25-10-2003 08:12									#31
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Some family matters have come up. Nothing serious, but they have to be tended to while other people are available.

I have been told that BigFree may have been wondering about intentions with the army based on what had been done already.

Trip suggested and I agreed to take shots at the spear/wounded horse stack. That did not work out so well, and it leaves 2 of our horse hanging at 1 pip each. Trip considered moving the entire army to the same tile as the wounded horse. The benefit of that is that we would be closer to Catchopolis after we heal.

Alternatively, we could move the army with 2 mercs into the woods, and push 3 mercs to the horses. Next turn the 2 mercs fortify, and the wounded horse with escort join them in the woods. This would give the resting army the benefit of the woods and prevent easy pickins for GCA's non-red lined horse.

In either case, GCA's forces have not had any time to heal yet. It is unlikely that they have any significant forces to come after us with during this next turn.

	25-10-2003 10:32									#32
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Got some free time afterall. Turn is done. I apologise if this report is not up to snuff. vondrack, please pm me with any questions, or ask here.

Diplomacy:
Peace offer accepted by GCA on the table. Escape to get out of screen.


Unit movements differing from posted:
H 'Mingapulco' moves 2 9
H 'Trip's Guard II' G2 moves 3 2. Attacks fortified spear at 2. Retreat at 1 pip after inflicting 1 pip damage
H 'Incensity' moves 3 2. Attacks fortified spear at 2. Retreat at 1 pip after inflicting 1 pip damage

M b renamed 'Igor'
M c renamed 'Donald'
M g renamed 'Robin'
M k renamed 'Jean-Luc'

H08 named 'Bambi' moves as ordered from BFC
H09 named 'kermit' moves as ordered from Incensity

N 'Enamel' moves 7 7 4 (towards the front)
N18 named 'Waiter' moves as ordered from Hispanica
N19 named 'Taxi' moves as ordered from Tripoli

G 'Princess of Apolyton' [WhiteBandit] moves 6 2. Fortify all

from Algalord 7 stack
6 catapults move 3 2
2 warriors move 3 2
M's Theseus, Arnelos, Hack, Rothaerill move 3 2
N's ZargonX, Pikesfan, Sharpe, Hungryopd, Mao move 3 2
M's E_T, Steelglove, wervdon, Robin, and scourge fortified and stay put for healing
N Roadcage fortified and stay put for healing

Algalord 8 7 stack
all (5 mis) move 2 3 2

Algalord 8 8 7 stack
H BFC moves 2 2 3 2
M Jean-Luc moves 2 2 3
C Possum moves 2 2 3

G 'Expedition' moves 2. Fortify. The idea is that we could have moved north to pick up cargo, and this is where we would have ended up coming back south. Now GCA will not know if it loaded or empty.

W Rah moves 2 2 3

Settler Nana moves 1 1 4
Settler Lux moves 2 1 4
Settler in Mingapulco named "Poly' moves 2 1 1


Economy:
all as posted

Slider:
Set to 9.0.1 tax/science/lux
168 gold in bank. + 39 gpt
1 scientist. Invention in 29

	25-10-2003 20:42									#34
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Very interesteing that Shen Ling has a food shortage.

Hum, looking at the GL in Catchopolis, about how many turns do we expect Education to be?

	25-10-2003 23:38									#35
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quote: Originally posted by joncnunn Very interesteing that Shen Ling has a food shortage. Hum, looking at the GL in Catchopolis, about how many turns do we expect Education to be?

Education is a full two techs plus the remainder of monotheism (when we get it from a tech trade) away from us. GCA will be dead by then, but if you're asking about what would happen if we got it, I don't think we would see it. GCA would rather raze the city than let us grab the great library I would imagine.

	26-10-2003 04:13									#36
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Some points that were noted in play that nye didn;t have the time to post:

• the Horseman Mingapulco moved forward to investigate Catchopolis a little, and saw a Pikeman in Catcho (non-fortified). Thus GCA has Iron reconnected, and it is either the Iron next to the refounded Dun Na Anarchy, or the one over by Sodapopolis (we also saw that the Iron near Catcho is unroaded). We can tell from this that GCA reconnected Iron only this turn, and made at least an upgrade or two.
  
• Seen units near Catchopolis:
  - in the screenshot you can see a small stack 8 9 of Catchopolis: a 2hp Veteran Spear(wounded by our Horsemen), a 1hp Vet Horseman and a Worker.
  - not seen in the screenshot (as we retreated Mingapulco), there is a small stack 8 of Catchopolis of: a 5hp Elite Spearman who has spawned a Leader, a 3hp Elite Swordman and a 3hp Vet Swordman.
  
• GCA has ALL techs that we do, which they will have got from the Great Library, as they have contact with us, GWT and CFC with those techs. They would likely be working on Chivalry, which I really hope they don't get before we finish them (War Elephants!)
  
• GWT has disconnected their Iron, although they still have their one Iron resource in the middle of their territory, so they must be doing the old "build-warriors-then-upgrade" trick.
  
• The only Barb camps around are "near Equilibrium", which could mean West of the Dyes colony, or NE in that rocky peninsula, or even closer to CFC
  
• We are still strong to all except GWT, with whom we are average.
  

	26-10-2003 05:39									#37
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If we have a spare horseman, can we send it behind Catchpolis to disconnect the road? Perhaps CFC could try to disconnect a road closer to them?

	27-10-2003 16:40									#38
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You forgot to report quite an important event: Algalord was abandoned ..!