RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

[Ruff_Hi]

A promotion question for my lurkers ...

How would you promote your 5XP rifles based on what Sooooo is fielding? Sunrise argued against Guerrilla II but didn't provide any reasoning (should I just be trusting to my drill MGs when on the hills?). I did promote 3 rifles down that track.

I am oscillating between Combat I and Pinch and Combat II (on the way to Formation).

Sunrise talked about upgrading a Combat II, Formation unit to a MG - I am working on that but it will take a while. One option is that I spend my next GG on such a unit.

Which raises the question of what should I be doing with my future GGs? I have my medic III (now travelling with the stack - I have a Medic I in Death Valley).

GG options are:
Attach to unit(s)
Settle for XPs
Settle for hammer multipliers

[darrelljs]

How would you promote your 5XP rifles based on what Sooooo is fielding?

Well, he's running pretty low on Rifles so Pinch would seem less useful. What are his cities building though? I assume he's been drafting 3/turn?

Darrell

[Ruff_Hi]

From what I can see of his forces (F5), he has 10 rifles and 2 muskets left. It appears that he has been drafted about 6 to 8 rifles over 5 turns. I would assume that he didn't draft any last turn as most of his big cities are now at least 2 unhappy. He does have 16 Cav and 10 Cuir (again, from what I can see).

He is building a mixture of infrastructure (banks, odeins), rifles and cav.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Cavalry [1]
  
• LQ - Cavalry [1]
  
• DV - Cavalry [2]
  
• BH - Cavalry [1]
  
• BS - Spy [3]
  
• AC - Cannon [2]
  
• TN - Cannon [3]
  
• KS - Spy [1]
  
• SL - Courthouse [1]
  
• Tech - Sc Mthd [1056], +81g at 0% science, 285g in the bank
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • sooooo - Railroad [6], 172g, +119g @ 0% tech
    
  • mostly harmless - no idea
    

The vast majority of my stack moved onto the flat grassland (:duel. It left behind 3 MGs and the 3 Guerrilla II rifles on the hill (I moved up 20 other units to that tile too).

My spies are returning to Sooooo's land. I have also lost access to some of Sooooo's cities.

My power has almost climbed back to where it was before I lost those 14 rifles. Sooooo's continues on a downward trend.

[sunrise089]

I think I would promo to combat II. No need to ever promo to guerrilla if you have Drill II machine guns on the hills - they're just an overwhelmingly better defender versus the rifles and cannons, and the rifles defend fine versus cavs anyways.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF: Cavalry -> Rifle [2]
  
• LQ: Cavalry -> Rifle [2]
  
• DV: Forge [2], Cavalry [1]
  
• BH: Cavalry -> Cavalry [1]
  
• BS: Spy [2]
  
• AC: Rifle [2], Cannon [2]
  
• TN: Rifle [5], Cannon [2]
  
• KS: Spy [4]
  
• SL: Courthouse -> Forge[6]
  
• Tech: Sc Mthd [23], +121g at 0% science, 166g in the bank
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • sooooo - Railroad [5], 148g, +120g @ 0% tech
    

Main battle stack still intact. Will provide update picture after I walk the dog. I revolted back to Bureaucracy, and Mono but also to Representation too. I should be picking up Assembly Line next turn and then starting a run for a tech of my own.

[Ruff_Hi]

Here is the situation outside of Sparta ...



My second stack is about 20 to 25 units strong (9 are muskets). You can see that I have started putting together a third stack (bottom left) that I will move forward once the culture from Sparta has been removed. I've also included the power graph - you can see that I have recovered my lost units while Sooooo hasn't. However, his reduction in 'power' is not only units, he lost population from the two cities that he lost.

[darrelljs]

Do you expect him to attack you or to wait in the city?

Darrell

[ZPVCSPLFUIFDPEF]

I think soooo should attack - he'll lose most of his cannons, but they'll hurt the machine guns, and take the edge off everything else. Then he can attack at good odds with the rest of his units, and still have a chance to promote and heal before ruff will be able to attack.

[Ruff_Hi]

Do you expect him to attack you or to wait in the city?

Darrell

I expected him to attack last round. Maybe he is waiting so that he can keep his injured units in the city for better defense. I don't expect him to keep trading land for turns - where does it end? He has MGs in 6 turns, but they are only defensive, not offensive and I can overcome them with enough units.

Guess I'll see when the game gets back to me this afternoon.