RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[m4gill4]

We're not apologizing for keeping quiet about all our plans before either. You can see how even one or two units in the wrong place at the wrong time could have screwed this all up. And that's not an indictment of the lurkers, who I'm sure have done a great job, just that we had a ton riding on this thing and didn't want to allow even a very minor chance of something slipping out accidentally. I don't think we "owe" a complete description of everything we're thinking about.

Update for today: we're supposed to get our connection fixed at home by Verizon sometime this afternoon. I really hope so, as Speaker and I have barely been in contact for the past few days.

The idea of demanding Thebes for peace, and faking at it while really going for Sparta and Athens is a very attractive one. Just to show how this would work, take a look at the following picture:



We would put a stack of one-movers (axes, spears, cats, etc.) on the yellow tile, and start slowly bombing down the walls in Thebes. Jowy would have to respect that, and will rush his defenders into the city. But we don't care about Thebes - if we did take the city, we'd just raze it - so we'd have Speaker's 10 horse archers and 2 general axes hidden on the white tile, where they can't be seen by Jowy.

When we wanted to attack, we'd move along the red line (building a road in the process) onto the sheep tile. If we do this with like 1 minute left on the timer, there's no possibility of whipping in Sparta or moving defenders over from Thebes before the next turn starts, and by then it's already too late. (Jowy doesn't have Construction right now, so even 2-movers couldn't reach Sparta from Thebes.) We push through Sparta and finish on the forest tile NE of the city, from which point we can reach Athens on the following turn! And the decoy stack on the yellow tile could simply move into Sparta to garrison it as the mounted units race ahead to raze Athens.

Of course we don't have 10 horse archers right now (I think we have three), but the tactical plan is sound. Just to make sure that they reject the peace offer, why don't we demand Thebes *AND* Argos? Love to see Jowy's face when he reads that one!

Well, hopefully I'll be online tonight to discuss this in detail, Speaker.

what changed in between the 2nd quote and the 1st? I've been cheering for sullla but that first post just rubs me the wrong way.