more Cuirs put paid to this, but did allow us to wipe out all his scary hitters and half of the collateral-dealing units on t1 of the war - had he kept the eight Cuirs in the west there is a good chance we wouldn't have risked Commandoing the capital though, so I'm happy with how things turned out
. We got a bit lucky with this phase of the fight - I expected to lose five battles, leaving five Cuirs to promo-heal and hit back whereas we only lost three and only one Cuir can hit us back . The next phase of the war is to boat some reinforcement Infantry over and consolidate while looking for further Commando/railroad/2-mover opportunities. In theory our 2-mover stack could take the Shrine next turn, but I expect the CKNs and Pikes from Avernus to fall back and defend - in that case we'll probably advance four Infantry while our 2-movers spend a turn healing, but we'll have to sim how well they'll stand up to being hit by 10 CKNs...
Now we just have to wait 30 hours for the turn to roll
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Here's an unrelated question - Strand is size 15 but the Granary didn't survive capture - it probably won't ever grow again so is it worth building one just for the health? A harbour is going to be more use isn't it...
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