[SPOILERS - PBEM17] novice and spaceman - Suryavarman of India

[novice]

OK, I finished the turn. Here's our staging tile, puny compared to Dave's navy, but we're 2v1 and have the initiative.



Demographics after ending turn:



Dave has 650k power on us and a turn of production to go. Darrell has 2761k power, 950k less than Dave.

[novice]

Darrell: ok
I have a few minutes
let me open ths ave and take some shots if you have a few yourself
me: ok
Sent at 22:23 on Wednesday
Darrell: huh
not what I expected really
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do bombers stafe ships first or units first?
me: I expected it from "You shall not pass"
Darrell: I can hit Jericho and retreat into south korea easily
although I don't have enough units to raze it really
man almost every bomber can reach jericho
me: I don't know how strafe works
Darrell: I don't see why Iw ouldn't do that
how does he not have transports in his north
me: yeah I don't know
good for you
Darrell: man he must be cash upgrading
me: upgrading what?
Darrell: EIs
I dnno
they only become transports
rifles?
me: it seems to me he's been upgrading EIs to transports, drafting infantry, and building navy exclusively
Darrell: yeah
I think so
me: I haven't seen a single marine
strange priorities
Darrell: Man if I had 4 more marines he'd be fucked
I could raze jericho
me: yeah you absolutely must raze jericho!
Darrell: I don't have en ough units
me: bring the kitchen sink!
Darrell: 19 units
one of which is a rifle but the rest are infantry and marines
oh and mech inf
Im gonna hit jericho with the kitchen sink then probably retreat to south korea, then finish it off the following turn
moving his navy in the city doesn't make much sense to me
marines against strafed infantry should be deadly
I need some cruise missles
Sent at 22:33 on Wednesday
Darrell: okay that fort NW of jaffa is new
he can move through there from where he is and land on my elephant
or stage from tehre and hit kenya which is what I expected
I think his UN post was a fake
doesn't change what I'm going to do though
he just doesn't have enough troops IMO
okay I have to run
I emailed the screenshots to your account with space
ttyl
me: see ya

[spacemanmf]

Ok, so next to Jaffa he has... 13 battleships, 2 destroyers, 11 transports and 3 EIs. That's 29 boats. We have 31, albeit including 10 laden transports.

Well, we don't want to use the transports unless we have very (very) good odds (although conceivably we could unload first), and we won't win all the battles before then anyway, so it's not an option to wipe out his navy this turn.

So, razing cities it is.

Dave will presumably move his Jericho navy if Darrell strikes but does not capture the city this turn, so that's a whole load of boats to watch out for.

[novice]

Ok, so next to Jaffa he has... 13 battleships, 2 destroyers, 11 transports and 3 EIs. That's 29 boats. We have 31, albeit including 10 laden transports.

Well, we don't want to use the transports unless we have very (very) good odds (although conceivably we could unload first), and we won't win all the battles before then anyway, so it's not an option to wipe out his navy this turn.

Well, I sent this to Darrell:

me: what are you achieving by almost killing Jericho though? You kill some land units but that's it
what I'm wondering is, do you have any bombers or ships that can hit his Jaffa stack?
Sent at 00:12 on Thursday
me: taking out his transports would be pretty huge

Also, we have four bombers and four airships that can hit his stack to improve our odds. And our first battleships attacking can get barrage III, perhaps, for +100% collateral damage.

[novice]

Been AFK today, might play tomorrow.

[spacemanmf]

I was OAA too.

I'm around today but have a few things to do before I could play the turn. I'd want to do it collaboratively anyway.

I was thinking that we could perhaps limit ourselves to taking out his battleships and destroyers. His transports aren't a threat since they can't (I don't think) reach any of our cities this turn. And our transports would be safer to be used for marine invasions.

We could then take out the transport stack at our own leisure. But we can see what the odds are for transport vs transport.

Mind you, marine invasions won't be as effective without boat or air support. Nevertheless, lightly defended cities could easily be burned.

How much vision does an air strike give us vs recon? We might want to do a bit of scouting with the airships to see where to strike first.

[novice]

I already reconned 2s1w of jaffa. Let's hit the transport stack. Our transports can get in an attack AND assault a city.

[spacemanmf]

I already reconned 2s1w of jaffa. Let's hit the transport stack. Our transports can get in an attack AND assault a city.

Only if they survive... =)

[novice]

Only if they survive... =)

Collateral should give us good odds, and some transports can assault a city first.

[novice]

This is what remains of Dave's stack:



And here's what remains of ours...



...plus the units hiding in newly captured Aleppo, of course.



Here's what's in Jaffa:


And here are some units that we unloaded to assault Jaffa:


Also, we razed Rhodes, completed The Internet, and here are our build orders before ending turn, and military after ending turn:





Hang on, Missile Cruisers? Turns out the Internet gave us Robotics and our battleship builds autoupgraded to Missile Cruisers.

What we can see of Dave's military: