AT loves it when a plan comes together!! [Spoilers]

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An important turn for ALF:
It is more mine than Jowy's!!


new city, TheFBI - it's just going to be a fishing village, but every little bit helps.

I have visibility into a lot of commodores cities:





Note that, with Cornflakes visibility into my city, the stack of knights commodore has hidden behind SWAT? Not so hidden.



I think that stack is just reserve - I don't know whether cornflakes knows I can see it and it's meant to be a deterrent or what. It does deter me from attacking him, not that attacking the strongest army in the world is high on my list of todos...

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Cornflakes stack is just staying where it is. I presume he's doing it as a deterrent - he can't think I don't see it.

2metra seems to have taken a city off him, so that's a well thought out attack by cornflakes

Commodore is juts 4 turns from constitution - he had offered 800 for it, which I had turned down - maybe I should have counter-offered something for it, I dunno.

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Jowy had double moved and I expect to move in on him next turn or the turn after, depending on what my spy sees, so I'm delaying to play last.

it sounds like bigger is attacking CF now, too, and he'll be moving first once they straighten out turn order.

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well, the assault will have to wait. I could probably take Eden prime with the forces on hand, but then, with three more turns to reinforce, maybe not. It currently has 24 defenders - 16 LB (including one CG GG), 3 pikes, 2 maces and 3 muskets. I have 7 cannons and 31 hitters (10 grenadiers, 13 knights, 3 maces, musket and 4 LB). he'll be able to add in 3-6 more defenders. The problem is not having enough cannons to do a lot of collateral - I think cannons can hurt 7 units, plus the one it's attacking, so 7 cannons can beat up 7 defenders, plus gives 49 collateral hits, which is nice, but runs the risk of not being decisive. And Jowy deserves decisive. So, I'm going to build up some more cannons - everything is going to build cannons for a little while, since I'll need more to kill Citadel.

Also, CF declared on Commodore and made peace (presumably to keep him out of a way), then declared on bigger. Bigger is now just a few turns from cannons, so I guess CF thought he had a window.

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I've run some sims and, assuming jowy gets just a couple more muskets by the time I get in their, i'll rip apart Eden prime. In most of my sims, I lost a couple of cannons and a knight (to a pike that didn't get too badly hurt). I forgot that cannons were strength 12, so pretty much rip everything apart.

Now, there may be more stuff when I get there, but I'll have more cannons, etc when I get there. It might take a couple of turns to kill 'em, but I should be able to take Eden Prime without much of a problem. So, next turn... in we go!!

Some pics:



These are the forces in Eden Prime (in blue - that's 24 defenders, primarily LB) and mine (in red - some 30 units that can attack and 7 cannons) - those can all enter jowyland next turn. it will take me 3 turns to walk to Eden Prime and declaring war will cause me some happy issues, since I'm getting spice and wine from jowy - I think i'll be able to get wine from commodore (for whale) - dunno about spice. I'll see if I can get some dye, perhaps. Plus, of course, war weariness will be an issue again - it's died down, but it will flair up a lot on this attack.



he'll bring guys up to help, I'm sure.



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[MindyMcCready]

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yeah - I've run a variety of sims now, some adding enough units that I can't possibly take the city the first turn I attack it. I always take it losing just a few units.

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Pics later - I moved in on Jowy and switched to Nationhood - CF made peace with Bigger/TT, so has a large force near me - I really need to be able to draft units - it will make for slower build of Oxford, but that's ok. Being able to draft 4 grens a turn will help with that, especially with my super nice globe set up.

Jowy has also switched to nationhood, so he'll have more units, too, which is a downside. But this is a good time to go in on him. waiting is kind of senseless, as I see it.

I did get 1 unhappy from war weariness when I moved in.

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Jowy drafting is going to cause a problem for me. He can draft 4 muskets a turn, mainly 3 a turn from eden prime, citadel and thessia. That means he can add an additional 9-12 muskets before I attack.

The main problem is damage to my hitters - many of them have 3 or 7 xp, so if they survive, they can hit back, unless he can kill some of mine on counterattack. he'll be able to get 2 more muskets a turn from the draft, so I'll always be facing a couple of undamaged ones.

It might be too many units for me to kill - at least, to get Eden Prime.

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Well, that's that. CF is attacking me, with a pretty damn huge stack - he's got 30 hitters and 8 cannons in on swat, plus a settler to raze/replace. I have 18 defenders, one of which is a dog soldier, so I'm guessing I lose it. He might just bring the defenses down, which will be nice, since I'll get several more defenders in there from drafting, and it's on a hill, so the LB will be tough... but I'm gonna lose it, no doubt about it. Which basically makes my entire flank with CF untenable and pretty much does me in - especially since most of my army is off attacking Jowy AND CF has set it up so neither Commodore nor Bigger can help me - so, my guess is that Bigger attacks and takes V and the western cities. Commodore is probably not in a position to attack me yet, but I'm probably going to be #2 out of the game, right now. At least, that's my guess.

But, it shall not be without a fight!!