SGOTM5 - Team Smackster

[tomasjj]

Gird or no grid? Well, I have never used it and I am fine....

However, update:

Turn 3 - 110 AD:

Gathering troops towards NY.
Our horseman is victorious in the battle north of NY. He looses two hp.

IBT:

Mongols want Currency or else.... They are far far away and insignificant -
so we tell them to pack their bags. War? No, they dont dare.

Zulu are more demanding, they want monotheism, or else.... War!! Shaka has balls.

Bombay - Barracks to HM.

Turn 4 - 130 AD:

Not much.
Trade the World Maps again for 1 gold all around.
Troops onwards to Seattle, and most of the other ones on hill east of NY now.

IBT:

Brennus wants currency. No. He backs out.

Turn 5 - 150 AD:

Troops are almost ready now for NY.
We take out an archer near Seattle in our approach.

Turn 6 - 170 AD:

American Reinforments on the way to NY!! Attack is imminent.
The old continent is now empty.

Attack on NY. We have 4 HM and one in the area to deal with whatever.
We succed in taking out two Spears, but the last injured Spear (2hp) kills our Elite HM!!
We have 2 HM outside of NY and there is only one Spear left in NY with 2HP.
But our other skirmishing HM died in the attempt to protect the rear of the remaining horses from
an incoming Swordsman. The Yanks also have an archer there. Damn!


It looks like we have to regroup...and then attack NY again. Horseman finished next turn in Calcutta
and another one is already in Bombay arriving this turn.

What are your calls team?

 

[tomasjj]

Well, I guess that you are as disappointed as I am.
The gathering of the army groups probably took too much time, or at least so much that the yanks could get enough to stall us seriously.

Anyway, I wont play any more tonight before I get any responses from you guys on the strategy further.

JJ

 

[Wotan]

Darn bad luck on NY. Pity he had time to build a third Spearman there. Since the Archer will attack the HMs everything probably depends on that attack. If the rng reverses and gives us a bit of luck we might even survive the attack to have two HMs left. Send reinforcements!!! Take NY!!

When will you play the final turns? Tomorrow night? Earlier/later?

Nite! Have an early flight tomorrow but will check in whenever possible...

 

[tomasjj]

I think I will just retreat into the mountains to heal and then bring in whatever we still got as reinforcements. We should probably have 4 horsemen there in no more than 2-3 turns.

We are attacking Seattle the next turn too, so maybe Lady Luck will smile to us then (and when we hit NY again ) We got 4 HM at the gates, and my feeling is that this one we wil get on the first attempt.

Hm.. I could do them now and be done.
I just wanted some comments first.
What do you say? Play on?

JJ

 

[smackster]

Bloody as it is, you have to keep plugging away. Build more horses, rush some horses, wear them down.

So I agree, regroup, and go back in with another 3-4 horses. As the main spears are gone it should be easier to take this time.

If you can't do anymore tonight, at least post the save. edit: I mean post it here so we can look at it

 

[tomasjj]

I can do it now, if you are cool with that.
JJ

 

[smackster]

Yes, I think you should keep playing.

 

[tomasjj]

OK.
On the move now.
JJ

 

[smackster]

Gird or no grid? Well, I have never used it and I am fine....

You'll need it with this team, do I hear you say RCP

 

[tomasjj]

I rush HM in Bombay for 96 gold. Expensive, but, I think, NY must be taken swiftly.

IBT:

Elite HM survives attack from swordsman. Other injured vet HM die at the hands of archer outside NY.
Calcutta: HM - HM
Bombay: HM - HM

Turn 7 - 190 AD:

Our troops (3 HM) gather on the hills west of Bombay.

Attack on Seattle. We have 4 HM outside it.

We take Seattle, loosing one vet HM in the process, getting another one upgraded to elite!
They had two spears and one archer there. We also got us a worker from it. Production set to barracks.

IBT:

A spearman moving towards NY.
We quell 1 resister in Seattle. 2 left.
Borders expand around Calcutta.

Turn 8 - 210 AD:

We can get the republic now since more than 3 have it, but we dont want to give up monotheism.

IBT:

Resistance in Seattle ends.
And spear outside of NY passes the city together with a settler! How appropriate at this time...

Turn 9 - 230 AD:

Troops gather outside NY.
Scouting towards Boston, cant really tell what to expect there.
It seems Abe is busy colonizing new land, or may I say, our old homeland....The old Russia will become "The Promised Land "
for the Americans... how ironic...

IBT: Pikes are sharpened as we get ready for NY revisited.

Archer attacks our stack outside NY, our vet HM wins, loosing only one HP.
Calutta HM - HM
Abe has two swords moving towards Boston. We need to unhook again it seems.

Turn 10 (last) - 250 AD:

Attack on NY.

Abe has 3 spears again. We take out two and redline the last one, loosing only one vet horseman.
We have 4 at the gates now, and the table should be set for the next player to take.
At least more luck this time.

