[PB60] Lurking the Final Frontier

[Thoth]

No screenshots but it sounds like Jowy has GKC's pillaging raid well in hand.

[Thoth]

I just finishen New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson while we are on the topic of SF. I liked it, but not as much as his mars series. Anyone else read it? What was your impressions?

I tried getting into his Mars series a few years ago, but just couldn't seem to get engaged. Gave up 100 or so pages into the first book

[Commodore]

No screenshots but it sounds like Jowy has GKC's pillaging raid well in hand.

Shocking that a mighty force of TWO galleys and FOUR praetorians (Operation Codename: Small Injury) wasn't enough to bring the Vikings to their knees.

[Krill]

Xbows in 10 turns as well, and GKC is talking about pillaging to help get Monarchy?

[Thoth]

No screenshots but it sounds like Jowy has GKC's pillaging raid well in hand.

Shocking that a mighty force of TWO galleys and FOUR praetorians (Operation Codename: Small Injury) wasn't enough to bring the Vikings to their knees.

Definitely some wonky thinking going on in Rome.

I can think of much better things to do with prats than send them half way across the map to pillage. Like say, conquer a neighbour?

[Thoth]

Xbows in 10 turns as well, and GKC is talking about pillaging to help get Monarchy?

He'll be lucky to make back his unit upkeep and out of territory costs.

[Brian Shanahan]

I just finishen New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson while we are on the topic of SF. I liked it, but not as much as his mars series. Anyone else read it? What was your impressions?

I was really impressed with his Years of Rice and Salt, but like Thoth couldn't get into the Mars series.

[Tarkeel]

No screenshots but it sounds like Jowy has GKC's pillaging raid well in hand.

Shocking that a mighty force of TWO galleys and FOUR praetorians (Operation Codename: Small Injury) wasn't enough to bring the Vikings to their knees.

  Definitely some wonky thinking going on in Rome.

I can think of much better things to do with prats than send them half way across the map to pillage.  Like say, conquer a neighbour?

In all fairness, Jowy is GKC's primary neighbor, but that was not a conquering force at all.

[RefSteel]

I actually think nearly any attempt to conquer with praets is a trap.  Play the early game as though you were playing England, with the caveat that IW does function as a military tech when/if one is needed, and then let the praets' advantages strengthen your gameplan with their extra utility instead of bending your game around using them the way most Rome players seem to do.  (There are exceptions to everything, but "don't restrict yourself to a one-dimenstional gameplan before you even start exploring the map" is a good rule of thumb generally.)

[Thoth]

No screenshots but it sounds like Jowy has GKC's pillaging raid well in hand.

Shocking that a mighty force of TWO galleys and FOUR praetorians (Operation Codename: Small Injury) wasn't enough to bring the Vikings to their knees.

<img src="https://www.realmsbeyond.net/forums/images/smilies/lol.gif" data-sceditor-emoticon="" alt="" title="">&nbsp; Definitely some wonky thinking going on in Rome.

I can think of much better things to do with prats than send them half way across the map to pillage.&nbsp; Like say, conquer a neighbour?

In all fairness, Jowy is GKC's primary neighbor, but that was not a conquering force at all.

I hadn't realized they were direct neighbours.

GKC's latest update suggests he does have a decent stack of 7 prats moving in on land. I think he'd have had better results by skipping the naval raid and sending a land stack of 11 prats at Jowy's south. He still might make gains down there depending on how many axes Jowy has on hand.