Hi guys
,
I finally found some times before the sad soccer night (french club once again get hammered in champions league
) to finish the round... a short one as the birth of our new GP (a scientist) seemed the perfect time to discuss again
...
The aim of the round was to capture Nippur, Opis, and Mari (the most southern of the babylonian cities)... but the soon to be legendary "Opis desastrous assault" changed the day
.
At the beginning of the round, Wilem stoped the ivory deal...
I guess maces + xbows will do from now on (no knights spotted)...
I settled the GG in Thebes as we had already a GG medic unit. That is one more city producing CR2 cats
.
The assault of Opis happened in 1000 AD but frustrated, I didn't take any pics. basically , I . .. .. .. .ed the compostion of the mini stack designed for this city. It would have needed one or two more cats. So after suicidind one cat, 3 (or was it 4
) of our brave troops died at the city walls... I retreated before loosing the whole stack.
If the cats weren't at Opis, it's because they were at Nippur gates:
Mari is about to be captured, but the birth of the GS made me stop. Next player should grab that city easily, defenses are already bombed to 0%.
In the meantime, we got to choose from crappy AP resolutions, so we decided to do... well nothing
This same turn (1010 AD), Willen landed liberalism, taking nationalism out of it. He hasn't gunpowder nor military tradition, so our vet phants should keep us safe if we want to quickly strike the dutch (my vote naturally)...
Tech situation:
We would still need pikes as Willy has guild... nothing too scary otherwise.
This is what Hammu currently offers for peace:
I think we want at least Mari, Dur Kurigalzu, and Borsippa before taking peace though...
Power graph:
So what do we do now?
Roster duty:
with the swaps it would be something like...
Mysty -> up!
Rusten -> on deck!
... but I am fine with changing the order (if Rusten is bored with two close sets or someone else wants its Aztec fix
)
Cheers,
Raskolnikov