Turn 175
Joey is definitely the opponent now, he played a 13 minute turn and whipped 12ish pop away. In Hadrumentum he 4-whipped something (presumably a knight) - we're hoping to blockade the place before the end of turn to cut iron and horse supplies and stop whatever it is from completing. I'm not sure of the order that blockade and production are resolved though, so this may not work.
Old Sarai 2-whipped something, but the city will fall to our knight before that can complete.
We get 79 gold and a granary. 3 pop and 4 turns of revolt.
Then we go for the galley.
- Galleon vs galley - 98%... WIN! (3 hits)
But we get a pretty bad roll, so we'll put into port to repair. Bai Clan 2-whipped. At the end of this turn it'll be the only un-blockaded port GJ has. There is also a river near Blood Stream, but I think we can set up a blockade WNW of Bai Clan to isolate him from the rest of the world. Then if we can cut his only source of horse he can't get supplies from someone else and we won't face any more knights.
Hang on - is Elkad about to go for Bai Clan himself?
Joey left a decent defensive force in Sicca, it's going to cost us 2-3 knights to take the city. Our spy tells us the 19 catapults are in Beshbalik, but where are the remaining 4 knights?
We aren't sure, but it doesn't really matter so we attack. A flanking knight gets the best combined odds to survive against the pike:
- F2 Knight vs C2 pike - 4% (28% withdraw)...
LOSS! (Wow! It took the pike down to 10HP! If we'd gone with a C2 knight we'd have won!
)
- C2 Knight vs C1 spear - 66%... LOSS (3 hits)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... LOSS (1 hit!)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... WIN (2 hits)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... FLAWLESS WIN!
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... WIN (1 hit!)
- C3 Knight vs injured Knight - 96%... WIN (3 hits!)
- G2 Crossbow vs injured spear - 99%... WIN (1 hit)
- G2 Crossbow vs injured pike - 99%... FLAWLESS WIN!
We get 102 gold and the Granary and Forge survive. But not for long... Okay, city burnt and replanted as Zarch. We quickly build two roads to the NE of the city and discover where some of those knights went. This gives me ideas about pressing on and hitting Beshbalik - if GJ only has 5 real hitters we could just take the casualties and mop up the rest of his empire. But can we afford to take the casualties?
Then we capture another worker.
Elkad's final city has a four-worker bonus for whoever hits it from the fog with 6-9 amphibious knights...
We still seem to be pinning knights in Toku's coastal cities.
TBS has chemistry, so its good that we're getting it too.
What we're building. Still lots of basic infrastructure, but we'll be going into slavery in 3 turns to get those things built quicker. The triremes will all be frigates next turn.
Demos and power.
Joey is definitely the opponent now, he played a 13 minute turn and whipped 12ish pop away. In Hadrumentum he 4-whipped something (presumably a knight) - we're hoping to blockade the place before the end of turn to cut iron and horse supplies and stop whatever it is from completing. I'm not sure of the order that blockade and production are resolved though, so this may not work.
Old Sarai 2-whipped something, but the city will fall to our knight before that can complete.
We get 79 gold and a granary. 3 pop and 4 turns of revolt.
Then we go for the galley.- Galleon vs galley - 98%... WIN! (3 hits)
But we get a pretty bad roll, so we'll put into port to repair. Bai Clan 2-whipped. At the end of this turn it'll be the only un-blockaded port GJ has. There is also a river near Blood Stream, but I think we can set up a blockade WNW of Bai Clan to isolate him from the rest of the world. Then if we can cut his only source of horse he can't get supplies from someone else and we won't face any more knights.
Hang on - is Elkad about to go for Bai Clan himself?
Joey left a decent defensive force in Sicca, it's going to cost us 2-3 knights to take the city. Our spy tells us the 19 catapults are in Beshbalik, but where are the remaining 4 knights?
We aren't sure, but it doesn't really matter so we attack. A flanking knight gets the best combined odds to survive against the pike:
- F2 Knight vs C2 pike - 4% (28% withdraw)...
LOSS! (Wow! It took the pike down to 10HP! If we'd gone with a C2 knight we'd have won!
)- C2 Knight vs C1 spear - 66%... LOSS (3 hits)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... LOSS (1 hit!)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... WIN (2 hits)
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... FLAWLESS WIN!
- C2 Formation Knight vs Knight - 90%... WIN (1 hit!)
- C3 Knight vs injured Knight - 96%... WIN (3 hits!)
- G2 Crossbow vs injured spear - 99%... WIN (1 hit)
- G2 Crossbow vs injured pike - 99%... FLAWLESS WIN!
We get 102 gold and the Granary and Forge survive. But not for long... Okay, city burnt and replanted as Zarch. We quickly build two roads to the NE of the city and discover where some of those knights went. This gives me ideas about pressing on and hitting Beshbalik - if GJ only has 5 real hitters we could just take the casualties and mop up the rest of his empire. But can we afford to take the casualties?
Then we capture another worker.
Elkad's final city has a four-worker bonus for whoever hits it from the fog with 6-9 amphibious knights...
We still seem to be pinning knights in Toku's coastal cities.
TBS has chemistry, so its good that we're getting it too.
What we're building. Still lots of basic infrastructure, but we'll be going into slavery in 3 turns to get those things built quicker. The triremes will all be frigates next turn.
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
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld