Hello from bizarro-world! As an effectively spoiled global lurker, I can't say much, but I look forward to seeing how you played this position from the beginning and following along from here on out.
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picklepikkl embarks on the Fool's Journey
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I am ridiculously fucked. Empress got 1-turned out of the fog, and I have no idea how. In order to try to figure it out, I loaded up the previous turn's save and sent my Great Spy to find the stack:
 Here's where it was. I do not understand how it got from there to be able to attack the Empress in a single turn. I know Sian has Engineering and Construction; that lets him cross rivers with roads and makes his roads 3-to-1 instead of 2-to-1. But I have cultural control of my first ring, so once he declares, my roads cost a move as normal. So I don't have any idea how he gets his units to "just outside my city" and still has move left to attack with. If someone could explain this, I would appreciate it. The kicker is, since I didn't see his stack appear in my view (and I have sufficient cultural control that I had vision 2t in on most of our border), I held my own stack a little ways back so that I could defend if he went for my northern cities.  Repositioned to defend Wheel of Fortune, which I don't think he can reach, but clearly something is wrong with my understanding of game mechanics.  Here you see the counterattack I can muster this turn. I've sent a musket to his northernmost city to harass and cut off his luxuries, and next turn I can boat Descartes with a cuir/musket combo (I'm going to raze the city, obviously). More troops are coming out, but I don't know if it will be enough. Sian is experienced in MP and I am not. Now I guess we find out if greenline pounces on Sian's backline before Jowy does so on mine.
He has roaded the tile 77 or 2NW of Empress - knights move 2 moves on the road, 1 onto your land then hit.
July 10th, 2016, 15:25
(This post was last modified: July 10th, 2016, 15:25 by picklepikkl.)
...I had no idea the game let you carry over fractional moves when you stepped off the road. And Civ 4 doesn't have the hasty assault mechanic from Alpha Centauri, either.
Well, fuck. That was a costly lesson to learn. New game goal: Jowy and greenline take first and second. If I'm going down, Sian, I'm taking you down with me.
What?! Of course you knew that. Everyone uses that. You always use that, it is like the cornerstone of any attack!
July 10th, 2016, 15:27
(This post was last modified: July 10th, 2016, 15:28 by picklepikkl.)
You may recall that I'd been playing Civ for, like, a few weeks when I signed up for this game. This is my first MP game in Civ 4; hell, this is my second ever war.
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