[SPOILERS] Borsche Goes Back To School

[Borsche]

I will when the game starts

[Borsche]

pw is feedback

Will post some pics and thoughts tonight (probably tomorrow)

[Juri]

[boak]

borsche stinks!

[Dreylin]

Hope I didn't screw it up.

[Borsche]

The early game combat in this game is really stupid:




I had 3 axes (1 city raider) and an Immortal going against an Axe and Archer. The city raider axe should've done enough damage to either knock the archer to be insanely weak, or allowed the second axe to knock him out of combat (or kill outright). This would allow the Immortal to easily clean up. Instead I only hit twice through the two encounters, and his Archer is still the top defender. Well at this point walking around isn't even the smart move - I'd save the units but now my neighbor would just lock everything down. So I go for broke, killing his Archer at 68% and then his Axe at 30%~. The result is still technically what should've happened (zulan's calculator gives a 92% chance of victory, losing only one axe most of the time) but just in the dumbest possible way. I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep the city, but with the casualties I took I had to burn it down (nothing was inside it anyway).

[Hollybombay]

Empire-wide screenshot ?

[AutomatedTeller]

I gotta ask - why did you attack? Where did the battle take place?

[Borsche]

I'll post some pictures once he logs in and takes his turn (hopefully accepting ceasefire), but the short of it is that I'm crammed up on a peninsula with not a lot of land (I figure there's some islands north that I can expand to). 2metra has been expanding towards me and cutting off any southern expansions, so an aggressive move here was necessary to give myself some more breathing room. In one of the other PBs I played in, I wasn't very aggressive and just relegated to my starting settling land, which I can't do again so anything that pulls my neighbor back will be beneficial. Lastly it was an easy move to make - with our cities so close together I could easily whip out 4 units and move them out of the fog next to his city with no chance to whip or reinforce, so I was essentially trading 35 hammers (ended up being 70) for his city which had a stele and granary (and I think he also blew 80 gold upgrading his warrior to an axe).

I have a settler out and another one on the way so it's not like expansion was totally sacrificed just for this move either.

[AutomatedTeller]

Thanks!