KoS2 tales of Celtic war's
T+0
Inherited turn.
I attack with the cannon, promoted to Barrage 2, as if it dies it dies, if it lives..well, it'll do the maximum stack damage, and it DIES..
45 %, 2nd cannon at 68% dies as well...Lose a pike at 65%...Next pike at 89% loses over 70% health..NOW I clean up the rest of the stack, very expensive undertaking.
Move some troops out of Kish, towards front line with reinforcements.
T+1
Nothing happened IBT's but I foolishly let a pike out on its own, by the new conquest, troops are healing, and further troops are moving to take the back cities, bombardment has commenced. Draft in 3 cities, whip in 2 to complete builds.
T+2
well, it continues, I lose a Trebuchet in the field at 67%, clean up the Musket and Trebuchet I lost against.
I clean up with the Great General, who's now got leadership as the promotion, he'll go to a Knight, BEFORE I trade for Rifling.
Sight Sitting Bulls, 2nd Stack, even scarier then the 1st, I close borders. He's taken Pyongyang, and will keep Saladin entertained for a long while there.
Troops move into place from UR to begin assault, as well as building road.
2 stables and bank in Lagesh built from overflow, now going onto War Elephants, 1 turn overflow, drafted.
T+3
I take Durnovaria with NO LOSSES
for a change, but I nearly ran out of attacking troops to take the city, killed 2 mace-men, 3 Longbow man, 3 Muskets and 1 catapult and a knight. I foolishly thinking I've selected Trebuchets only, leave Camulodunum undefended
More troops are moving to take out Isca from Ur then onwards to the front lines.
Saladins Stack of doom has been spotted, so I hold some troops in the borders towards him, awaiting events.
T+4
IBT's Saladins stack targets Pyongyang, and takes a lot of damage as does Sitting Bull, who's still has better stack.
Boadicea, DOESN'T take back Camulodunum, due to my
move, so is hard up for troops now, and is retreating her knights, probably for a last ditch stack attack. Better hold off till they all can merge I feel., push on to Tolosa (I'm 24hr's from
) with Trebuchets only, so wait till cannons to take city.
Building roads, and drafting, and building cannons.
Check the Tech screen, Sitting Bull, has Rifling, and is friendly with Boadicea, rut roh. Not much we can do about that, instant Celtic rifles now.
I now have to re-open borders with Sitting Bull, as his Culture has stopped our army from being fed by reinforcements from the homelands. I also nab 1 worker from Boadicea
Everyone's in Mercantilism, and its killing our income,
Sitting Bulls wiped out the rest of Saladins Stack for us, and I go about adjusting finances, to go form -50
to -10
per turn. Reinforcements are moving to join the assault upon Tolosa.
T+5
Wang Kon, come by demanding I cancel deals with Sitting Bull,
with my eye on Rifling in 3 turns, I pause to think long and hard, with regret I say
No I can't, I need the gold and access
I attack Isca with a city raider 2 cannon at 28% and it
Hmm I send in the rest of the troops, this city is holding up the advance;
A mace attacks at 20% and loses, damm longbow man,
Musket next, 25% (longbow again) WINS!!!
Musket V's Mace 36%, loses (Hmm mace wasn't even scratched)
Musket V's Mace (30%) wins!!
Musket V's Longbow man (67%) wins, gains city garrison 3
Musket V's Musket 98% Winner and finish off with
Garrison troop longbow, v's Trebuchet 93%.
Take Isca, and swing all new troops to Tolosa.
Been playing Dumb to now, only just realize I should have advanced through Sitting Bulls lands, save's 3 turns, of Trudging.
T+6
I spot another SoD from Sitting Bull, Wang is DEAD if we let it through, but we need to advance our attacking stack 1 more turn, fortunately, its still in Bulls lands. All this canceling open borders, won't keep us in the good books, and I'm seriously terrified of a Sitting Bull Declaration of war.
Move troops to begins bombarding Tolosa, and running troops to the front lines, Camulodunum, will have to go full on Culture, to grab back access to Boadicea's lands. We may be hindered in attacking forces for a while now.
