Gavagai's PB42 thread

[Gavagai]

krill belives he has a small chanses so game on.

Wanna take over for me?

[Gavagai]

To be clear. The overall strategy for the war was to threaten Harry's core and force him to overprotect it: the moment his Hindu shrine is razed, it's all over for him. My idea was to tie up all his reserves in his capital area which would allow me to make gains everywhere on the periphery and gradually choke him. I think it's a sound approach but I was not up for the execution of it.

[Gavagai]

In retrospect, I believe that conquering jim was the key mistake. His land was strategic nowhere, not giving me any useful offensive options and representing a huge cost to properly defend. Economically it never was going to contribute much. The value of Pyramids is solely the fact that I could avoid teching MS which is little. I needed to peace out ASAP and turn the army against Cairo. And attacking Cairo after the war with sj was too slow, as Harry demonstrated the window to do it safely has passed.
Sunk costs fallacy really, I invested so much into preparing defenses against sj, it seemed stupid not to get anything positive out of it.

[Hitru]

Hey Gav,

I think you played a really strong game and I understand how big strain these late world war turns are.

You are right about Cairo, we indeed hoped you would attack him and then we could attack you with him. We were pretty sure we could buy Cairo enough time to whip enough units to keep him from falling to you completely. We also used PS after brief usage of rep, so our mfg was just as close as it looks from demos at the end.

I think you are right about attacking Cairo earlier, not sure how well we could have defended him then.But we could not have let him fall to you, so we would have probably attacked you at that point in any case.