Turn 167
OH god. I fucking hate war declarations.
First of all the diplo screen:
OH now has more cities than I do. Definitely sticking with the idea that Lewwyns land is mine or we fight to the death, but I might be able to get out of the war without that last part.
Not much in either of the front cities, just a few units, but definitely enough to hold against what either of us can see the other has on hand.
Very few real defenders in the cities behind the front line, but I can't get to them right now. I reckon OH is looking at Frigates ASAP to keep this strategy working, and I don't see it failing.
I don't move any more units though. It's war dec time, so I can retreat the units with full movement points.
I don't move any more units though. It's war dec time, so I can retreat the units with full movement points. But what a I'm seeing is that OH is not trying to hold the northern islands, and has retreated everything to hold the core of the DZ starting island and his core. That bodes well for me.
His scout from the southern peninsula safely moves to behind Free At Last. I have vision on Constant Sorry due to EP (I both love and hate that mechanic).
The chariot was not such a safe move. I can easily kill it, but it does threaten workers. More on this later.
Knights are always the answer to Xbows. Even off boats.
Win! Keeps the granary, more than enough. Size 3 but far from the core. I want a courthouse before a lighthouse.
Oh thank god there aren't move units in the city. That means I can drop two knights off on the Jealous Sound Island and maybe capture that next turn and offer a ceasefire.
Praise be to the RNG!
Definitely want to keep this. Size 4 it can work the food, 2 workshops and a windmill and Merc engineer, and then once the Feitoria is down it's got a decent chunk of coast to work. Neither of these cities are great, but without them it's going to be nigh impossible to keep a route open to Lewwyn's capital. I just hope that the y pay back the cost in the relationship with OH, but hey, let's make the best of a bad situation.
This was empty.
Good enough. 2 food resources and a workshop. It just covers the western Moai city. This is the one city which I can't justify in the same manner as the other 3, but at the same time it causes a great destabilising effect on our border. I don't think this city has the same effect on OH's coastal defence. I reckon I made a mistake on not settling the 3 tile island off the coast of my Moai when I had the chance. If I had held that, I don't know if OH would have settled this island.
I reckon that we will take the city next turn, and be able to offer a ceasefire straight to OH, and then OB. Will he take it? I expect that OH feels he overreached to grab these cities, not against Lewwyn, because he easily took them, but he does understand that he never gave me an out. So I suspect he may take the ceasefire given that he feels getting to Chemistry puts him in a position to then have a go at me (especially if he just runs all the way to cannon). He gives me the opportunity to overstrength to take out Lewwyn whilst he builds up, and then comes at me with cannons covering his units, and drydock powered frigates.
I reckon that's a plan that could work. I'd have to be very careful about how I approached attacking Lewwyn. I likely have to use only what I have on hand plus a few cities outputs, and otherwise throw everything back into basic infrastructure and tech to be able to counter it effectively.
I'm not always a dick. The chariot can't move anywhere, but it's not dead.
Nothing in this ocean. It seems like OH has retreated his galleons as well to see what I did first and play defensively. What he may have, is have the galleon stack that was in REM fully loaded and ready to retake this island. I reckon the knights would kill 2 CKN, but against swords I think I'd be lucky to kill 2. Nothing I can do there except counter by starting to move the privateers up and start to prepare for the fight in the ocean, and try to trap whatever units I could on the island whilst I then prepared to attack elsewhere.
The way I'd play this defensively is to keep a stack of privateers or frigates on the tile 44 of Run On. With circumnavigation it can cover everything, and with a fort 1 of The XX it can also pass straight through to attack superdeath. And there is no way to fork OH without giving OH an opportunity to attack the stack of transport units. To play it offensively, he needs the 3 cities I just took and to hold the stack between those 2 islands, to threaten a run to the pass at Stormy Weather.
I've gotten some military units one turn from completion, not a lot, but enough to fill a few boats to go and hit Lewwyn with. Depending on how next turn plays out, I will figure out how I'm going to spend the GA, and what military units I need to take him out of the game. My reckoning is trebs and maces. I already have more than a few knights. I might even need to reconsider the use of Vassalage during the GA...
Most of the new cities need court houses. I need to get that City Maintenance bit down significantly. But I'm also going to struggle with beaker multipliers. If OH heads straight to Steel, then I have to do the same. I'm down two bulbs and Astro; call it 8K beakers. We'll see what happens. Steel is almost 8K beakers itself. OH might just think it's not worth it and go murder superdeath.
