[SPOILER] Asoka of Aztec - Ioan(76)

[Ioan76]

OK - will follow a big update, with pictures too ...

First of all ... is any rule in this game which prevent a nation - except me - to be at war with two others ?

Ask this because the "phony war" between Nicolae and Sareln is over ( again ) and Nicolae turns upon me once more ...

Anyway - attached is an overview of my ... "empire" at Anno Domini 710 on the 18th plannet from Constelation Realms Beyond.

[Ioan76]

The ( new ) war with Nicolae is in a veeery bad moment for me as I commited most of my units on Eastern front ( yeap - a mistake, I estimated that Sareln will keep him busy longer )

Here is an overview of my army - prepared to break the stealmate with GingerEagle ( a small trap is prepared here - I kept half of the army back, not observable in order to not give any indication about the size of stack ... to not let him group his defenders ).

[Ioan76]

The next picture show the "initial front" with Nicolae - where I assume that I have a quite good parity of forces ...

I occupied the only forest-tile remained in the area ( where one of my workers was captured at the begining of the war ). Strange - he deleted both the worker and the only unit commited ... which may indicated that he will not attack in the area ( otherwise there would be a swarm of his units in the forest, no ? ).

[Ioan76]

And now ... my weakest part ... the "soft-belly" of my glorious empire ...

[Ioan76]

Well ... sort of good news on the eastern front and a veeery baad news on western one.

I sacrificed a catapult and an axeman but I managed to kill one of GingerEagle group of soldiers ( and also reduced my fiscal problems with this losses ) - and remained with 3 fresh units to resist to his possible, but not probable counter-strike. I know that a catapult is quite expensive ( in hammers ) units but I'd say that this was a good trade-off.

You could check the situation into attached picture.

What's really bad is the fact the my assumption was correct : Nicolae's stack appear on the hill near Lacrimioara ... it has 7 axemans, 2 catapults ( not too many - this could be my chance ! ) and 2 spearmans. I have 2 more turns to prepare sort of defense there ... probably I'll whip the walls there ( even if this will cost me 3 population ). Let's see what will happen next turns ...

Best regards to all my ( silent ) lurkers.

[Ioan76]

Nicolae didn't send me the save yet ... probably he was busy and I'll receive it when I'll be at work already but I have a question for my lurkers : do catapults receive defensive bonus from culture/war or not ( I know that mounted units don't but just now I realized that I was never in the position to use 2 catapults as "non-siege affected" defenders until now ) ?

I have another dilemma too ... just get a Great Scientist. The usual way for him now is to build an Academy in capital - but, in my specific condition, wouldn't be better to use it for a GA which to bring me Code Of Laws ( desperately need it ) ?

[Ioan76]

Seems that I found the answer to my first question here ... and is a bad one ( for me ) :

Doesn't receive defensive bonuses

[Ioan76]

OK ... arrived home at open the save ... and the situation near Lacrimioara is reaaly bad.

I whipped some walls there ( cost me 3 pops ! ) to get maximum defense for my units there ... which are not too many anyway ...

Here, in attached picture, are my weak defensive army ... just 6 units in total.

Need to think a little bit what to do next.

[Ioan76]

Ok ... despite the temptation I decided to wait for Nicolae to attack and to see what will happen.

Another irritating fact : he sent a chariot into an attempt to pillage again my gold. Can't let this to happen ... so I attacked with a chariot ... and lost it ( at >60% chances ! ). Anyway - used a garrison archer to mop it out.

Now ... a good news - I managed to raze a barbarian city south of GingerEagle empire ( I should admit that I was veeery tempted to keep it, but maintenance is already a huge issue ) from where my Jaguar pillaged ~100 gold pieces ... enough to research this turn Currency !!

[Ioan76]

He he ... finally a really good news from Eastern front : GingerEagle made a mistake and let 3 axemans without coverage from a spearman to a hill ... a nice opportunity to use my 2 chariots - no ?

Yess ... I got a Great General too !! :dancing5:

Encouraged by this victory I placed an extremly advanced city in the passage ... paradoxally - this has a huge cost of maintenance, but lowers my unit-cost !