gmaharriet
Ancient Crone
lurker's comment: Well, ya wanted to catch up in tech, didn't you?Smart said:In addition, you will find some strange things on AI territory, like Airfields and Radar towers in Ancient Ages
Nero05: random deity
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Pre-turn
cities on egypt continent have high flip risk, we should finish egypt off after 8 turns.
No move in on iro's, we have to. Get couple of sword into a galley to pillage the iron.
970AD
moving
980AD
start setting workers over to home continent
IBT
iro's are sending troops north
990AD
unload workers
1000AD
moving
1010AD
moving
IBT
iro's boot our galley and workers
Alexandria deposed
1020AD
just 2 turns waiting to take egypt
galley in place declare on iro's
move units in, they got a pike on the iron.
IBT
pillaging swords get attacked but survive, then they move the pike away
1030AD
move towards cattaraugus
start to prepare war on egypt
IBT
now lose the swords on the iron, so close...
1040AD
declare on egypt, need to adjust lux a lot
cats have almost no effect on cattarauhus
1050AD
take Alexandria and Thebes, gain a leader, could use it on home continent
1060AD
Iro's a comming strong, am having difficulties holding them off the hills, but still standing. Cats still don't hit enough to attack.
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cities on egypt continent have high flip risk, we should finish egypt off after 8 turns.
No move in on iro's, we have to. Get couple of sword into a galley to pillage the iron.
970AD
moving
980AD
start setting workers over to home continent
IBT
iro's are sending troops north
990AD
unload workers
1000AD
moving
1010AD
moving
IBT
iro's boot our galley and workers
Alexandria deposed
1020AD
just 2 turns waiting to take egypt
galley in place declare on iro's
move units in, they got a pike on the iron.
IBT
pillaging swords get attacked but survive, then they move the pike away
1030AD
move towards cattaraugus
start to prepare war on egypt
IBT
now lose the swords on the iron, so close...
1040AD
declare on egypt, need to adjust lux a lot
cats have almost no effect on cattarauhus
1050AD
take Alexandria and Thebes, gain a leader, could use it on home continent
1060AD
Iro's a comming strong, am having difficulties holding them off the hills, but still standing. Cats still don't hit enough to attack.
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conquer_dude
Imperial Slave
Lurker's Comment: Great game guys, and this is very interesting to watch.
zyxy
Warmongering Fool
Oops, I'm up. I cannot play today, maybe the next player wants a swap?
Otherwise I'll get it tomorrow.
EDIT: got it, playing now.
Otherwise I'll get it tomorrow.
EDIT: got it, playing now.
zyxy
Warmongering Fool
Turn 0, 1060AD: Well, this could be over very soon. We are in 2 wars now, with a very small army, half of which is tied up in Egypt - classical case of overstretching. Iro's are attacking with knights, and our home defense consists of 1 army, 2 horse, 1 sword. WW is sky high, need to crank lux tax up to 50% to fire the clowns. There are German troops in Egypt - what are they doing there? We're hopelessly behind in tech.
Army kills redlined knight. Incredibly risky, because London could fall easily now, but I have to gamble it.
IT: redlined knight kills himself against defending London horse. Another knight impales on our mountain sword, then a longbow kills him. A musket drives our horse off the mountain. Sword at Cattaraugus retreats a knight. Iro's move a few more troops into Cattaraugus and land a longbow behind the lines in our undefended backyard. York market -> sword.
Turn 1, 1070AD: No way I can get that musket off the mountain. Kill the backyard longbow. Bombardment reveals that Cattaraugus is defended by at least 2 vet and 2 reg muskets. I have also seen some knights, a pike and a sword enter the town. Our attack force consists of 7 swords, 2 are damaged. Really. I'll turn back to the homeland next turn, if there is a next turn. Advancing on the last Egyptian city with 5 swords.
IT: Lose a sword at Cattaraugus to a knight. Iro now have 2 muskets and 1 sword in our lands.
