Turn 242: 1260 AD

[Shiber]

Vondrack posted in the save thread stating that he sent the save almost 12 hours ago, yet noone started a turn thread.

Lego's battle report:

Turn 242, 1255 AD

1) 3/4 Lego DD attacks a 2/4 GS submarine at Abilene 44441; wins (3/4)
2) 4/4 Lego battleship attacks a 1/4 GS DD at Sharpehaven 44111; wins (2/4)

There - you've got your luck, too. Odds of our BB losing more than 1 hp were under 10%...

Total: 2 attacks, 2 won, none lost, no promotion.
We lost nothing, GS lost 1 DD and 1 submarine.

Save to GS.

vondrack

[vmxa1]

We got the save, but it takes a lot of time for DeepO to review all the ramifications.

Just the micromanagment of the tiles is significant. Not to mention it is Friday, so it is a work day for some (not me). So with the usual slow down on the weekend and each turn being important, everyone is taking at least a full day.

We will hear form him soon.

[DeepO]

sorry guys... I just missed the save before leaving it seems. I just returned, and it's late (3 am here). I think this one will be for tomorrow morning, I don't want to be up for the next 4 hours playing the save...

I don't think there will be a lot of deciding to be done, we just move everything to the T-1 points. Next turn will be a lot more difficult. That BB attacking our 1/4 DD is perfect: I'll have to see the exact position, but it doesn't look like it will be able to attack our N fleet. But more on that in the morning.

DeepO

[Cort Haus]

Looks like the ten percenters are in play for this war. A medal to all who served on that 1/4 DD

[alva]

Let's just hope there gone now, and won't re-appear on D-day.

[Cort Haus]

oo-er!

[DeepO]

Standing Info

2 forest remains, D-ville 99 and WoC 23.

Defense Plan
Aeson's comments
GoW war plans
Invasion plan

Start

- RP sends WM + 100g. Sending WM in return.

- EotS builds Marine, start Marine.

- Hurricane builds TR. Starts MI.

- Cyclone builds worker. Starts worker

- Tempest builds Marine, starts Marine.

- Typhoon builds M. Starts MI (Might need to change to T later on)

- WW builds M, starts MI

- Inchon builds E. Starts E

- WoC hit by pollution! Damn... that's costing us a M that should have been in our fleet.

- SA builds Marine. Starts MI.

- 454 gold, 0%, 0bpt, +330 gpt. (minituarisation scheduled) 0/? beakers collected.

Modern Era Tech Cost



shortrushes
no money for shortrushes.

forces

(- 2 galley)
- 14 art
- 25 workers (+.5/turn) (+1 built)
- 10 settlers (+.20/turn)
- 20 rifle
- 42 inf (15 upgraded last turn)
- 55 Marines (+8.24/turn) (+5 built)
- 70 tanks (+.13/turn)
- 16 MI (+1.16/turn)
- 20 DD (-2 lost in combat)
- 27 transports (+1 built)
- 2 carrier
- 0 sub (-2 lost in combat)
- 4 explorer (+ .14/turn) (+1 built)
- 2 fighter (+0/turn)

- Strong in strength to GoW, to ND, and to Lego.

Legoland forces:

- 2 settler
- 17 worker (+2)
- 4 horsemen (-4)
- 25 Cavalry (-16)
- 89 infantry
- 62 artillery
- 16 Tanks (+16)
- 7 ironclad
- 15 transport
- 11 subs (+1 built)
- 7 DD (+2 built)
- 9 BB
- 1 carrier (+1)
- 2 bomber

we can expect another 16 tanks next turn, maybe even more.

other observations
- GoW bombed the coal near Jackson, it is unroaded. However, they do not have an airfield (that I can see) on the tip of Little Bob, bombardment has had to come from a carrier.

- I see a stack of 5 RP TR on its way towards Lego. RP has cleaned all its cities for this: there are no defenders anymore! They are taking serious risks...


I'll work on a screenshot, to see where we should be going with our fleet. I can't spot any Lego ships right now...

