The First Civ6 Lurker Thread

[Bacchus]

i would have liked to see sth really different e.g. Yuris going all out to conquer. I mean that half baked 3 unit attack is not what is game changing. he should have continued churning out those jags while they are special. help with chops etc and move from city to city in force.
what we now have is not exciting and very predictable.

Capturing 3 Builders and sinking charges into things like a flatland quarry, the tile for which he even had to buy definitely wins Damp Squib of the Match

[Rowain]

Sullla is talking about legions on attack. So I presume that he will have his 3 slingers/potential archers to defend his center. Also walled city in center is tough nut to crack. Also teh and yuris will not have seafaring-tech so cant outflank him.

I looked at the map again and I fear Frankfurt completely blocks yuris from attacking Sulla

Sullla has also picked correct target, after being set on teh earlier.

He went with an attack on Archduke early on. Only for the brief moment when he thought that Archduke reaches Legions early and teh might not have an army he pondered an attack on teh.

Going from the locations it looks like the game only goes on if yuris joins in and takes some bits from archduke for himself (and maybe Stockholm). But going from his posts I doubt he will be ready for that when the hammer drops on Archduke.

[Ituralde]

Yuris should take the northern city from The Archduke, once Sullla attacks. That opens up a front for him against Sullla through the center, while also depriving him some of the spoils.

If Yuris manages to take one or even two cities from The Archduke and teh can caputre the southern Oasis city the game might go into a three-way race yet.

But I fear legions will still be too strong for yuris and teh to make any meaningful longterm impact.

[MJW (ya that one)]

This is a bit off-topic but did anyone successfully troll with the Statue of Zeus before it got banned?

I bring this up because people changing course on Religion reminds me of people dissing the SoZ, calling Dantski a loser, because the AI cheated on ww like crazy, the SoZ is the posterboy of the goal of a MP is to get first place NOT to become as powerful as possible and the SoZ befitting from diplo a lot because everyone wants to be friends with the owner (it doubles ww for the civs you are at war at NOT makes you give double ww).

I just find the wonder amusing because it's total trash in SP but the best wonder in the game in MP with any amount of diplo (better than great lighthouse because it's broken on every map type).

[shinghand]

I think that this has been mentioned before, but yuris should really go and take Stockholm now that teh is well defended. It might be too late though, if Stockholm has gotten more archers out.

Kind of a waste of eagle warriors (that are literally just sitting there)... He seems really focused on taking down teh, who is playing very defensively, why not get the bird in hand?

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Sending Legions on an amphibious attack seems like a bit of a bad call from my PoV, your opponent is irrational and settled on coast, so it's harder to rule out the possibility that they did something stupid like build a galley as well. And while I have zero experience with ship vs embarked unit combat in Civ6, I can't imagine it would be healthy or the embarkee.

Well, there's no evidence that Archduke built ships, but Sulla can't entirely rule it out. I'd rather send a wolfpack of legions and rip it through the center of my opponent's army of warriors, break their back, leave them no time to form up a new army.

[MJW (ya that one)]

Sending Legions on an amphibious attack seems like a bit of a bad call from my PoV, your opponent is irrational and settled on coast, so it's harder to rule out the possibility that they did something stupid like build a galley as well. And while I have zero experience with ship vs embarked unit combat in Civ6, I can't imagine it would be healthy or the embarkee.

Well, there's no evidence that Archduke built ships, but Sulla can't entirely rule it out. I'd rather send a wolfpack of legions and rip it through the center of my opponent's army of warriors, break their back, leave them no time to form up a new army.

Sullla needs to focus on winning as soon and as easy as possible because he'll get 2 vs 1 after he takes out Archduke.

I just realized that they didn't ban city-gifting in this game. Doesn't matter with these players.

[shinghand]

Sending Legions on an amphibious attack seems like a bit of a bad call from my PoV, your opponent is irrational and settled on coast, so it's harder to rule out the possibility that they did something stupid like build a galley as well. And while I have zero experience with ship vs embarked unit combat in Civ6, I can't imagine it would be healthy or the embarkee.

Well, there's no evidence that Archduke built ships, but Sulla can't entirely rule it out. I'd rather send a wolfpack of legions and rip it through the center of my opponent's army of warriors, break their back, leave them no time to form up a new army.

 Sullla built two galleys for the embarking boost. I would say attacking from sea is more unexpected, and Sullla's risk is reduced since he 1. Has been keeping track of TheArchduke's units and 2. Has 2 galleys of his own.

I give him about 90% that this manoeuvre succeeds, and if it does TheArchduke is going to fold. Worth it, in my opinion.

[Tyrmith]

Honestly I don't think the other teams are coordinated or remotely prepared enough to do anything useful in response either. I don't think they can build a useful army large enough to worry Sullla before he's done digesting the leftovers and zooms even more absurdly ahead.

[Dreylin]

Has 2 galleys of his own.

True, but he built them in his southern city and even if they could get past the City State (which I don't think they can) they'll still be multiple turns behind the embarked units.

But I do agree that his tracking is probably good enough that he really only has a low risk of running into a random new Galley, which is probably still a better result than TheArchduke completing IW and upgrading Warriors...