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[Jilladilla]

Alright then! I'll conjure the Votebox then. I'll add you two to Training Camp in Dorytos, as that is what you said you wanted to do.

(3) Build Training Camp in Dorytos: Jilladilla, Happerry, Nirur Torir
(0) Build Training Camp elsewhere (specify)
(0) Do something else
(0) Save the die for next turn

[stabbymcstabstab]

(4) Build Training Camp in Dorytos: Jilladilla, Happerry, Nirur Torir, Stabby
(0) Build Training Camp elsewhere (specify)
(0) Do something else
(0) Save the die for next turn

[Iituem]

Strategy: Build Major Training Camp in Dorytos  [4]

With contributions from all of the League states, you establish the first major Military Training Camp in Dorytos, further securing its position as one of the foremost cities of the League and a contender for possible capital should the League ever unify into a more coherent nation-state.  Drawing upon skilled trainers, veterans and elites from across the Hadean Archipelago, the Dorytos Camp proves to be a swelling success and promises to output the equivalent of 100 extra spearmen per year in trained troops.  This represents a significant increase in our training capacity, but the problems inherent with the minor camps have only become entrenched here in the major camp.  Favouritism, power grabs and punishments continue to underlie our recruits' training schedules, and while this is still a significant net positive for us, this corruption is now endemic to our military.  While the better trained members of our forces are less likely to feel these effects, the brunt of them will fall upon the everyday militiaman.

Note that this is a flat bonus to Dorytos' training production and will not increase with Dorytos' size as its standard training production does.

Turn incoming.

[Tack]

That's... adequate.
Corruption seems to be the new state of our government.
Let's lean into it.

[Jilladilla]

That's... adequate.
Corruption seems to be the new state of our government.
Let's lean into it.

Nonsense! Our next step is obvious: we must create an oversight comity to root out this foul corruption!

[Khan Boyzitbig]

We can frame them as bug worshippers for why else would they deliberately weaken our glorious nation?

[Tack]

We should find the most manipulative and corrupt and hire them.

[Iituem]

Year 301

Both sides unveiled their forces in the first major series of engagements since the fall of Menotos.  The League, for its part, brought little in the way of apparent innovation, trusting to their tried and true forces; yet the distinctly noticeable increase in trained troops over their reliance on massed slave armies has not gone unobserved.  The Hive, for their part, have finally revealed the Queen's elite troops, what look almost like huge distended beetles with tiny legs, fly-like massive compound eyes and probosces that, as it turns out, spit gobbets of phlegm as far as a shortbow's range, albeit without anything like the accuracy.

The 1st Front, the most heavily reinforced on the part of the League, sees the League's traditional army at their best.  Facing an entirely melee-oriented force of worker drones and their larger soldier cousins, the League blast away their lines with ballista bolts and volleys of arrows, thin out their flanks with cavalry charges and pepper them with javelins before closing in with ranks of spearmen to mop up the shattered ranks of drones.  Only half a dozen soldier drones were brought down, but despite their brutal efficiency in murder the behemoths cannot effectively hold ground without support.  This is enough to push the 1st Front back from the outskirts of Menotos and up to the city walls.

The 1st Front is now besieging Menotos, a 3rd level Fortification.  Menotos is now Contested.


On the 2nd Front, both sides have deployed their elites; the League sent the deadly Aphrokemae, hero-champions worth a dozen men each, whilst the Hive birthed their 'spitters', almost a sort of mobile turret.  It is on this front that the Hive proved the worth of their spitter champions; although their aim is nothing to speak of, it proves unneeded; their gobbets of phlegm explode upon contact with the ground, spraying acid in a radius around them that can lay low dozens of men at a time.  The League's more elite soldiers are able to evade or withstand the sprays of acid, but it is the rank and file troops, especially the weak and undisciplined slave soldiers, who either find themselves being eaten away because of their lack of armour or desert at the sight of their comrades falling.   Enough of the ranks are destroyed that by the time the drones close in to melee, even their depleted forces from skirmishing are enough to overcome the remainder.  The 2nd front is pushed back towards Southern Menotos and the stone-walled hill fort of Dromon.