OH god. I fucking hate war declarations.
First of all the diplo screen:
OH now has more cities than I do. Definitely sticking with the idea that Lewwyns land is mine or we fight to the death, but I might be able to get out of the war without that last part.
Not much in either of the front cities, just a few units, but definitely enough to hold against what either of us can see the other has on hand.
Very few real defenders in the cities behind the front line, but I can't get to them right now. I reckon OH is looking at Frigates ASAP to keep this strategy working, and I don't see it failing.
I don't move any more units though. It's war dec time, so I can retreat the units with full movement points.
I don't move any more units though. It's war dec time, so I can retreat the units with full movement points. But what a I'm seeing is that OH is not trying to hold the northern islands, and has retreated everything to hold the core of the DZ starting island and his core. That bodes well for me.
His scout from the southern peninsula safely moves to behind Free At Last. I have vision on Constant Sorry due to EP (I both love and hate that mechanic).
The chariot was not such a safe move. I can easily kill it, but it does threaten workers. More on this later.
Knights are always the answer to Xbows. Even off boats.
Win! Keeps the granary, more than enough. Size 3 but far from the core. I want a courthouse before a lighthouse.
Oh thank god there aren't move units in the city. That means I can drop two knights off on the Jealous Sound Island and maybe capture that next turn and offer a ceasefire.
Praise be to the RNG!
Definitely want to keep this. Size 4 it can work the food, 2 workshops and a windmill and Merc engineer, and then once the Feitoria is down it's got a decent chunk of coast to work. Neither of these cities are great, but without them it's going to be nigh impossible to keep a route open to Lewwyn's capital. I just hope that the y pay back the cost in the relationship with OH, but hey, let's make the best of a bad situation.
This was empty.
Good enough. 2 food resources and a workshop. It just covers the western Moai city. This is the one city which I can't justify in the same manner as the other 3, but at the same time it causes a great destabilising effect on our border. I don't think this city has the same effect on OH's coastal defence. I reckon I made a mistake on not settling the 3 tile island off the coast of my Moai when I had the chance. If I had held that, I don't know if OH would have settled this island.
I reckon that we will take the city next turn, and be able to offer a ceasefire straight to OH, and then OB. Will he take it? I expect that OH feels he overreached to grab these cities, not against Lewwyn, because he easily took them, but he does understand that he never gave me an out. So I suspect he may take the ceasefire given that he feels getting to Chemistry puts him in a position to then have a go at me (especially if he just runs all the way to cannon). He gives me the opportunity to overstrength to take out Lewwyn whilst he builds up, and then comes at me with cannons covering his units, and drydock powered frigates.
I reckon that's a plan that could work. I'd have to be very careful about how I approached attacking Lewwyn. I likely have to use only what I have on hand plus a few cities outputs, and otherwise throw everything back into basic infrastructure and tech to be able to counter it effectively.
I'm not always a dick. The chariot can't move anywhere, but it's not dead.
Nothing in this ocean. It seems like OH has retreated his galleons as well to see what I did first and play defensively. What he may have, is have the galleon stack that was in REM fully loaded and ready to retake this island. I reckon the knights would kill 2 CKN, but against swords I think I'd be lucky to kill 2. Nothing I can do there except counter by starting to move the privateers up and start to prepare for the fight in the ocean, and try to trap whatever units I could on the island whilst I then prepared to attack elsewhere.
The way I'd play this defensively is to keep a stack of privateers or frigates on the tile 44 of Run On. With circumnavigation it can cover everything, and with a fort 1 of The XX it can also pass straight through to attack superdeath. And there is no way to fork OH without giving OH an opportunity to attack the stack of transport units. To play it offensively, he needs the 3 cities I just took and to hold the stack between those 2 islands, to threaten a run to the pass at Stormy Weather.
I've gotten some military units one turn from completion, not a lot, but enough to fill a few boats to go and hit Lewwyn with. Depending on how next turn plays out, I will figure out how I'm going to spend the GA, and what military units I need to take him out of the game. My reckoning is trebs and maces. I already have more than a few knights. I might even need to reconsider the use of Vassalage during the GA...
Most of the new cities need court houses. I need to get that City Maintenance bit down significantly. But I'm also going to struggle with beaker multipliers. If OH heads straight to Steel, then I have to do the same. I'm down two bulbs and Astro; call it 8K beakers. We'll see what happens. Steel is almost 8K beakers itself. OH might just think it's not worth it and go murder superdeath.