[Spoilers PB23] Old Harry's attempt at civilizing AdrienIer

[AdrienIer]

I just saw that Ipecac whipped 72 points last turn, do you think I should be worried ?

[Old Harry]

Yep, probably worth offering CH peace and getting to Riffling ASAP... Are you back now?

[AdrienIer]

I can play again this afternoon

[AdrienIer]

Good news : Elum declared on Ipecac last turn so the whipping is explained and I can breathe
Bad news : about 20 catapults in luxembourg so I can't take it now. With so few hitters I'm not too worried but it may be a trap I fell into if 15 cavs are waiting in Trier.

[Old Harry]

perhaps offer ch peace and attack ipecac?

[AdrienIer]

He outnumbers me in the peninsula which means I could lose my three cities here (including what has become my third best city in the empire, with the lake fish). I'll consider it but I'm out of position and still have a chance with CH.

[AdrienIer]

I had to ask for peace and fall back. I hope he takes it.

[AdrienIer]

I'm being besieged in Strassburg, my stack was mostly cleaned out but the situation is more stable now. My fear is that his chariot stack is slowly turning into a cav stack but somehow I doubt it : CH may have the biggest military in the world but he's facing 3 fronts so he's more probably sending units east to deal with Whosit. In any case I'm not sure I can hold to Strassburg before rifling comes in.

Edit : Here's the situation in Strassburg

[AdrienIer]

I got this offer this turn




I'm 10t away from rifling and I probably can't hold that long, so I had to send a reasonable counter offer. I can't give him Tungelae, it's like 4 tiles from my capital. Already Strassburg is closer to my cap than to his. I sent him this :




And I have a lot of money, and am running gold so lots of gpt too. I hope he understands that I can give him gold in reparation for what was a military disaster on my part.

[AdrienIer]

In the end it was definitely a mistake to attack CH. I didn't really count on Whosit peacing out so soon though, but now I might lose all my east and southeast. Agent is losing cities very fast including the ones to my southeast, so CH now has 2 stacks around me. They're pretty small stacks but I have only a token military left after the disaster at Luxembourg and it's a cavalry vs medieval crap fight. I can get rifling in 8t which is way too slow for my first rifles.