Turn 66 - 1400bc

[Randolph]

We don't need a log, but it would have been nice to have screenshots of Grog's last stand.

[Arrian]

Ok, I'm making some executive decisions.

1) Fortifying Beckham in place.

2) I'm going northeast with Spiney, up on a hill.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

Turn 66 - 1400 BC

1) Grog is dead. The three voxian archers that had been threatening him are now under the FoW.

2) Spiney moves 9, onto a hill. He sees little of interest.

3) Beckham forted.

4) Winestrom size 2, now working 2 floodplains tiles (I had to change that - defaulted to a forest). 0/24, growth in 5 turns. 7/25 on the skirm (18 turns).

5) 66/357 on Mathematics (11 turns).

6) Worker II builds road... road complete @ end of turn.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

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[Randolph]

So how many unaccounted for units are to the north? Their move to displace Grog suggests that they want to route us before mounting any offense (otherwise why attack under such poor circumstances), but it's possible they will be emboldened to make some sort of counterattack (or counter-annoyance as the case may be).

[Arrian]

There are now 3 Voxian archers we cannot see. One is wounded (1hp/3).

They may try to counter-choke. They can't dislodge our skirmishers in their lands without suffering really nasty casualties.

-Arrian

[Blake]

Originally posted by Hot Mustard


I like Dustdevil, or if we want to be obscure we could do "Taz City".

Taz! That's actually quite a cool name .

I expect a counter-choke, they'll be going for moral victories here, also with our fairly light presence we may have convinced them that we are otherwise occupied...
We do want to get some Axemen ASAP.

I guess I need to think of the best use for the worker... I think we should have him build a road N of the desert hill so that the hill forms a proper hub, giving 1 turn movement to any of the 3 cities.

[Krill]

Taz is a pretty good name IMO.

Just wondering, but what happens to the plans if we abandon the idea of planting on furs for a short while to get some axes up and running? Ideally we also want to have a unit to defend the furs city from barbs, right? We'll ned a skirm for that.

to road hub btw.

PS, name the first Axe Son of Grog?

[Randolph]

What is the skirmisher in Winestrom's odds if he is attacked by all three archers (one with a promotion)? Should we pop-rush if all three archers are in position to attack before we get a second unit in the city?
The light choke has worked so far, but we don't want to push our luck.

[Arrian]

After the settler, we need EotS to pump out at least 2 axemen. We may end up needing to poprush a unit in Winestrom.

For now, though, I agree with Blake re: worker II. Road north of the desert hill, which will connect to Sandstorm/Dustdevil/Taz.

-Arrian

[Blake]

We definitely do need two Axemen. We shouldn't need to poprush a skirm unless VOx brings all 3 skirms to bear - an Archer vs Skirm in city is a 0% odd battle - the chance of damaging the unit enough to give the 2nd archer a winning chance is really quite low. I wouldn't risk fighting off 3 archers though.

[Randolph]

Whops, Sorry for asking a redundant question Arrian, I missed that in the turn report (the 3 archers in FoW).

RE: axes and pop rush. Just what I was thinking. I feel quite safe with that. We will be able to pop rush if we need to, right?

[DeepO]

Originally posted by Arrian

6) Worker II builds road... road complete @ end of turn.

Something you might not be aware of: Ctrl+A will do all automated tasks, included worker actions. Especially with roads this might have an effect: in case a worker is due to finish on a tile some other unit will pass on, just Ctrl+A first, then move the other unit.

While at war, I tend(ed) to hit Ctrl+A right after checking no workers would be threatened. Then, at least no units would get mp lost because a road only completes at the end of a turn.

DeepO

[DeepO]

Originally posted by Randolph
We will be able to pop rush if we need to, right?

Yes. We can change to slavery and pop rush in 1 turn time. We don't need to poprush until they actually enter jour borders, before that time we could probably move a couple of defenders around so that a pop rush is even unlikely.

If Vox is going to be a pain, they will aim our farms / cottages. Or, I still half expect them to run with a settler through the FoW they now created.

2 axes should be enough for the moment, if we build 3 we could send one to choke as well, though. We could use another choker, for the fp near the Voice.

DeepO

[Arrian]

Something you might not be aware of: Ctrl+A will do all automated tasks, included worker actions. Especially with roads this might have an effect: in case a worker is due to finish on a tile some other unit will pass on, just Ctrl+A first, then move the other unit.

Oh, excellent. Thanks for that. Usually (during SP play) I will simply hit "w" until I cycle through the units. Doing that will have the same result, but it's a lot more difficult than merely pressing ctrl+a.



-Arrian