[SPOILERS]A new adventure of Vanrober always guided by chumchu

[vanrober]

He is going full steam for Lemon, And thinking a bit more i dont see how could we defend it. He is moving after us so the 2 move we could do he could do too, if we move axes from Pome Pome falls, and 1 turn after we dont get into lemon. Also he left lingonvberry with 0 defense we could get it back with a HA not sure if its worth. Its not giving him any productiona nd just costs.

Cant writte too much now since in 4 min i leave to work. If you want farther information just go in and see.

Diplo didnt go well, civac and gira asked for gpt, i acepted for the happy but no for the stone. Amica didnt stop the trading. And he has fur, so i dont understand. I guess he doesnt want he mad, but men if we fall you are dead.

               

[chumchu]

My studies are starting tomorrow so I will have less time as well.

Can lemon hold the current attackers? His stack outside of Pome should take three turns to reach Lemon then we should be able to reinforce from pome unless he cuts the roads.
Are you worried that the stack outside of Pome will go the hill or that it will join up with the stack outside of lemon on the cottage?

Ideas:
- You could send a spare warrior from pome or figs to go to the deer and to take lingonberry back if you do not want to risk a horse archer. However since we will get culture back from taking lingonberry we should be safe from retaliation from one movers. I think it is not smart on his part to leave it. He will have much less vision and threat to our core without it.
- You could move some units from the capital to help pome and lemon as it is not under threat now. Either carefully to the SE or dangerously NW,SE. He is in our land so if he splits up more he risks being torn apart.

[vanrober]

I ll make a better report in 3h with may plans and fears.

I think he will go to the hill so we cannot hit them and he still threat both cities. We could move some units to lemon bur i feel it hard. If 9 unita join its completely impossible to hold lemon.

[vanrober]

so what i think is that if he moves to the hill we are done on defending Lemon. I moved 3 HA there from Pome in 2 turns they will be healed full Hp and 25% defensive bonnus, but they are 6 axes and there is around 20 units to atack that city so i dont think we can hold it much. We would need 4-5 axes more and we are making 1 or 2 in that city before the atack.
Right now we could move 1 axe or maybe 2 SE of Lemon but he could hit them with the chariot with the vision of the hill.

We could move those axes to the hill to prevent him from putting his stack there, but he is going to put them either way or at least atack with the chariots, so its not a good plan.

I could move 4-5 axes S of Pome to hit his stack that will be on the hill on the next turn, but that would be really bad since he would have defensive bonnus. But still wcould move those to Pome next turn and then when he moves towardss lemmon we might have power to hit him. He could destroy the mine and road but that would mean 2 units to kill, not sure if worth but could work. What i fear is that he could turn back and kill the 4-5 axes i leave there. That would let us hit his stack afterwords but not sure if we could win that or not. 

Im making some 4h axes on Gooseberry and then double whiping them into moai, and then put them in the galley to threat Raspberry, what would force 2 or 3 units to stay there, and we can pillage the clams.

Im starting the pasture of the horses to make HA again, they are good against axes and chariots, but he is making spears.

Also I recaptured with a HA lingonberry and saw another stack towards Lemon. He just have more production and better units so if civac doesnt go in nor cairo we just cannot defend. We are super whiped down so we are losing for sure. 

   

So if he atacks with 2 chariots he might beat that HA but i think its worth since that would mean holding Lemon a bit more. 

[vanrober]

Played straight forward i had no way to stop the lemon atack. Lets see what he does but i just feel unable to defend it. If you have any thoughts even afterwards it would be apreciated just to see another point of view

Made OB with noble, i know it just benefits him but i prefer him to win than mjmd so i dont mind in helping him im done either way. I thought to ask for some happy, maybe next turn he is also in war, with the happy from Gira we are fine for now.

Ship is loaded next turn we will move towards ruff. He got 2k more power i suspect he did another galley, but it doesnt prevent me from taking his city so its fine. Probably will sink our galley though

[chumchu]

That is a lot of units : 0. He is really doing a good job of turning his land advantage into military. Try to do your best to slow him down. It is good practice.

If you want to pin units in Raspberry the galley does not have to be loaded.

[vanrober]

Its tue but if its filled and he doesnt trust its full then we can get the city. Isnt it worth? THe other option is moving those to Figs

[chumchu]

The double bluff =) It might work but Figs seems more useful unless you see an opening.

[vanrober]

almost another 2 hours of mjmd. He brought everything. Its going to be tough, i think he can get the city this turn, bbut maybe he wait for the next one. Im moving troops to lingon since he has all the cities i have vision of almost empty. So i would like to try to destroy any of those Its going to be pretty lucky if we do but hey it would be amazing to raze Cumae or Ravenna and see mjmd's face hahaha. Next turn we will have horses again and will be able to make some HA.

BTW Ruff whiped a galley but as i planned it had no time to stop our conquer. WE will lose the galley but i will 2whip another on Sloe and maybe another on Quince just inc ase mjmd tries something by sea. I think 2 galleys for defensive purposes make sense. At least we achieved the plan of killing ruff. I feel satisfied

Im also learning a lot of defense so im having fun!

Some pics so you can see his strenght

                       

If you want me to say something im omitting just say. I asked to civac again war to mjmd i hope he agrees for boredom hahaha. Noble is just running away crazy, and we are holding mjmd who was if not the only, the best one to threat the lead of Noble, i hope we hold him enough. We are completely out of the game right now, we lost a really good city and we are about to lose another really good, Bibracte is about to die too basically we have just defense in the capitol and pome.

[chumchu]

That is a lot of troops ! It should do the job but it also commits most of his troops. I agree on a counterattack with horses on Ravenna and other lightly defended cities. it is the counter to the doomstack strategy and one of the few ways for us to inflict damage on him.

When we take his city his galleys will vanish so there is no rush to fight them with our newly built ship. We see Jowy on the other side of Ruff. Maybe a trade partner later on?

In situations liek this you have to find smaller goals. Taking out Ruff, burning a mjmd city and learning more about defense are excellent goals.