The 2nd Front is now besieging Dromio, a 2nd level Fortification in Souther Menotos.  Southern Menotos is now Contested.


The 3rd Front is engaged in traditional fashion, but simple numbers make the difference; too few troops are reinforced there by the League and the Hive simply swarm them with numbers, pushing them back to the palisades of Fort Antipholus, a simple wooden camp on a natural hill.

The 3rd Front is now besieging Fort Antipholus, a 1st level Fortification in Eastern Menotos.  Eastern Menotos is now Contested.


Current Reinforcement Strategy:  We are reinforcing Front 1, Front 2, and Front 3 equally.  Front 2 is receiving our National Effort, the Aphrokemae.  Of the 10,353 men we can raise for war, only 4372 reached the front this year.  We have a total naval transport capacity of 1050 men, split between our three fleets.  Our three fleets are reinforced equally from our shipyards.


It is now the Design Phase.  You have 5 dice remaining.

Spoiler: Front Report (click to show/hide)

1st Front

1st Front [Hive 1st Front vs League 1st Front]

Territorial Control: 309 vs 710

Hive 1st Front
  48 soldiers
  392 workers
800 manpower spent, 27 soldiers, 600 workers reinforced.
Hive 1st Front Deaths: [artillery] 20 workers, [ranged] 49 workers, [charge] 51 workers, [skirmish] 29 workers, [melee] 6 soldiers, 659 workers

League 1st Front
  20 skirmishers
  11 bowmen
  19 hoplites
  8 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  1 apprentices
  0 mages
  216 spearmen
  1736 slaves
1518 manpower spent, 9 skirmishers, 5 bowmen, 6 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 81 spearmen, 1848 slaves reinforced.
League 1st Front Deaths: [melee] 12 skirmishers, 6 bowmen, 2 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 97 spearmen, 1536 slaves

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2nd Front

2nd Front [Hive 2nd Front vs League 2nd Front]

Territorial Control: 659 vs 130.75

Hive 2nd Front [National!]
  18 spitters
  43 soldiers
  598 workers
690 manpower spent, 10 spitters, 23 soldiers, 510 workers reinforced.
Hive 2nd Front Deaths: [artillery] 19 workers, [ranged] 28 workers, [charge] 23 workers, [skirmish] 16 workers, [melee] 2 spitters, 3 soldiers, 336 workers

League 2nd Front [National!]
  7 aphrokema
  5 skirmishers
  2 bowmen
  10 hoplites
  3 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  1 apprentices
  0 mages
  65 spearmen
  147 slaves
1032 manpower spent, 2 aphrokema, 6 skirmishers, 3 bowmen, 4 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 55 spearmen, 1254 slaves reinforced.
League 2nd Front Deaths: [ranged] 6 skirmishers, 3 bowmen, 1 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 40 spearmen, 679 slaves, [melee] 1 aphrokema, 10 skirmishers, 5 bowmen, 3 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 96 spearmen, 1322 slaves

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3rd Front

3rd Front [Hive 3rd Front vs League 3rd Front]

Territorial Control: 837 vs 97.5

Hive 3rd Front
  51 soldiers
  786 workers
800 manpower spent, 27 soldiers, 600 workers reinforced.
Hive 3rd Front Deaths: [artillery] 20 workers, [ranged] 23 workers, [charge] 23 workers, [skirmish] 12 workers, [melee] 3 soldiers, 336 workers

League 3rd Front
  5 skirmishers
  2 bowmen
  9 hoplites
  2 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  0 apprentices
  0 mages
  59 spearmen
  78 slaves
787 manpower spent, 5 skirmishers, 2 bowmen, 3 hoplites, 1 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 42 spearmen, 958 slaves reinforced.
League 3rd Front Deaths: [melee] 12 skirmishers, 6 bowmen, 2 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 102 spearmen, 1608 slaves

