SW7 - losers of the world unite!

[Daghdha]

Got it. Play saturday.

 

[Whomp]

I didn't think you could settle on marshes.
Is there a boat nearby that can move the "iron cutters"?

 

[soul_warrior]

I didn't think you could settle on marshes.
Is there a boat nearby that can move the "iron cutters"?

you CANT settle on the marsh. thats why the chain gang is busy clearing it.
under those pikes are about 6 workers.

there's a boat on the right of the choke, just waiting.
there is also a boat en route on the "right" side of the iron, with a knight and settler.

 

[Own]

SW- Whoops, I thought the rule was no disbanding slaves .

 

[soul_warrior]

disband, join, all them workers look alike to me.
join them.
ive had a very long day, so please forgive me.

 

[Daghdha]

350
Change Munich from court-->harbour
IBT
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360
Raze Satsuma defended by samurai+spear
Our E galley sinks a jap dito
IBT
Invention in-->Powder
370
I assign army + 8 cats to be a single town razing force going E.
Rest of offensive troops go W.
IBT
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380
Moving stuff
IBT
Jap archer attacks elite horse fortified on hill and wins killing a settler, bum.
390
Rush pike in Luande to meet approaching archer.
Colonize wines, reduce lux.
I decide to stop research alltogether and use gold for rushing
offensive troops. The Japs look very weak. We will not need any muskets.
IBT
Horse killed by MI
Samurai pinned by Pike
400
Raze on E city, lose 1 horse, knight on iron hill kills 2 LB's
IBT
Osaka builds Oracle
410
Found Guarda on iron hill.
Raze Osaka, so much for the oracle
IBT
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420
not much
IBT
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430
Raze Edo
Found Castel Branco as Military HQ on Jap territory.
IBT
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440
Colonize Gems
Raze Nagoya
Raze Tokyo
Rush rax in castelo Branco
IBT
Japs start Sun's
450
Rush some Knights

Nice progress on whacking the Japs. They have only stray troops making futile attempts at counter attacking. It's just a matter of moving around and razing. A lot of the builds we will not put in use before this is over. I do think the troops we already have will suffice used in a somewhat proper way. The Army is at snailpace but that's for securing the E cats. The W stack o horses + knights will take care of Nara (W of Kyoto) then they could either go for Kyoto directly or aid army in E campaign. Then march together for the capital.
Oh, and there might be some slaves on automove. Forgot about them for awhile but have started them on their way N to fill up productive cities.

 

[IroquoisPlisken]

Got it. I might get to finish this.

 

[Own]

You better !

 

[IroquoisPlisken]

Pre-turn – Wake a German slave that was irrigating.

460 (1) – Lose a horse attacking a longbow. -_- Rush a few things, including a settler. Move troops towards Nara and Shimonoseki.

IBT – Longbow attacks and retreats our horse.

470 (2) – Bombard and kill the 2 spears and redlined longbow in Shimonoseki. Raze it…but now the cats are unguarded…also capture another cat. Hmm, I don’t see anything in the rules that says we can’t keep captured artillery, so I keep it.

Kill a spear in Nara.

IBT – No movement from Japan whatsoever. We get some new stairs for the palace. Japan has begun Sun Tzu’s.

480 (3) – Bombard and redline the spear in Nara, which is still showing. Then, it goes on to kill 2 Knights, and redlines two others before it is killed! Raze Nara. I’ll send these guys back to Guarda to heal.

Whoa, why is Leira building wealth?

490 (4) – Kill two spears in Kagoshima and raze it…didn’t even need the cats (army lost 3 hp, down to 7/13).

Found Badajoz at the choke (I thought this was going to be done on Dag’s turns?) to allow ships to travel through.

Upgrade two horses. Send a bunch of Knights towards Kyoto. I’m hoping to take this out without needing the army.

IBT – Another palace expansion. This time, I decide on spires on the sides of the stairs. Japanese start Sun Tzu’s…again.

500 (5) – Kill a Japanese archer out in the open. Kyoto has a pike in it. Maybe I won’t be able to take it.

510 (6) – Capture Izumo without taking any damage (except for a Knight that lost 1 hp from a cat). Japan has 2 cities left.

Next turn I’ll have 9 Knights, 1 MDI, and 3 Horses attacking Kyoto. I think I can take it. Unless Toku’s got like 10 Pikes in the city. *crosses fingers* Sapporo should fall in 2 or 3 turns.

520 (7) – Whoops, forgot to raze Izumo…<_< Thank god it didn’t flip.

Attack on Kyoto: First Knight dies, doing no damage and promoting the Pike. Second retreats, but brings pike to 2/4. 3rd Knight takes 2 damage killing the pike. A spear is showing! Knight dies redlining it. Next Knight retreats doing no damage to the spear. Next knight retreats doing 2 damage to the spear. The 2/4 pike is showing. Redline it, but die. Kill the 2/4 spear. MDI kills the redlined pike. A redlined spear is showing. Kill it with an elite horse, and we capture Kyoto! It’s got the ToA, but I’m not going to risk keeping it when I don’t have to.

Kyoto is razed.

IBT – The Japanese request peace. Heh, no. Then they start Knights Templar in their only city, which has a 7/13 army next to it.

530 (8) – The army kills 2 spears and a longbow, capturing Sapporo.

540 (9) – We achieve a Conquest Victory in AD 540 after 17 hours, 27 minutes, 13 seconds. Final score: 8501

It didn't show up in my HoF, though. Was this modded?

Here's the save at the end of 530.

Great game, guys.

 

[Own]

Great game all, that was good fun!

 

[soul_warrior]

all.
as always, a pleasure.

no, IroP, it was just a regular game. no mods.

*shameless plug - SW8 needs more warriors.

 

[Whomp]

WOW! That was a rout! Nice going everyone!

 

[Stephan Hoyer]

Wow, now that ended rather quickly . Those rules didn't turn out to be too restrictive at all.

 

[Daghdha]

Well done team

 

[occam]

Lurker comment: thanks for the great tale. I am confused by all the razing of Japan. Wasn't that verbotten?

 

[Whomp]

Oops.....yes it was occam. Some may have autorazed? Yeah that's the ticket.

 

[IroquoisPlisken]

<_< Um...yeah, they were all auto-razed...

Ahem.

 

[occam]

I only mentioned it since I was quite intrigued as to how Japan would be pacified without razing, something I wanted to study. I meant no disrespect. Cheers, and quite entertaining.

 

[Daghdha]

Oh, that troublesome a.u.t.o.-razing when you really try h.a.r.d. to keep the city. I guess we just