Thanks everyone and congrats to us all, I think we did very well.
I'm looking forward to reading other threads, unfortunately the next 3 days are likely to turn into a work marathon for me.........
I promised you a small report, so I will provide. I will edit it later with a few screenshots I took during my last set.
In fact, there is not so much to say, because everything went pretty much as planned.
Points worth mentioning :
- Mansa's last city :
- I kept the two biggest Indian cities for score cause they were filled with wonders. Take it as an attempt to compensate my razing fury of the last few turns (
Duckweed...).
Delhi was quite strongly defended, but after all cultural defences were down, the CR3 Trebs had reasonable odds :
So after a few turns of bombarding :
- Team AIs are stronger than regular Empreror, but just as stupid : instead of retreating its mace into its newest city Taimun, Monty sent it northeast, maybe to reinforce Tlaxcala, which allowed to take it with a single pike
. Sent the other one towards OZ
- I had to forget about bringing troops back from Ahmenabad. The western seas were way too crowded with enemy caravels, so I made two bigger stacks instead. Still lost two, but with no units in them.
It was for the best actually, because shorter galleon bridge = more units moved, and I was able to ship all units from Texcoco.
- Oz : Overkill. Was finally able to bring 26
rockon
units to him by T178.
I started with my 3 uber XBows. Hurt him pretty bad
I went on with a couple Drill 2 ones. It was enough to bring him down to 4/14 health.
Then I suicided the rest of the Drill 2 XBows to weaken the 2 LBs, until Oz was again the top defender.
Tried my luck with a CR3 Mace but failed by only 0.3 health
So I had to kill the 2 LBs first (2 WE + 1 Pike), before I was finally able to finish him.
I took a great pleasure to kill him with the worst unit I had brought : a wounded Pike !
- Witness Monty's last feeble attempt to get back at us ....
- After that the last city (Tula) was gone in an instant, and that was it!!
Thanks again to all my teammates for their precious advice and to neilmeister for this map that proved much more interesting that was anticipated...