Retrospectives Thread

[Lewwyn]

Oh wait, 2 turns to win? Or is it 3? Do we win at End of Turn or Start of Turn?

We will be legendary at EOT191. We win at the start of T192.

I'm calculating T3 at ~163 units from the military screen, China will have ~228 and T3 will lose cannons in the attack.

Way to cut it close:

End Turn - 1 Turn Left!
T3 Moves
End Turn - Culture Explosion!
T3 Attacks
Win!

They should be able to attack Beijing twice. That 163 units includes cannons that can't kill and MGs that can't attack. But again they don't have enough units that kill to break through all of the units that will be in the city.

[MWIN]

How is it looking with Beijing now that golden age is over?

[Lewwyn]

The GA will pop in Beijing next turn and the culture is the same as it was before since I wasn't working any tiles. Also gpt is still in the green since culture slider was already at 100%. Beijing will reach legendary on time.

[Lewwyn]

I finally got to play the turn after the server sort got overloaded by my disconnects. China and T3 are pretty much the same. Ottomans and T4 are much the same as well. Have to wait for both of them to play turns to see what happens there. T4 might be able to take a city before we win. Dunno. But they have no chance to reach Istanbul by T191. T3 will get 2 attacks and flail in vain. I wonder how many units we'll be able to kill in the defense.

T1 killed off all the units in front of the city, though my awesome mace guy survived! Yay! I stuck him back in the city with 8 janisary reinforcements. Speaker also bombarded the culture defense to 0%. I got AIed. ...



What this does mean is I have currently 36 units in Leeroy and Speaker has 16 units that can kill. I will at the very least be able to hold the city through two attacks (T190 and T191). That means that T1 will not be able to take any more of my cities before our win date. I could have attacked out, but I felt like having Leeroy still standing at the end was more worth it. I attached the GG to an HA and upgraded it to a curi. It'll reach the city next turn. The supercool mace is in the city at present but if he survives next turn I'll send him away so that he survives to the end.

The three cities:

Milkshake:



Has reached enough culture + 4 GAs for legendary. Nothing more to do except pop them for culture.

Istanbul:



Needs to have 11,600 culture + 5 GAs and will reach that end of next turn 190. So it will be ready a turn early.

Beijing:



Needs to have 16,960 + 3 GAs. In two more turns (EOT191) it will go over 17,000. This turn Vincent Van Gogh was born in Beijing, bringin the total to 3 GAs in the city.

All 3 cities have enough GAs now and we're simply waiting 2 more turns for Beijing and Istanbul to reach their final culture quotas.

The only thing that is in any doubt is whether T4 will be able to capture a city on T191.

[darrelljs]

Are you going to put all three over at the same time?

Darrell

[Krill]

You don't often see 261 happy faces in a city.

[Lewwyn]

Are you going to put all three over at the same time?

Darrell

That's the plan at least. Pop em all on T191. We think it will be fun to have them all pop up at the same time.

You don't often see 261 happy faces in a city.

I guess we don't often see a lot of people going for a culture win either.

[Tyrmith]

That's the plan at least. Pop em all on T191. We think it will be fun to have them all pop up at the same time.

You underestimate the value of the other team feeling impending, irresistible doom.

[Lewwyn]

You underestimate the value of the other team feeling impending, irresistible doom.

Hmmmmm...... that's true....

On the other hand, T1 doesn't seem to realize anything, so by waiting until the very last minute we can make it so that they log in and get the shocking victory message out of the blue!

I'm torn now...

[Ellimist]

Do you mind sharing the details of the 261 happiness?