I hope the community manages to put together a rebalance mod. All of the leaders and civs need to be dealt with.
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[SPOILER] Krill PBEM9 spoiler thread
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So I am annoyed. I lost a slinger to a barb archer last turn. I thought it was safe. Waste of production, I could have retreated the slinger, and I had no reaso to leave it in place that was justifiable. Yes, it allowed me to kill a barb warrior, but I didn't need to do that last turn. Screw up. The whole point of taking God of the Forge is to hold onto as many cheap ancient and classical era units as possible for upgrade fodder, and make other players hold larger armies than they want. Throwing shit away against barbs is stupid.
OK, so rant over. I get to pick religion this turn, as Henge hasn't fallen to fuck me over. Obvious choice is Jesuit Education. Theoretically I could try and abuse suzerainity of Kandy and Reliquaries, but fuck that for an MP game with Ichabod in a straight up powerhouse position. Play this game straight.
So Jesuit Education it is. I'm not going to run through every other belief, but I think the choice comes down to Mosque (but only for the extra spread alleviating the faith cost of religion, allowing more faith to be spent on buying libraries), Church Property (+2 gold per city with religion), Lay Ministry/Stewardship (faith/culture or science/gold from respective districts, and I'm planning on most cities to have theatre districts to act as the district to discount all districts). Or possibly, Buirial Grounds to be a bastard. This game, I think I'll go with Lay Ministry. More faith to buy more libraries and amphitheaters. God I'm annoyed at losing that slinger for no reason.
I keep on trying to get enthusiasm for this game, and failing. I put it down to DotF and Russia.
Simply put, I've just attacked Kumasi, and I should take it next turn. I will possibly lose an archer, but that's the cost of taking it quickly. The problem is that I shouldn't be taking Kumasi. I should be attacking Ichabod. Ichabod is at war with Bacchus. They have both taken losses. I have 350 power, both of them are below 200. I could do damage to Ichabod. But I can't do damage to Ichabod with him having DotF if he withdraws his units to place defence, but at the same time that allows the other two players, who have done fuck all in this game, to carry on building. So I end up with a military doing nothing productive, even if I took a city from Ichabod because I get limited economic output. And that is likely the outcome after I've taken Kumasi, unless I stack up again and hit Saladin (which isn't happening because the supply lines are way to long for that, and he now has a classical era unit. Economically I'm doing OK, I'm second, but I don't see how I can realistically stop Ichabod from reaching Cossacks. And at that point I don't have a plan to defend. So I'm currently thinking about concession. I don't think it's a good use of my time, I'm not going to put any effort into playing it out. I'm also probably not going to play another civ 6 PBEM until that balance mod is in situ.
Yeah, I know that frustration of not seeing any good outs. I'd say if you have any exotic strategies or ideas you'd want to mess around with then now is the best time to try them out.
If you are wanting to keep on then I'd consider attacking Ichabod regardless. DotF is too strong sure, but Cossocks are on a whole other level. I wonder: would a raid style attack have more chance of success? With the goal of picking up gold, science and culture from pillaging, and attempting to slow down Ichabod by targeting campus and commerce districts.
Suffer Game Sicko
Dodo Tier Player
What about a Crusade counter-attack? :D If he spends his first apostle on enhancing his faith, then you can flip some border cities before he gets an Inquisition running.
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Just run in and pillage everything, and try not to commit to any battles?
Well, probably. Better than running everything into 50 strength swords. The only way that has an chance of working though is if Ichabod has no units at home to benefit from DotF. I think to do that, I'd have to cap Kumasi next turn (taking 3 envoys from Ichabod with it), then in the FoW heal the horsemen and try to attack from his SE with those. I'd probably have to swap back into Maneuver and try to push out 3 more horsemen instead of settlers, and use those new horsemen for an attack from Bandar at the same time. Then just pillage everything I could and retreat the units without losing more than 2. I'd also have to reinforce Bandar for a counter attack. That is doable though. I have one horsemen half complete in Yokohama, Kyoto can pump out a 3 turn horsemen and that just leaves Bandar to finish one in 5 turns (with Maneuver). So that's 6 horsemen, and I'll have 2 archers to support each group as well. I have 4 warriors built already, and another about to be finished with an Agoge chop so I have sword upgrade fodder as a last resort. And hell, 5 cities is more than the others have.
I haven't seen any good articles or strategies for fighting religion. Once they get inquisitors then the native religion is always going to win out. And even without inquisitors trying to muddle the waters by using missionaries to remove a majority would not work well: losing one missionary would ruin the whole process. Honestly, I think the mechanic of killing missionaries causing nearby cities to lose religious pressure is a flawed idea.
Suffer Game Sicko
Dodo Tier Player
Found the Great Barrier Reef, got a free Relic (Silk Scolls?)
No changes on plan, still moving towards Ichabod in a last ditch attempt to slow him down. |
