Back to something more normal. Thanks for subbing again and your well wishes on chat. So Elum gets the dogpile?
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[SPOILERS!] Grimace and wetbandit hope to stay on their side of the DMZ
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Four Keshiks outside Yamato, 3 at full health, 1 at 3.3. It's in trouble. I'd whip a spear there next turn or a WE. Need to move in the chariot from AGS and even Big E. The big stack from POW can cover Big E in two turns.
Engineering when we start researching again is after machinery. We are at mobility parity in our own territory vs keshiks, and that's only if we have the roads.
To distract from the somewhat dire situation at hand, there's this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31724995
(March 4th, 2015, 11:30)wetbandit Wrote: To distract from the somewhat dire situation at hand, there's this: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31724995 damn... Quote:Coming under sustained US aircraft attack in her final days, the Musashi defended itself by firing its huge anti-aircraft weapons into the sea "to make huge geysers aimed at knocking down American torpedo bombers", the WW2 Database website says. Y'all have any tricks like that planned?
Here's a shot of Whosit's initial attack:
 Wetbandit summarized where he's at now. I whipped a spear in Yamato, but it won't appear until next turn. However, Yamato has 4 units in it (including a warrior that I upgraded to a spear last turn) and 60% cultural defenses, so I think we're ok. Once the second spear comes in, we should be really fine. I'm also going to whip some wellies next turn in E and Bismarck which will be able to spank his Keshiks thoroughly. The bad thing is that even if we retake Akagi, we're still down one good city (Scharnhorst was still pretty fresh, so I don't really count it). So we have to try to push things into his territory and do some damage to him, otherwise we're definitely toast in the long term. So wellies and hwachas.
Turn 139
Whosit offered us peace, which I declined. Ain’t no way he’s getting away with it that easily. Sorry. Peace definitely works more in his favor than in ours right now. Elum generated a Great Merchant…curious to see if he does anything with him. Shuffled our stack closer to Whosit territory. I’ll probably hold it on the pigs for now until we have some war elephants ready to go. Current builds: - Yamato: Trireme (2 turns) - Bismarck: whipped spear this turn (8 overflow), next build is a War elephant (spears for defense, Wellies for offense). - Lexington: building a Spear, to be whipped next turn. - Enterprise: war elephant (2 turns) - PoW: War elephant, to be whipped next turn - Musashi: Hwacha (4 turns)…maybe whipped in a turn or two - Tirpitz: Hwacha (3 turns)…maybe whipped in a turn or two - Adm Graf Spee: Spear (3 turns), followed by a war elephant. Forest chop will occur in 4 turns… whip or no? It’s the smallest of these cities at only size 3 and doesn’t have a significant food source. I’m inclined not to whip. - Nevade: whipped archer this turn (19 overflow), next build Trireme. I also put all the specialists back to work. As far as research goes, we went to 100% science this turn and will have Machinery in 3 turns. Whosit gets MC next turn. Adrien is researching Machinery and Dreylin Construction at 0%. CH will have Alphabet next turn. Elum hasn’t chosen his next tech yet. We finally have contact with Agent, and I just allocated EPs against him so we can try to get his graphs and research.
Turns 140 – 141
T140 was uneventful. Whosit offered us peace again and I declined. Whipped a couple of cities, and continued to move the stack towards Whosit. T141 we built a Trireme in Yamato. Since Whosit is doing a blockade with his 4 Galleys I sent it at them with 88% odds, and it won and destroyed a galley! Trireme is down to 1.2/2 but gained 2XP for a promo. We produced 3 War Elephants this turn, which are on their way to the stack. I’m going to start moving it towards Akagi once the first one arrives – that will give us 1 WE and 2 Spears as protection against the Keshiks. I’ve also moved workers onto the forests near Bismarck and Ark Royal so they can chop out some more units. We’ll have Machinery next turn, as well! And in world news, Elum nabbed a GS.
Turns 142 - 144
So not much going on. We're still building lots of units and building money for Engineering. Whosit is currently at 0% going for civil service. He has a ginormous stack of Keshiks in and around Akagi -- like 20-25 of them -- along with about 10 swords and axes. He's been whipping pretty regularly, and his power graph is higher than ours. Unfortunately, after what he did, we are definitely no longer contenders for winning, and if we accept peace we're completely hosed for the rest of the game. The only real option I see is to keep him at war, building up that war weariness, and forcing him to dedicate most of his resources to building units so that he falls behind. I want this war to be what broke his chances at winning. Especially since at the moment we have technological superiority...we have maces, war elephants, and hwachas. Unfortunately, taking advantage of it is proving to be difficult. I sent a small stack forwards towards Akagi just to see if he'll come out and attack or sit behind the walls. About half WEs and spears with a few axes and hwachas for fun. He has the forces to destroy it, but it will definitely end up costing him way more than it will cost us. I figure a war elephant is good for 2-3 Keshiks, and a spear is good for at least 2 of them. What really sucks about AI diplo is you have no way to ask anyone else to join the war. Cheater Hater has a long border with Whosit and his power level is very high as well...if I had a way to nudge him to attack Whosit he would probably be able to make significant progress as the bulk of Whosit's forces are on our border. I'm hoping if this drags out long enough maybe someone will jump in against him, though it wouldn't surprise me if Elum dogpiles on us, either. In his place I'd be considering it, anyway. Well, we'll see what happens. I'm not pushing all of our forces to the front so we're not completely open to Elum, but if he moves forward with enough troops there's not much we can do to stop both of them.
Well, that kind of sucked. At least I now know why Whosit kept logging out and logging in (looking at civstats, he did it like 4 times). His Keshiks completely destroyed our stack, and won a number of low-probability battles. He lost 5, and suffered damage to a lot of them, but he won several battles at <40% odds, and the only ones we won were when his odds were < 26%. What a disappointment. I didn't expect the stack to survive, but I did expect it to do more damage. *sigh* He offered us peace again, but I turned it down.
Also, looks like CH is at war with Agent/TBS, so he won't be jumping in any time soon. So what do you think? Peace? Or keep warring? We're already in last place now. |
