Kragroth's Raging Kurios [GAME 3 Session III - Kragroth vs Bob]

[Kragroth]

I forgot that deserts inhibit movement. No scout killing today. So the question is what to do next? Rhoanna's score has doubled suddenly. A free tech perhaps? Not sure but either way not good for me. Perhaps she has a second city already, I guess we'll see.

[Kragroth]

The Hippus found our main city. That's fine. It's only defended by a new warrior on a hill and that's ok. the enemy still has a bad chance for taking down the city with Warcry. If we wants to do that, that's fine. I'd rather him be rid of that spell now.

in 2 turns we get another warrior. Would rather have 2 now but oh well.

[Kragroth]

I was able to found a second city and use legends. Bob's scout is coming along here. I think my "Scout" will be able to get in Range and kill him this turn.

When I used legends I found out where Rhoanna's second city was located. It looks like he was desperate from gold. That orc is surely going to die by going against their defenders. Oh well. I think a Centaur Rush has a decent chance of success.

Plan is to go for Calendar -> Exploration -> Ancient Chants -> Education and then we'll see from there. There's no gold or wines within my city borders to entice me to go for the mining route immediately and I chose these flood plains for Cottage potential at the beginning for my first city

[Kragroth]

Bob is weak. He has 2 Warriors in his Capitol and 3 Warriors in his Second City. I can accurately guesstimate that there's a road connecting both of them. If he has Horseback Riding (which I suspect he does), he'll need to connect his horses from his capitol to his secondary city. If my centaur can break that connection, we're in business.

Moreover, if his worker(s) is/are there, we have a chance to capture them too. Unfortunately, Bob is going to be in the position of having to defend two cities and it will be easier for me to defend my two cities.

Demographics:



Demographics-wise we're doing very good. We're superior in almost every metric and likely to exceed him soon in production as well. We need to strike him fast and hard before he does the same to us.

[Kragroth]

I was trying to Barb Farm a bit before engaging Bob. I saw a vulnerable goblin scout where the Centaur is now. I did not expect there to be an Orc Warrior and Lion Adjacent to him. I guess I should barb farm with 2 at a time or be more patient before invading.

Bob has lots of nice little warriors everywhere. I hope I get to be able to pick them off.

[Kragroth]

So let's see here: Rival has 31000 soldiers. Warriors count for 3000 each yes according to: http://realmsbeyond.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=7440

So because I see 7 Warriors, this must account for 21000 of this yes? Horseback Riding gives 2 power? So this would be 23K which gives room for 3 more warriors at his capitol for 32K? My numbers are off, but am I on the right track for interpretation?

[Qgqqqqq]

Assuming you've looked up those values (I haven't) then yes. Remember that pop can count for power too.

[Kragroth]

The thread said every 1 pop is one power, but I don't know if power means soldiers. Are those the same?

[Aurorarcher]

Actually each 2 population is 1k power (size 1 city alone = 0 power, but size 2 city equals 1k power, size 4 = 2k power etc.). And yes it also shows in both power graph and soldiers count. They're the same as far as I know.

[Qgqqqqq]

Yeah, they are.