[SPOILERS] Lewger goes for the Bigwyn

[Bigger]

That GG HA is out of promotions I believe. He attached the GG to the HA while it was on the stack with the praet and the archers thereby spliting the 20 XP over all 4 units. That's why his archer is Medic 2 and how he got a shock archer so he could kill our axe last turn.

oh, good point. I was wondering how he had 2 archers with 3 promotions.

Also keep in mind he's CHA though, so his promotions cost less than ours do.

thanks Harry, I'll do my best.

[fluffyflyingpig]

Unnamed Axemen?! For shame! Maybe that's why the RNG turned on you....

[Bigger]

Unnamed Axemen?! For shame! Maybe that's why the RNG turned on you....

lewwyn built so many of them, lol. ok, I'll get around to that next time I log in .

[Lewwyn]

Looks like we lost the city there from civstats.

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Looks like we lost the city there from civstats.

saw this during the game, but I can't log in from my phone and had been drinking anyway.

What happenned? I was going to say we need to give up on Beowulf and just accept peace. I see you didn't retake it. Do whatever it takes to get peace w/o giving up popol, but we need peace - and azza is pretty drained militarily as well, so he should want peace too.


I've been drinking so don't trust myself to log in right now. But I say:

1. if he offers white peace, accept. if he demands popol or some other city, decline and look around
2. if we can recapture A7x with the spear, do it. then move archer and axe in, and probably offer to give him back A7x for peace. or offer him 2 deals, first white peace then giving it up, whatever.
3. if we can't recapture, offer white peace and pray he accepts. load troops up on galley to move them to the aeneid just in case.

if we can get peace, we rush trooops as we can b ut we're going to have to accept that we can't retake beowulf until we are strong enough to take his capital too - which probably means macemen and/or knights. we have no backline defenses, so we just need to get out of this war w/o losing the aeneid or the odyssey, and fast. we can hold that line almost indefinitely, since beowulf is going to be exposed regardless of which of us holds it. If we can get back to the position we were in before this war, where we have a strong enough military that he can't invade the aeneid or the odyssey, we WILL win long term.

[Bigger]

we offered peace, included our world maps. if he demands cash (he just finished currency) or another city, we'll make him come to us. the axe and archer will load back on the galley and swing back to the aeneid, so we'll be ok.

regroup and outproduce him, same as before. this time we wait for maces and/or knights to attack again.

[waterbat]

wtf!

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wtf!

yeah that was pretty much lewwyns reaction too.

last turn azza went 4/4. we killed a praet in the only battle above 10% odds we had. this turn he went 3/3. not much we can do with that.

[Bigger]

I see azza logged in after us last turn, but hasn't played yet this turn. I guess I'll login in a bit just to see if he accepted peace.

[Bigger]

ok took a bunch of pictures, i'll post a full report after dinner.

Hightlights:

1. Azza accepted peace at teh end of last turn. so we have 9 turns of peace, basically, instead of 10.
2. I founded our shrine of Solomon . we're getting +7 gold, even though its only in 6 of our cities (hasn't spread to popol yet). I think its spread to someone we don't have maps on yet. thats encouraging, I suppose.
3. we made contact with commodore. he has 4 happy (including the gems he's getting from azza, confirmed that), ick. he also has 10 cities, double ick. only have maps on 6 of them. Scooter is going to lose another city next turn on commodores turn, I think . since commodore had played already and scooter hadn't yet, I went ahead and changed odysseus' name to "happy meal" and gifted it to scooter. the name was just to make sure he realized it came from us.
4. MOM was built this turn. ok, we weren't even really close - maybe we could have gotten it if we never researched horseback riding and never went back to war with azzza, not sure. anyway it was an "unknown civ," probably plako. maybe xenu, we'll make contact with him soon and find out. I'm just relieved it wasn't Serdoa this time.
5. was able to 2 pop whip the library in volsung. we can turn on research again next turn. it regrows to size 3 next turn.

We should discuss if we would like to make an attempt at the great library. I think if we get an academy in gilgamesh (we can work two scientists soon in volsung, or one until it hits happy cap, then two, and it will spawn there before the prophet in gilgamesh), then build the library in gilgamesh, that would be amazing for our economy. the downside is we really need monarchy and metal casting, and I'm not sure we can get it if we don't beeline immediately after currency.