DeceasedHorse
Prince
Got it.
RBC12G - Sassanids (Emperor)
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DeceasedHorse
Prince
Note: I was responsible for mining that desert tile. I was also trying to create a colony, so I had the worker mine it so the next player would notice and maybe figure out what was wrong. I just forgot to mention this
Preturn: Our position is awfully exposed. We will lose Ostergern for sure next turn, but at least the army will be able to heal. Hit enter.
IBT: Various civs start Justinian's Leadership. Lose 2 Hcavs to counterattacks. Lose two elite cav in Milan, including one of the Immortals, to Frank Warlords. Franks heavily reinforce their lines around Milan. I will probably be unable to save the city.
Turn 1: Keep up the stream of Hcav. General Micis kills a Celt warlord guarding a migrant. He and his remaining elite Hcan will try and heal a bit before going after Bescanon. Kill two spears in Kald-something (the Visigoth city names are just ridiculous; and I thought the Aztecs were bad!). Kill a hun warlord. There is no way to hold Milan; the Franks have nearly 20 units in hills around it. Our garrisoning units will retreat and hit them once they've left the high ground. Just to piss the Franks off, I whip the city, killing off half its population.
IBT: Milan falls. A hun warlord, attacking across the river, kills our army.
Turn 2: The good news is we have 34900 VP Attack Herman-something with a bunch of badly injured hcavs just to make sure, and capture the city. Kill off some Hun warlords: VP's reach 35440.
Turn 3: We win. Sadly, General Micics is killed by the Franks. We are starting to get buried under GA-fueled barbarian hordes and the distance our troops have to travel to reach the front had basically exausted our offensive army anyway; I doubt we would have been able to stop the Franks from taking the most of the E. Europe vp's, though we may still have had a shot at taking the Huns out before that front collapsed as well. Ah well, we are still the winners, and we showed Atilla who the real Scourge of God is! :die:
The last turn
Preturn: Our position is awfully exposed. We will lose Ostergern for sure next turn, but at least the army will be able to heal. Hit enter.
IBT: Various civs start Justinian's Leadership. Lose 2 Hcavs to counterattacks. Lose two elite cav in Milan, including one of the Immortals, to Frank Warlords. Franks heavily reinforce their lines around Milan. I will probably be unable to save the city.
Turn 1: Keep up the stream of Hcav. General Micis kills a Celt warlord guarding a migrant. He and his remaining elite Hcan will try and heal a bit before going after Bescanon. Kill two spears in Kald-something (the Visigoth city names are just ridiculous; and I thought the Aztecs were bad!). Kill a hun warlord. There is no way to hold Milan; the Franks have nearly 20 units in hills around it. Our garrisoning units will retreat and hit them once they've left the high ground. Just to piss the Franks off, I whip the city, killing off half its population.
IBT: Milan falls. A hun warlord, attacking across the river, kills our army.
Turn 2: The good news is we have 34900 VP
Attack Herman-something with a bunch of badly injured hcavs just to make sure, and capture the city. Kill off some Hun warlords: VP's reach 35440.Turn 3: We win. Sadly, General Micics is killed by the Franks. We are starting to get buried under GA-fueled barbarian hordes and the distance our troops have to travel to reach the front had basically exausted our offensive army anyway; I doubt we would have been able to stop the Franks from taking the most of the E. Europe vp's, though we may still have had a shot at taking the Huns out before that front collapsed as well. Ah well, we are still the winners, and we showed Atilla who the real Scourge of God is! :die:
Woot!
Unfortunately, I think our chances of destroying the Huns evaporated once they got Heavy Cavalry. Prior to that, we could assault their units and then retreat, leaving their poor Warlords open to assault as they chased after us. Once they were able to move as fast as we could, then it just became a war of position and attrition, and given their size and road network, a war of attrition favored them.
