RB Pitboss #2 [SPOILERS] - Gandhi of Korea (Broker33 & plako)

[Krill]

Thanks for taking the initiative on this one guys :b:

[plako]

I did put our 1-mover stack again in position to move in. In the picture you can see what Whosit has in Nar Shaddaa and our stack. We've also mounted units scattered around to join the attacking force. before moving in I also checked if the HRE stack was positioned to attack Cheju, but it wasn't there. I've also moved Guerrilla longbows in the hill tile south from Nar Shaddaa. It might be that I but our stack there and use the slow way to bombard defenses down 1st.

[plako]

Broker I checked your ingame messages and I mostly agreed. I asked both from Dantski and India their spare happiness resources and I think we should move our stack in to Whosit's territory. However I'm still considering if the tile we land should be wheat or hill.

I would also move our mounted stack so that it could attack Nar Shaddaa next turn although it makes it visible to Whosit.

He doesn't have that many defenders so that it is probably most efficient just to throw Hwacha's in (even through the river) and finish the job with 1-movers and Knights next turn. He whipped the city. That is probably either castle or Pikeman coming. I hope for pike.

[plako]

1-mover stack moved in and mounted stack is ready to attack the city next turn. I'll suicide Hwacha's to generate collateral damage and finish the job with Knights.

Hill stack is there to consume Whosit's collateral damage. He has 3 cats in the city and 2 near carida that are in range to hit them.

I also checked the positioning of the HRE's stack and it wasn't visible to attack Cheju in 2T.

Attack stacks:


Defenders:

[plako]

I'm always finding better alternatives afterwards. It would have much more sense to move the stack to Wheat tile after sending sentry Knight and seeing that there can't be any other reinforcements coming but the 2*cats. But it is always easy to be wise afterwards.

I think we'll try to keep the city assuming we get it.

[plako]

RNG hates me. Whosit did send the cats against our stack in the hill that was in principle very good to us. It gave our Hwacha's best possible situation to generate collateral damage. I did throw all 4 on to the city and as suspected they lost with odds around 0-3% and then I started to send mounted units in and the results were brutal to us:
Knight (12) vs. Praet (11.76) odds 65% - Lost
Knight (12) vs. Praet (11.76) odds 65% - Lost
Knight (12) vs. Praet (11.76) odds 65% - Win
Knight (11) vs. Xbow (9.7) odds 70.4% - Lost
Knight (11) vs. Praet (8.42) odds 86.8% - Lost
Knight (11) vs. Xbow (8.1) odds 88% - Lost
I lost my fate at this point and did throw our HAs in.
HA (7.2) vs. Lbow (8.1) odds 43.9 + retreat odds - Lost
HA (7.2) vs. Xbow (7.92) odds 58.5 + retreat odds - Win

All the rest of the fights were clean up work with odds around 99%. I feel lucky that we didn't lose any of those.

[plako]

Picture from the battlefield afterwards. HRE has a stack close by. I'm very glad that they don't have engineering yet. We probably had to retreat from Nar Shaddaa. I should've razed it after all. At least we passed temporarily Whosit in score.

[Axiis]

That's a tough result. The RNG is a fickle mistress.

[BobRoberts]

That's a nasty RNG. You have my sympathies.

[plako]

Picture from eastern front where we've 2 galleys approaching Whosit's capital. He should put something on the forest with Deer, but if he doesn't we'll unload there.