3rd PBEM, Thread 2

[OPD]

to me
to SR

[nbarclay]

To OPD. My uprisen barbs are taken care of as well, the main harm being that I ended up sacrificing my work on two courthouses in remote, highly corrupt cities switching production to regular spears. Only about five shields were actually wasted, but the setback in trying to get courthouses going in the two cities involved hurts.

Edit: Crossposted with OPD's message above.

[Harovan]

230BC to FP. Sorry, sent twice.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
It's hard to judge because I didn't see their moves, but I think the Barbs committed suicide on the spears of my Mercs rather than loot an undefended city. Cool.

Is it just me or did anyone else notice, that with 1.21f the barbarians are less "smart" than in 1.14f. It seems, they're much more suicidal again, and eagerly seek battles they would have avoided in the previous version.

[nbarclay]

The barbarians from my uprising were too cleaver for their own good. They kept trying to go around defended targets to get to undefended cities/workers, allowing me to pick off five out of eight before they attacked. The last three died attacking a regular (now elite, of course) warrior with three hit points left defending a city on a hill. These barbs certainly did not just attack the first unit they saw the way the pre-PtW barbs did.

By the way, I think workers are probably too high on the barbs' target list right now. In AU 402, I had a barb that could have hit a city I was almost finished with a granary in before I could get a defender there. Instead, the barb moved right next to one of my warriors in order to try to get to a worker, and I was able (barely) to kill him.

[nbarclay]

Another turn to OPD.

[OPD]

sent

[Harovan]

210BC to FP

[OPD]

to me
to sr

[Harovan]

190BC to FP

[nbarclay]

Received and sent to OPD. This is going almost as fast as AU 402 today.

[OPD]

sent to sr

[Harovan]

170BC to FP

[nbarclay]

To OPD. Congratulations on beating me to the Great Lighthouse, Sir Ralph.

[FrustratedPoet]

nm