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[Hot_Enamel]

Post your orders here by editing them into my first post

Note to self: Do workforce stuff AFTER (if) triggering GA.


Camulodunum_____Unorthodox

Zenophobia_______MasterZen

Trafalgar_________Panzer32

Bad Karma_________Hot_Enamel
No Orders

Dungeon__________Hot_Enamel
No Orders

The Hill___________Hot_Enamel
No Orders

Camp Cod________Panzer32

Imperial City______Panzer32

Camp Concord_____Panzer32

Macao____________GhengisFarb

Drednoughtica_____GhengisFarb

Skulgaria__________Aggie

Chinan____________Aggie

Shantung__________Aggie

Kaifeng___________Aggie

Port Isolation_______Aggie

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Workers
{H_E} Hill Worker Begins a Mine
{H_E} Tat Worker Moves NE or Keypad "9"

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military

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Foreign Affairs

[UnOrthOdOx]

Guess I should actually open the save and see where we are at...

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I wonder how many Riders will be left alive.......

[Aggie]

Good question Ghengis, I don't know the answer. But I suspect that for every lost unit Gs will lose at least 1 and fro every 8 they lose on average 9. I knew it was risky being at that hill. But the only force that can attack the main stack are from new madrid and I suspect they don't have enough along to do it. On the other hand if boats arive with 10 more they might try it, but it still be a risk. The pillage forces on mountain are only vulnerable to the 6 knight stack, but the one on the hill most likely will be defeated but will have a chance with river bonus of giving us a Ga, he is on defense at 5.25.
Aggie

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I really don't have any suggestions on what to do with them without knowing how many will be left. If they leave the lower stack there may be a way to move them south and be able to threaten two different cities which I hope will be possible.

[Aggie]

Options

I know we don't know how many if any of the riders will be left next turn, but if we do have a significant force left here are the possible paths. The southern routes will put us in position to defvestate and eliminate the Southern cities.
The north route(not my preference) immediatly shakes things up in the north.
Why can't I post pictures.
Since the forum does allow attachments apparently, the Path options are
1) sw,w ends on Mountain 2e of salmalanca
2)s,s(ends on hill w,nw of Barcelona),my preference
3)s,sw,s(ends on desert road(too risky in my opinion)), but very tempting since EVERY souther city within range from rider from this point.
I have map of this but can't post attachment.

My current preference is #2, then the following turn we either take barcelona, or more likely pillage road on hill e of barcelona and send rest of force sw onto road and beyond. This way with hill pillaged we are free to roam on road and spain MUST concede these cities including salamanca or split forces immediately to save this city(the rest are dead no matter what).
Aggie

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Aggie, Apoly has an upload option at the top of the screen for members to upload 20 megs of pictures and then you just copy the address into your post.

[Aggie]

Options second attempt

Here isn the location of the Map and routes. If ya'll see any other options just yell.

Aggie

EDITED by GhengisFarb - Aggie, next time use the letters "img" instead of "url".

[Donegeal]

Excellent. The green path will allow us to take either Barcelona or Valencia, maybe both!

We NEED a city down there to heal units in (and Barcelona has a harbor, which means we would be able to rush bye Riders down there!)

[Master Zen]

leaving our riders in a desert tile???

and especially since we don't know if GS dropped units this turn. That's very very risky.

[Panzer32]

If we do the blue route then we can still attack Valencia or Barcelona.

[Donegeal]

Your right. I keep forgeting that these roads are unclaimed. Blue would be the best option.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

If we go green we can attack FOUR DIFFERENT CITIES.

Valencia, Barcelona, Merida, and/or Salamanca.

[Aggie]

Thanks Ghengis for the tips. Now to the plan. Another thing to keep in mind is GS reaction to all this. This is where the north route seems useful(though not my favorite). From there we can get to the southern road in 1 turn also but, and this is the key, we can draw GS north. Then we head south and get all the cities anyway. But the advanatge is also its drawback. Part of our goal is to draw off GS from ND area, so this could backfire. I think nd is a matter of a few turns from winning decisively and we need to buy them time. This is why I favor the southern routes. But just for the record I wanted to mention the advantage of the north. I have even considered splitting our forces between the green and blue option, but really see no gain from this except to present manageable targets for GS, which is not a good thing.
Aggie

Edited to change the Red to green in last sentence.

[Hot_Enamel]

So many good options.

What will be RP/GS's reaction if we go blue/green ?

RP's turn .. Gift Barcelona & even perhaps Valencia ??

GS cant move pikes into Barcelona, And they cant move Knights into Valencia. (From Sirroco)

Valencia should be a win for us. And if we decide to attack Barcelona, we will be facing fortified knights only.


Lots of decisions ...