[SPOILERS - PBEM17] regoarrarr - Bismarck of Inca

[regoarrarr]

Shoot razed Profane with a knight, and (with 3 less rifles due to my aborted attempts to go on the offensive), Dave took Commodore amphibiously (at the cost of 6 of his rifles)

[regoarrarr]

So I'm down to just Plako, and 2 MGs and 9 rifles. (And no airships )

[regoarrarr]

But I AM only 3 XP shy of a GG. And with only one city, at least I'm pretty darn sure where the GG is going to spawn!!!!

[regoarrarr]

And I realize that it's not that I can't count tiles, it's that (for I believe the 2nd time in this game), I have failed to notice that the knight that Shoot has is a GG with Morale promo, so it has 3 movement points.

[regoarrarr]

Lost 1 attack at 41% and then won one at 43%, and Scipio Africanus is born!

Then I pick these 5 guys to get some GG love



Scipio Africanus the pinch rifle vs. injured C1 rifle @ 89% - win!
C1 rifle (saved the 2nd promo) vs. injured C1 rifle @ 70% - win!
C1 rifle vs. injured C1 rifle @ 86% - win!
CG1 rifle vs. injured Pinch rifle @ 83@ - win!
injured C3 pinch rifle vs. cannon @ 76% - win! (and he had a promo saved so I promote him to march, which heals him and he should still heal even after attacking)

I then decide to leave the lone rifle in the stack alone, because I've had just about enough of that GG Medic 3 Morale knight of Shoot the Moon's

C1 CG3 rifle vs. GG Medic Knight @ 90% - win and ooh suerie Khalid ibn al-Walid, you're dead.

And uh.... my people are unhappy



I decided not to dry-whip the MG for 5 pop, because I don't think Shoot will attack me. He only has 7 non-siege units there (all injured), and I have 9 units left. I'll whip it next turn (and draft too, of course)

[regoarrarr]

One annoying thing about the GG is that I couldn't figure out a good way to get only a certain amount of people the extra XP without resetting the fortification bonus on some units

[Profane]

It's a shame you couldn't get out another MG from Profane before it got burnt down (by a general of great fame in religious history, naturally )... At least you can be sure that Plako didn't burn instead.

By the way, does Plako happen to be the most Cultured city in the donut world right now?

Does it make sense to build a Theatre in Plako, considering your 100% culture slider and your happiness woes? Not sure about the Colloseum with its high cost though.

[regoarrarr]

The good news about having 1 city is that the turns don't take very long to play

[Thoth]

And same as my last epic battle, I really don't know what's up with the XP creation. I'm not Imp, I didn't build the Great Wall, but I still get 6XP towards my GG counter even though the battle was only worth 3 XP.

Battles in your own territory produce +100% GG points. (this stacks additively with the GW and/or Imp)

[regoarrarr]

Battles in your own territory produce +100% GG points. (this stacks additively with the GW and/or Imp)

Really? I've never seen that