[SPOILERS]Novice, Spacemanmf and Athlete4life10 are HUYANA CAPAC OF CHINA

[novice]

Playing T158 now.

[novice]

OK, let's see. Pegasus got a Great Scientist from Old Trafford. Took our cities off wealth and set breakeven research to get Banking in 2.

I'm leaning towards getting Rifling before moving on Pegasus, as I haven't had time to do any simming.

In the south a naval battle might be fought next turn. Krill positioned his boats in such a way that we had to move in on Liberty to get our stack united. Krill should have 50%-ish odds on all battles there since he's generally one promotion ahead of us.





Chat with Ruff:



F1 screen:

[spacemanmf]

Are some of his triremes double promoted then?

We're running out of time to attack before Taj Mahal completes.... =)

[novice]

Are some of his triremes double promoted then?

We're running out of time to attack before Taj Mahal completes.... =)

Yeah I think he had one CII trireme, and the rest were CI.

[spacemanmf]

I've been having a bit of a play trying to sim the battleground situation. An assault of cats and HAs didn't seem to do that much damage on my first run. (I've not set it up perfectly so I need to have a play to sort that out, but it was close enough. I will post it in this thread once I have it sorted.)

We don't have really enough cats. At the moment, taking down the walled defence only leaves 4 or 5 for suiciding, so the longbows are still in reasonably decent shape. I don't want to lose too many knights/cuirs so we could do with a few more, or else we could wait an extra turn.

We could start getting into position anyway. We should move 2 XP muskets to the staging tile and the 0 or 1 XP muskets to Speed Limit. And move the cats to the staging tile, as well as moving the mounted units back to the west once the happiness issues are sorted.

So I'm more comfortable about attacking before we get rifles. We'll hopefully land the Taj at the end of next turn, but I think we should hold off switching to Nationhood until towards the end, because by that point we will hopefully have rifles. I don't think we have the spare happiness to do it any earlier really, and muskets would be a waste of any of that happiness vs rifles.

We have two great people to start another golden age if we want to switch back. With a bit of luck, we may have the MoM then.

[novice]

Excellent job.

If you feel the attack is imminent we might delay Taj a few turns.

If you really want to put in an effort, check if Ruff has a lot of hammers invested anywhere.

I won't be able to play any saves tonight.

[spacemanmf]

I suspect we're only really at risk to a Great Engineer build since we're Industrious and haven't delayed it by that much, but I will check out his cities.

I'm on babysitting duty tonight so have plenty of time to play the save if it comes in.

[spacemanmf]

Yup, nothing more than 80 hammers anywhere. The majority of his cities don't have any hammers in the box, a feature of someone building up an army.

[spacemanmf]

So shall I delay the Taj if I get the turn tonight?

[novice]

So shall I delay the Taj if I get the turn tonight?

Yes, let's delay it. We could even delay it until Rifling. I suggest Notre Dame as a new build.