[SPOILER] Gira, Mackoti & neighbors in a cramped place

[giraflorens]

 
T073
 
Besbalik is lost.  Jowy attacked with 9 numids and only 1 died, the rest retreat or won the combat.  The first Numid killed a spear with 3.8 odds!!!!  See shot below.
 
Now in the city there are 2 Numids at full strength, 1 with 2,5 health and one chariot.  The odds of our spears are 68%.  One possibility is attacking the city and killing or injuring a lot the 2 good numids and protecting the wounded spears with the healthy one that is near Karakorum.  I guess he retreat the other wounded numids to his territory.  But I doubt about this attack, may be it is better to retreat to karakorum and wait if he wants to attack. 

Also I think it is worth to make the road on the hill E of Nang to allow movement between both cities.
 

[mackoti]

I will take a look , what happened here is 1/ milion.With this luck he could beat all map just with 20 numids.I say go fr atack even we lose everithing. Better die fast then wait for his luck strike again.

[giraflorens]

 
T074
 
3 spears died of ours vs 3 horses +1 chariot, and still Jowy must play.  We have 2 chariots, 1 axe and 1 spear N-N of Besbalick, also a Great General was born.
 
The power graph of Jowy is still very high.

[giraflorens]

 
T076
 
Units are around Beshbalik. We’ve got 4 spears (2 wounded) and 4 chariots.  In Beshbalik there are 6 Numids and 1 chariot.  The situations is difficult because if they move from the city we can reconquered it, but we can’t attack because we dont have enough strength.
 
This war, ended our options about the game, so now is just playing for fun, and enjoy these chess movements.

[giraflorens]

T079




Besbalik is reconquered. The result of the battle is 5 numidians +1 spear +1 axe dead vs 1 chariot and 3 spears of us.  Now there are 2 numidians near Nang-shi, which is defended by one spear and one chariot.  We are making a library in Karakorum and granaries around.




I think the power graph does not show the actual situation.  We recover a good power status.




Mr. Cairo has conquered a city of Civac, which starts a war between both of them that is easy for civac, but that makes Noble and Vanrober the only ones with freedom to develop.

[superdeath]

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[giraflorens]

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Fixed, the text editor of this forum is the weirdest editor I ever seen.  Seems to have its own life.

[giraflorens]

 
T084
 
Tabriz, the 8th city is set west of Capital Karakorum.  Next turn we finish HBRiding.  Time to begin Gers, in Karakorum, Turfan and Ning-shia¿?.  Also Old Sarai could be good, but this city could have a good gold production.  In this case it would need a library. 

Next tech to research Maths or Calendar?  We don't have many forest left for Maths, and with Calendar we had 2 more happy resources.
 
We are the 2nds in gold production, but very late in food production.  Also our power is very low after so many loses against Jowy.

[giraflorens]

 
T086

Last turn we finished HBRiding and now 4 gers are built.  The library in Besbalik will help to recover the copper.  Afterwards may be a barracks would be interesting to make melee units.

[mackoti]

I log in to check a litlle  the  map.Rememner when I said Laz starting position was overstron? Check out this...

   

So he has a forested deer and that is not all he got as well , a grass deer and thats not all folks he has a second 2/2 tile  , already an improved Ivory for example. And us was denyed a forested freaking Ivory? oh and he has  plains cow as well  Man this map is so unfair I have no words for it. And his second city is far better then ours as well.

talikng about second cities check this out?

   

yeah  totaly comparable with what you Gira got    (there is gras cooper, gras horses, weat corn and riverside cows). NO wonder Noble is doing so well. Well there is civac  having same with 2 horses and a cooper, riverside rice and more gems which i found nowere.


So lets supse we setled in place we got a fish and riverside cow(very demanding in tech) , and second city would got  Horses and dry corn , and city for cooper would had like food a dry rice. Can you even think to compare this stuff?

We must got something to compensate for that? A close fur? 7 tiles from our capitol 6 from Laz. Man if didnt took the city with horses from Laz(yeah was way closer to him) we had nothing.Gems? nope those are for civac, and even worse all grain resources on our side of map are dry. 

I know is not easy to build a map, but realy  I dont get it why this position must be so bad. Add some freaking river , gave a plus happines , gave a forested deer or at leas how was requested forested ivory make game fun for all. Is like Gira is a super campion and needs to play with severe handicap compared to Noble, civac,  or vanromer even Laz.  I am realy open to see at least one thing we had so we can compete.