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[Anvilfolk]

This should be done in a separate thread, but I wanted to bump up the last hours of this bundle for great justice.

Yesterday I Hegemonised some more. I thought the Illyrians were all but done as I crept up to the southern borders of Dalmatia... it turns out they weren't. There's still two more cities I need to take. I already started moving many resources all the way back to my capital in central-eastern Greece. Flocks of sheep congregate from all the kindgom. I will be making a push south to Athens, I think, and perhaps to the east. I'll try to keep my truces up for as long as I can.

The Illyrians really beat me up. I am using massive amounts of mercenary forces from conquered cities. Because they are not native to your tribe, they cannot be upgraded... which means their morale is crap. In other words, I was sieging what I thought was one of the last Illyrian cities with three siege engines, and three mercenary hoplite companies. As it turns out, their city was massively garrisoned, so they kept killing people in the sieging force... This dropped their morale a bit too much, and all three companies routed. Fortunately I had some cavalry not too far away that managed to drive back their peltast counter-attack on my catapults. I brought back some other regiments, and that is now finally mine.

I think I've got enough people there to take care of Dalmacia now. That should finish the Illyrians right up. Because all of these are non-native cities and they have unrest, that means I've got tons of garrisons in these bordering regions. These keep away the occasional raid as I move my main force (with sheep! There's precious little food up there...) to finish off the last two cities in the great northern expanse. That takes a long time, so I am thinking of initiating my strike down south... or perhaps I will wait and set up my supply routes so that food starts flowing to the south. I'll need it to feed the massive armies gathering there.

Decisions decisions...

[lordcooper]

One tactic I've found useful is bringing tons of slaves with your main force when on the offensive.  They don't cost a thing and can carry enough food to keep you on the move a decent while longer.

[Anvilfolk]

I get annoyed of micromanaging slaves though. Capturing the remains of Peltast units to get 40 slaves is annoying, and they will rout at the first sign of aggression. You also have to keep some military unit along with them, otherwise they rebel in the fog of war (would be nice to have an escort option, say for scout cavalry to attach to slaves). I guess they wouldn't be too good for going back for more food because of that. But I have enough money that I can probably take a couple companies out of the mines and bring them along. How much food do they bring? Sheep flocks can be as high as 500 from what I've seen, but they are super slow!

Also considering regular workers. How much can those carry, I wonder.

Also, I think this is mostly a problem for Dalmacia up in the north. The distances are huge. I don't recall this being a problem close to the starting cities.

[alexpoysky]

Any game that has the phrase "I hate micromanaging slaves" attributed to it is probably going to be a source of conflict hahahaha.

ANYWAYS, the next of our bundles is about to launch, give or take 20 minutes, just wanted to give you all a heads up!

[Darvi]

Holy shit Eryi's Action. Imagine a person. Said person looks innocent enough, so you don't raise your guard particularly.


Then they reveal themselves to be the lovechild of IWBTG and Kaizo Mario and proceed to stab you in the face.

[Aklyon]

You know alex, you could change the title. Its after the november

[alexpoysky]

done!

[Itnetlolor]

I've mostly invested in this for Syder Arcade (next week sale), but netting a good 20 games for 10 bucks is also a nice investment.

EDIT:
I'll have to admit, Syder Arcade was definitely worth the wait. Quite a fun game there. Love the music.

[Anvilfolk]

Only 63 more sales until the final unlock with Storm over the Pacific is released, wink wink wink

[hemmingjay]

Congrats to Alex for making this such a huge success!

[alexpoysky]

Thanks man! It's good to see we are reaching about 1 k sales a week. Hopefully week four will bring in new holiday sales. We are also going ot let any previous bundles be purchased if you have bought week 5, so as to help people who hadn't had money out!

[Anvilfolk]

Hoooray! Over 4k sales! When do we get Storm over the Pacific?

Can you guess whether I am a Pacific Theatre of Operations fanatic?

[alexpoysky]

We are getting ready to launch the last bundle!

[Catastrophic lolcats]

It's free if you bought the rest of the bundles, correct? It wants me to put down 4 dollars even though I've bought the rest :s

EDIT: I'm assuming it's happening because it's not technically up for sale.
Works fine now. 

[Anvilfolk]

Everybody should totally get this for Zafehouse Diaries