[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[roland of gilead]

i think we let those 2 fight it out and we concentrate on our weaker neighbours.

with cores we can crush CMF once we have steel our home is safe.

then we can redirect forces.

would take some force to hit a 400 strength city while it's shooting at then with 70 strength.

get us up to 3 or 4 bombard cores. musket cores. pike & shot and coursers and cmf can be taken out. venice as well.

then we move on into sub.

leave cannon behind to defend

first though we need to sort out amenities and gold while upping science.

[roland of gilead]

CMF has 80 science we can absorb

wooden will get to cores then ichabod is in a degree of trouble perhaps.

i really think if we can take out cmf with our advantage then hold to get armys and next get to hit SUB we will have won.

[Kaiser]

Ichabod already has corps if I remember correctly, but yes we need to consider making gains on CMF earlier better than later

[roland of gilead]

yeah like i say work on science and on gold and amenities but work up to having those 3 or 4 bombard corps.

if we move 4 into range with general that's half the walls gone as first strike. then sit and heal whatever he shoots at with the scientist while the other 3 shoot. 3 turns and walls are gone.

[Kaiser]

Nearly back to content levels, look at where my science is back, this has basically been a 10% increase over all our empire. I also figured out that Bortus is an amenity sink as it is having -6 war weariness which just do not go away and it needs 11 amenities to be content.
It is the only place with war weariness and considering the time passed since us loosing units near bortus last, I fear it is a bug with war weariness here.

I am really annoyed at the amenity system in this game by now, as you can barely influence it and I feel it is badly designed. This bug about the war wearines at bortus is just icing on the cake of annoyance. The worst part about the system is that you have zero influence over the amenity distribution, I had turns where I had cities with slightly positive and other with negative amenities, which makes no sense at all.

For that reason I used a test game to figure out how to best manage amenities here, my testing showed that it is best to move the units first and only then to slot retainers so all cities with units will acutally receive 1 amenity.
Luckily the Cocoa from Bologna was also evenly distributed between the few discontent cities when I re-suzerained it, so we are back running at 100% again. In two turns we reconnect our Coffee and there are some more Stupas to build to get some more safety against pillaging.



Woden needs 10 turns to build Casa, we are finished in 5 thanks to the amenity situation coming back to content. He gained 153 GE points this turn by finishing multiple IZ projects, but he needs another 150 to get the GE which I doubt he will be able to pull off in time to finish Casa before us.

The Ironclad brought us another era score, so casa + the two districts should be sufficient to get our heroic age, we can then switch Governors to the other continent to benefit more from Casa. Best places are Bortus and Charly Burke

[roland of gilead]

Nice work.

[roland of gilead]

mind if you are buying bombards do it in CF for extra experience.

Casa is going to be really tight.

is he ahead of you in turn order?

[roland of gilead]

worth trying to reconnect whales with the ic now built?

[Kaiser]

Why is Casa tight, we are 5 turns quicker than him and I do not know of any way for him to speed it up. It would have been tight if he would have started it right away instead of working on his IZ project and the renaissance walls. We probably would have lost that race.

Coffee will be reconnected soon, whales are more difficult as we need to defend them against his whole Navy. We need more Ironclads to think about this, I believe.
With our current troops and the Ironclad, I feel confident that we can keep him from pillaging the Coffee and our 2 Campus districts, but the fight for the EM Campus district might be a close one.

We are dead last in turn order, so we have to make everything extra sure to be able to get it.

Good thought about CF, I will try to remember it. Right now I think we need a Curassier next for the Corps on the campus. Then we need to see what Woden does, he might attack us when we finish Casa, as we start running away with science if we can defend the EM Campus.

Woden's Wall-O-Mania (all his cities have Renaissance walls) might be a preparation for a cultural Victory attempt, I need to check how to best stop that in its tracks.

[Kaiser]

Ah you are right, he might still have charges from his GE left, maybe he can snipe it but it is tight with only one charge as we had 470 production advantage, the Ge brings 325 * 1.15 = 374 so the question is if he can outproduce us by 96 in 5 turns.

Very tight, but I think we are still slightly favored, as he has 78 *1.15 = 90 /t while KG is at 82 /t
If we win, it is better very tight as he looses 50% of the production.