@LC I like your plan a lot, but I have a few questions about the first few turns of it, which is what I'm planning right now.
After the cultural defenses are down, I assume.
All defenses down, yes. You can see the odds right now, if you want by clicking on your choice of unit, hovering the mouse over Nanjing and pressing Alt. RIght now it's 22.97% for a CRII treb, but note that the strengths are
4.00 versus
5.45. That's with tehlb getting only -10% off the 6.00. After the culture is gone, it will be -50%...
This should be doable, but we only have 4 full-strength maces and two of them are combat + cover and one of them is combat + medic II. we may end up with some 60% battles with the wounded maces unless a few of the longbows get red-lined by seige.
I'm assuming all the lbs will be red-lined. Except, as I mentioned after the 5th treb, where you might still have one lb who did pretty well and it might be more favorable to attack with the CRIII mace. BUt you still have 2 more trebs at that point, so you should beable to red-line all of them.
The can't get to Tours-NW from here...
Sorry, I meant Tours-N, not NE.
Three trebs, right? Or were you thinking to do something else with the third?
Well, I thought you wanted to send them to Nanjing as T+3 backups, so I said that I thought one was more than enough. I personally would send all three to Marseilles-3W (if you don't have to use them to defend Shanghai, of course, after luring lbs out of Nanjing).
That only leaves 5 muskets 2W of Marseilles, a wounded musket and mace in Orleans, an axe in Rheims, an axe W+NW of Marseilles and a musket south of Marseilles to deal with Churchill's stack there. Is that enough? Most of his units are combat promoted, so I assume most of them will head out.
You have one S of Marseilles arriving T+1, another arriving from GP T+2. If you send a galley down from the Orleans area on T+1, it can pick up the T+1 and T+2 GP muskets and drop them in Marseilles on T+2 before DoWing and they'll teleport somewhere close, the galley will teleport
to Stalin back up. Then you also have a steady diet of cannons coming through ORleans as well. I think you're covered.
But of course you want to be smart about it. YOu don't necessarily have to attack them. If they're coming towards Orleans, for example, you might just want to move them all into Orleans on the first turn, then attack only the axes on the second turn. I'm pretty sure you'll have a turn before they attack, because the cats will bombard first, and the walls will slow that a bit. After he loses his axes, his spears hopefully won't do much. You also have that axe there, btw, and he'll defend well against the spears too.
Also don't forget to build walls in 2t in Rheims, if the stack goes toward it.
N. (Sorry.)
happiness from barracks is actually helping us as is the espionage bonus and the ability to draft. Nationhood in my mind at least is here to stay.
