[No Players] Casual Commentary: 28 Lurkers Later

[spacetyrantxenu]

Every time you offer to help someone you're rolling the dice.

[flugauto]

Because RNG is always right.

[Thoth]

It's a stupid diplo rule set and everyone deserves the punishment for agreeing to play with it.

+1

[spacetyrantxenu]

So I was checking Axe/Archer odds vs. Jowy's Vultures in Nilfgaard (they were awful) and misclicked a group of 7 units into suiciding. Not going to bother asking for a reload, that was my own dumbass fault.

On the non-idiotic-mistakes side, I founded the Horses city; will have the horses hooked up in two turns. Maybe Chariots will save me when Jowy comes knocking.

Wait, what? We lost 7 units for nothing? If you don't reload, that's certainly game over (and probably game over for the rest of the civs, unless someone else conquered their continent by T100).

[Tsargon]

How do you accidentally suicide 7 units? He must have mis-clicked with one of them and then decided to throw good money after bad.

[AutomatedTeller]

Probably stack attack.

I was trying to figure out why all these archers were attacking vultures in the first place. Seemed like it was either a brilliant strategy or doomed to failure. I guess doomed to failure was correct...

[Molach]

If he is being truthful about misclicking the stack into suicide, reload would not be unreasonable.
It was his fault, but this move will have serious consequences on this continent. Not like missing a worker turn or two.

Is could be that the attack was intended...perhaps misclick first, then he though he could get odds eventually...but kept losing close battles. Dunno what jowy had in town. If sims indicate that he had a chance, maybe not reload...because if he had gotten lucky with the misclick we would not reload...

[Ichabod]

My opinion as a lurker is that there's absolutely no reason for a reload here.

[Molach]

Not going to argue since he doesn't want one.

Lucky break for Jowy, free exp and security for now while he can tech to cats is good result.

What was Fenn's purpose with the 2axe-7+ archer stack? Pillaging campaign? Probe for weaker cities further into Jowy lands? Interdict troops movements from hilly defensive terrain? Tie down Jowy forces to give Adrdoc a respite? Can't really tell.

[spacetyrantxenu]

probably just sent whatever he had on hand. it's an expensive lesson but he just learned to watch his mouse hand.