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I'd say go capture Barcalona, wait there for our units to heal and a couple more to join (if we've still got tonnes left then just press on). From there we go and attack Madrid, by that point Spain should be effectively dead and its just a case of mopping up.
 
Catapults + War Elephants = Instant Win
 
How long before we have enough Cats and Elephants for a complete victory and will the Homeland be fully protected from Spain AND Babylon?
 
Spanish forces and defensive attributes we can see:

Barcelona - 2 archers; grassland; 40% defense.
Toledo - axe (combat1), spear (com1), archer; hills; 20%
Madrid - sword (com1), sword, axe (com1), spear(com1); grass; 60%
Seville - axe, archer; plains; 40%
Santiago - ?; plains; ?

there are also a spear visiting Arkadia, 2 swords (com1) and an axe (com2) outside cities


Our forces:
7 archers(MP), 4 horse archers, 3 war elephants, 2 warriors (MP), 3 axemen, and 3 catapults

Under production: 3 war elephants, 1 catapult which will collectively finish in 4 or fewer turns. A further 2 units can be ready by the 6th turn, and 2 more by the 9th turn.

My personal preference is to launch a war when 6 catapults are ready and in place. I'm probably a little bit too conservative.

On the defensive side, Arkadia could use another archer, or we can try to preemptively attack incoming swordsmen with axemen when they're on exposed ground.

Net: an immediate attack on Barcelona is possible, if a little risky. At a minimum we'll get a worker out of it. They also have a settler holed up there.

One slight problem, upon DOW the spearman visiting in Arkadia could land on the jungle tile being chopped right now, and he'd be pretty hard to dislodge from that spot. If we're lucky he'll land on the grass SW of Arkadia, which isn't even across a river, in which case we can DOW, kill the spear with an axe, then capture the worker and place catapults there for bombard next turn. Or we could wait till the Spanish chop finishes and deny them the possible safe landing zone for that spear.

It's not really a full plan, but better than nothing. Any comments?
 
Not exactly a comment, but questions:

1) Will 6 elephants+6 catapults be the main attack force?

2) Some other escort (like axes to fight spears) and garrison?

3) Shall our fast units try to pillage metals?

4) Arkadia lands is the rally point,right?

Best regards,
 
About the spear/wandering through our territory. We may as well let them wander- unless they're planning on pillaging a lot (which i doubt) then they're not going to do much harm.
 
About the spear/wandering through our territory. We may as well let them wander- unless they're planning on pillaging a lot (which i doubt) then they're not going to do much harm.

When we DOW, the spear will move automatically outside our territory, right? Once there, might as well kill it to gain experience -- or is there a reason not to? The real trouble is if it lands on that jungle tile, which due to the defensive bonus is the natural rally point for our troops entering Spanish territory. Instead the tile would become the rally point for any Spanish attackers, if they even bother to attempt an attack.
 
Not exactly a comment, but questions:

1) Will 6 elephants+6 catapults be the main attack force?

2) Some other escort (like axes to fight spears) and garrison?

3) Shall our fast units try to pillage metals?

4) Arkadia lands is the rally point,right?

Best regards,

1) Yes, that's right.

2) In my own game I'd include an axe or two so that spears can't attack our stack and pick off our elephants before they reach their destination.

3) Yes, pillage if possible so that Spain can't build reinforcements. Unfortunately IIRC they have a fairly remote copper source that won't be easy to pillage.

4) Sounds good, and most of the troops are already there.
 
Using DaveShack's analysis, I would agree with thecommonnate and say that we should make our DOW very late in the next turnchat (assuming it's going to be a 10 turn t/c).

That way we've achieved war status before the end of the session, which seems to be a mandate, plus we'll have a robust reinforcement wave headed towards the next primary battle. Say turn 8-9 for a DOW.
 
Yes, 8-9 sounds reasonable.

I don't know how long the spearmen will stay in Arkadia, but I don't like the idea of declaring before they are gone.

Kassite is not defended well enough in my opinion, though, as two horse archers make a good pillaging strike force but not a good defense force.

Also, as DaveShack pointed out, the bronze resource near NG is unlikely to be pillaged, but even if it was in danger we do have an iron resource in the deasert region on the border of Edorai and Nippur.

Other then that I think our military is capable of fighting the war, if not winning it, against Spain. However, like I have said before, power, economy, and anxiousness are all good things in this situation, and we will only improve the effectiveness of these things by giving the war more, but not too much, time.
 
I'd like to declare war this turn, before pressing enter, and moving our 7 War Elephants, 2 Horse Archers, 4 catapults and 2 axemen S-SW, so they can attack Barcelona next turn. Barcelona is only defended by 3 units, so we can take it easily. We can then go on towards Madrid, their capital. After that, we can clean up their remaining cities. By the way, there's another Spanish city according to Hatsheput's city list, Cordoba. I think it might be NW of Madrid's bananas.

I'd like to whip an axeman in Kassite soon, for defence.
 
I'm in. Let's go.
 
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