[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[roland of gilead]

it does down at charlie burk. You would buy it there for 135 and move it accross.

It would give food and housing. If you are going to chop a pile of jungle you can really get the pop up and still be able to work a pile of mines.

there are 6 jungles that could be chopped and one woods. all turned into mines and a babanas that would make 7.

could have 12 mines all ruhr boosted there and i think you could build it really fast with those chops.

[roland of gilead]

4 turns for great bath. Probably 3.

unfortunately GM should get the coal plant as has other IZ closer i think.

chop chop chop.

look at us farming lol.

[Kaiser]

here is the save, we are still waiting for CMF to play his turn



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[roland of gilead]

loading now

[Kaiser]

Thanks for the meeting today, I like our plan and operation "cut the jungle" is started.

Klyden switched to a Pike & Shot for the moment but will likely go for a courser when we slot the mounted card in 3 turns

Here is the save


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[roland of gilead]

yeah was a bit ramshackle but well worth it. Learned a fair bit myself.

Al Zaharri had 4 movement you can move him forward and back each turn to scout. You can even leave him in danger he won't move far back if attacked and they will suspect a trap.

Need top get more places over to military soon certainly.

wooden and ichabod are perhaps now a bit bogged down.

suoboptimal is the real threat to everyone. Especially if he gets darwin which is a real worry but i don't see what we do about darwwin.

klyden is on a courser BTW

Once you are finished with magnus at GM move him to Borrtus and 4 charges lift 2 stone and replace with mines?

Get that encampment down?

will be an exciting next 12 turns.

Then we see where we are and if we can still win.

Shame we cann't do a Cassius Belli

[Kaiser]

I need to check if we can against Woden to liberate porto allegre (from our new ally member) however I am not so sure we want to tilt that fight with +5 CS for Ichabod, as he seems to be doing fine

turn is there

[roland of gilead]

I don't think you can and don't know that you want to either.

[Kaiser]

here is the save



Klyden is building a Pike & Shot, I have been indecisive again and was planning on slotting the mounted production multiplier in 2 turns. However we need to slot the 50% upgrade cost reduction to get our Xbows transformed into field cannons.

I checked this



And realized that Woden is building walls and even Repairs the walls of Helm's Deep, which striked me a bit overly defensive based on my assumption on how this war is going.
Checking back revealed this 5 turn old screenshot



Here you clearly see phoenician borders peeking out of the fog E of the Horse, these are vanished and that means razed as they did not turn to Brazilian borders. Ichabod seems to be not only defending anymore but to be mopping up Wodens forces here with the prospect of going for Fez and the Porto Allegre liberation as well.

So you are right that Supoptimal is the current main danger, I started moving some units from our W border E to get our attack stack to a better size. I think we can leave the Woden border defended with a Musket/Xbow -> Field Cannon per pass and double that amount at the Northern (disaster) plains.

Suboptimal has three avenues of attack:
- through Canada
- through the Geneva Choke
- via the North-East ocean

The big danger are backstabs via the latter two, as through Canada means directly into our attack on Canada, which would probably bring it to a halt as he has an impressive military which we do not want to take on under Canadian defensive fire.
However the Canadian W seems vulnerable and we should aim for conquering his westernmost city first, as this will also allow us to threaten an encirclement and his backline city there (which seems to be in the Tundra). Meanwhile we should hold the defensive position at Columbia river and start taking his walls down. Suboptimal will likely latest intervene at that point, but we have an easy retreat at a defensible position. Especially as the military power difference seems to be shrinking and I expect suboptimal to have a signigicant amount of it invested in Frigates (200-300 would be a minimum guess, as Wodens Navy is dangerous so Suboptimal likely has at least that invested)

The Geneva choke will receive reinforcments in 1-2 turns in the form of 2 Xbows who take defensive position behind the city and a field cannon upgrade priority. I have another near Isaac on defensive duty which can reinforce if necessary. The danger here is Suboptimals Navy, as he can threaten to kill the Xbows from the fog with Frigates. If he comes there in force, we will have to abandon Geneva ultimately due to the lay of the ocean.

This also presents the thread via the North Eastern ocean, I have our Caravel hidden in the ice to look out for suspicious movements and I hope Suboptimal is unaware, as it can not cover every tile, there remains a small corrdidor for him to advance, but as long as Geneva stands and we remain Suzerain, we should spot any invasion.
We could really use a railway line from EM to Bortus to be able reinforce the Disaster plains more easily, for the moment we will have to make sure that our present forces can hold out long enough for backup to arrive from the S.
The only city really in danger by the naval attack itself is Alara Kitan, but a landing force could threaten Isaac, GM, EM and Alara Kitan.

[roland of gilead]

isn't it more likely it rebelled and wooden raised it on second capture?

their military numbers aren't so far apart and ichabod has good production and tech. it will stagnate for a while probably.

you are right about canada from the west and the analysis of suboptimal i would say.

are railways normally built in these things. i never build them ever but can see the use here just about. do they cost charges on engineers?