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Spoiler: Map, 301 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler:  Current Status (click to show/hide)

==The League==

Production: 518/1500 ore, 1095/2100 timber, 963/1523 training
Manpower: 2870/51765 {10353/turn}  {4372 reinforced last turn.}

Kroton [League]: [City] 4058 population, 3 base food, 112 training
  Sends 812 manpower to League Node 1.  Grew by 393 last year.
Sybylan Woods [League]: 1 base timber
Sybylos [League]: [City] 2705 population, 2 base food, 74 training
  Sends 541 manpower to League Node 1.  Grew by 262 last year.
Epidaea [League]: [City] 3048 population, 3 base food, 84 training
  Sends 610 manpower to League Node 4.  Grew by 533 last year.
Nippi [League]: [City] 2705 population, 2 base food, 74 training
  Sends 541 manpower to League Node 3.  Grew by 262 last year.
Nippan Woods [League]: 4 base timber
Kydessan Woods [League]: 2 base timber
Kydessos [League]: [City] 4064 population, 4 base food, 112 training
  Sends 813 manpower to League Node 2.  Grew by 710 last year.
Latada [League]: [City] 3048 population, 3 base food, 84 training
  Sends 610 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 533 last year.
Paphessan Mines [League]: 2 base ore
Paphessos [League]: [City] 3200 population, 2 base food, 88 training
  Sends 640 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 227 last year.
Antespiae [League]: [City] 3048 population, 3 base food, 84 training
  Sends 610 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 533 last year.
Samai [League]: [City] 4800 population, 3 base food, 132 training
  Sends 960 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 340 last year.
Dorytos [League]: [City] 6400 population, 4 base food, 276 training
  Sends 1280 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 454 last year.
Chersera [League]: [City] 3200 population, 2 base food, 88 training
  Sends 640 manpower to League Node 5.  Grew by 227 last year.
Arteiros [League]: [City] 3048 population, 3 base food, 84 training
  Sends 610 manpower to League Node 6.  Grew by 533 last year.
Lissona [League]: [City] 2032 population, 2 base food, 56 training
  Sends 406 manpower to League Node 6.  Grew by 355 last year.
Borolis [League]: [City] 3200 population, 2 base food, 88 training
  Sends 640 manpower to League Node 6.  Grew by 227 last year.
Cumida [League]: [City] 3200 population, 2 base food, 88 training
  Sends 640 manpower to League Node 6.  Grew by 227 last year.
Theros Isle [League]: 3 base ore

League 1st Front
  20 skirmishers
  11 bowmen
  19 hoplites
  8 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  1 apprentices
  0 mages
  216 spearmen
  1736 slaves
1518 manpower spent, 9 skirmishers, 5 bowmen, 6 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 81 spearmen, 1848 slaves reinforced.
League 1st Front Deaths: [melee] 12 skirmishers, 6 bowmen, 2 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 97 spearmen, 1536 slaves

League 2nd Front [National!]
  7 aphrokema
  5 skirmishers
  2 bowmen
  10 hoplites
  3 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  1 apprentices
  0 mages
  65 spearmen
  147 slaves
1032 manpower spent, 2 aphrokema, 6 skirmishers, 3 bowmen, 4 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 55 spearmen, 1254 slaves reinforced.
League 2nd Front Deaths: [ranged] 6 skirmishers, 3 bowmen, 1 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 40 spearmen, 679 slaves, [melee] 1 aphrokema, 10 skirmishers, 5 bowmen, 3 hoplites, 2 cavalry, 96 spearmen, 1322 slaves

League 3rd Front
  5 skirmishers
  2 bowmen
  9 hoplites
  2 cavalry
  1 ballistae
  0 apprentices
  0 mages
  59 spearmen
  78 slaves
787 manpower spent, 5 skirmishers, 2 bowmen, 3 hoplites, 1 cavalry, 0 ballistae, 0 apprentices, 0 mages, 42 spearmen, 958 slaves reinforced.
League 3rd Front Deaths: [melee] 12 skirmishers, 6 bowmen, 2 hoplites, 3 cavalry, 102 spearmen, 1608 slaves

League 1st Navy
  7 biremes
345 manpower spent, 1 biremes reinforced.

