Turn 177
I'm not going to show a bunch of pictures of losing a bunch of battles and do no hits. Sufficed to say that I got pretty unlucky attacking the musket, lost a couple of units and then the musket imploded against a catapult, getting a withdraw. Then everything died. Unfortunately, everything means a musket, pike and longbow.
FWIW, the maces had 50/50 odds to hit the musket twice, to a point where a treb might actually get some hits on it. If I led with a treb, then the defending pike/longbow would have taken damage from collateral, but the musket would have been untouched in over 60% of cases, and then I'd have the exact same problem of leading with the maces anyway. So I think this was unlucky.
The real fuck up is I had no workers in the stack and i forgot what 60% borders look like. At this point I knew the attack against Constant Sorrow was off, as OH had an extra turn to reinforce. If I had the workers, I'd have immediately roaded the wheat and shoved the stack SW of the peak.
This was the best I could realistically do, to try and keep the land units in place to defend Constant Sorrow.
I decided to hold FaL, if only because OH might decided to try and retake it. That's fine, I can get it to 40% borders (irrelevant given inability to hold inner ring), put a few token units in it, and then smash through with the knights afterwards. Fort the cottage, put the real units in there, and prepare the retake the turn after it's captured. Both of us can follow down this path, but again the answer is that we spend turns brawling, sucking up resources that I don't want OH to dump into a navy whilst I play catch up there.
There was an option to only lightly hold FaL, goad OH into rushing it with his knights, then burning the roads on the route to raze CS.
At best this would be a somewhat cool Pyrrhic victory. At worst OH does the same and pushes past with his knights when I have nothing between then and what I view as core cities. So I did have to put some real units into FaL to hold it.
Looks like the peace with Lewwyn teleported the units left outside Lewwyns capital to an awkward position...
Not sure if I posted this. I offered OB to Gav because I needed the commerce to get to Chemistry, I don't view this game as competitive anymore, and I want to explore his core because I'd like to know what he started with.
I'm not going to show a bunch of pictures of losing a bunch of battles and do no hits. Sufficed to say that I got pretty unlucky attacking the musket, lost a couple of units and then the musket imploded against a catapult, getting a withdraw. Then everything died. Unfortunately, everything means a musket, pike and longbow.
FWIW, the maces had 50/50 odds to hit the musket twice, to a point where a treb might actually get some hits on it. If I led with a treb, then the defending pike/longbow would have taken damage from collateral, but the musket would have been untouched in over 60% of cases, and then I'd have the exact same problem of leading with the maces anyway. So I think this was unlucky.
The real fuck up is I had no workers in the stack and i forgot what 60% borders look like. At this point I knew the attack against Constant Sorrow was off, as OH had an extra turn to reinforce. If I had the workers, I'd have immediately roaded the wheat and shoved the stack SW of the peak.
This was the best I could realistically do, to try and keep the land units in place to defend Constant Sorrow.
I decided to hold FaL, if only because OH might decided to try and retake it. That's fine, I can get it to 40% borders (irrelevant given inability to hold inner ring), put a few token units in it, and then smash through with the knights afterwards. Fort the cottage, put the real units in there, and prepare the retake the turn after it's captured. Both of us can follow down this path, but again the answer is that we spend turns brawling, sucking up resources that I don't want OH to dump into a navy whilst I play catch up there.
There was an option to only lightly hold FaL, goad OH into rushing it with his knights, then burning the roads on the route to raze CS.
At best this would be a somewhat cool Pyrrhic victory. At worst OH does the same and pushes past with his knights when I have nothing between then and what I view as core cities. So I did have to put some real units into FaL to hold it.
Looks like the peace with Lewwyn teleported the units left outside Lewwyns capital to an awkward position...
Not sure if I posted this. I offered OB to Gav because I needed the commerce to get to Chemistry, I don't view this game as competitive anymore, and I want to explore his core because I'd like to know what he started with.