T+7
Boadicea's is Broken, I start to hold off on drafting, cities at limit, and finances are being stretched out. Plenty of offensive troops available now. Switching to commerce builds now, as we'll need to recover the economy badly. Theaters (+1 dye), Grocers, and university, are queued. Troops move into Boadicea's lands, no more reinforcements, as I have to close borders with Sitting Bull, he'll own BOTH Saladin and Wang with that stack.
I pick off 3 of Saladins camel archers, seeking to flee battle, for some easy points and promotions (1 away)
I hold off on closing borders for 1 more turn, as its a 50/50 bet if bounced back to own town (Warwick 5) or to the town taken (Pyongyang 6), Oooohhhhhh....just enough. Think I missed whipping Camulodunum for 1 turn.
Just realized I've been sending all troops to the front, didn't send any to the follow up city, so Camulodunum is starving, huge error on my part, cost 3 turns or population points at least. As such, I close borders immediately, we have plenty of cannons by Tolosa, and we'll have a clear route into Boadicea from our lands now, but still cut off Culturally. AARRGGHH, can't cancel open borders, can't beg any gold either.
T+8
Bombard Tolosa's defenses down to 0% rest some city raider cannons from the bombardment, move troops to take Gergovia, which I completely forgot to do, so focused on hitting Tolosa. Move Camel archer picking troops back home, Pike lost 90% health at 87.7% attack...
Remember to trade Wang Kon for rifling, nearly forgot again,
Should have been researching into it, could have gotten something else thrown in for it better, but at our research rate. Bleeding gold at 18/turn
T+9
.IBT's Boadicea's get the Infamous 'Instant Rifles', must have been in retaliation for trading steel to Wang Kon. Looks like the Cannons will have to actually fight now. Plus side is, they lose the fortification bonuses.
1st city raider 2 at 30% wins,
2nd at 45 % loses,
3rd at 45% again wins,
4th at 10.2 strength, 45% loses ,
5th at 76% city raider 1 wins against a longbow,
6th at 79% wins against a knight,
Followed up by the 4 Trebuchets, all wining at 80% and increasing odds to high 90's.
Muskets to attack;
Game crashes due to Alt-tabing arrrgghhh....reload.
I messed up somehow, lost 1 extra Trebuchet, oh well, NOW I send in the muskets. Nah, send in 3 Barrage Cannons..stuff it.
Pike at 74%, went in V's Catapult, victory, and now has formation promotion.
6 Muskets attack at 97.6% and all are victorious for 2 promotion points and 5/5
8 more Muskets attack at 99.? % and all win for 1 point, most gaining next promotions.
Great General attacks at 92% and wins, with leadership gains 6 points.
Tolosa is taken
T+10
Put a few builds into cities, as I whipped for hammer overflow last turn, feel free to change them, EXCEPT THAT ONE!!!!! you know which one.
lol
no troops moved, I really messed up on the follow up stacks..doh!!!
Boadicea's seems to be broken, even with rifles, she's broken woman. Just a matter of rolling her up now. Recovered the economy somewhat, from losing 50 gold/turn to small loss now.
Whipped Camulodunum hard, got a Theater, library and a Colosseum (overflow only, though whipped again) in 3 turns, needs to pump that Culture.
Save attached, not happy, tried to play so carefully, but ended up making some mistakes.
Forgetting the follow up attack on Gergovia and going through Sitting Bulls lands, so focused on closing borders. Oh well, do so in 3 or 4 turns, don't know what happened to that stack??
Doh!!!!
Great General in Uruk or next one down, waiting to be used.
May need to play an extra 2 turns to get us on a even Number, sitting on turn 273 now..
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!) if we want any chance of a Diplo victory. With our current tech rate (though it will improve a bit) I really don't want to get into a space race with SB. Hopefully Saladin will help us out by attacking SB as well, but I'm not optimistic. (I guess Sal never heard of the enemy of my enemy is my friend 
but unhelpful long term if we go for the diplo victory. I suppose the other advantage is using it to trade for something with WK.
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