[spoilers] Commodore: Worse than Toku, it's Giggles of Siam!

[Thoth]

Agreed, but I'd rather front-load that risk. The nice thing? That axe is top defender against archers, too. I think I'd rather mess it up with a doomed archer at 4% odds, then roll forward with the axe. Same deal with the impi; I think I can ensure kills best by hurting the C1 fella first, gives the chariot an excellent shot at hurting the lower ones.

Chariot vs unpromoted Impi is still mugs odds.

Exactly. This is definitely a place for simulation, let's see what else they manage to stuff in there. They could opt to take risks and lose out, too, it's not like the city is going to make anything itself if we need to wait for another axe...one more turn for Kalin's Battalion to join up.

Agreed on the need for a sim first....

but


Please note that your dedlurker is in lazy mode so the sims won't be coming from this end.

Agreed. Cover/conquer, right?

Cover for sure....conquer maybe. Depends if the Barbs started with Archery or not.

[Thoth]

One other thought....

They may decide Subway is doomed.

In which case they kill our flatland archer with the Axe, cover with an Impi and use the other two to either cover the gold or retreat to 1N of McDs

[Commodore]

One other thought....

They may decide Subway is doomed.

In which case they kill our flatland archer with the Axe, cover with an Impi and use the other two to either cover the gold or retreat to 1N of McDs

So, they retreat with pride and we take control of the Subway region. I'll take that any day of the week.

I've got a nice combat sim cooked up, I'll load it up and play with the order when we get 'er.

[Thoth]

If they do try and hold Subway...we can occupy the gold tile instead of assaulting and have an archer inna forest as backup.

Denying that tile via pillage would hurt them almost as much as losing Subway. And if they don't either cover the tile or kill our archer.....we can do it on the cheap while preserving the threat to Subway.

That would give them some interesting choices to make as our reinforcements arrive.

[Thoth]

So, they retreat with pride and we take control of the Subway region. I'll take that any day of the week.

Yah, map control in that region is critical.

Pro Archers seem quite good at map control.

I've got a nice combat sim cooked up, I'll load it up and play with the order when we get 'er.

[Commodore]

Nifty! So Azza and Scooter both played, I figured I'd check in, see if Azza took my horse/gems offer...he did! Good deal! As for what the Zulus did...

Uh, yeah.


Mindy, you join Ceil in the "Dies Very Well" corner.

[Commodore]

Diplomacy-pane negotiations: Very public in a CTON Pitboss.


Either that or its one hell of a worrisome hostile interaction. But I'm pretty sure it's an interaction of some sort...I'm going to pencil in Brick's earlier whip/log-in cascade down as a Lewwyn meeting.

[Thoth]

Hah. So they took the lower odds shot with an impi.

The axe has to be on the desert tile 9-9 of Subway. I do believe that our chariot has the range to hit that tile and if they haven't covered the axe

Looks like a good turn coming up. XD

[Commodore]

I have always lived in this village, and before the next summer I will probably die in this village. But mark my words, child, my grandmother lived and died up the river, in the lands of the springs, and I can remember those lands from what she told me, before the Genericans came and drove our free people out.



I remember, as a maiden, when I first saw Genericans. A company of their archers encamped along the river, and their captain saw me and remarked that I was comely. He himself looked like all the rest of his men, beardless and fair compared to our blood, as far from our men as the Zulu are swart and hairy. His wicked bow marks him as no true man.



Look up the river, where once the strong men of our tribe hunted the great mammoths. Now they are tamed and gelded in their camps, as we are in our lower villages. It is a sad thing-my grandmother wept to see the great beasts reduced so.


And what of the Great Harts? My husband learned to hunt them with spears thrown. My sons, the two who stayed, hunted them with bows like weaklings, reducing the once wild and free lords of the tundra in droves, until only the herds watched by the Genericans remain. My two boys who stayed, the poor boys, died in the winters with their families, sundered from the warm springs of the headwaters and hungry, for little game remains and the Great Harts are but a memory here.


I remember when they told me my eldest son had died, in some battle far beyond the riverlands and the hunting grounds, killed by an impi with his great spear. I laughed on that day, for my son had died in spirit when he took the coin of the Generic captains of Hidden Valley, and on that day a thousand other craven bowmen died alongside him. What do I care for their wars? My youngest died to me as well, when he followed the sun west seeking to hunt words and place them upon scrolls in the library at the far sea. Now I am alone, and none shall remember my name.

The above was recorded by the great scholar Suka, of the Library in Verdant Acres. His mother had spoken them to his younger cousins, and he recorded them and many other saying from his native tribe in the year 974BC. His people were soon absorbed by the expanding peoples of Hidden Valley, their name and native language lost to history.

[Commodore]

One more thing of note in the shot above? Bigwyn now has a trade connection with us. This has a couple implications. One, of course, is that yay, we might very well get ourselves a free Judaism spread. But the other is that if those login dances between Lewwyn and Brick were negotiations, then somehow their meeting Brick must have given us trade connections. So now, for the education of the lurkers, I offer you the world:


The central bit is obvious, and known, with the logic on the Vikings evident. I chose west because it looks like our continent continues westward and Brick's whip is probably because of meeting a threatening land-bound thing, although its finally getting to the point where galleys are possible culprits. Obviously, Plako and Merovech share land together out there somewhere. Finally, Serdoa and Xenu share Buddhism, which means some kind of connection there.

Who knows about Slow/Nakor, I've gotten no hints there.