21-04-2004 08:20									#1
	Turn 114 - 290 B.C. Support Apolyton, buy Civilization III: Complete

New Units and Improvements:

Caerbannog builds, starts a new archer.

We've got a settler w/ spear escort in Camelot. Suggestions for direction?

Military:

Defeat another north barb. We're also still healing in Siege Perilous. Map of the situation attached. It's just as I feared - There's Monkey cats defending the Holy Grill.

Diplomacy:

Finances & Research:

998 gold, 47 per turn, Monotheism in 33.

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	21-04-2004 11:16									#2
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um bad news the picture isn't there....

	22-04-2004 07:41									#3
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You need to use the upload link, attachments don't work anymore.

	23-04-2004 01:31									#5
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Yay!

Next turn we should move all our healthy units 2 and build a road. Leave a spearman on the road they can't pillage it without a fight. If we have more reinforcements arriving they can defend Siege Perilous, otherwise we need to leave a couple units behind to do that.

Then we move our army 2,1 to the tile between Holy Grill and Orangutan. Once again they have to split their forces, and we will capture Holy Grill.

After Holy Grill, I think the best plan is to pillage our way to Primate Central and attack any city that gets isolated. Divide and conquer!

	23-04-2004 10:26									#6
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time to fry some damn dirty monkeys!!!!

	24-04-2004 01:50									#7
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I suggest we send the settler to start colonizing our part of the south.

	24-04-2004 06:55									#8
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This is Arrian's reply, his thoughts on Dave's plan. I thought it was relevant enough to post it here and in the FA thread.

quote: I don't have a map in front of me, but it sounds ok. Does Dave have any thoughts on what CoD's troops should do? IIRC, the main stack is healing at Holy Grill 6-9. I'm thinking they should just march southward, trying to place themselves in position to hit multiple targets at once (like Dave is trying to do with your troops), so Monkey has to spread out a bit. FYI - our galleys have made the turn and are now sailing northward up Monkey's west coast. When they get to our war road, we can load 'em with 4 horsemen and go after that island town. -Arrian

	27-04-2004 09:07									#9
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Dave, to play a little devil's advocate here, what response would you expect if we were to attack Holy Grill frontally, considering that they didn't evacuate Fort Siamang even when it was obvious what we were doing?

Positioning ourselves between the two exposes our stack to at least a dozen NM's, if the battle of FS is any indication, and many of those will be in Orangutan. If we expect them to pour mercs in wherever we attack, I'd rather fight them in unwalled Holy Grill than walled Orangutan. If we propose to do that with the positioning you propose, will we be accomplishing anything other than giving them potshots at us? Or are we dedicating some of our cats to tearing down those walls while we take on HG?

I like the plan and its potential, but want to be sure and look at it from every angle.

	27-04-2004 09:22									#10
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I'd much rather expose myself to attack from 12 NMs, than attack 12 NMs supporting each other in a city.

The basic idea is that they are too weak to counterattack, but strong enough to kill a lot of (unreplaceable) swordmen if we try a direct attack.

	28-04-2004 09:22									#11
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Sounds good to me, but wouldn't you think they'll realize that and hunker down, or will the psychological effect of our stack next to their cities be enough to compel them to attack?

	28-04-2004 13:36									#12
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We shoud try to bring them to divide their troops as much as we can. even if it costs as a few losses it'll be less sa if we woul try to attack them frantally now.

I'd send some Troops along the Mountainchain in direction of Primate central and some troops to the west.
Always one Tile away from the citys and always enough to make an Atack to a weak defended city possible.

If we catch them with trousers down or outside a city we should strike. While they try to entrench theirselves we must try to move fast....