I will admit that I made a bad mistake in razing Varna; if I had kept it, it would have slowed down the Hun movement and allowed us to
their counterattack, and maybe our forces would have survived long enough for us to take another 2 of their cities. But even then, I'm not sure we would have been able to do that- I fully abandoned the idea around 492 when I saw a stack of 6 Hun HC move into one of their border cities. That's why I went for war with everyone else- the Ostros and the Franks had lots of 1 pop cities hanging loose, and neither had started Justinian's, so I was convinced they had no HC. Of course, they got HC shortly afterwards, but we were still able to get the VP we needed out of their Warlord stacks...
Unfortunately, I think our chances of destroying the Huns evaporated once they got Heavy Cavalry. Prior to that, we could assault their units and then retreat, leaving their poor Warlords open to assault as they chased after us. Once they were able to move as fast as we could, then it just became a war of position and attrition, and given their size and road network, a war of attrition favored them.
I will admit that I made a bad mistake in razing Varna; if I had kept it, it would have slowed down the Hun movement and allowed us to
their counterattack, and maybe our forces would have survived long enough for us to take another 2 of their cities. But even then, I'm not sure we would have been able to do that- I fully abandoned the idea around 492 when I saw a stack of 6 Hun HC move into one of their border cities. That's why I went for war with everyone else- the Ostros and the Franks had lots of 1 pop cities hanging loose, and neither had started Justinian's, so I was convinced they had no HC. Of course, they got HC shortly afterwards, but we were still able to get the VP we needed out of their Warlord stacks...
Charis
Realms Beyond
Well done!! You guys sure were Sassy!
East Rome kill, West Rome kill, and enough fighting with
other barbs to bring it up to 35K... well fought
Charis
East Rome kill, West Rome kill, and enough fighting with
other barbs to bring it up to 35K... well fought
Charis
mitsho
Deity
oh,.... I wanted to play again, but now... yeah, what shall I say?
General Micis looked up into the rainy clouds of the milan fields. Was it really true? Should he die this far away from home? Should this be his destiny? He couldn't believe it. He had become very very old and had served his king Shapur well. He had lead the sasanidian assault onto Rome, both Romes, and then tried to clean the world of these monkeys. And this was his last combat. He died in the battle of Milano, Italy.
mitsh
General Micis looked up into the rainy clouds of the milan fields. Was it really true? Should he die this far away from home? Should this be his destiny? He couldn't believe it. He had become very very old and had served his king Shapur well. He had lead the sasanidian assault onto Rome, both Romes, and then tried to clean the world of these monkeys. And this was his last combat. He died in the battle of Milano, Italy.
mitshCaesar_Augustus
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Good job everyone! Despite losing 3 armies over the course of the game eek: ) our HC still managed to lay enough smack down to bring not only Rome, but all of Eurasia under our heel!
Attacking Warlords definitely jacked up our score - at 70 victory points per kill and 3 Def, they were one of our biggest sources for points. We only got around 20,000 VPs from killing the Romans - the other 15,000 came from beating up the barb civs.
All hail King Shapur!
@mitsho: General Micis had quite the career eh? Good swapping stories with you!
@Corrado: Good call declaring on the other tribes and hastening the end of this 'won' game.
@DeceasedHorse: Too bad about General Micis, although kind of fitting that he died in battle, charging headlong into the Franks. He was the epitome of Sassanid military virtue!
eek: ) our HC still managed to lay enough smack down to bring not only Rome, but all of Eurasia under our heel! Attacking Warlords definitely jacked up our score - at 70 victory points per kill and 3 Def, they were one of our biggest sources for points. We only got around 20,000 VPs from killing the Romans - the other 15,000 came from beating up the barb civs.
All hail King Shapur!
@mitsho: General Micis had quite the career eh? Good swapping stories with you!
@Corrado: Good call declaring on the other tribes and hastening the end of this 'won' game.
@DeceasedHorse: Too bad about General Micis, although kind of fitting that he died in battle, charging headlong into the Franks. He was the epitome of Sassanid military virtue!
mitsho
Deity
Actually he was just one of the first veteran Heavy cavalries (I had to write it out once!)