League 2nd Navy
  7 biremes
345 manpower spent, 1 biremes reinforced.

League 3rd Navy
  7 biremes
345 manpower spent, 1 biremes reinforced.

Spoiler:  Budget (click to show/hide)

League Budget

10% of League manpower from all cities is devoted to constructing and staffing ships.

Ships      10%      (Biremes)
Skirmishers   10%
Bowmen      5%
Hoplites   10%
Cavalry      5%
Ballistae   5%
Mages      5%      (3% Apprentices, 2% Mages)
Aphrokema   5%      National Effort
Spearmen   45%
Slaves      Excess Manpower

Spoiler:  Current Units (click to show/hide)

LEAGUE

Units

Slaves      Cost: 1 manpower.  Poor unfortunate souls, these 'draftees' are sent into war without training or even real equipment to plug the holes in the lines.  Extremely cheap, but cannot be counted upon to hold or capture territory, as they will flee unless watched constantly.
Spearmen      Cost: 1 mp, 1 training, 1 ore.  Given leather armour and a bronze-covered shield, these militia forces have gone through some training in the simplest of weapons (but still an effective one).
Skirmishers   Cost: 1 mp, 2 training.  Lightly armoured and lightly equipped with slings and darts, these men have better stamina than most and are mobile, able to attack at short range.
Bowmen      Cost: 1 mp, 2 training, 1 timber.  Unarmoured but equipped with fine shortbows, these archers can engage the enemy at distance, thinning their ranks before the melee closes.
Hoplites      Cost: 1 mp, 3 training, 3 ore.  Well-trained troops armed with spear, shield and heavy bronze armour, these are the shock troops of a League army.  They don't move quickly, but when they get there nobody gets past them.  Unless they go around.
Cavalry      Cost: 3 manpower, 1 ore, 3 training.  Armed with spears and riding light, fast horses, these cavalry form a powerful skirmishing force that can harry foes and take advantage of the less mobile.
Aphrokema   Cost: 1 mp, 10 training, 3 ore.  National Effort.  Costs lots of training, some ore.  Hoplites, but hoplites trained from birth in a gruelling manner that costs the lives of the weaker.  These men are deadly beyond measure and will not break, fighting to the very last man.

Apprentices   Cost: 1 mp, 20 training.  Capable of casting Lesser spells.  Can cast up to 3 spells.
   Spell List:  Daze, Magic Weapon, -
Mages      Cost: 1 mp, 50 training.  Capable of casting Greater spells.  Can cast up to 5 spells, including Lesser spells.
   Spell List:  Daze, Magic Weapon, -  //  Webs, -

Biremes      Cost: 20 manpower, 10 training, 50 timber.  Passenger Capacity: 50 manpower.  Combination cargo ship and battle ship.  Limited passenger capacity, but reasonable ranged combat with bows and a ram.

Ballistae   Cost: 6 manpower, 20 training, 10 ore, 10 timber.  Negates siege bonuses, some extreme-range anti-personnel effects.  [Siege stat counteracts fortification bonuses on a flat level.]

Palisades   Simple palisades for defence, on a natural hill.  A level 1 fortress.
Walls      Stable stone walls, built high, to defend cities and towns.  A level 2 fortress.
Keeps         Constructed wooden castles with stone supports, typically within a larger wall.  A level 3 fortress.


