[SPOILER] And now for something completely different: DaveV is Hannah

[DaveV]

I'm still grinding away. It's attrition at its most brutal. On the Cairo front, I killed five more guys in Kwythellar, and a centaur who picked off one of my warriors heading to Stormgul. He also built a trireme in Avelorn, attacking and losing to my pillaging drown. There's another trireme sitting in the city, so the drown ran away.



I dropped off some chariots to try to finish the job against superjm. I'm still two turns away from attacking. It seems like I've been saying this forever.

Aurorarcher mounted a pretty convincing counterattack, killing most of my stack but losing some more units in the process. I pillaged the fort, but the next attack is likely to come from the south, since he moved the galleys out of Hamilton, and has a stack of workers hiding under the wolves on the cow tile.



With research on Sanitation complete, I have no cities losing population to Blight. Unhealth is still high, of course. I'm going full cash economy now, since I spent a huge amount of money drowning warriors and upgrading Zealots.

Aurorarcher war/peaced superjm, probably to teleport some units.

[DaveV]

I played late, after working six hours and driving six hours. Then my computer rebooted for a Windows update, so no pictures.

I moved in on superjm's last city. He now has four units; I really should have brought some catapults. Maybe I still can; I'll check the odds next turn.

Mr. Cairo abandoned Kwythellar, leaving a single swordsman. I razed it, and found a small city that I should be able to raze next turn. It's a settlement that was promoted when I razed the first of his cities; I saw the settler when I was mapping his territory.

Aurorarcher didn't do any attacks. Now I have a stack of two cultists, two iron drowns, and two damaged but highly promoted copper drowns forking Riemann and his wolves. Three more iron drowns and three more cultists will arrive next turn. He's still building up in his Titan city, but I think I have more than enough to stop him.

[DaveV]

One more thing I forgot to mention: I conquered the barbarian city of Ultigar, which was 3NE of Piranha Brothers (shown in post 109). I'm keeping it, and renamed it to Take Your Pick (a title which actually fit in the 15 character limit). The only video I could find has Polish (I think) subtitles:



It would actually be really funny if the subtitles said, "I vill not buy this record, it is scratched."

[DaveV]

superjm attacked out against my chariot stack. He would have been better off defending, but I understand him wanting to take a parting shot.



I killled his remaining drown at 58%, and it's over. Yay for the upcoming dramatic decrease in war weariness.

Sorry, superjm, you were the most dangerous opponent so you received the bulk of my attacks.

Aurorarcher scorched the former fort tile so I couldn't hit his city. He didn't know I had another boatload and a half arriving.



I lost one drown when his top defender was barely scratched by four tsunamis. But, in recompense, his shaman defended ahead of the wolves, so I killed that annoying unit.

He moved some of his guys out of Pythagoras, so it's time to move in:



I also razed a size 2 city belonging to Mr. Cairo, but didn't take a picture. Next turn, I can fork his second city and one of Aurorarcher's.

[DaveV]

Aurorarcher pulled out of Riemann, and I razed it. I moved a couple drowns to try to get vision, and moved the rest of my stack to attack his boats.



I move against Pythagoras next turn. The form of the titan *will* be mine



The guys that razed superjm's last city can reach Hamilton next turn:



He still has a lot of cities left, but I think I can reduce that number pretty quickly.

[DaveV]

I razed Aurorarcher's city in the north (Thales), and Mr. Cairo's settlement across the channel (Clar Karond). I also razed Hamilton and Ceval, which Aurorarcher had emptied (I'm sensing a pattern here). I see where he's putting all those defenders he stripped:



That's more defenders than I have hitters, so I just sat in place. Unfortunately, he also rusted a few of my units, and stripped the metal from some others. That also means he must have built an entropy node.

He's still keeping a big stack at Liebniz:



Not so many at Poisson:



And I found some more galleys. He was pushing navy pretty hard.

Edit: and here comes Buboes. Fingers crossed for him to appear by one of my opponents.

[DaveV]

I meant Stephanos, not Buboes. And it looks like I'm going to be the chosen target:



I piled a bunch of drowns into Oscar Wilde; they're immune to fear and resistant to Unholy damage.

He moved some units out of Pythagoras, and I pushed my stack of chips into the center of the table:



He moved a bunch of units into Poisson; I guess he couldn't see my chariots lurking to the west.



I razed the city, and moved a *lot* of units into his heartland. I'm sure he has a substantial reserve force, but which threat do they address?

[DaveV]

I forgot the video link again:

[DaveV]

Well, that didn't work out. Aurorarcher had enough stuff to retake Pythagoras and kill everything but my catapults. He also now has enchantment mana.



I didn't get a shot of the garrison in Pythagoras, but assume it has all the winning units from that log.

Reading that log reminds me I forgot to kill Mr. Cairo's pillaging centaur. These turns are too complicated.



I misread Stephanos's movement, and he captured one of my workers.



Look, Stephanos! Lots of tasty light blue cities to the southeast!

I appear to have no chance of taking Euler without a lot of siege, so I started pillaging. Aurorarcher's GNP is down to single digits, but he's going to be a pain to conquer.

[DaveV]

I guess it's a good thing I didn't kill Mr. Cairo's centaur: Stephanos attacked it and took a lot of damage in the process.



I sent in two drowns at 2.7% and 65.6%; both lost, but Stephanos was reduced to a sliver of health. My third drown killed him (and only gained 1 XP in the process; I was hoping for an XP bonanza). I sent in my chariot to pick up the Crown of Command and attack the barbarian centaur, but he failed to capture it. What would be really cool would be if I could capture Aurorarcher's Enchantment adept.



I messed up with my Light drown by moving him all alone to get vision into Fuerbach; he's probably dead next turn.



I probably should have gotten more use out of a 3-move water walking unit; all I did was pillage a couple tiles.

Aurorarcher stripped a lot of wounded units out of Pythagoras; most of them are sitting in the capital.



I pillaged another town by his capital, and his GNP is now negative: