[Spoilers] darrelljs (FDR)

[darrelljs]

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Darrell

[pocketbeetle]

[T-hawk]

So as far as you can see, he can't get anything but spears and an immortal into Pasargadae this turn, both of which your axemen should beat, with chariots to clean up survivors.

And his capital is empty? Do you have any unit on a boat to take advantage of that?

[darrelljs]

Yay, posts .

If he moves the Immortal and Spear into Pasargadae (and he doesn't complete a unit there next turn), then I have 65% odds with my Axeman against his Immortal. If that attack fails, I have to abort and pillage. If it succeeds, his second Spear will only have 5% fortify bonus, so I'll have about 90% odds on it with my second Axe. Unfortunately the final Spear is a huge problem for me. I'd have to burn multiple units to get it. But I could always kill two units one turn, then kill again with an axe the next turn (and probably get Shock out of it).

And his capital is empty? Do you have any unit on a boat to take advantage of that?

No . If I had snuck a chariot on one of my galleys blockading his cpaital, it would be razed now, and Yaz essentially dead. But I didn't anticipate a total emptying of Persepolis. I wish I could get into his head .

Darrell

[darrelljs]

Man it really is better to be lucky than good .

I load the save up and Yaz did indeed move the Spear and Immortal into Pasargadae. So I pull him up on chat and give him the live play-by-play. The Axe loses. Dang . Now the original plan was to back off if he did that, but dang it I can't do it. So the next Axe kills the spear but is redlined. Double dog dang it . The next two Chariots die to the Spear (more ), the third kills it, and my Spear cleans up an Immortal and razes the city for 89 gold. So I'm complaining to Yaz about my terrible luck, quoting my world builder odds, and he's like "wow, I guess my walls didn't count towards the battle". Err...whoops . Turns out that he didn't build a unit IBT, which I of course checked for, but he did build a Walls . Going back through the combat odds I actually got pretty lucky. I never checked the odds for the battles cause I already knew them from my worldbuilder testing .

In the end it was a pretty good deal for me:

I lost: 2 Axes, 2 Chariots, 1 Spear (assuming he cleans up)
He lost: 2 Settlers (as IMP, essentially one), 2 Spears, 1 Immortal, and the city

I say 2 Settlers cause he'll have to replace the city with one, and apparently Pasargadae was about to complete a Settler as well. He also lost maybe two turns of production from his second city (about 22 hammers)...really more since he won't be at size two anytime soon. I came out ahead, and more importantly in a war of attrition I have four cites on units to his 1, and I have Ivory/HBR/Construciton . Ivory might go away soon but I'll squeeze out 4 War Elephants first. That, a few Axes and about 4 Cats, and a Tireme or two to guard my invasion fleet is something he won't be able to handle.

In other news, I'm too nice. I gave Ruff two nice sites: double spice+cow, and Fish+Cow, for, essentially, nothing. It brings me to 11 cities and him to a dozen.

Darrell

[T-hawk]

Turns out that he didn't build a unit IBT, which I of course checked for, but he did build a Walls .

Walls doesn't explicitly show up in the combat odds, only as "+50% tile defense". But it's also right there on the city itself in big numbers

[darrelljs]

Okay, finally Yaz made a mistake. He failed to realize I had a Chariot left with movement after my assault of Pasagardae. Either he didn't count units, or he assumed I had no movement left and deleted the unit. Either way, I saw this when I opened the save:



So I captured the two Workers with my Chariot then deleted all three units. I'd say that was a good trade . Also, I finally got in his head, at least a bit. He had a cease fire deal with SL (erroneously reported as a peace treaty), so I did an Ivory trade. I decided if I was Yaz, I'd let Darrell waste a turn of builds on Elephants before yanking the rug out from under him. Sure enough, SL was able to get me Ivory for one turn, and the next time around Yaz had declared war so the builds couldn't finish. Since I had anticipated this move, I timed overflow from a previous build + a forest chop to finish one Elephant at Washington . True, I could have 0 hammer whipped Elehpants from two other cities, but now I'll just build Catapults and Axes, while letting Ruff make the Elephants.

Final bit of news. This:

SL has proven that the world is round.

Answers my question of whether Dreylin's land extends south of my archipelago. Oh well, SL and Ruff being in the middle certainly had the best chance for this, so I can't be that disappointed.

Darrell

[Rowain]

Killing 2 workers is quite a success. Too bad Firaxis changed the mechanic so that you can't move them immediatly any longer.

[sunrise089]

I assume that chariot had no chance of hitting the capital, right?

[darrelljs]

Yeah, no chance. Ruff and I were chatting on how to eliminate this pesky thorn. Its pretty funny we have essentially 7 cities between the two of us on military and we can't find a rock solid plan to eliminate OCC Yaz (well...he'll have a second city soon enough). And that's not hah-hah funny in case you were wondering .

Darrell