RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

[Ruff_Hi]

reply from Dreylin

Ruff,

I suspect that the Intercept issue will turn out to be me completely misunderstanding ... or just being an idiot. Anyway, if you do test it would be great to know for certain and would definitely affect my approach.

I'll probably target Cristo for the added flexibility, but as you say the others are not central to our aims. It's worth noting that the Broadcast Towers also give the second happiness from the "Hit" resources, so could be useful if we secure them later and need extra Happy.

Dreylin.

[novice]

Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that Dreylin hasn't pushed you on the Mining executive. It's one of the few edges you currently have on him, so I'd keep it to myself if I were you - but at the same time you need Dreylin's support until Soooo is gone - unless you all dogpile Dreylin, that is.

[Ruff_Hi]

I haven't mentioned it to him for ages. And the other guys haven't approached me to see if I wanted to turn on Dreylin. I did fly a recon airship mission against him about 5 turns ago and all of his cities near me are guarded by warriors, usually only 1 .

[darrelljs]

I haven't mentioned it to him for ages. And the other guys haven't approached me to see if I wanted to turn on Dreylin. I did fly a recon airship mission against him about 5 turns ago and all of his cities near me are guarded by warriors, usually only 1 .

Too bad you aren't playing as America .

OT for those old enough to play Warlords (the original)
I was pretty far down in one game whenI popped four Mages from a ruin . My arrogant, taunting friend had to watch me raze about half his cities. Mages were weak, but they had ridiculous movement and my arrogant, taunting friend declined to guard his interior.

Darrell

[Ruff_Hi]

• Cities:
  • FF: Paratrooper -> Paratrooper [1]
    
  • LQ: Infantry [1]
    
  • DV: Factory [2]
    
  • BH: Paratrooper -> Paratrooper [1]
    
  • BS: Infantry -> Fighter [3]
    
  • AC: Infantry [1]
    
  • TN: Fighter -> Fighter [2]
    
  • KS: Fighter-> Fighter [2]
    
  • SL: Mt Rushmore [1]
    
  • MD: Fighter [2]
    
  • EC: Fighter [2]
    
  • NB: Fighter [2]
    
• Tech: Electricity [2], -78g at 70% science, 299g in the bank
  
• Opponent Tech:
  • sooooo - Flight [1], 349g, +14g @ 50% tech
    
  • mostly harmless - Industrialism [70], 575g, up from 302g last turn (+281gpt)
    

More bombing, less commerce for Sooooo at his capital. He bombed 2 infantry with his airships so I put one of my fighters on intercept. I also swapped civics to ...

1) Monarch
2) Bureaucracy

As you can see above, Dreylin and I have been discussing tech. I will be saving coin after I finish electricity for a run at Radio.

[plako]

Concerning corporation I suspect it isn't that big a deal for you to spread it to Dreylin. You'll get 4 gold from each corporation city to your headquarters city (that hopefully has all gold multiplier buildings) whereas he has to pay maintenance based on the number of resources used. This varies a lot, but even with courthouse it is easily 12 gold/turn or more + spreading the corp is pretty expensive. Granted hammers are more valuable than the consumed gold, but you'll gain also with this deal.

If you postpone spreading you could actually do it later about the time your ways are separating. That could lure him invest hammers+gold for spreading corporation instead of military.

You had also dicussion about interception and Fighters had to be on intercept mission to intercept.

[Ruff_Hi]

You had also dicussion about interception and Fighters had to be on intercept mission to intercept.

I have a single fighter an intercept mission following Sooooo running 2 airship bombing runs. I'm assuming that this will allow my fighter to try and intercept twice - is that correct?

[plako]

I have a single fighter an intercept mission following Sooooo running 2 airship bombing runs. I'm assuming that this will allow my fighter to try and intercept twice - is that correct?

Yes. As long as Fighter has 100% health it should intercept every time no matter how many airships is attacking.

[Jabah]

I thought 1 fighter could only do 1 interception.
I had in mind that (SP) when ennemy has fighter, your first bombers are risking being intercepted, but once the last fighter had done its interception, all the following bombers were risk-free ??
Obviously I have played enough games with modern warfair to be sure, but I think it makes more sense that way

[kalin]

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/air_combat.php

Fighters can intercept an "infinite" number of times, but their interception chance goes down when they get damaged.

Kalin