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[EuchreJack]

Oink Oink!

[Il Palazzo]

Had to redo the whole thing with a new concept, because of course I forgot to play the one stratagem I absolutely needed to play this turn. Bleugh.
As the mushroom forest keeps growing unabated, I find pleasure in seeing the strategic situation unfold pretty much like I thought it would should my initial strike fail.

Also, the new spying calculations are a major nerf. Not as much in terms of spies dying (that I can see), but in how much info they are able to provide.

[E. Albright]

Well, you're now doing your part to spread mushrooms, too, even if you won't be spreading big ones for at least another turn or two.



And that's hardly reassuring, b/c the strategic situation is unfolding more-or-less like I've expected: I've only managed to push you back in flat, open terrain and even then only once I had nuke support online... while your troops continue to push back superior numbers of my troops in defensive formations even when they're entrenched in mountains - and we're taking heavier casualties than you when you do so. When you deploy your own tactical nuclear missiles in a turn or two, I don't see how I won't just be overrun - especially if you don't get as utterly underwhelming a roll for weapon design as my launchers' 61.

I can't be too dark and gloomy, though - I'm positively glowing now that the aliens of Apoto Territory finally decided to join me. You may hold the most radioactive hex on the planet, but I certainly hold the most radioactive region...

Spoiler: In particular, I look forward to getting 200 mutants from the 1635 hex every turn (click to show/hide)

[Il Palazzo]

And that's hardly reassuring, b/c the strategic situation is unfolding more-or-less like I've expected

You're talking about tactical, maybe operational 'successes'. I'm talking about long term prospects. What good does it do me if I make a successful conventional push in a hex, if next turn I lose it together with two battalions' worth of troops. Meanwhile, I'm bleeding population well beyond replacement rates. You simply can lose what you're losing, and more. I can't.
I see now that I should have attacked Mabarion twenty turns ago, while it still had its large cities and some untapped resources. But I banked on the extra troops tipping the scales on our frontline. Now I'm just looking at you growing exponentially, while I'm not even stagnating any more.


Btw, that alien territory shows that war, war never changes

[E. Albright]

Strategic prospects only matter if I can achieve at least tactical gridlock, which will be a lot harder once you start nuking me, not that it's easy now. My population centers are a lot closer to the front than yours - and my capital in particular is dangerously close. You don't have to grind me down to nothing, you just have to grind me down to missile artillery range from Montana. Which is what, 9 hexes? That's really not that far back from the front.

[Il Palazzo]

9 hexes as well might be on the Moon for my ability of getting there.

[E. Albright]

...the closest part of the front is 10 hexes from my capitol. You managed a breakthrough there and got a salient to 9 hexes before I cut it off a couple of turns ago.

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, so it's 8 hexes range actually. And it's not like I could just put my expensive missile artillery on the first hex that's in range, unless for a one-off hail Mary strike before they all get annihilated.
And while I of course will keep trying for the lack of better ideas, I do think that ship has sailed. But hey, maybe the shitty 1 Mt nukes will make a difference and I'll manage to crawl in through the mountains and radiation and stacks of troops before I run out of people.

[EuchreJack]

@Karlito: You enjoying the show?

From the sound of things, Il Palazzo & E. Albright both are doing so poorly that they should just give peace a chance.

Because hey War, what is it good for?

[Il Palazzo]

@Euchre but you're missing the most important point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSTO7vpJg4

[E. Albright]

I'm picking away at the turn. Playtesting picked up and has been eating most of my SE time, but I'll find time to have it ready for Karlito to do their turn on the weekend.

[Karlito]

Well I still don't have it but don't have time to play this weekend anyway, so no great hurry.

[E. Albright]

Yeah, sorry. I'll get it to you this weekend so you'll have it when you have time.

[Il Palazzo]

I can only assume it's my most recent Unparalleled & Amazing New Operational Concept [TM] that is putting the 'pro' in somebody's procrastination this turn.

[Karlito]

Nah, just real life work.