[Spoilers] Furungy - Hostile Forms of Life

[Furungy]

The Black Sword (BS) took back Darkwing Duck. That city had no enough culture to capture food resources and that is why its only role was to signal about the new round of the war with Egypt. I'm sure it was a BS's mistake to offer me a 10 turn peace treaty. I have no significant forces right now on my West border and of course they will be available within next 10 turns.



Yuri decided to retreat from Amiens. I captured city without fight. I did't offer him a peace treaty because I'm pillaging towns on his border with Gawdzak.

[Furungy]

The 3rd War with Egypt.

I was going to attack Mardoc within 5-10 turns when The Black Sword retook Darkwing Duck. Despite the fact that this city is totally useless I can not feel myself safe if all my forces will be on my Eastern borders at the same time when a huge trash-army can attack my good Western cities. So DOWed The Black Sword. Unfortunately 2metra just made peace with BW and I need to fight with him alone.

This is current position.



My key idea is to threaten several cities simultaneously to prevent BW from concentrating his forces in any single city. At the same time while my stacks of knights are going to specified positions my 6 catapults will arrival on 2 galleys. On the South knights should be available to attack both TeleSpin and the capital DuckTales. On the North 2 targets are Memphis which is empty now and Gummi Bears. If BW will attack my knights with currently fortified pikes to prevent my plan, I think that it will be possible to attack TeleSpin immediately.

[Furungy]

Something big is coming.



One of the most interesting questions is what city will be defended by the stack which is near the capital.
4 more catapults will arrival to TeleSpin next turn.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Oooh. Killing time! Which cities are keeps, which ones are razes (if any?) if you can get them?

[Furungy]

Oooh. Killing time! Which cities are keeps, which ones are razes (if any?) if you can get them?

It totally depends on outcomes of battles. Of course it will be great to capture them all : )

[Furungy]

There were some battles. I lost my diversionary group of knights between TeleSpin and the capital and 1 knight near Gummi Bears. Here is a summary of loses on T182.

Furungy: 6 Knights (630 Prod.)
The Black Sword: 4 Catapults, 2 Pikemans, 1 Maceman, 2 Spearmans (460 Prod.)

[Furungy]

The Black Sword accepted my peace treaty. I'm not ready to waste all my knights now. It will be much better to upgrade them to cavalries soon.

[Furungy]

Demos of the 1st turn after the GA

[Furungy]

This is my vote to finish this game and declare Zanth/Gavagai pair as winners.




Something about 30-40 turns ago I figured out that I have no chances to win because of the huge tech gap between me and leaders. There is no much interest for me to wait for their preparation for the final fight. More over Gawdzak's position is better than my as well. That is why even destruction of Mardoc by Zanth/Gavagai will not be enough for me to save the game. So the only rational decision I have is to make a maximum damage to Mardoc to speed up the game's end and concentrate on another games.

[Furungy]

Some details. Because Mardoc's front cities are defended very well I found my chance in that 1 turn war in massive naval attack. There are only 2 ingredients here: galleons and grenadiers with amphibious promotion.