DeepO

[DeepO]

okay, I needed a few more colours this time.
- In dark red, the killing zones.
- transparant red: where the killers could have gone to
- magenta: the 2 subs we spotted last turn, but couldn't sink
- transparant white: T-1 tiles, where we want to end our turn with the 3 fleet
- white arrows: where our ships go to.

a bit depends on the result of what we'll see. The 3/4 DD can without doubt be spotted. Hopefully, it could also be attacked without us compremising the protection of our S fleet. If at all possible, I'd like to keep the fighters in the carriers at air superiority next turn, which means they can't be used to bombard (bombarding a DD only has a 25% of succeeding anyway, as a fighter has 2 bombard value). The N carrier is a bit unprotected, but the reason is that it can serve as a decoy, while at the same time be in range of our N fleet for air superiority. I'm still not sure if we'd want a DD on top of that one, or not (1 DD doesn't really help, and spending 2 is costly)

DeepO

[DeepO]

Oh, BTW: Lego has mobilized. And ND doesn't have Radio yet...

DeepO

[DeepO]

and another BTW: we are going to need a lot of diplo done this turn. We didn't receive an answer from ND on the techs, nor did we receive an answer from GoW on radio / rubber. This has absolute priority right now! Next turn, we'll be without rubber

DeepO

[DeepO]

Hum... another idea... we'll leave the N carrier, together with a DD on the TR hub 2. It's still a decoy, but in this case Lego has to spend at least 3 ships to break the chain. Which means that either they use their BB stack, or we can chain 8 more units next turn to Sando

DeepO

[alva]

Not sure if this is usefull.

LegoForces
Units	turn241	turn242
Setler	2	2
Worker	15	17 (+2)
Horsemen	8	4 (-4)
Cavalry	41 (-10)	25 (-16)
Infantry	89 (+4 B)	89
Artillery	62 (+1 B)	62
Tanks	/	16 (+16)
Ironclad	7 (-9 LiB)	7
Transport	15	15
Sub	10 (+3 B, -1 LiB)	11 (+1 B)
DD	5 (+1 B, -4 LiB)	7 (+2 B)
BB	9	9
Carrier	/	1
Bomber	2	2

Gathering Storm Forces
Units	turn241	turn242
Setler	10 (+.20/turn)(+1 B)	10 (+.20/turn)
Worker	24 (+.5/turn) (+1 B, but one used already)	25 (+.5/turn) (+1 B)
Rifle	20	20
Infantry	57	42 (15 upgraded last turn)
Marines	40 (+8.24/turn) (+10 B)	55 (+8.24/turn) (+5 built)
Artillery	14	14
Tanks	70 (+.13/turn)	70 (+.13/turn)
MI	1 (+1.16/turn) (+1 B)	16 (+1.16/turn)
Galley	2	2
Transport	15	27 (+1 B)
Sub	2 (-1 LiB)	0 (-2 LiB)
DD	22 (+1 B) (-3 LiB)	20 (-2 LiB)
BB	9	9
Carrier	26 (+.5/turn)	27 (+1 B)
Explorer	3 (+ .14/turn)	4 (+ .14/turn) (+1 B)
Fighter	2 (+0/turn)	2 (+0/turn)

* LiB = Lost in Batle
* B = Built

[DeepO]

alva, if you could include how much Lego has lost in every turn, it would be most useful!

DeepO

[DeepO]

Great! So Lego built 22 units last turn. We can expect another 20 or so tanks next turn... making a total of 130 units to be distributed over 7 cities. We should be able to break through those defenses, at least if we get there with the 90% odds we've been calculating with.

There's a good chance Lego will put more defenders on our side compared to GoW. Undoubtedly, they will have seen GoW does not have as many M as we have. Or, they might put all their defenders near GoW, to be certain they only have to deal with one invader.

Next turn is going to be exciting nonetheless

DeepO

[DeepO]

Damn. I found the BB stack... it has shrunk to 6 BBs, and is situated just out of reach at Forkmouth 112 (8 of T-1 tile). The only thing we could hit it with is the fighter.

Still moving according to plan, it doesn't change much.

DeepO