Newcastle harbor -> rax. Harbor's nice, but we cannot ship across the water yet. London sword -> sword. Oxford sword -> sword.
Turn 2, 1080AD: Battle for Elephantine, we have more hope than troops: first 3 swords lose vs spear without making a dent, 4th wins and becomes elite, 5th (elite) redlines the reg spear and then loses - always happens to me. There is at least one more spear, and we ran out of attackers
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Don't know what to do. I cannot press the attack on Egypt with Iro's breathing down my neck, but we have several Egypt cities that will flip back soon. Yuk. Can try another attack in 5 turns or so, we'll see.
Retreat Cattaraugus stack.
IT: Our cattaraugus stack loses 5 swords, retreats 1 knight and kills 1 longbow. Our catapults are now defended by 1 redlined sword who fortunately doesn't get attacked - lucky there.
learn Engineering, set to Invention. Warwick rax -> sword. Hastings sword -> pike.
Turn 3, 1090AD: Sell Eng to America for Theo for 37 gold. Russia has Edu, and wants Eng + 25 gpt + 2 gold for it. Though this is a lot of money, it is less than half the current beaker price, so I do it. Americans are too poor to pay for Edu, will wait a few turns to see if it improves.
I now discover that WW has gone up a notch. lux tax has to go to 60% and I have to hire clowns. Some of our cities are starving and our economy takes a nosedive. We need peace with Iro fast.
IT: retreat Iro knight at London. They march a small army along our east coast, and land a sword-pike pair on the west coast.
York sword -> sword, Nottingham market -> pike, Canterbury sword -> sword.
Turn 4, 1100AD: kill the pike, lose a sword, kill a sword. There's a stack of three knights, 2 swords, 1 longbow and 1 musket on our east coast. Then some spread out muskets. We have half a dozen swords. If Iro don't talk next turn, we'll lose cities.
IT: The inevitable happens. The sword defending London loses against a knight, and
Capital moves to Nottingham. Iro's also capture a bunch of slave workers and land some more troops.
Oxford sword -> sword. St Regis riots, unclear why - perhaps propaganda? Germans are building Newtons.
Turn 5, 1110AD: Iro's will not talk. They have a dozen knights or so in view. I am going to consider this a defeat. Here's the save, in case anyone wants to continue. Nothing has been moved this turn.
Army kills redlined knight. Incredibly risky, because London could fall easily now, but I have to gamble it.
IT: redlined knight kills himself against defending London horse. Another knight impales on our mountain sword, then a longbow kills him. A musket drives our horse off the mountain. Sword at Cattaraugus retreats a knight. Iro's move a few more troops into Cattaraugus and land a longbow behind the lines in our undefended backyard. York market -> sword.
Turn 1, 1070AD: No way I can get that musket off the mountain. Kill the backyard longbow. Bombardment reveals that Cattaraugus is defended by at least 2 vet and 2 reg muskets. I have also seen some knights, a pike and a sword enter the town. Our attack force consists of 7 swords, 2 are damaged. Really. I'll turn back to the homeland next turn, if there is a next turn. Advancing on the last Egyptian city with 5 swords.
IT: Lose a sword at Cattaraugus to a knight. Iro now have 2 muskets and 1 sword in our lands.
Newcastle harbor -> rax. Harbor's nice, but we cannot ship across the water yet. London sword -> sword. Oxford sword -> sword.
Turn 2, 1080AD: Battle for Elephantine, we have more hope than troops: first 3 swords lose vs spear without making a dent, 4th wins and becomes elite, 5th (elite) redlines the reg spear and then loses - always happens to me. There is at least one more spear, and we ran out of attackers
.Don't know what to do. I cannot press the attack on Egypt with Iro's breathing down my neck, but we have several Egypt cities that will flip back soon. Yuk. Can try another attack in 5 turns or so, we'll see.
Retreat Cattaraugus stack.
