T184
Making good progress on the southern continent. We've got 2/3 of the place, and the Luch remaining army is pretty much what's in this screenie, plus a lot of animals roaming around. We've only six units left over here, which may not be enough to finish them off, although our quality is such that I'm confident in holding what we've got. On the other hand, we're about to start getting cities out of revolt, at which point I ought to be able to cash-rush in some more Boarding Parties.
Or I could divert a boat from the northern front, also tempting. Won't need the units for very long, but it's going to take a while to kill our way through the Luch swarm without reinforcements.
In the north, I've been just capturing cities and not holding them, looking mainly to destroy military buildings like Sculptor's Studios by the double-capture. I can't figure out how to actually hold a city or destroy his stack, so I'm settling for causing attrition for now. I got surprised by this fleet, so I'm going to attempt to hold BeDazzler long enough to heal my ships and Boarding Parties.
I'm debating the best path forward over here. The Luch main problem is that their reaction force isn't really all that fast - mages and fireball-golems can do a lot of damage, but only in a 5-tile radius or so. So maybe I just need to start taking cities on both ends of their empire and make them pick which side to hold.
Alternately...their reaction force isn't super big, either. Dump 20 units in a city and I might just hold the place. Golems, at least, have to get within 2 tiles to counterattack, which is close enough for me to annilihate them afterward, probably. He's got the ability to hit me with full Maelstroms and maybe 10 summons, mixed fireballs and Ice Elementals.
I'm sending basically a full load on a Queen of the Line as reinforcements every turn, and don't expect that to stop until/unless I have to keep some back to defend against Amurites. That's nine units, typically mostly Str 9 Boarding parties with a Ritualist and Adept. Meanwhile I tend to lose 1-2 units, and kill a handfull of his. So the relative position keeps improving quite rapidly, even discounting the cities I'm taking. I should be able to figure out a way to crack open the main front sooner or later, with all these extra tools. Or if not me, then presumably my successor. At the very least I intend to give them the southern continent, a dominant fleet with tons of marines, and all the Luch coastal cities reduced to only things they can build with no infrastructure.
Or I could divert a boat from the northern front, also tempting. Won't need the units for very long, but it's going to take a while to kill our way through the Luch swarm without reinforcements.
In the north, I've been just capturing cities and not holding them, looking mainly to destroy military buildings like Sculptor's Studios by the double-capture. I can't figure out how to actually hold a city or destroy his stack, so I'm settling for causing attrition for now. I got surprised by this fleet, so I'm going to attempt to hold BeDazzler long enough to heal my ships and Boarding Parties.
I'm debating the best path forward over here. The Luch main problem is that their reaction force isn't really all that fast - mages and fireball-golems can do a lot of damage, but only in a 5-tile radius or so. So maybe I just need to start taking cities on both ends of their empire and make them pick which side to hold.
Alternately...their reaction force isn't super big, either. Dump 20 units in a city and I might just hold the place. Golems, at least, have to get within 2 tiles to counterattack, which is close enough for me to annilihate them afterward, probably. He's got the ability to hit me with full Maelstroms and maybe 10 summons, mixed fireballs and Ice Elementals.
I'm sending basically a full load on a Queen of the Line as reinforcements every turn, and don't expect that to stop until/unless I have to keep some back to defend against Amurites. That's nine units, typically mostly Str 9 Boarding parties with a Ritualist and Adept. Meanwhile I tend to lose 1-2 units, and kill a handfull of his. So the relative position keeps improving quite rapidly, even discounting the cities I'm taking. I should be able to figure out a way to crack open the main front sooner or later, with all these extra tools. Or if not me, then presumably my successor. At the very least I intend to give them the southern continent, a dominant fleet with tons of marines, and all the Luch coastal cities reduced to only things they can build with no infrastructure.
EitB 25 - Perpentach
Occasional mapmaker
Occasional mapmaker
. I was just running a bit too risky, I guess. On the other hand, that's a pretty small fraction of one turn's production, so it could be a lot worse.
. So that makes 1 Iron Golem, 2 Wood Golems, a PoL, and three bears killed from this continent. He's got remaining one decent production city and 1 tiny one, to rebuild with - plus maybe one of his old cities if 2-movers + mud golems let him get a road to them. He's still got that well-promoted hunter, a well-promoted Fawn, and two mages running around, plus a handful of animals and warriors. I'm hoping that I can kill those two good units and the mages next turn, and then disperse to hunt down the remnants. My Eidolon is still full health, at ridiculous Str, so I don't expect to lose anything IBT. Maybe if he still had his fireball-throwers, I'd be worried.