Two swords east of Boston too, heading towards Seattle. No troops seen outside of NY.



We will have Feudalism in 6 at loosing 2 gpt, and FP done in 9.

Tired now, so I might have missed some MM issues.

JJ

 

[dmanakho]

Beeing pessimistic person I expected bad RNG at NY .
But things are still just fine, haven't looked at the save though yet, don't have much time..
Tomas, you need to upload your save using official upload form, instead of using attachments.

Crap: Americans have roaded their Iron again . I will shoot Abraham personally

@Smackster: what does the "GOTM (semi-retired)" mean?

 

[MjM]

Long story short i have to be skipped until saturday.

edit: there were only 3 horses cause i did forget to MM moscow.

 

[smackster]

@Smackster: what does the "GOTM (semi-retired)" mean?

Wondered when you guys would ask that. I'm not playing GOTM anymore, although I might sneak in the odd one now and then. Just takes too much time to finish them.

I'll stick to SG's mainly.

Looking at save now.

smackster

 

[smackster]

OK, things look good, nice progress, tough going, but we are sure to come through this. BTW you need to post the save to the submission page, you want to see where our score is right? Don't worry I'll do it.

I see that they have hooked up the iron again, that was damn quick, may need more than that horse to cut it, but we should try with that one.

I worry about those two swords to the north, but the three horses should be able to take them, and Seattle can rush an archer if need be.

After New York is taken, we may want to take Washington, we can rush a horse in Bombay and the following turn Calcutta.
Our workers need to start building a road towards Washington. With only 10 turns left in our Spanish deal, worth trying to play out the 10 turns before peace. America will give us one city now, but clearly we want a lot more than that.

I think bring the archer from Delhi, and push the luxury slider, we need every troop we can get.

The deals against France end in 4 turns, and France will already give us a city for peace, so wait those turns and get it.

 

[dmanakho]

I've got the save but i will play tomorrow night when we hear everyone's opinions.

 

[smackster]

Roster

For some reason I thought Wotan was up, but no, its dman.

dman (playing)
Wotan (on deck)
smackster )
tomasjj (just played)
MjM (skipped)
Tarkeel (auto skip)

 

[dmanakho]

Ok,
here is my plan.
1. I am taking NY my 1st turn. American spear will most likely heal, so it can take more than 1HM with bad RNG luck.

2. 3 horses near Seatle should take care about couple of American swords..

3. I will cut American Iron ASAP again.

4. After NY is taken, next target - Atlanta. I need just one more horse around NY to safely take atlanta. I am going to get a horse out of Calcutta and send it to help capturing Atlanta. We will have to increase tax slider and feudalism will be researched in 7 turns instead of 6, but i believe one more city taken earlier from America is more important than 1 turn faster research.
(edit: Actually, I can cash rush horse in Bombay instead, that will be a better solution i didn't think about)

5. It is very important to improve tiles around Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi.
I am going to road 2 forest tiles near Delhi, Mine irrigated square near calcutta and irrigate planes. And in just few turns Calcutta will be able to produce much needed 15gpt for 2 turn horse built.

6. Slave is working on road in jungle tile near Seatle. It will take him whopping 16 turns. I am planning to stop that and send him to help with Calcutta tile improvements. I think Seatle can wait at this moment.

7. After Atlanta is taken our forces will be way too disperced around. We will have to wait few turns and build more horses. I doubt i will be able to do anything else during my turns.

8. Oh, one more thing. I will definetely try to cut American horses during my turns though. It will be easier to do when NY is ours.

EDIT: There is an Indian slave mining a tile outside of Delhi city limits (to be completed in 1 turn)... we will need that tile when Delhi expands, but that's not going to happen in next 12 turns i believe, slave could have been used for something better for that matter. Not picking at Tomas here, somebody got it that way 12 turns ago (time it takes for slave to mine).

 

[dmanakho]

Wondered when you guys would ask that. I'm not playing GOTM anymore, although I might sneak in the odd one now and then. Just takes too much time to finish them.

I'll stick to SG's mainly.

Looking at save now.

smackster

I wonder if you had to give up your second hobby - football as well..
With all the kids around.... looks like somebody is preparing to settle down....

 

[smackster]

I wonder if you had to give up your second hobby - football as well..
With all the kids around.... looks like somebody is preparing to settle down....

That's funny, been there, seen that and done it. I have two children.

As for hobbies, Football always comes first, but you know's that just a few hours a week. The problem with GOTM is that I feel like I can win any game now, and generally its obvious after a couple of hours play, but I need to play another 20 hours to finish it, and to try for the top 5 another 40 hours. Time to play something else. The SG's are different, and I think I'll look for some others, I'd certainly like SCOTM.

smackster

 

[smackster]

I think you should also rush horses this turn and next. Atlanta will probably fall easily, then take Washington. My feeling is to go for the jugular, and hit Washington before Atlanta, but you need to make that judgement, or see what Wotan says.