Mostly tons and tons of CG3 LBs, yeah. He had on average about 4 of them in every city plus a few Xbows and Axes and a lone Pike. All junk units, basically. Rng was weird, I had several victories at very low odds and several instances when a unit died causing no damage. Not sure how it all adds up in the end.
I was aiming to have at least a Jan per his LB but was not able to hit this mark in time and even cover Jans had only about 16% against his LBs behind 40% defenses. And after Jans were spent defense bonus from castles kicked in.
I now think that may be I should have brought more catapults. The thing is that I initially planned a very broad alpha-strike hitting lots of weakly-defended targets with a lot of small groups but as dtay was bumping up his defenses like crazy, I had to constantly rework my plans for a more narrow focus. I was not able to quite adjust my production plans to match this. At the last moment I realized that I have come to the point when cats will be very useful but was able to include only two of them into crusading forces.
I wonder what exactly made dtay that fucking paranoid. Was it just a general fact that he had nothing better to do with his hammers but to sink them into LBs? Some specific action on my part? My reputation? Bad memories from the last game where we were neighbors?
(The sad thing is that Dark Savant is only a little softer with his Chichen Itza and aggressive trait and JR4 is now understandably vigilant.)
I was aiming to have at least a Jan per his LB but was not able to hit this mark in time and even cover Jans had only about 16% against his LBs behind 40% defenses. And after Jans were spent defense bonus from castles kicked in.
I now think that may be I should have brought more catapults. The thing is that I initially planned a very broad alpha-strike hitting lots of weakly-defended targets with a lot of small groups but as dtay was bumping up his defenses like crazy, I had to constantly rework my plans for a more narrow focus. I was not able to quite adjust my production plans to match this. At the last moment I realized that I have come to the point when cats will be very useful but was able to include only two of them into crusading forces.
I wonder what exactly made dtay that fucking paranoid. Was it just a general fact that he had nothing better to do with his hammers but to sink them into LBs? Some specific action on my part? My reputation? Bad memories from the last game where we were neighbors?
(The sad thing is that Dark Savant is only a little softer with his Chichen Itza and aggressive trait and JR4 is now understandably vigilant.)