1365 AD Orders - Will our stack survive?

[Master Zen]

I'm going to post a pic of what our route of attack will be. Note from last turnthread's pics that I did not bomb the RRs and fortresses around our landing spot. Why? Because I WANT GS to attack us. We're sitting on a mountain tile with a fortress, which means our Mech Infs have a defense of 45. GS will get clobbered if they try and take out our stack.

My hunch is that GS will hold back and just try and defend their southeast. Scorched earth policy for everything else. That means our advance will be slow but relatively painless at least compared to the hell we endured against Lego on the first turn.

Of course, that's just a hunch.

Oh yeah, we have 9 nukes. 9 friggin nukes. Glory of War. F*UCK YEAH!

[Donegeal]

Yeah, our stack will survive. Aeson won't send his forces on such a suicide mission.

OTOH, he might think that playing turtle is a fruitless venture as doing so would allow us the ability to strike a heavy blow with a single nuke. So, he might attack. He might even win. But what is he going to do against ND landing? Or our second landing? Or our troops from the North? He is doomed.

[Master Zen]

[QUOTE] Originally posted by Donegeal
Yeah, our stack will survive. Aeson won't send his forces on such a suicide mission.

OTOH, he might think that playing turtle is a fruitless venture as doing so would allow us the ability to strike a heavy blow with a single nuke. So, he might attack. He might even win. But what is he going to do against ND landing?
[quote]

Absolutely nothing

Or our second landing?

We only have 8 more Mech infs immediately available for a second landing.

Or our troops from the North? He is doomed.

That's like 12 cavalry units only...


If our stack is wiped out it's pretty much over for us in a conventional sense. We might be able to scrape up a second invasion force in, say, 3 turns, but nowhere near as powerful (40-50 units)

Still, it's suicide. 42 GS tanks vs. 35 GoW mech infs with a 250% defensive bonus. That's 16 vs 45, almost like trying to take out a stack of infantry with swordsmen.

And if you are done with those you still have to deal with 55 Tanks (defense of 20 under these conditions).

[UnOrthOdOx]

But they're cavalry led by ME!!!

[Master Zen]

But they have a defense of THREE!!!

(ok, 6. They're on a mountain tile right now)

[Master Zen]

Looking at this map, I propose the following route for our army:

1365 - Move E. We threaten Santa Ana directly.
1370 - Move SE. From there we threaten Blizzard (which is SE-SE of Santa Ana)
1375 - Move S. Fromt here we threaten Arashi
1380 - Move S-SW. We threaten Sandstorm and Tempest.

ND will have surely landed by then.

[Donegeal]

Hey, whatever you like. GS is doomed. March our guys along. Just nuke in front of them and move two tiles a turn, planting a city every now and then. It would force them to turttle and then we can sit back and nuke the same last GS city 3 or four times in one turn.

[Master Zen]

I just want to get to Eye of the Storm before The Yellow Perilâ„¢ gets there first...

[Master Zen]

Well, not only did our stack survive... it wasn't even attacked

[Hot_Enamel]

I loaded up the save.
Moved some tanks along some GS railway.
- Nothing more than what MZ would do
GS are in full retreat.
Cant offer much more without bombing/recon so I dont know what options are available.

But the BEST news !!

For fun, I attacked Lego.
The city destroyed and the game DID NOT CRASH.

And even BETTER news !!
I did the same with RP. City destroyed & no crash.

we can eliminate Lego & RP this turn.

Whoot !!!!

[Master Zen]

oh my, I'm testing that right away. H_E, if for some reason it crashes on my PC, would you be willing to play the save?

[Master Zen]

IT WORKS

And here's the better news... I attacked the Lego city first with bombers, then once the infantry was at 1/4, I used the Elite MI that we have in Port Sacrifice...

WE GOT A LEADER

[Donegeal]

Woot! GoW first leader! We will be able to build our first army!

[Master Zen]

This is the current situation. GS has cut off RR access to the south which means we are going to be forced to go mountain hopping. I suggest we do that in the east.

[Master Zen]

More good news: the destruction of RP and Lego have switched us back to a peacetime economy. This means we can switch our cities to non-military production and then re-mobilize. There's a bunch of cities which need Hospitals, Banks, etc. plus, with our GL we can rush the SETI Program in our most productive science city (Trafalgar).

Other than that I really see no use for our GL. An Army isn't really going to help much. Plus, we can use our elites to leader farm vs GS's conscript Riflemen and maybe get another leader.

(btw, all of this is taking into account a possible space race faceoff vs ND)