Turn 101, 550 BC

[nbarclay]

To be edited by the leaders of the Scholia.

Status:

- 174 gold, +137gpt

Check this and every turn to see if we lost some war unweariness due to the killing of troops within cultural borders and therefore must readjust the lux slider.

Urgent questions:

Is there land to the SW?

Military:
- Pound Vox with cats and see what else needs doing.
- Take back Arashi 9?


Economy:

TBD

(during build queue)
- Short rush Medieval Infantry in Arashi
- Anything else?

Diplomacy:

- Deal with ND postponed (due to bureaucracy, we are told).

Thread library:
- Standing orders for workers (Orders last revised April 5.)

[nbarclay]

Pre-turn issues: We have 170 gold, and it's going to cost 80 to short-rush a medieval infantry in Arashi. My inclination is to do that short-rush, use another 20 to upgrade a sword to a medieval infantry in the Hurricane area, and otherwise save our gold and see what looks like the best use for it in future turns.

[nbarclay]

Combat: My thoughts are:

Western Theater:

1) Move all six cats to Arashi and pound Arashi 9 until either we run out of either cats or viable targets. If any cats are left, we hit the main stack.

2) Hit Arashi 9 with our two veteran medieval infantry, following up with regulars if Vox gets lucky and wins one or both combats.

3) Plant pikes on Arashi 9 and dare Vox to go through them. For the moment, we don't need to worry about defending Tempest.

Eastern Theater:

1) Recall our vet swordsman at Sandstorm 6 for upgrade, replacing him with our new pikeman.

2) Move our recently built medieval infantry at EotS 6 into Sandstorm. Next turn, he can join our forces in the Arashi theater unless developments in the Sandstorm area call for some other action.

[Theseus]

I'll comment after I look at the save (preeeecioussss, me wants it).

DAMN, this is gonna be fun!

[nbarclay]

I'm planning to wait until we've handled any build-phase tweaks to send out the save, just to avoid all risk of someone's getting ahead of things. So if you have any thoughts on what to rush that differ from mine, now's the time to share them.

[alva]

Sounds good to me.

[Aeson]

It's hard to remember, but sounds good.

[nbarclay]

I sent out the opening screenshot a while back in case anyone hasn't checked their e-mail lately. If Theseus gives his okay, I'll go ahead and play through the build phase and forward the save.

[nbarclay]

My current list of people to forward saves to is:

Alva
AsleepAtTheWheel
FrustratedPoet
NotYouEither
Theseus
Trip

Added since the original post:

Randolph
ManicStarSeed

If anyone wants added to or taken off the list, please let me know.

[Randolph]

Randolph

[ManicStarSeed]

Originally posted by nbarclay
My current list of people to forward saves to is:

Alva
AsleepAtTheWheel
FrustratedPoet
NotYouEither
Theseus
Trip

Added since the original post:

Randolph

If anyone wants added to or taken off the list, please let me know.

Please add Manicstarseed to the list. It is hard to see what is up with only a screen shot...

[notyoueither]

I wouldn't be in too big a hurry to move pikes to Arashi 9.

Counting pips, I see 2 additional units on the now completed road 8 8 of Arashi. That, and D'ville is one turn away from Monsoon 6 and Arashi 8 now. There could well be a pile of immortals ready to crash as a second wave.

I would prefer to use the cats on unfortified immortals and kill as many of them as possible this turn. I think.

[notyoueither]

Agree on the pre-turn.

[nbarclay]

If we go after the unfortified ones, we'll probably face about three with three hit points left and the rest with two hit points left. I'm not overly thrilled with the odds doing that; they're in our favor, but not by an especially big margin. (As I recall, we'll have two vet medieval infantry and four regulars.) In contrast, on Arashi 9, we would presumably be hitting 1hp and 2hp units this turn, and worst case, we'd pull back from Arashi 9 next turn but still be able to attack the big stack before it gets a chance to move.

We can look at the situation more closely once we get into the turn proper.

[Theseus]

Just got it... give me a few minutes.