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[pb74 spoilers] Miguelito and Ginger bring about the end of the world
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 Was there anything important in the city?
Erebus in the Balance - a FFH Modmod based around balancing and polishing FFH for streamlined competitive play.
Burned MS's capital without losses (well there's little hope for those knights)
 then misclicked the stack   can this be fixed please? they were supposed to move SW to the hill were the axe is visible, W of the fort / SSSE of Segou
Ginger drank Vodka and convinced me to instead move directly on Segou. Might be a massacre next turn. I kinda hope for it, I hate sieging cities in civ 4.
  Meanwhile, overseas all those razes driving the Armageddon counter. Which of course can only be good for our apocalyptic empire. Plemo looks out of it, while Gavagai and Commodore appear to have excellent chances to win (Huayna and Darius!). We are hoping for Piccadilly to do something about the former absorbing his third conquest, but so far he's staying passive. (March 6th, 2024, 23:48)Qgqqqqq Wrote: I hadn't answered this. It was a pretty good city. High morale value, as we conquered the spot from MS's egregious pinkdot. Decent production and a lot of coins. But it had no wonder, and no GPP stacked, and luckily the gold is still controlled by Grey Goo in the south. Also the perfect moment for Kati to get 2nd ring borders. So we lost an above average city, but it will hardly be decisive. Donovan is shamelessly moving to steal the spot. I was expecting him to pillage the villages, and preparing to shake my fists impotently, but that of course would be on another level. It may preserve the villages though? We are one turn later with the replacement settler than we needed to.
The misclick happened when I tabbed in from Discord, somehow had the whole stack selected, and then did a short right-click. At the time I was planning to move SW, but was not going to yet, as I had started the turn more or less recently and we were still discussing things on Discord,. certainly not with the whole stack en bloc. I usually leave big decision moves for the end, or at least a good while in. Ginger then brought up moving straight on the city.
So at the time the misclick happened I wasn't going to effectuate the move I described in the post, and changed tracks by regular turn discussion with my partner. I don't think it's fishy, rather what would have happened naturally  In possibly war-deciding events, Magic Science decided to throw a chariot randomly against our war chariot at 30% - and won, because of course he did, and got a Great General out of it. Ginger's simulation does not include 10 of the knights or pikes having C2 instead of one.... 
Maybe it was the GG, maybe Vodka just doesn't work that well for large battles, maybe we kept up with our below average luck that we've had during the whole war, anyways
 we killed: 9 of 10 catapults, 5 knights, a wellie and 2 pikes lost 12 knights, 4longbows, 2 axes, a pike, 2 wellies and the redlined catapult to flanking (lol) Should have trusted my initial instinct not to step on flat ground in front of 10 catapults, but we were running out of patience, maybe it'll teach me. We lost 3 G2 longbows (and one with C1/shock) against pikes  Now we try to get home in one piece, hold Kati and lick our wounds. Try to take the islands and get some sort of military tech. Winning the game looks like a longshot now. Donovan is being obnoxious around the Deluge ruins, so I expect war at the earliest opportunity.  The island. I think he whipped a defender, and both the pike and the longbow won low odds (for them) battles, so we might not be ableto punch through next turn. lack of patience again? If we had a chance of winning this game, it is now is up to Gavagai and Commodore to make some big fat mistakes. |
