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This Time for Sure: Mardoc reprises the Lanun

Quote:Tatan seems to have underestimated our mobility, and/or numbers - he evacuated the south, while putting an army of Firebows just outside his capital and another mini-stack in Carrot Castle. But thanks to amphibious assault enabling us to unload chariots and immediately attack with them, we were able to clean up, and also gather in all of his workers within range.

If we'd only had the southern pincer force (or, well, if we'd only had the force I was originally going to throw at Tatan willy-nilly), then he'd have been able to counterattack after losing a couple cities, and really tear us up with his Firebows. But since they were outside his cities and we had the northern sledgehammer, we pretty much just ignored his army and went for the cities.

He probably didn't even notice the bulk of our forces. He'd have had to flown a Hawk mission towards the north while we gave him plenty to look at in the south. wink


See...that whole planning for the war ahead of time thing kinda pays off. tongue lol


Next up....Illios. His Cultists annoy me. He shouldn't be showing them to us if he's planning on messing with us once AL wears off as it gives us the opportunity for some easy exp on Boarding Parties (an opportunity we should take post haste methinks. wink ) Lets get some more BPs and a few more 7 move Galleys on the board. He's up to something.....best send along a decent sized escort and some troops to occupy his ports....but we'll need both more new built troops and some of our Amurite troops for the offensive.
fnord
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I haven't even really started to read this thread, but I will say a few things:

Mardoc Wrote:Tatan, if you have any questions, I'll be up for another couple hours and can answer them. I'll send you my password via e-mail, too, if you want to recreate the war and see the stuff I forgot to screenshot.

Thanks for sending the save! I was able to tell what you did pretty much immediately, and I must say nice work. As I mentioned in my thread, I was pretty worn out when I played this save but still noticed all the individual components of the attack (even the navy, which I first spotted a turn or so ago). I even realized you could take my front cities and rush in to the back ones with your chariots. But I could not piece everything together, and didn't even consider the possibility of a losing in a single turn. smoke

Mardoc Wrote:If we'd only had the southern pincer force (or, well, if we'd only had the force I was originally going to throw at Tatan willy-nilly), then he'd have been able to counterattack after losing a couple cities, and really tear us up with his Firebows. But since they were outside his cities and we had the northern sledgehammer, we pretty much just ignored his army and went for the cities.

Judging by how they fared against Darrell, I probably would have been able to shred both of your two southern landing parties had I gotten the first strike. I still would have succumbed pretty quickly to the massive Saverous stack, though, since my firebows were too wounded to personally attack anything.


If the rest of your thread is as good as the last page or so, I can't wait to read it--though I suspect many mentions of my name will be in close proximity to the weed smiley. bang
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Well, you kicked our collective ass. Nicely done thumbsup.

Darrell
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Congratulations Mardoc! Happy to see you bring it home.
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Thanks, guys!

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