(January 19th, 2014, 05:11)Lewwyn Wrote: Well depends on the culture. You might be able to pillage the roads to jack so that he'd have to go a longer route and be vulnerable in the open field. That would likely mean pilllaging some cottages, but take a look at it. Maybe even the sentry chariot can get the road on the plains near his capital.
sentry chariot is in the north, btw. it granted me extra vision of 3 tiles I was blind too Azza could have stuck troops in, helped none in the south.
Azza was smart here and evacuated his stack to the capital. Lewwyn was helpful in a few ways here

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so this makes taking out the south and east easy, but will make assaulting the capital or further gains more difficult. I was hoping he would attack w/ the knights :/
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no market, but its something
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also 3 knights and 2 HA in Donna. Lewwyn was right to be cautious about Bacon!. I positioned 3 pikes and a mace so they can move to Bacon! in one turn, also left the 3 knights in Amy (now bac0n with a zero). also producing pikes and knights everywhere, have 1 more moving into Bacon! or bac0n next turn from the north.
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the square with the axe is the square Azza would have to go through to reach Captain jack. it was barely a hamlet, so not too painful - pillaged the cottage and roads with 2 axes and a spear (to keep him honest, from hitting the stack w/ horse archers). once I've killed the galleys in the straights I can lightly defend jack now and focus on defending Martha. I moved 3 pikes and a spear (I actually spent money to upgrade one spear, was nervous), 2 injured maces, the injured knight, and an injured axe (all barely injured) into martha. then I moved 3 maces, 3 cats, and the cho-ku, all uninjured, down towards river, which currently has a longbow and a chariot defending it. If necessary/safe, one knight from bac0n/amy can move down and hit on the same turn *next* turn. the last city is size 1 and only has a warrior defending so it should be easy to raze.
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Azza is the darker orange, the light orange at the bottom is Bacchus
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thats why Azza is whipping and we're not. I only whipped once (the longbow on the border w/ Scooter, last turn I could 2 pop whip and wanted to overflow into theatre next turn when I have drama).
research wise I am 1 turning aesthetics, drama, lit, paper, then dumping overflow into printing press. really need help w/ our economy. I've started 1 scientist in the capital to get the GS to bulb half of education, I'll do 2 at some point. I'll probably research gunpowder after printing press.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.