[spoilers] The what goes where?

[Ceiliazul]

Plan #1 - capture some cities (done)
Plan #2 - actually kill some opponent units (outstanding)
Plan #3 - annoy Krill team
Plan #4 - annoy Krill team

Any progress on these?

[Ruff_Hi]

Not much. I declared on Q and screwed up almost every phase of the war. Attacked with the wrong number of units, in to little strength and then followed up with a non-focused, poorly executed attempt. He chewed through a number of my units and ended up recapturing one of his cities. I had to settle for peace. I had knights, maces, he had longbows and axes. It was extremely disappointing. The only thing that stopped it being worse was that I had 3x his city count and I could quickly replace my units.

That was 5 turns ago.

BGN is not attacking Q with Cossack. It won't be long before he comes for me.

I have visibility on Krill so he shouldn't be able to pull an unseen attack on me. That said, he has muskets and cannons and has them parked in the center of that island (that I cannot see ... spotted them with a scouting chariot). He also has galleons (as does BGN) to my row boats and paddle steamers.

[Ceiliazul]

paddle steamers.

how very American!

Sorry your war fortunes were poor. What will you do going forward? Sounds like you are hoping for the end at this point.

[Ruff_Hi]

Krill has finally launched an invasion. I pretty much knew this was coming as a couple of turns ago Krill ran enough EP against me so that I lost visibility into his cities (I did have it for a while). Galleys and Tris can't do much against frigates .

It is T188 and my goal is to survive to T200. I fully expect BGN to wheel and attack me from the east ... even if he hasn't finished off Qgq^5 yet.

[Ruff_Hi]

T188.

Pics from the war declaration ...



In typical ruff play, I just moved 6 workers onto the tile in question (workshop) and covered it with a musket. Beautiful timing!

My exploring galley (HMS Minnow) will never be coming home again. Poor Gillian. He never did find his island.



Here is the current situation. I've whipped Marblehead pretty hard. Hopefully, it will survive at least one turn. I moved up the knights / cats with the expectation of him landing more forces. Only after moving them, did I realize that if he takes (and keeps) Marblehead, he can unload units in the city and attack this stack. This sort of thing is a microcosm of my game.



Here is the eastern (so to be) front. I am pretty sure I want to annoy* Krill / novice more so most of my units have drifted west.



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Is that wrong of me? Not really - BGN has done nothing dickie to me this game. No sniping workers, settlers, etc. Krill / novice have. Sure - it is all part of the game ... but so is holding a grudge against a particular civ for the duration of the game.
'-3 prior war declarations piss me off'
'-3 sniping workers is a dick move'

[Ceiliazul]

Nothing wrong with defending one front more than the other, thats what diplomacy is for.

However, I dont see anything at all dickish with the worker steal. Thats just the spoils of war, and since people often delete workers rather than see them captured, it makes sense to grab them when it is (a little too) easy to do so.

But yeah, give 'em hell!

[Ruff_Hi]

However, I dont see anything at all dickish with the worker steal.

I wasn't talking about these workers. More the other worker / settler that they took 3000 years ago. The other possibility is that I am just making reasons up .

[Ruff_Hi]

I did move my units too close. Krill took marblehead, unloaded a bunch of cannons, knights, etc and then crushed that stack. I was left with 1 cat at 0.1/5 health. A perfect start to the war - not. 1 Turn down, 11 to survive to T200.

[Ruff_Hi]

T192 ... 8 turns to go.

Krill / Novice threaten Lynn (the city to the north of Boston) by landing cannons and muskets there. I withdrew the garrison back. I even managed to get them out of range this time!

Krill / Novice then took the city but only put 4 units in it. I used two cats and then cleaned them up with knights and muskets ... retaking Lynn.

Annoy Krill - check!



I had a chariot scouting out Krill / Novice and plako. He got kicked out of Krill / Novice land when they closed borders a few turns ago. Anyway - that chariot gave me this opportunity ...



Krill / Novice ended up using a cannon and a musket to kill the chariot. They also suffered a fishing net pillage from that galley they failed to kill a few turns ago.

Annoy Novice - check!

They have a bunch of galleons in Marblehead. Those ships can hit Boston or Lynn from where they are (5 movements given their Nav promo). I really should take a good look to see if I can recapture Marblehead. I am sure that would annoy both Krill and Novice. It would put their invasion back on its heels.

[Ruff_Hi]

I think Krill / Novice are planning a major push ...



Note: I have those two cannon stacks around the wrong way ... the list on the right belongs to units in Marblehead while the list on the bottom left belongs to the units on the tile 1NW of Marblehead.

Now that BGN has finished off Qgq^5, he has two options in his west ... either gobble up my eastern cities or bring his army of cossacks, rifles, cannons(?) through my land and catch Krill / Novice in the flat. I certainly don't have the firepower to hurt them much.

I'll start sending civ4 attack Krill messages to him via the either.