Could have gone much better. In general, the Halfling economics and the speed of dreadnought is a quite good combo. Massing forces and cities in no time even without the expander skill.
But keeping cannons and artillery in a middle hexagon is probably never a winning recipe for a dreadnought if an enemy can run to it directly in tactical. Saw that on the tactical replays.
@Refineus: yeah, you can only get 4 stacks if you attack so in PBEM it's hard to play with 4 stacks. I usually keep only 3 stacks together, and keep other units far enough behind to avoid behind attacked.
This was a very close game all the time, the first big army blow was after Refineus won a Naga Vassal I had right in the middle of the map between our territories. I was able to gather all my armies and I sent an "all in". I got hit hard, we bot lost our leaders but I got that city and defeated his army.
Then I pushed and razed 2 of his cities, when I saw he had a big army again, I decided to retreat to his vassals. To my surprise he was going "all in" to my territory, but I don't think he was able to position his stacks yet and probably not expecting that blow, I took that to my advantage and attacked him.
I lost my main 4 stacks when I decided to besiege his territory. It was a doom stack and he bearly won that battle without heavy casualties. Due to my bad positioning off stacks, he probably faced 3 stacks instead of 4 which turned it to becoming a 3vs3. I lost my two heroes.
Tried to recover with a small crusade of dreadnoughts units, and the plan was to chase his hero harassing my base. With engineers building roads, I came up with a plan to quickly catch up his forces. But it got turned down. Sadly I'm not able to recover from the second lose so the Halfling Dreadnought is finite for now.
DrLight
Refineus
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@Hiliadan
Could have gone much better.
In general, the Halfling economics and the speed of dreadnought is a quite good combo. Massing forces and cities in no time even without the expander skill.
But keeping cannons and artillery in a middle hexagon is probably never a winning recipe for a dreadnought if an enemy can run to it directly in tactical. Saw that on the tactical replays.
Written by Hiliadan
Well done DrLight for that victory!
@Refineus: yeah, you can only get 4 stacks if you attack so in PBEM it's hard to play with 4 stacks. I usually keep only 3 stacks together, and keep other units far enough behind to avoid behind attacked.
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This was a very close game all the time, the first big army blow was after Refineus won a Naga Vassal I had right in the middle of the map between our territories. I was able to gather all my armies and I sent an "all in". I got hit hard, we bot lost our leaders but I got that city and defeated his army.
Then I pushed and razed 2 of his cities, when I saw he had a big army again, I decided to retreat to his vassals. To my surprise he was going "all in" to my territory, but I don't think he was able to position his stacks yet and probably not expecting that blow, I took that to my advantage and attacked him.
Well played, good game!
Dr light wins fair and square.
I lost my main 4 stacks when I decided to besiege his territory. It was a doom stack and he bearly won that battle without heavy casualties. Due to my bad positioning off stacks, he probably faced 3 stacks instead of 4 which turned it to becoming a 3vs3. I lost my two heroes.
Tried to recover with a small crusade of dreadnoughts units, and the plan was to chase his hero harassing my base. With engineers building roads, I came up with a plan to quickly catch up his forces. But it got turned down.
Sadly I'm not able to recover from the second lose so the Halfling Dreadnought is finite for now.
Ouch, that was a very big blow to all armies. Seems my Halfling luck ran out
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Dr Light Vs Refineus
Name in game: Refineus Vs Drlight
Password: crashman
Mods: Pbem balance mod and Strong defenders
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