I would say go for the top 2. The bottom ones will be hard for me to finish off this turn, they are out of range of most of my frigates. I am going to try to bite off as much of the northern part of this line as I can, and try to use the island to keep them from swinging around to hit my frigates.
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[SPOILERS] Woden and ljubljana like boats
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 (December 6th, 2021, 19:30)ljubljana Wrote: I would say go for the top 2. The bottom ones will be hard for me to finish off this turn, they are out of range of most of my frigates. I am going to try to bite off as much of the northern part of this line as I can, and try to use the island to keep them from swinging around to hit my frigates. Sounds like a plan. I will play in an hour or 2. Edit: And I think I have a trap of my own for williams482!
December 6th, 2021, 19:47
(This post was last modified: December 6th, 2021, 20:25 by ljubljana.)
ooooh for the privateers? that sounds nice
 edit: Also, whichever pair of ships you go for, I would say to hit the one further away from my ships with the fleet and the one closer to me with the regular IC, if that's okay. I am not sure how far south I will be able to reach with my ships this turn, and would hate to miss out on a kill due to not having enough firepower in range... Not sure if it's better to attack from the the tile 1E or 1NE of the ships, lmk what you think. edit2: A bit worried that williams is going to form a solid IC line between Linear B and England with their IC over the next few turns and try to trap your fleet. But I do not know if it would work. Depends on if there are too many privateers to the south for you to clear, I think...
December 6th, 2021, 21:34
(This post was last modified: December 6th, 2021, 21:40 by ljubljana.)
hmm...what do the support bonuses look like? Initial thoughts are that sounds great to me! I think in that case you should probably attack from the two tiles 1E of the ships rather than 1NE if possible though, so I don’t run out of frigate space in the north.
I like the look of those frigates I wonder if I can kill 3 of them this turn... it looks like they may not have a third line which would be awesome!
I moved my 1st ship up and found more ships...
Question now becomes, with the fleet, do I hit the single caravel to the north of the one my single ironclad is lined up on or do I go for the fleet. I am partial to the fleet on fleet action. I can take about half his health. The northern most caravel has a support bonus of +4, so that is probably the end of the line. The caravels in the 3rd line have support bonuses of +6, +8, +8 from north to south, so no ships behind them and at least 1 more ship SE of the southern caravel. At least I only see 3 fleets...plus the 2 in the fog I have pinned.
I did 57 damage to the fleet with my fleet and 30-something for the single-on-single action. Do as much damage as you can to him! I think you should be able to do quite a bit of damage.
Edit: Also, I hit a corps Cossack outside of Demotic, if you bring your crossbow out a tile, you should be able to kill him.
December 7th, 2021, 06:34
(This post was last modified: December 7th, 2021, 08:03 by ljubljana.)
Turn 185 - Phoenicia
...i don't want to talk about it   Got stopped in my tracks by a BAD lowroll, doing only 95 damage on an attack with +35 combat strength, again well below the minimum of 97 according to the combat formula from civwiki  . That attack should have had ~90% odds to kill, but so it goes... At least it happened towards the end of the turn and not right at the beginning, I guess. As a result two frigates are alive that should not be (albeit one deep in the red), and my line is messy and has one fleet out of GA range who should have been the one to kill the second frigate. So I got 7 caravel kills (including 2 fleets) but ZERO frigates, and am now about to take the full brunt of...whatever frigate stockpile Australia still has left.Definitely predicting quite a few deaths, but at least our line is relatively safe (other than vs any direction besides the south, of course ). Most likely I will lose 4-5 caravels (which is all my caravels!) but retain the frigate core mostly intact. Hopefully I will then be able to do a "kill all the frigates" turn next turn to make up for failing to do so this turn... The one nice thing about this mess is that the open position somewhat favors us now, as they most likely do not have enough caravels left to form enough of a line to protect the frigates. Thanks to your help, I am kinda free from imminent threats to my campuses for the immediate future! Wtf, how on earth did that happen. Anyways, presumably Russia kept Runic instead of razing it so they could make more Cossacks here, so I am doing another round of P/S next just to make sure. I guess next turn maybe they will finally start going for Linear B? I think they are now late enough that it will be a real slog, though. I am trying to bait them into going for Cuneiform by pretending to build Renaissance Walls there (I switched to P/S after this screenie), let's see if it works And yeah, I ended turn with shift-enter to avoid taking a city range strike at that beautiful embarked line infantry in range of Abugida How could I ever do such a thing to my best friend in the whole world? I just wish our AI friends were a little less dumb...
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