Turn 203 prelude
Interesting... dtay and Pindicator signed peace (presumably not a cease fire), Pindi artist bombed Avernus, then threw everything he has at the Shrine. We won every battle and got a great general for his trouble, but our stack is pretty bashed up.
If Pindi offered dtay open borders then he can accept and hit the shrine with 10 airships, 2 catapults, 8 Rifles and 18 Cavalry.
We have a bunch of infantry that can take promotions to heal to 14-17/20. They could take a combat promo or CG1. We also have two Grenadiers that can promote to CG3 and upgrade to Machine Guns.
If we just want to slow dtay down a turn we can capture Avernus (it's empty now) and then send six cuirs to pillage the village, pasture and roads E of the shrine. That means dtay can only hit with 10 cav this turn, after which our Infantry should all be healed back to 100% health. We'll have issues with Avernus and Strand, but a concerted effort of road cutting might solve those as well...
The good news is that both Brayle and 12 Duns should fall this turn.
In the west things are more interesting - Pindi has emptied his cities to converge on Madrigal - we're not taking it this turn unfortunately, but Dreylin can... So given the relative strengths of our military in the area (Dreylin can hit White Falls with 18 Knights this turn if he wants and has at least ten more Knights, perhaps 20 while we have 3 Rifles, 12 Infantry and 3 Commandos in the area to defend a 4-city culture-free frontier) I can see a case for letting Dreylin have Tyr, Willow Creek and Madrigal and perhaps Shoal. Willow Creek and Tyr have some monk wonders which I'm not too bothered about.
We could capture Tyr and Shoal with commandos, the former would be a suicide mission and could burn the city if we really want to piss Dreylin off, the latter is an easy capture, but Madrigal's culture prevents us from reinforcing it properly...
So I think we should commando Shoal, move the Cav out of the city SE to a tile that we put 2 Inf and 3 Rifles on, then declare on Dreylin offering white peace. That means he gets Tyr and Madrigal and allows us to focus on dtay for ten turns. We have a Frigate on the north coast and four Frigates and several Galleons on the south coast to incentivise his cooperation in this matter, but if he wants it White Falls is his this turn.
On a more meta level I really don't want to fight Dreylin because then BGN can take advantage.
Oh, and by the end of this turn Pindicator might just be dead!
Interesting... dtay and Pindicator signed peace (presumably not a cease fire), Pindi artist bombed Avernus, then threw everything he has at the Shrine. We won every battle and got a great general for his trouble, but our stack is pretty bashed up.
If Pindi offered dtay open borders then he can accept and hit the shrine with 10 airships, 2 catapults, 8 Rifles and 18 Cavalry.
We have a bunch of infantry that can take promotions to heal to 14-17/20. They could take a combat promo or CG1. We also have two Grenadiers that can promote to CG3 and upgrade to Machine Guns.
If we just want to slow dtay down a turn we can capture Avernus (it's empty now) and then send six cuirs to pillage the village, pasture and roads E of the shrine. That means dtay can only hit with 10 cav this turn, after which our Infantry should all be healed back to 100% health. We'll have issues with Avernus and Strand, but a concerted effort of road cutting might solve those as well...
The good news is that both Brayle and 12 Duns should fall this turn.
In the west things are more interesting - Pindi has emptied his cities to converge on Madrigal - we're not taking it this turn unfortunately, but Dreylin can... So given the relative strengths of our military in the area (Dreylin can hit White Falls with 18 Knights this turn if he wants and has at least ten more Knights, perhaps 20 while we have 3 Rifles, 12 Infantry and 3 Commandos in the area to defend a 4-city culture-free frontier) I can see a case for letting Dreylin have Tyr, Willow Creek and Madrigal and perhaps Shoal. Willow Creek and Tyr have some monk wonders which I'm not too bothered about.
We could capture Tyr and Shoal with commandos, the former would be a suicide mission and could burn the city if we really want to piss Dreylin off, the latter is an easy capture, but Madrigal's culture prevents us from reinforcing it properly...
So I think we should commando Shoal, move the Cav out of the city SE to a tile that we put 2 Inf and 3 Rifles on, then declare on Dreylin offering white peace. That means he gets Tyr and Madrigal and allows us to focus on dtay for ten turns. We have a Frigate on the north coast and four Frigates and several Galleons on the south coast to incentivise his cooperation in this matter, but if he wants it White Falls is his this turn.
On a more meta level I really don't want to fight Dreylin because then BGN can take advantage.
Oh, and by the end of this turn Pindicator might just be dead!
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