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

[vanrober]

I would guess preatorians and build an axe. The last ship was with praetorians.

The ship of Ruff island was praet+chariot. Thats why im doubting

[vanrober]

I ve been doing some sims and it seems that warrior is pretty strong against a chariot so i really hope he brings a chariot there. If he brings 2 praets city may fall

[vanrober]

He has a full stack of chariots next to raspberry that he doesnt know we know since our EPs gave it. 

Now im wondering what promo should we build on the archers they have 5/5exp so 2 promo and they have natively Drill1 Guerrilla1 CG1, i ve been putting G2 to hose units with 3exp but im not sure if its better G2-G3 or G2-CG2. What do you think? the withdraw bonnus might be nice to face praets but i dont really understand the withdraw in a battle. Mjmd burnt 300g in 2 turns and i think he got currency in exchange, but it could be construction... Forgot to check about bridges.

Im not sure what plan he has, he is moving some troops from Quince, but im not sure if he is atacking GRapes or Pome, and im not sure if we can hold both. Im making a hidden stack of cats so we can hit him in case of need but 30 praets on a stack with just 4 cats i think its not much. Also Drill2 on cats is the best option in this case right? or would it be better to get the colateral dmg?

[chumchu]

Withdraw only works on attack.

What it does is that it gives a unit that would otherwise die that chance to survive at low health.

CG 3 would be my choice. We need to be event stronger for drill 2 to be better.

[vanrober]

Withdraw only works on attack.

What it does is that it gives a unit that would otherwise die that chance to survive at low health.

CG 3 would be my choice. We need to be event stronger for drill 2 to be better.

Is it better CG3 than G2-CG2?

[vanrober]

Went in and he had 2 praets pretty full promoteds, we need lots of luck looking at how he wins everything, So i hope our axe will kill the first praet and then the warrior dies to the other one, so the archer that will become next turn will ahndle the praet, also with a bit of luck the axe will survive and will heal up again to kill another praet in the future. Sadly we have tons of unhappyfaces in Gooseberry, and we will still need to whip more units.

I killed another axe that was scouting our capitol, and maybe we would need some more galleys to kill his, but not really on that possibility i believe.

[chumchu]

Withdraw only works on attack.

What it does is that it gives a unit that would otherwise die that chance to survive at low health.

CG 3 would be my choice. We need to be event stronger for drill 2 to be better.

Is it better CG3 than G2-CG2?

Yes, it is 25% + 30% vs. 25% + 25. To add to that, CG 3 gives an additional 10% vs. melée

[vanrober]

Turn 118

Amica asked for peace... Thats not going to happen i want to you defend those cities or i ll recapture, i want noble to hit you on the other part,i think he has a nice defence there since noble has slightly more power than amica and he is not atacking as he told me he were.

Also our brave axe defended well against his praets, the first praet had 33% and lost finally he lose a 30% odds fight! And the secondone had a 90% of wining and he won, but he was unluky this time and was left with 2hp, so i killed it with the archer so it gets a second promo. Also unloaded an archer and an axe, so it has 5 defenders that city. I dont see how will he kill that city. I think i need to bring some cats to the island too just in case he brings more praets.

Double whiped another cat, and with OF i think ill make another axe, i mean we need also more troops so that we could kill his stack if he comes towards us. Right now we have 4 cats and 2 more coming. I am afraid he is getting to construction, he is saving money right now, its not much but his cost are really high, so his economy is not as bad as i thought. I thought he would need to keep the conquest going to get money, but it seems it doesnt. Maybe he took currency and now is with positive income. IDK


Some screenshots so you see a better picture.
                   

Arbutus is going to suffer, the next turn i think mjmd will pop Quince and will steal the corn and several tiles more, so it will barely have the copper. It will be expensive. Also sloe wont have acces to the sheeps, thats why i told you that this amica fight didnt get him a really good land and he just screwed us vs mjmd, which i see no sense. Sloe has a lot of food still so its not that bad, but arbutus is sht and blueberry kind of, the only purpose of that city was taking the fish that we will take on 7 turns by the third ring of Goose (if i see it well, if im wrong please correct me) and we have the copper and several tiles he will need ages to steal from us. So really no sense it was much better to emplot that power to hit the leader of the game, he seems to make the same mistake of hitting another one first, being unable to make progress and then the leader just beat him when he will turn to him.

The only way noble doesnt win this game i think is by Gira taking lazteuq fast and then dogpile noble between amica and gira, im not sure if thats an option. Noble is with 17 cities and wining on all demos but power, he will get cannons fast and will be able to handle both of them i believe. just like civac on PB55.

Sadly we are going to die fast, unless cairo falls faster, but he has more power than us (slightly) and is being hitted by the 2nd on power, he had 20 turns to reinforce without the need of permawhip his cities to grownd. I gave him stone for silver just in case we lost gooseberry and in case he need some walls.

So civac will hit to bone as mjmd, it seems, and mjmd will have online our land faster than him, so probably mjmd will hit civac right after so he doesnt get a big neighbour there. Also he could hit amica if Noble starts a war with him and split him with Noble.

I think the better play was to dogpile rome civac cairo and us, he has been really bad on economy and we have been better he had praets but in this case he would have need to chose between production or economy (like we did) and then he would ahve fallen so behind. Anyway this is what it is

[chumchu]

Thanks for the detailed report.

Nice with some defensive luck! =) It will take a long time for him to build another force and transport it there.

I would think that mjmd has currency by this point and is saving for construction. It seems like the obvious moves.

I agree that we should wait to see if Noble attacks amica, if so , we might be able to recapture a city or two. How big are the garrisons in blueberry and arbutus? I agree with your assessment that Amica has not gained much thus far. to do so he needs peace with noble and to get a good share of us vs. mjmd. Both of those are looking dicey.

I would like to do a post-mortem analysis after we are out and can read the other threads.

[vanrober]

Thanks for the detailed report.

Nice with some defensive luck! =) It will take a long time for him to build another force and transport it there.

I would think that mjmd has currency by this point and is saving for construction. It seems like the obvious moves.

I agree that we should wait to see if Noble attacks amica, if so , we might be able to recapture a city or two. How big are the garrisons in blueberry and arbutus? I agree with your assessment that Amica has not gained much thus far. to do so he needs peace with noble and to get a good share of us vs. mjmd. Both of those are looking dicey.

I would like to do a post-mortem analysis after we are out and can read the other threads.

Totally i want to make that kind of report too. But ive make already all the thoughts more or less. So it wont make much difference with what you already know.

I think ill need to read our thread again to remember better everything that happened.

Once he gets construction there is no way to defend from his cats stacks. Im a bit sad because we could have go in agressive to force him to build units instead of going full commerce, but amica did this weird choice. I need to read that too.

Sometimes i just have the feeling that i consider all the choices people do as wrong if they go against me, but i think in this case its not like that, i would like to read what others think though