The March of Time - A Stainless Steel 6.4 hotseat

[RexLegend]

Doomed? AI? I think you've been colluding with those dastardly Danes! Did you not see my grand master plan unfolding before you, leading to sure-fire domination by the norwegian Viking over the continent. Hmph!

But honestly, I thought I still had a least a turn or two worth of fight in me? Did Denmark really get to my western Norwegian armies that quickly?

Either way, congratulations to him and apologies that I could not put up a better fight and in person (though on second thought, those two may have been mutually exclusive). I'll let you guys know when I'm back from Germany if there's still a need for another player.

Sure-fire domination? Doubtful. Mainland Norway would had fallen within 2 turns even when you had moved two stacks into defence or attacked Oslo. Don't know about plans you made with your army on Britannia. You would had no other choice but to land on mainland Europe and re-take either Groningen or Antwerp, otherwise your last army of Britannia would had sunk with pesky fleet of yours. Even if you would had tried to move army across shores of Britannia or Europe by moving it with ship(s), problems would occur with transportation via sea afterwards. (I think i've been playing too much strategy games like Vic2 and EU3)

After all, it was you who wanted challenge in beginning of game by choosing Norway. I just took my chance :P

[Myth]

Norway had pretty sizable forces on England AFAIK.

[phonicsmonkey]

Norway had pretty sizable forces on England AFAIK.

Hope I didn't make the wrong decision - it's not too late to switch it back and sub the faction properly if we think it has legs.

[RexLegend]

Yes, Norway HAD 4 quite sizeable stacks on Britannia at very beginning. 3 were departed to Antwerp/Eikundarsund AFAIK (I failed to sink carrying fleets, thats how I know), one stack is confirmed to have been remained on Britain. Or was it 5?

[phonicsmonkey]

Yes, Norway HAD 4 quite sizeable stacks on Britannia at very beginning. 3 were departed to Antwerp/Eikundarsund AFAIK (I failed to sink carrying fleets, thats how I know), one stack is confirmed to have been remained on Britain. Or was it 5?

it's not so much about how many there are as what they are made of, how well they are supported by essential units like catapults and spies, and whether there is money for forts

[Myth]

At the start of the game they seemed formidable but not enough to take on England's massive hordes of quality troops. Spies, siege units and forts I don't know. Though catapults can't open stone walls so unless he had trebs the point is moot.

[Nigel]

I completed my turn, but Mithridate (Kiev) has asked me to sub him.

As his turn is right after mine, I will carry on but will probably need "his time", i.e. another 48 hours to do so.
Hopefully by Thursday evening I should be able to upload the savegame for the Khwarezm (unless we want to get Norway back in).

[Nigel]

This is the upload for Kiev.

Phonics, if you can reset the pw, I can sub Mithridate (or, if he comes back soon enough, he can still play it himself).

MoT-5-Kiev.rar

[phonicsmonkey]

reset and sent to Nigel with the pw cleared earlier today

[Nigel]

Here is the turn for the new ruler of the Kwarezmian Empire.

Welcome aazard!


MoT-5-Kwaz.rar

[phonicsmonkey]

I'll find out if he's joining the game - some comments in the recruitment thread suggested otherwise. If not I'll skip this time and we'll try for one more turn to find another player before declaring them sacrosanct as per my previous posts on the subject.

[RexLegend]

Well it looked for me that aazard is not joining because he(she?) wants horrible vanilla hotseat.
One does not simply walk into magnificent Stainless Steel.

[phonicsmonkey]

Well it looked for me that aazard is not joining because he(she?) wants horrible vanilla hotseat.
One does not simply walk into magnificent Stainless Steel.

Please do not disparage other people's preferences. I know you're joking but we try very hard to be welcoming here, not critical of new members.

[slysnake]

bump!

[phonicsmonkey]

ok, still not sure if he's joining but it doesn't look like it so I've skipped the turn this time

Swabia

[RexLegend]

Wait why is Teutonic Order still present?? "surrender_regions" console command didn't work? :(

[Nigel]

Well, all I can say is that I just skipped them, when their turn came up after Kiev.

They do not have any regions at all, nor do they have any armies. Two bishops is all they have left if I recall correctly.

[RexLegend]

Looks like assassins have job to do >:)

[slysnake]

Sicily! MoT-6-Sicily.sav

[Myth]

Genoa up.

[slysnake]

bump!

[RexLegend]

Ahem... Anyone??! Anyone out there?! 'Cmon guys... I don't like to wait pointlessly for my turn by checking more than 3 times in day. :(
Btw... Genoa seems to get some hard punch in all fronts.

[Nightbringer]

Ahem... Anyone??! Anyone out there?! 'Cmon guys... I don't like to wait pointlessly for my turn by checking more than 3 times in day. :(
Btw... Genoa seems to get some hard punch in all fronts.

Hey, I tried to help...

[RexLegend]

Your help is greatly appreciated! :)

[Nightbringer]

Your help is greatly appreciated! :)

???

I meant about Genoa, but I would do anything I could to keep things running quickly.

I could of course sub Genoa :)

It looks like nobody left a message for iggy that it is his turn though (I just did so). Maybe they sent a pm, but his inbox is pretty much always full so he might not have gotten it.

[Myth]

I sent a PM and it did not bounce back. Genoa didn't have any fronts really, apart from AI France. I warned Ignoramus to hold off on attacking Venice but he insisted. I did what I can to stop him from doing this, but allies are allies and I don't go back on my word.

[Ignoramus]

Myth, I'm sorry, but you never warned me from attacking Venice - you told me yourself you deliberately didn't tell me so you could then attack me unprepared.

[Nightbringer]

Ah, such diplomatic intrigue...

I LOVE it!

[Ignoramus]

BTW: Don't worry, Myth, I'm not annoyed at you all personally - in fact, I prefer it if IC dealings stay IC and are handled in the Diplomacy thread - it stops acrimony.

[Ignoramus]

Denmark:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/local...id=205&id=9920

The Republic of Genoa wishes that the Sicilians stop their greedy land grabbing and bare-faced lies and negotiate a peace treaty with us. We are prepared to offer concessions, as our latest offer suggests. Otherwise, we call upon upon our friends the Moors to come to our aid!


The Sicilian fleet off the coast of Tuscany has been defeated and can't move next turn. Milan taken and that settlement in Nth Africa next to Tunis.

Also, I had a strange thing occur when I assaulted one of the Sicilian forts: I had a single trebuchet which breached one of the walls, but when it got destroyed the battle ended saying I lost, despite the fact that the fort only had a single circuit of walls and I could access everywhere. Anyone had this happen, or know why?