Turn 98, 610BC

[Aeson]

EDIT: Accidently edited out

[DeepO]

diplo request: offer Feud to ND again, ask for a response in PM. Their forum did not experience a crash, there is no way they can't have decided already what to do with it, they had over a week after their last message saying they needed time.
Stalling is one thing, but time just ran out for them, if they don't want it, they should simply say it, and we will think our thing about it.

DeepO

[notyoueither]

Baaaarhoooooooooo! The save is passed to us. Oh God. I'm not gonna see it before tomorrow. Arrrrrrgh!

[nbarclay]

I'm about to forward the opening screenshot, but we need to make any production change decisions before I forward it. Screenshot coming in a couple minutes.

[nbarclay]

GOW Landed by Whirlwind, and Vox has troops split every which way. This is going to be an interesting one.

[Aeson]

I would be in favor of short rushing the Pike in Arashi. That would allow us to have 9 Pikes between Arashi and Tempest next turn. Probably not enough to hold both for sure if if Vox still has 11 Immortals and will split Arashi and Tempest next turn.

Any information on Vox's troops you can get before/while in the city screen?

[Aeson]

How many Immortals does Vox have on flats? NM my above post, I was thinking a turn off.

[Aeson]

I don't get why GoW would land by Whirlwind... Horses right?

[Aeson]

Lets rush the Catapult in Sandstorm. The one in WW would be good too if we have the cash (take a hp from one of the Horses to help our WC's)

[nbarclay]

I'm counting two GoW horsemen by Whirlwind, two Voxian units (led by a regular immortal) by Monsoon, and I think four Voxian immortals 6 from Arashi (the problem being that to attack those, we have to attack cross-river). I'm thinking in terms of having WCs go after the horsemen and Monsoon's two attackers, using medieval infantry however far they can go against the units across the river from Arashi (and also having our WC 6 from them attack them), and then I'm not sure whether WCs or swordsmen should take precedence finishing off the cross-river troops (aside from the fact that it would probably be ideal to finish them off with a WC so Vox doesn't get a target). Vox is giving us a better target than I'd hoped for if they didn't hit Arashi.

[nbarclay]

The horsemen are on a hill, which helps their defense a bit. Still, they would have hurt us a lot worse landing on the iron mountain; then we would have had to expose swordsmen or medieval infantry to hit them.

[Aeson]

Anything on Arashi 9 (including road status)?

[DeepO]

Sorry, it has been too long. Did Arashi already had part of the pike done, so it can be short rushed at reasonable expense?

Otherwise, I would favor as many cats as we can spare.

The cat in Arashi would need to attack the stack at A3, I guess our elites takes on GoW's elite (the easiest target), and we use a few elites to take out the 2 immortals Vox has landed next to Monsoon.

We definately need more troops in this spread out attack, but I think it looks nice... we should be able to half their forces in this setting.

One thought: would it be possible to put a bunch of pikes on A2, to force Vox off the mountains? or don't we have enough pikes yet?

Oh, and the force heading for sandstrom is cool, more troops to kill before they can reach their targets.

DeepO

[DeepO]

A9: road has been pillaged, 2 units, one of them the wounded vet spear

DeepO

[Aeson]

No, Arashi is empty shields... my memory was playing tricks on me.