Technology

Bronze Working         -   The League is most familiar with the art of smelting and shaping bronze from copper and tin.
Slave-Farmed Smallholds   -   Agriculture is farm-based, with high productivity from slave labour, although technological advances are limited.
Shipbuilding         -   The League is particularly capable at crossing the sea, even compared to the nations of the Continent.
Architecture         -   The League has a functioning understanding of architecture and construction, allowing it to build up to Level 3 Fortresses (Keeps).
Family Education      -   Close-knit groups of kin or kith are responsible for training and educating their own.  Knowledge is preserved, but the quality of troops and scholars alike is highly variable.
Military Training Camps   -   Bog-standard troops are trained in semi-formal camps, led by veteran trainers.  Corruption amongst the trainers is a serious problem.
Militia Service         -   Armies are nominally part time, but citizen militia can spare time to train and prepare for battle without draining the resources a professional army would.


Spells

Lesser Spells

Daze: Befuddles an enemy squad, making them easier to kill.
Magic Weapons: Hardens and balances melee weapons.


Greater Spells

Webs:  Sticky webs immobilise a squad, rendering them easy to kill.

[Jilladilla]

Well now, that went far better than expected, I fully expected us to lose ground at all three fronts.

So, what do we want to do now? We should probably save a die to fix the camps, and perhaps another to claim some of the resources on our outlying islands... Depends on how our design goes, I suppose.
(Iituem, what's the current limiting factor making us have to rely on so many slaves at the moment, if we can ask?)

[Iituem]

Well now, that went far better than expected, I fully expected us to lose ground at all three fronts.

So, what do we want to do now? We should probably save a die to fix the camps, and perhaps another to claim some of the resources on our outlying islands... Depends on how our design goes, I suppose.
(Iituem, what's the current limiting factor making us have to rely on so many slaves at the moment, if we can ask?)

At this stage, Training.  All League units except Slaves require at least 1 point of Training, and the reinforcement algorithm is set up so that it will try to fill out ranks with spearmen once all other units have been recruited, until it either runs out of ore or training, then it will spawn slaves to fill the gap.  Right now, you are fine for ore.  You simply lack sufficient training to field more non-slave troops.

Not that your last turn was useless.  You ended up with something in the region of an 18% bonus to training production, plus the extra bonus that will come next turn from city growth.

[Tack]

Our levy and militia troops are too easily overwhelmed by the larger and more agile bugs. Thus, we should teach them to carry long pikes into battle.
The simple 'turn, stand, thrust' of pikes makes them easier to train with, and the long reach will mean less threat from the great warrior-bugs, and an easier time preventing the smaller workers from closing upon our lines.

Also @Iituem, If we push the 1st front hard enough to take their capital, what does that mean for the hive?

[stabbymcstabstab]

Ok so of we save on die for the camps, on for build another camp. Should we use our remaining to design on new thing or revise three things or build more camps?

[Terenos]

Our current state is that one front won, the other two didnt. But one of those fronts failed due to a lack of troops. Odds are given the pressure of the first front, we'll see a redeployment of their troops there.

This says to me that right now, we are doing ..reasonably. Our forces are currently capable of handling things(ish), though I'm sure a numbers game is going to go against us quite rapidly, especially if either Front 2, or 3 buckles any further. We also have to be careful regarding Nippi, as it is adjacent to our main source of timber.

I think our best bet is improving one of our current troop types. I'd say perhaps looking into improving our bronze, which could have a staggering effect on our military power early on. Alternatively, we could throw down on magic, improving our weapon enchantments, or expanding them to include more than merely harder weapons.

[Iituem]

Our levy and militia troops are too easily overwhelmed by the larger and more agile bugs. Thus, we should teach them to carry long pikes into battle.
The simple 'turn, stand, thrust' of pikes makes them easier to train with, and the long reach will mean less threat from the great warrior-bugs, and an easier time preventing the smaller workers from closing upon our lines.

Also @Iituem, If we push the 1st front hard enough to take their capital, what does that mean for the hive?

Game over, unless they've captured another city and spawned a Queen there.

Please note that unless a Strategic action is taken, Fronts will resupply in the same proportions they have last turn.  You can use an action later to switch around which cities supply where and which Navies are given how many ships.

[Tack]

I totally want to try and send 90% of our troops to attack the hive directly.

But if we win, can we reboot and go again? 'Cos this is a cool game which deserves a real conclusion.