[Spoilers] Mini PBEM tournament, part 1

[Dreylin]

I wonder if Khan used his Open Borders with Ginger to move a worker under your stack while at peace, and then he declared war to teleport all of the units back to their own territory.

The declarers units are deleported, not the declaree. Stops you shifting a stack of a defensible neutral zone

Actually that's not universally true; there are some cases involving 3rd party (but not unclaimed) territory where it's turn order that matters. (I ran some tests for PB33...)

EDIT: Also Adrien, isn't that a Worker on the Silver tile that he could have used?

[AdrienIer]

EDIT: Also Adrien, isn't that a Worker on the Silver tile that he could have used?

Basically either I made a mistake I have no memory about, or my troops were 4 tiles away from Khan's stack and the game decided to screw me. I suppose it was the former.

[Dreylin]

Well, maybe Khan will clarify.

[Khan]

Ah, what happened there was a combination of engineering, roads and open borders.

Basically, I roaded the tile towards Selsey to allow my invasion stack to hit the city in one turn from Mount Pleasant. Since I had a billion workers (EXP), I was happy to sacrifice one or two if required. I had brought a fair bit of siege to bear but Selsey was not particularly heavily defended (some longbows, a crossbow and some knights if I recall correctly). Since I did not really care about Selsey as I had no intention of holding any cities that I took from you, what I really wanted was to crush your northern army. The plan was for this to all be a precursor to moving in, in force, with cannons and cavalry in the near future. You were already in a war and didn't seem to have much siege about (I had my scout watching all of your southern units) so were taking heavy losses against GE. I figured if I could take out half your army, you'd never be able to catch up in numbers and I should also have a small tech advantage.

I had seen your army pass through but Chichester was holding them off so I knew they were around. I simply wandered my worker in (utilising open borders with GE) and moved him onto your army and declared war. Unlike when this is done in enemy territory, this boots your attacking army out of the area and into Selsey. The barrage catapults were sacrificed, knights can't gain defensive bonuses and pikes beat them all ends up. The rest was just clearing up. I was surprised you tried to hold the next city too by pouring more knights in. Pikes just eat them all day.

[AdrienIer]

Ah, what happened there was a combination of engineering, roads and open borders.

Basically, I roaded the tile towards Selsey to allow my invasion stack to hit the city in one turn from Mount Pleasant. Since I had a billion workers (EXP), I was happy to sacrifice one or two if required. I had brought a fair bit of siege to bear but Selsey was not particularly heavily defended (some longbows, a crossbow and some knights if I recall correctly). Since I did not really care about Selsey as I had no intention of holding any cities that I took from you, what I really wanted was to crush your northern army. The plan was for this to all be a precursor to moving in, in force, with cannons and cavalry in the near future. You were already in a war and didn't seem to have much siege about (I had my scout watching all of your southern units) so were taking heavy losses against GE. I figured if I could take out half your army, you'd never be able to catch up in numbers and I should also have a small tech advantage.

I had seen your army pass through but Chichester was holding them off so I knew they were around. I simply wandered my worker in (utilising open borders with GE) and moved him onto your army and declared war. Unlike when this is done in enemy territory, this boots your attacking army out of the area and into Selsey. The barrage catapults were sacrificed, knights can't gain defensive bonuses and pikes beat them all ends up. The rest was just clearing up. I was surprised you tried to hold the next city too by pouring more knights in. Pikes just eat them all day.

My god is that mechanic crap... But good job for using it efficiently