December 13th, 2017, 19:37
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Bacchus Wrote:After a longish break and thinking about this game, I realized that any frontal conversion approach is hopeless due to it obviousness, also due to just how far Ichabod is. He's got some cities, taken from Arabia and Japan that I could convert frontally, but they form too small a part of his empire. Also, the terrain is just awful. So, what I am going to do instead is beeline Cartography after Machinery, and send my apostles, accompanied by some knights, by sea. They should make landfall somewhere in Ichabod's comfortable backline, and if I'm smart, I should be able to surprise-convert two cities, and then hopefully 4 more before his troops arrive in significant enough numbers to take down the 4 knights that I'm planning to have as escort.
This feels... ambitious. Is anyone else in the RB community playing Single Player games and understanding how Religious and Cultural games actually play out in the long run? I'm seeing some very strange strategy posts across the various different Multiplayer games going on, and it's making me wonder. Not that there's anything wrong with learning the game purely through the school of hard knocks, but it's a lot easier to figure things out through trial and error against the AI when you're trying a victory condition for the first time. 
December 13th, 2017, 20:33
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(December 13th, 2017, 19:37)Sullla Wrote: Bacchus Wrote:After a longish break and thinking about this game, I realized that any frontal conversion approach is hopeless due to it obviousness, also due to just how far Ichabod is. He's got some cities, taken from Arabia and Japan that I could convert frontally, but they form too small a part of his empire. Also, the terrain is just awful. So, what I am going to do instead is beeline Cartography after Machinery, and send my apostles, accompanied by some knights, by sea. They should make landfall somewhere in Ichabod's comfortable backline, and if I'm smart, I should be able to surprise-convert two cities, and then hopefully 4 more before his troops arrive in significant enough numbers to take down the 4 knights that I'm planning to have as escort.
This feels... ambitious. Is anyone else in the RB community playing Single Player games and understanding how Religious and Cultural games actually play out in the long run? I'm seeing some very strange strategy posts across the various different Multiplayer games going on, and it's making me wonder. Not that there's anything wrong with learning the game purely through the school of hard knocks, but it's a lot easier to figure things out through trial and error against the AI when you're trying a victory condition for the first time.
In Bacchus' defense, ambitious, desperate moves are about all he has left. Frontal conquest won't work, conversion by brute force won't work, he probably can't hold out long enough for a culture victory. He's obviously over-optimistic, but as a hail Mary play I think this is about the best he can manage. I like that he's trying creative solutions instead of just conceding.
December 18th, 2017, 07:48
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Seriously suboptimal, what was that?! Running four chariots off into the desert while making no attempt to defend the capital - did you kill any of Rowain's units at all? I'm at a loss for words.
January 12th, 2018, 17:24
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I wish this game were more thoroughly reported - from the glimpses we get of Bacchus and Rowain, it's still competitive, it seems. But it's tough to get a clear picture of what's going on, especially with no word from Ichabod in six weeks.
January 22nd, 2018, 08:55
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Is Rowain planning on tweeting out his turn reports? Hardly any of them seem to make it to 140 characters. 
January 22nd, 2018, 22:16
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Twitter changed the limit to 280, dontchaknow. Though I don't think Rowain does
February 18th, 2018, 15:15
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Bacchus Wrote:I'm mostly playing along to see what happens, and to demonstrate just how worthless science is. England has had double my science for good 60 turns now, if not more.
Science is definitely not worthless. Ichabod will tech to unbeatable units and crush his opponents with them. It's only a matter of time until Ichabod sends field cannons and frigates, or barring that, artillery and battleships after Bacchus. If you can't keep up in tech in Civ6, you simply die and that's that.
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