[spoilers] The 49ers: Sanctimony and Public Defecation

[Commodore]

Bucolic little empire of the Rising Sun, compressed but generally prosperous and happy.


Boring. Let's start a dogpile.

Dismaying number of hits, but 52% of the time this did lead to a dead horse archer.


Boring. Let's start a self-dogpile.

This was a much more generally successful venture. I'm not sure what we do if he stuffs it with a half-dozen spears, but...tiny little Carthage don't have much in the tank. Because, well, it doesn't have much of a tank.

Power numbers tell me that Mr. Cairo lost a lot taking the one city he took, enough that we're near equal in power. If Migeulito asks for peace, I might give it to him.

[Thoth]

I haven't seen the reverse-dogpile strategy employed in a long time.  

[El Grillo]

I mean, fighting more players sure is one guaranteed way to accelerate a Great General

Good luck in your campaign, and sending you best wishes for your family's health.

[Commodore]

There is nothing worse than a fascinating war being unreported. So although it's busy right now...

Step one was pretty simple. Killing a redlined archer with the medic horse archer. I did make a mistake to not push forward hard, but I really really expected Harad here to pop a spear.

Commodore:Well there ya go, reverse dogpile
ScooterWhy not. What’s the worst that could happen
CommodoreI dunno, I fail at the opportunistic snipe and then Cornflakes, the game leader, declares war on me?

This initial invasion isn't impressing me overmuch. Scans with a sentry horse archer are ongoing, but thus far all is pretty quiet on the Babylonian front. Geez it's about to be a wide-ass front. Anyway, as the peanut gallery commented, I'm a touch short on the worker front, so this galley-borne horse archer loved seeing this. Carthage is guarded by the highlighted stack, which is delightful.

Here was the Cartho-Babylonian front as of last turn. Stupid geometries are stupid but damnit, I can conquer this neighbor.

I'm also *not* fighting south anymore. Migeulito made peace; I could have had all this beautiful land instead of Carthage and an angry-Babylon-but-hell-I-need-to-fight-Cornflakes-to-win-anyways. I don't think Migeulito is falling soon.


Dat shark fin tho.

Anyway, catching up to the current turn. Got a crazy-good roll against the defending spear and took out the two archers without a sweat, so now I'm nice a vulnerable to Cornflakes out here. Psst, buddy, focus your fighting here in this vulnerable bit of my strategic depths.

Carthage can be killed, if I'm let alone to do it. Axes and horse archers against 40% culture and a hill. Not ideal, thank goodness he lacks spears thus far for some weird reason.

Also, I defeated the Great Babylonian Invasion. Hail hail.

COMMODORE MAXIM #4: ALWAYS MAKE UNITS WHEN AT WAR. END A CONQUEST AT HIGHER POWER THAN WHEN YOU BEGAN IT:

About to be one tech away from Samurai, and then one more tech to Nanban Harbors. My GNP is trash made out of trash, but does it matter? Map this size, should we really need any tech beyond?

[El Grillo]

Whoa, is this the long-awaited continuation of Commodore maxims from... PB13? Thanks for the excellent war reporting as always.

Is the tech plan just brute force researching Machinery and Compass with help from Carthaginian capture gold? Too bad it doesn't look like Raskol left you many (any?) cottages to pillage.

[Commodore]

Charriu: Does BUG change pathing logic? This is the third time I've misclicked a unit away (a nice C3 horse archer ), seems like it's easier somehow.

Is the tech plan just brute force researching Machinery and Compass with help from Carthaginian capture gold? Too bad it doesn't look like Raskol left you many (any?) cottages to pillage.

I mean, I'll be teching the way Soren intended, mostly, by working lots of grassy riverside tiles with cottages/hamlets on them. My economy isn't as good as Inca/Babylon but I'm not actually in awful shape. Called Ryu works its gold mines 2 out of every 3 turns, starving and then pigging, this is a pigging cycle too.

[Charriu]

Not that I'm aware about it. Can you describe the incident in more detail for me.

[Commodore]

Not that I'm aware about it. Can you describe the incident in more detail for me.

I think the problem is actually with deselect; I think I've deselected the unit and I go look around elsewhere, then I see the path and *zoom*, off goes (in this case) my best unit.

[Charriu]

How did you deselect it and how do you move around?

[Commodore]

How did you deselect it and how do you move around?

Just the standard way? Right clicks? It just feels...sticky. I dunno. 

Anyway, Carthage got itself a spear; I suspect that the island is a metal-holder, so that means it'll be annoying to take out. Trireme needed at least. I don't feel warm fuzzies about the assault with axes, either. Just patience on the GG medic-healed stack, I guess.


I like micro, when I have the time:

Fintourist offered me silver for gold, which nicely compensated for the loss of Cornflakes' gems. I then was able to micro five cities to all grow at once, leading to this pretty picture. Less pretty is those cost combined with that research time, but...at least we're soon going to have a library?

Questions, comments, snide remarks? Cornflakes next invasion force is an axe *and* a spear, by the way.