Going Barb

[notyoueither]

Oh damn. I forgot I couldn't raze.

However, I think that house rules should forbid 'going barb'. It is an abuse of the game mechanics and could seriously screw up multiple player on-line. Take the cities, and leave them empty while The Stack continues on. You lose a unit per turn, less if another player or AI comes along and liberates the empty city.

[Theseus]

What an exploit... talk about being a merc!!

And then what if you should change your mind! The Free Companies, was it, during the period of Italian city-states? John Hawkwood, et al?

Very creative, nye.

[Beta]

Hmmm - this may require a CoC to keep Poly from going the same route in the ISDG....

(Great read NYE. )

[Sarxis]

Just go Anarchy.

[Shogun Gunner]

holy crap! Look at that stack!!!

That is an ingenous strategy!!!! wow.

[MrWhereItsAt]

You make me sick.

[Fried-Psitalon]

Ironically, stacks that large are not uncommon in MP, particularly with accelerated production on. I've actually never seen that tactic before, but it certainly is an interesting one.

So when's the fourth, and non-near Christmas tourney due to begin? I'm back from vacation and hungry for some SP-wenchlies.

[CiverDan]

Well the tactic would never work in an elim, but in elim you cant anbandon cities, and when if someone takes a city your dead. So this idea would not work in a elim game. It's an interesting idea but not that practical for the reason that u cannot produce any more units.

[Swissy]

Originally posted by Anun Ik Oba
Just go Anarchy.

He mentioned that he stopped research after Iron Working and Horseback Riding, so I doubt he had another government. You may only go into anarchy if you have another government to switch to. So he was basically screwed, as even if you had captured the city with the Great Library the game would have figured support costs and chopped away at his stack before he was given the option of changing governments. I had a stack of a knights ready for just that instance and planned to take him out the turn he got hit by the support ax.

[MotownDennis]

Originally posted by Swissy
I had a stack of a knights ready for just that instance and planned to take him out the turn he got hit by the support ax.

Ouch! That doesn't sound pleasant.

[steven8r]

Originally posted by Swissy
I had a stack of a knights ready for just that instance and planned to take him out the turn he got hit by the support ax.

Even if you're running a major deficit, wouldn't you only lose 1 unit per turn to to 'lack of support'? If that's the case, I don't think that "The Stack" would dwindle too quickly. But you'd still be able to wait him out.

Steven

[Vince278]

I won't even think of it unless I wanted to lose with style and since I play single player I have no one to impress but the AI. I believe the strategy to be counter-intuitive. (and we haven't heard the end result yet )

[notyoueither]

That was the case, Vince. IMO the game was lost, but the opponent was late in coming to deliver the coup de grace. I didn't want to just quit, so I decided to try another way. A way that just might give a slim chance at victory if the RNG went my way big time.

I conceded the match rather than make him play it out after we went OOS in the wee hours of the morning. I did save a couple auto saves, and went back to it to see. The AI used his offensive troops to whittle down the stack steadily and mercilessly. I burned through his 5 or 6 best cities before there was not much left.

[Kuciwalker]

Go barb.

You need a nice, padded room