Turn 161
Toku offered peace without killing any of our units which is great news and lets us continue to try to snipe cities from him...
C2 Knight vs CG1 Archer - 95%... WIN!
The city comes with a nice chunk of 127 cash and a forge. We keep it, because what the hell, we're just trying to piss Toku off now. When we move a knight forward it's clear that Pyongyang will fall this turn.
Now, while we can't beat Toku to Pyongyang we can use it to our advantage - we'll move our units to the white diamonds as though we're attacking the city ourselves (which hopefully makes Toku more reckless and makes him lose more units in the fight) but then we'll use the positioning of these units to double-pillage every town, village and hamlet in the area... The northernmost yellow circle is actually in Toku's culture already, but the others will give us 30 cottage-pillages. We'll only have units to do about 18 next turn, after which Toku might just pillage away the rest, but I'm hoping we'll get 75+140+120=335 gold next turn.
Toku's war weariness went from 117 to 149 so up by 33 (including -1 for the turn roll) 6 of that is the city capture and if we guess that Elkad had 10 units in the city that's 10 for winning those fights, leaving 33-6-10=17 points from losing battles - if we say Elkad had 9 units then that's 18 points from losing battles and Toku lost six units attacking. If Elkad only had 6 units defending the Toku lost seven. Hopefully he'll keep losing units taking Pyongyang...
TBS managed to out-astro-expand us - even though we're IMP. Most likely because he had more cities already to built more boats and settlers. The fact we're feeling militarily stretched makes me think that his holdings being on four different continents are even more tenuous, hence the recent drafting of Maces.
We've been thinking about using our galleons militarily now that the race for Australia is over, and two prime targets are GJ and Donovan. GJ is closer and lower on the scoreboard, but he's got a crazy number of EPs into us so he can see most of what goes on in our empire. Donovan's close to Australia where much of our navy is, but far away from our military units and production centres, so would be hard to resupply against. Feel free to draw arrows and make comments about the Sirian doctrine. Other targets include Xenu (Jewish shrine!), Toku (too powerful!) and TBS (
) but they're somewhat less likely.
Demos and power.
Toku offered peace without killing any of our units which is great news and lets us continue to try to snipe cities from him...
C2 Knight vs CG1 Archer - 95%... WIN!
The city comes with a nice chunk of 127 cash and a forge. We keep it, because what the hell, we're just trying to piss Toku off now. When we move a knight forward it's clear that Pyongyang will fall this turn.
Now, while we can't beat Toku to Pyongyang we can use it to our advantage - we'll move our units to the white diamonds as though we're attacking the city ourselves (which hopefully makes Toku more reckless and makes him lose more units in the fight) but then we'll use the positioning of these units to double-pillage every town, village and hamlet in the area... The northernmost yellow circle is actually in Toku's culture already, but the others will give us 30 cottage-pillages. We'll only have units to do about 18 next turn, after which Toku might just pillage away the rest, but I'm hoping we'll get 75+140+120=335 gold next turn.
Toku's war weariness went from 117 to 149 so up by 33 (including -1 for the turn roll) 6 of that is the city capture and if we guess that Elkad had 10 units in the city that's 10 for winning those fights, leaving 33-6-10=17 points from losing battles - if we say Elkad had 9 units then that's 18 points from losing battles and Toku lost six units attacking. If Elkad only had 6 units defending the Toku lost seven. Hopefully he'll keep losing units taking Pyongyang...
TBS managed to out-astro-expand us - even though we're IMP. Most likely because he had more cities already to built more boats and settlers. The fact we're feeling militarily stretched makes me think that his holdings being on four different continents are even more tenuous, hence the recent drafting of Maces.
We've been thinking about using our galleons militarily now that the race for Australia is over, and two prime targets are GJ and Donovan. GJ is closer and lower on the scoreboard, but he's got a crazy number of EPs into us so he can see most of what goes on in our empire. Donovan's close to Australia where much of our navy is, but far away from our military units and production centres, so would be hard to resupply against. Feel free to draw arrows and make comments about the Sirian doctrine. Other targets include Xenu (Jewish shrine!), Toku (too powerful!) and TBS (
) but they're somewhat less likely.Demos and power.
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
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