IT: Our cattaraugus stack loses 5 swords, retreats 1 knight and kills 1 longbow. Our catapults are now defended by 1 redlined sword who fortunately doesn't get attacked - lucky there.
learn Engineering, set to Invention. Warwick rax -> sword. Hastings sword -> pike.
Turn 3, 1090AD: Sell Eng to America for Theo for 37 gold. Russia has Edu, and wants Eng + 25 gpt + 2 gold for it. Though this is a lot of money, it is less than half the current beaker price, so I do it. Americans are too poor to pay for Edu, will wait a few turns to see if it improves.
I now discover that WW has gone up a notch. lux tax has to go to 60% and I have to hire clowns. Some of our cities are starving and our economy takes a nosedive. We need peace with Iro fast.
IT: retreat Iro knight at London. They march a small army along our east coast, and land a sword-pike pair on the west coast.
York sword -> sword, Nottingham market -> pike, Canterbury sword -> sword.
Turn 4, 1100AD: kill the pike, lose a sword, kill a sword. There's a stack of three knights, 2 swords, 1 longbow and 1 musket on our east coast. Then some spread out muskets. We have half a dozen swords. If Iro don't talk next turn, we'll lose cities.
IT: The inevitable happens. The sword defending London loses against a knight, and
Capital moves to Nottingham. Iro's also capture a bunch of slave workers and land some more troops.
Oxford sword -> sword. St Regis riots, unclear why - perhaps propaganda? Germans are building Newtons.
Turn 5, 1110AD: Iro's will not talk. They have a dozen knights or so in view. I am going to consider this a defeat. Here's the save, in case anyone wants to continue. Nothing has been moved this turn.
tupaclives
Tupac Lives on!!
Thats a real shame, i remember when I took my turn I was very worried about the situation, it didnt look good. Oh well we were fighting and uphill battle from the word go and in the end we ran out of steam. Still its been a good learning experience trying to fight to comeback from behind. Maybe the 'Magnificent 7+1' could've made a comeback from where we were but it doesnt look good. I guess in the end we jsut weren't ready for the war with the Iroquois and thats my apologies I didn't realise how much stronger than us they were. If I had I would never have recomended starting the war with them. At the end of my turnset my assumption was we could hold off their early attacks with cats and counterstrikes, seize cattaragus and maybe 1 more fighting along a very limited front and then sue for peace but in the end even that proved beyong our small army. Germany entering the war was just the final nail in the coffin. Who knows maybe one day Zerksees will pick it up and right a third great comeback but I doubt it.
Fella's its been a pleasure if any of you are interested in hitting up an AW game then Tupac02 is desperately short of people, 2 of the people who signed up turned out not to have vanilla...
Fella's its been a pleasure if any of you are interested in hitting up an AW game then Tupac02 is desperately short of people, 2 of the people who signed up turned out not to have vanilla...
I think we needed to take them on now, as they would have come for us. We propably should have tried again earlier, as they just keep getting stronger. Don't think attacking Egypt war wrong as they are weak and should be conquered easily.
zyxy
Warmongering Fool
Well, sorry for losing this one. We probably had very small chances after failing to dent the iro's in the earlier attempts.
I don't quite agree that we had to attack the iro's now. Swords and cats vs muskets and rifles just isn't good enough, unless you can bring large numbers. The Egypt war diverting half our troops wasn't very helpful either.
IMO it would have been better to first take out Egypt, trade up to longbows or knights, and then take on iro's, hopefully before they get cavs and rifles.
Anyway, it was an exciting game.
I don't quite agree that we had to attack the iro's now. Swords and cats vs muskets and rifles just isn't good enough, unless you can bring large numbers. The Egypt war diverting half our troops wasn't very helpful either.
IMO it would have been better to first take out Egypt, trade up to longbows or knights, and then take on iro's, hopefully before they get cavs and rifles.
Anyway, it was an exciting game.
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