RP Pitboss #2 [SPOILERS] - Darius I of the Holy Roman Empire

[novice]

Looks good so far. I can't believe that iron and copper are right next to each other.

Yeah that was a Civ3 AI-like beeline straight to the hidden resources.

Why do we need to invest a turn in mathematics? Roland Johansen (from CivFanatics) told me that beakers from techs never decay, unlike production hammers.

I think RJ is correct.

[Nakor]

Great! Then we don't need to bother with Maths.

[SIZE="5"]Turn 101[/SIZE]

IW is in and two workers are mining the iron near Krondor.
Settler is en route to Startdock site. One of the workers near Krondor will move there to conect the city. Stardock will build a workboat first.
La Mut finished the Granary and is building an Axe. After the axe I suggest a worker/settler pair before we start pumping military there. We need to claim the Yabon site soon.
I kept our stack behind Dantski's army because it would arrive to early.

Monarchy will take only 5 turns, but we need 4 turns of 0% science first.

I suggest we wait with revolting to a state religion untill confu has spread to a few cities.

Due to the war, we have the best GNP in the game now, so we need to take advantage of that!

[Nakor]

Turn ended. 45 turns to Monarchy at this rate!

Sulla's warrior moved towards our capital again... crap...

[DMOC]

Very good! Now Krondor can add more production to its city!

Stardock - workboat first is ok, followed by either a granary or a cultural building. Do we get a new health resource?

Don't revolt to Confucianism yet.

Due to the way the game works, it's best to revolt right after completing a settler. That way, the settler's out early, and anarcy doesn't affect settler travel time.

[Nakor]

[SIZE="5"]Turn 102:[/SIZE]

Krondor grew to size 7, unhappy now. We can whip the Rathaus for 2 or keep it at size 7.

That's pretty much it for this turn.

Here's an update on the war with India:

Dear Friends,

A quick update on the war situation. India attacked our combined stack
1E of Chancellorville and the result was good for our coalition.
Here's how the battle looked like from our perspective. We lost a HA
and killed 2 chariots and 2 archers. Greece lost 3 units (we think
phalanxes, please confirm), and killed 2 HAs and another unit (we
inferred this from seeing 3 injured Greek units).

The plan is still to move 1S of Chancellorville next turn (T102), then
pillage horses on T103. After that we'd heal for some time, then maybe
go for the copper. At that point the HRE would enter the war and India
will have to deal with the new threat, hopefully allowing
Greece/Ottomans to split our stacks. We'll see the exact details then.

Dantski, please let us know your situation and how many troops you see
in Gettysburg.

To victory,

Morning CoW brothers,

Here's my combat log:
While defending, your Livin' It Up (Phalanx) has killed an Indian Horse Archer.
While defending, your Land Of The Gun (Phalanx) was destroyed by a Indian Horse Archer.
While defending, your Conquest Of Paradise (Phalanx) was destroyed by a Indian Horse Archer.
While defending, your Never Gonna Give You Up (Phalanx) has killed an Indian Horse Archer.
While defending, your Diary Of Jane (Phalanx) has killed a Indian Fredegund (Axeman).

I lost 2 phalanx while they lost 2 HA's and 1 axe. Good tradeoff I'd say, just as yours was. Why'd they attack with 2 archers though? Anyway, let's proceed ahead with our original plan of cutting off the horses. I'm fine with going for copper, but we should definately have our eyes open when Dantski arrives if we happen to catch a lucky break and India leaves one of the core cities vulnerable.

There are currently 4 archers 1 warrior in Gettysburg, they whipped a new archer this turn.

~ Jowy

Hello Everybody,

I've played most of our moves this morning. The horses shall be
pillaged on T103 (next turn).

We have a Woodsman II warrior that has done some scouting for us in
the south end and here's what he's found this turn.

T102:
Shiloh has an Axeman, a Warrior and an Archer.
Antietum? has a warrior and a worker inside it right now. There is an
HA 1E and a spear 1E and 1SE of it. The spear is on a hill. Our
warrior is on a hill 2SE of the city.

@Dantski you have a skirmisher 1S of our warrior and your stack behind
that skirmisher. I'm not entirely certain what you should do here. I
doubt they'd use the HA to attack your skirmisher on the hill, so if
you want to move to protect our warrior great. If not that's ok too.
You could move your skirmisher with your stack to help take Shiloh.
Those are probably the 2 best options. What do you think?

Athlete for A/K
The Rebel Alliance

@Dantski: I think you should move next to Shiloh. You won't be able to
take it, but will force them to reinforce with the spear and the HA. I
think our warrior is "safe" in the sense that I doubt they will kill
it and leave a unit exposed given that your stack will be adjacent. I
think that your troops by Gettysburg can afford to pillage the tiles
adjacent to the city, in particular cottages, maybe the cow.

@Jowy: I expect India to attack again the Greek and Ottoman stack 1S
of Chancellorville. Jowy should promote to C1 some 3-4 phalanxes as
well as the spear. Also, of course, move 1S of Chance to cover our
mounted units After we pillage the horses we should leave some
units on the horse tile and fortify them. Regarding the phalanx spear
by Thebes, I am wondering if you could move them towards the copper.
However, let's make sure that Thebes is properly defended. A small
correction to your log: the first unit that killed the HA was a spear.

@Nakor: What are your plans when you enter the war?

In diplo news: we got some email from India that is urging us to make
peace and threatened to destroy our units... They also mentioned that
our relationship will be permanently damaged if we continue, but I
didn't have many illusions about us being friends with India. It looks
like they are trying to intimidate us, but it's not working I also
had a very brief chat with Speaker in game which was also a bit
unpleasant.

Best,
Kalin for the Rebel Alliance

[DMOC]

I suggest whipping for 2 to get rathaus but only if we can still work all the cottages there afterwards. We need to work more cottages (that's our strength!).

[Nakor]

We can't work all the cottages at size 5 while also working copper, iron, cow and rice. So then I suggest we let Krondor grow and build untill we can whip for 1. Won't take away the unhappiness, though, but we get HR soon.

[DMOC]

Yeah, I agree. Let's grow Krondor. This time of the game (near the AD mark) is typically when I cease whipping and grow more, unless bogged in a war. We're in a war, but not really "bogged" or damaged by it.

[DMOC]

Here are some screenshots. I will REALLY be happy once we get Monarchy so that our cities can get larger.



What shall we use our Great Scientist for? I suggest Academy in Rolan.

[DMOC]

Nakor if you're going to play another game with Sullla soon, you're definitely going to be his first target. This is why I didn't want to discuss going to war on India's side and rather tell them the truth straight up.

Dear Nakor and DMOC of Holy Rome,


Thanks for your latest email! You were absolutely right about how Dantski couldn't offer you a better deal than we could. It's been great fun discussing how to coordinate our war plans against Dantski when your NAP runs out in 8 turns. Thanks especially for bringing those 6 units up from the south to assist us in our struggle!

If there's one thing we appreciate from other teams, it's their honesty.

Sullla
The Killer Angels

[COLOR="Orange"]Dear Sullla,

Caught me....
We were really of two minds about how to deal with this conflict.
In the end we decided to side with the bigger party.

Expect our declaration at t106.
Although I don't think our little army can do much in the upcoming struggle.

Good luck!
Nakor of HRE[/COLOR]