PBEM5(Q) Everybody Wang Kon tonight!

[AutomatedTeller]

I suppose there is a reason I'm still playing this.

He has twice the GNP as me AND is running a profit.

He now has more courthouses built.

I had a tech lead - that's down to math, poly, sailing and calendar - and he has HBR.

he has cities on or near BOTH sources of stone.

I have certianly misplayed this. *sigh* i think I'm going to get out of multiplayer once these games are done, cause I suck at it.

Well, that was a pity party a couple of weeks ago. My apologies to those who read that, and thanks to those who chimed in. This game is hardly in the bag (I have a big tech lead - Aesthetics, Lit, Drama, Music, Construction, Engineering, CS, Paper - but he gets a huge discount on known techs, so can make that up if I'm not careful.

Part of me thinks I should just be building military and stomping him - but he still has more cities than me and gets a 25% discount on mil builds. I think the easiest way to lose this game would be for me to take a stack into his land and lose it...

[AutomatedTeller]

So, I think I'm pretty safe for now - weathered the storm.

I honestly don't know why he attacked the way he did. me, i would have taken his 20 odd knights and gone to kill one of my major military cities - Redwall Abbey, 100 acre woods, Breakfast Flock - probably Redwall Abbey. I might well have lost the entire stack doing so, but doing what he did just meant that I could react to each attack as it came in piecemeal.

His plan would have worked pretty well had I not had engineering, though. The road movement saved my butt.

[mackoti]

His plan would have worked pretty well had I not had engineering, though. The road movement saved my butt.

I found in duels enginering its same strong like BW.

[AutomatedTeller]

yeah - it probably saved at least one city and allowed me to kill off a lot of units.

Tatan seems to think I have this in the bag, but wants to keep playing. I'm not so sure it's in the bag - he still has a lot of military capability, after all. But I am going to start putting pressure on him - scout his land and I'm going to prepare a strike out of Zuckerman's farm. We'll see how it goes

I didn't take pics this turn and it has to wait for a couple of turns anyway. But I'll prepare and post the plan next turn.

[AutomatedTeller]

2 shots of tatan cities:



Jericho is SW of Redwall abbey (you can see Riften, seen of my first, aborted, incursion) Presumably, that's a transparent trap. Possibly, it's a double bluff, where he leaves it basically unguarded. It's possible that it's truly just badly guarded - we'll see what happens, since I've moved a pike in. probably, the pike gets eaten by an axe and I have wasted a pike, now that I think of it. Or a crossbow. Really not the smartest thing I've done. *sigh*



Burning Plan is more interesting - that's NE, where the attack on Zuckerman's farm was launched.

Archer in teh city, jag/LB stack south. Presumably, there is more...

the current plan is to send a WII pike and a stack of 8-10 knights to the woods SE of where the knight is in that shot and see what he moves in there the next turn. If it's a lot, no worries. If not, then kill the city. He doesn't yet have catapults, so this is pretty safe for me.

[AutomatedTeller]

ok - I recreated my staging for a pic:



the plan is to dump that stack of knights in the red rectangle.

I screwed up last turn and let him see the knights in Zuckerman's farm. I'm hoping that moving them out and moving a cat up will make him think I'm moving out of 100 acre woods and he'll be out of position.

Razing Burning Plains would put a serious crimp in his plans. I doubt I can take and hold it.

[AutomatedTeller]

well. Now I'm thinking Burning Plains may be a trap. He has PYRAMIDS in it. How can he have a crappy defense around it?

[NobleHelium]

[AutomatedTeller]

could be worse - could be a carp

[AutomatedTeller]

Am now 1 turning education (well, with a bulb), plus got antoher GS, which I'll use to 1 turn Printing Press for a small boost.

The question is:

Is Mil trad or is steel a better liberalism target? I think it has to be steel.

Mil trad is faster, certainly, but then, I need Gunpowder for Curaissers anyway. So, it's kind of the difference between Chemistry and Nationalism... I think Steel is the correct Lib target.

Which may all change while I'm building unis, of course.

Pics later.


I did make a move on Burning Plains/Pyramids/trap city