[PB81] Clash of Island

[xist10]

No big update, partly because I have no screenshots.

   

TBS did captured Nauf conquered city here.

This is not good if TBS hold on the city.

I'm not that fast against Gira.
I even enough to absorb catapults right now, but I don't think I can rush the walled cities. My knights got good chances on flat land, but on hills ?
And my knights alone are easy pickings for catapults and or spears.

I do try to march in more than one columm to be a bit faster - I even have a small landing near Stiges in the south.

Optic researched, first island city from Dreylin captured and first caravels as escort from Triremes promoted.
Dreylin has still a few Triremes, so that isn't that fast. But Right niw, Dreylin has 1 galley, so I should be able to isolate every island. And every island should have a field to land, so there should be no island fortress.


In other news, we lost the four way split. Gira and Nauf made peace.
Even then, Nauf didn't played today morning, so we still wait for Nauf and than TBS to make their move with about 5h left.

Anyway, I can't really say something against that. The 79 is more or less slower and I play 48h over at civforum.de.

And Mjmd made peace with TBS. I think, this means, TBS should be able to conquer most of Nauf (who is researching gunpowder) and catch up on land with Mjmd.

[xist10]

   

okay ?
TBS declared on me.
And he even killed a knight, so no real convenient raze.
I killed the musket and saw only 1 galleon, so I have no idea what this was. - Okay, I'm a rival, so there is that.

Anyway, I have no real option to attack out right now, so I send Peace. - I do hope TBS wont plan an invasion when he still has Mjmd and Nauf to contend with.
And even a small army could delay my conquest of Dreylin a bit. I need to go island hopping and I didn't invest much for this.
4 loaded galleys and 3 caravels.

The other lost units was the diversion near Stiges - I missclicked last turn.

   

Gira offered me this stack.
I killed most units, all fight won.
76% for the spear, after that 80% against the crossbows and 90+% against the axemen.

   

But I lost 2 knights at 76% against spear during the storming of Figueres.

[xist10]

Lets get this up to date.

   

TBS is supporting Dreylin. This time even with troops and not only passiv with ships.

I know why he does it, but why I'm not allowed to finish this war ?

   

This is bad. I do think the 6 units from the first galleons where the rest from the conquest of Naufs colonies.
This is new.

Anyway, more than that I didn't see and longbows should win against muskets.

   

T170 and I finally strike to capture Barcelona.
I move a knight detachment forward last turn to cut off the evacuation route and maybe to allow me the stroming of Girona.
6 crossbows are not that scary.

   

I didn't need the catapults and got lucky. Only 1 lost fight for 8 70-80% fights ?

I take it.

   

TBs didn't reinforce Dreylin, so I started the 3rd attempt to conquer Dreylins second island.

   

I do have a galley to attack Giras last city. But I missed the fact, that the ice blocks movement and I need to built a canal. So I lose a few turns here.
Still I need to hope, that TBS has no ships here.

   

Demo is horrible.

[Cornflakes]

Demo is horrible.

Do you have any chance of catching up to vets continent at this point? Looks like you are in 3rd place in all the demos behind MJMD and TBS. How far ahead are they in completed techs?

[xist10]

I don't know.
If TBS and Mjmd start a devasting war, I do think I could catch up.


I haven't even really started to exploit my potential yet.
Cities are small besides Uruk, as far as I know I have built 2 libraries and 2 markets.
Plus space for ~5 cities and the 7 more from Dreylin and Gira ?

But I don't think I will get the war between Mjmd and TBS.

As such, I do want to clear the mainland and maybe even finish the war.

[xist10]

   

The catapults take down the culture defence

   

And the knights capture the city.
I lose one fight, but I had enough.

   

Dreylins chariot here should be the last hostile unit on the mainland.

   

I do hope to defeat Gira in 5 turns.

   

Dreylin alone is no big problem too.
I see all 4 remaining cities.
If I land a few units, the cities fall.
And Dreylin can't block the landing - Dreylin can only threathen to sink the landing ships.

But TBS a third of his navy in my waters and I can't defeat them.
I need Astro to built better ships. I already have gunpowder, so I can built privateers to fight the 2 frigates in my water, but Astro needs 4 more turns and 12 turns to save enough money.
And then I need to build a fleet.


I do want to continue to capture the last islands, but I don't think I will get the option (in the north).
As such, I have no problem to end this game here.

[xist10]

And I was the last of the 2 remaining major players to concede.
As such, the game is finished and TBS won - congratulations.


In retrospect, I'm relative content with this game.
I reached my goals, winning this continent.
I got a bit lucky - Greenlines copper city was bad and Dreylin/Giraflorens waged a forever war.

In hindsight, my intervention in the Dreylin/Giraflorens war wasn't necassary and as such wrong.
Outside of that ? I see no clear mistake - even if there are such, because TBS did a lot better than I did. - Okay, this could be a case of OP UB and better eco traits.
My knight attack moved slowly because I tried to conserve my force. But my information advantage through my UB was big enough, that I knew there was nothing dangerous.


   

19 warriors in the kill statistic is a bit more than expected.
The rest ?

   

I lost a few knights more than I thought.

   

And I built even more knights.
Like I thought a few times ingame, I had not enough catapults.


And with that, I end this small story.
Read my PB79 story, it's much more exciting.
I started the first nukes today.