[SPOILERS] Small Wunders and Izzy of Inca: The fat lady sings

[Ceiliazul]

BAH,.....self interest is what's spoiling the game here in RB.

mindy, I'm curious what you meant by this

[WilliamLP]

Unrelated, I was a little worried about a chariot approach along the blue like this:




So I switched Turandot's build to another spear. It's going to be hard to have too many. The 4 workers in the area will probably be roading for tactics, e.g. the cow tile 1N2W of Turandot is a good spot for a spear ambush maybe. Turandot does have 85% defense going for it, which is going to be hard for chariots to get through.

When we get a chariot mini stack we'll have to consider whether a counter-invade makes any sense.

[WilliamLP]

Pre-turn:




Retep didn't press forward to the silver but turned back. I'm not sure what he's trying to accomplish here, with me more mobile on defense than he is on the attack. Maybe he's reacting to seeing us plant yet another city.

Anyway, I'm thinking to set up to punish a chariot move of SE-SE, which seems fairly likely.

Also, literally every turn that goes by right now makes his forces less potentially effective as our secondary cities power up.

[WilliamLP]

Moves:

- Basically shove all axes onto the fork tile. Traviata is empty which hopefully isn't foolish. (I probably should be more conservative against the potential for tactics like promoting an axe to W2 and double-moving.)

- 2 Spears and 2 workers are in Barbiere. If he moves SW-SW with his chariot stack he'll lose a couple. I sacrificed worker turns to have them down here - it will slow down improving the cow by Traviata for example, but I thought it was worth a potential chance to strike.

- I thought I needed to see the hill 2S2W of Manon so moved a chariot there in case an army or settler of Bacchus' was approaching. The spear is positioned to make taking a 50/50 shot at the chariot a bad idea for him. I think if the chariot goes E-E next turn we can prevent him from leveling up on barb warriors.

[WilliamLP]

Retep just pulled back, the chariot stack completely out of view. I guess he was just trying to probe and / or get us to react.




- Turandot will build a temple this turn to slow-cook the prophet.
- I wanted the road SW of Barbiere for potential tactics - it takes a lot of squares away for chariots to move through if he has to worry about spear attacks.
- Retep added another spear to his stack.
- Bacchus has one chariot around the barb city. If we get a chance to snipe it at near 100% odds after it's wounded from a warrior I'll probably take it.

[MindyMcCready]

BAH,.....self interest is what's spoiling the game here in RB.

mindy, I'm curious what you meant by this

Heh, tongue in cheek comment. William's rational self-interest, hard to fault him for that, is getting in the way of a good knock-down, drag out brawl with Retep. And of course, that's frustrating when you want to see the rivers run red. :LOL:

Also, RB is a fine community in my opinion.

If you wish to pull a nugget of truth out of the joke then I'd say that the strategy of achieving overwhelming technology and overwhelming military superiorty is a little on the dull side, despite the obvious effectiveness of the strategy.

In other words, impressive: Master Commodore is virtually every game that he has played.
Not Impressive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ital...sinian_War

[MindyMcCready]

Too bad about his move off. I'd prefer him wandering around our most defensible cities over not knowing where his stack is.

We'll have to have plans to defend that plains cow tile 2S-1E of Barbiere. If he occupies that tile, New Carmen will be at risk unless we can attack into that 15 unit stack.

I see that you've put Mono as your tech. Attacking into that 15+ unit stack will get more difficult if Retep places a couple of HA on top of that stack.

[WilliamLP]

We'll have to have plans to defend that plains cow tile 2S-1E of Barbiere. If he occupies that tile, New Carmen will be at risk unless we can attack into that 15 unit stack.

Yeah, fortunately 2-movers can get hit with spears and 1-movers we can see coming from a long way away.

I see that you've put Mono as your tech. Attacking into that 15+ unit stack will get more difficult if Retep places a couple of HA on top of that stack.

It's debatable... Mono is about 190 beakers, HBR is 400, Construction is 580. It does have nice immediate benefits, e.g. +25% on stables. HBR is useful against a potential threat from Ichabod.

[MindyMcCready]

I guess that your next city plant ambitions helps to inform the next tech.

HBR is very, very useful against Ichabod. So if that's the direction in which we're turning our sights then that makes a lot of sense. We'd also get 2-promo HA before Retep given our existing barracks and his apparant lack.

[WilliamLP]

I guess that your next city plant ambitions helps to inform the next tech.

HBR is very, very useful against Ichabod.

Yeah I know, I just need to sneak in long term investments sometimes because it's not usually likely that you'll think it's the most pressing thing to do at the time.

So if that's the direction in which we're turning our sights then that makes a lot of sense. We'd also get 2-promo HA before Retep given our existing barracks and his apparant lack.

I think he has a barracks in his capital now - we've seen a couple 1-promo units show up lately.