SAT - #2 Pencil only Please

[AutomatedTeller]

ok, well, that's that.

My thoughts - hopefully, Sareln will join in.

I thought we did an ok job expanding, and the attack on Sian worked very well.

Things rapidly went downhill after that, due in part to me being gone for awhile and then Sareln being gone.

I think our stone city was going too far at the time - it hurt our research and stretched our defense. We research alpha to get research so we could limp to currency and CoL.

Then we missed thestick's power build up. We even saw his stack and didn't go into war prep.

My defense was... awful. Units, not walls. Axes, not chariots and archers and swords. I defended cities that i shouldn't have defended, with units that are bad on defense.

When facing axes/spears/catapults, you want axes and catapults, not swords (which die on axes), not chariots (which die on spears).

[Sareln]

ok, well, that's that.

My thoughts - hopefully, Sareln will join in.

I thought we did an ok job expanding, and the attack on Sian worked very well.

Things rapidly went downhill after that, due in part to me being gone for awhile and then Sareln being gone.

I think our stone city was going too far at the time - it hurt our research and stretched our defense. We research alpha to get research so we could limp to currency and CoL.

Then we missed thestick's power build up. We even saw his stack and didn't go into war prep.

My defense was... awful. Units, not walls. Axes, not chariots and archers and swords. I defended cities that i shouldn't have defended, with units that are bad on defense.

When facing axes/spears/catapults, you want axes and catapults, not swords (which die on axes), not chariots (which die on spears).

You've covered it well I think. Bad pacing on expansions, getting defeated multiple times in open field fights. Not knowing when to pull back to sacrifice land for time to build up the right numbers of stuff, lacking on the whip after the initial opening (this is a personal failing of mine).

The attack on sian went well as an opportunistic exploitation of a hole that shouldn't have been there. Not really as a demonstration of solid war tactics.

I also checked out when the real war started when I should've been talking things over more with you.

Fun playing with you though. Would do so again

[NobleHelium]

The real reason you guys lost to thestick: you didn't listen to me and left Arithmetic misspelled.

[AutomatedTeller]

it was spelled exactly as it should have been