[SPOILERS] Charriu and Zalson are fighting the honorable post count war!

[Zalson]

Sweet.

[Zalson]

Please post, if you can, the power graph with each turn. We can try to help you figure out what Couerva is adding.

I do think it needs to be said that we need to consider the value of this continued competition + a crippled Forza vs the benefit of taking viable cities from RFS. Maybe we get all metals from Couerva for peace to give us time to get to Machinery/Trebs and use that to go round 2 with Couerva -- using the RFS cities.

trying to give you options to chew on. Hope it helps.

[Charriu]

T90:

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Coeurva is starting a "diplomatic" war of attrition. Again he send me a peace offer and again I declined. He moved a spearman and an axeman to the village NW of my troops (highlighted in the screenshot). He also finished another archer in Schilda.

In other news RFS connected iron this turn. This let's me even harder think about giving him a copper for copper deal.

Oh and looking at the screenshot and my notes I noticed 2 mistakes. I forgot to pillage the last road connecting Schilda and I forgot to write down the unit supply for you, Zalson. Sorry, I noted it down, but then I was distracted.

Graphs:



I know, I know the war is costing me much.



Coeurva is outproducing me for some turns now.



Food has recoverd nicely and I'm almost at the happiness cap for most of my cities.



I still don't see any power increase in Coeurva's graph that would indicate iron working.

[Zalson]

Sacrebleu! Couerva changed his thread title!

[Charriu]

Yeah, I noticed that, too. I don't know what to make out of this. If only he hadn't build the Stonehenge in Schilda, we could have stayed at peace.

[Charriu]

Oh for all non-german speakers. Götterdämmerung = Twilight of the gods

[Charriu]

FYI, you may have noticed that I did not update my "Other Player" section in my spreadsheet. I still note down the score, but I don't analyse the graphs and follow the soldiercount and GNP to determine the enemies troops and current tech. It's getting to time consuming to load up the graphs into a graphic programm and filter out what happened where.

[Charriu]

T91 Part 1:

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Coeurva gave me a new situation to think about. I see only two options for attack.

1. Kill that spearman and axeman. This will definitly cost me either an axeman or a swordsman. If I'm lucky I can kill the axeman with the next swordsman, but if I'm unlucky and the swordsman dies or is to injured I can not attack Schilda next turn. Note that I move another axeman and swordsman in from Forza.
   
2. Attack Schilda now and get it over with. Either I win and capture/destroy that thorn in my side or I lose and will accept peace with Coeurva. I need to be lucky for this, too.
   

[Charriu]

I made my decision. I will attack now.

[Charriu]

T91 Part 2:

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I started my attack. Unfortunately I had promoted my axeman with shock as defense against Coeurva's axemen. So I used my swordsman

C1 City Raider Swordsman    vs     C1 Shock Axeman = 23.1% -> Loss
C1 City Raider Swordsman    vs     C1 Shock Axeman = 23.1% -> Loss

At this point I planned to attack with another swordsman against an archer, but contrary to my simulation I only had 30% odds instead of 67%. I don't know what went wrong here. Would I have noticed that my simulation with World Builder is bad, I would have stopped my attack earlier.



With the failed attack on Schilda, I don't see any point in continueing this war. It just costs me to much. But before I offered Coeurva peace again I made sure to pillage what I can. The whole point of this war was to take or raze Schilda. Now I will need to prepare Schilda for the culture bomb from Forza. I started a library there for additional culture.

Sorry here was a image previously, but at some later point I carelessly replaced the original image on a vacation. Sorry

Coeurva whipped some units last turn. Now I must hope that he's taking the peace offer, which I decline so often. I really feel stupid for that and I need to look for a better way to simulate combats. If anybody knows some good spreadsheets for that I would gladly take them.
I still have enough troops to take a stab at RFS' Lighthouse and will move in that direction next. By the way how is RFS doing.



Very strange last turn he still had iron.



I also got lucky with the growing woods again. That's another wood near Wing Raptor. As you can see I also got my Great Scientist and I'm actually the first player to get one.



I rearrange the production of my cities a bit so that I have enough gold next turn to finish Alphabet with the Academy in Exdeath.