RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

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This is a bit outdated question, but was there some kind of a leak back when the CoW invasion was on? I was reading the Spullla thread and it stroke me as odd how Speaker was so sure that Whosit was sending praets their way. I'm too lazy to find the discussion about that in the lurker thread, which I'm sure you already had, so please someone update me on that :P

All right.

Speaker and Sullla sniffed it out themselves based on a number of circumstances, here's Speaker's explanation:

We are blessed to live in interesting times.


Whosit has sent 4 Galleys, which must mean 8 Praetorians, so my fears have proven correct. Here are the reasons I suspected him of sending them:

1) Complete lack of diplomatic contact
2) Only saw a couple Praetorians in his land, having explored most of his cities, and his only contested border.
3) Logical sense. This is his chance to truly cripple us.
4) Presence of a coastal on the inland sea.
5) Only logical explanation about why Nakor is involved--fear of Whosit's reprisal if he doesn't attack us.

Just like their original attack on Chancellorsville, the timing within a couple turn window, is putrid for us. 2 more turns and we'd have cleared out 1 or both of the stacks in our land, and would be able to shift all our troops over there to defend. 4 more turns and we'd even have spare catapults to whack those Praets when they disembarck.

The good news is that Nakor has left a Chariot exposed, and as long as we can kill 1 more unit, we will get a Great General. With 2 General Axes behind 50% walls, I feel pretty confident we can defend Fredericksburg, as long as we don't lose some wacky battles. I am crossing my fingers that those are just shock Praetorians, and not Shock + City Raider or City Raider I and II.

I have little fear of Chancellorsville falling to Dantski's little stack there, and we'll have plenty of troops to defend Antietam as well.

However, there were also some egregious spoilers posted, which were edited out quickly, of course. See post 590 in this thread for a quote of one of those spoilers:

http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showpost....tcount=590