*** Turn 0 ***

I suggest we have a post for each day of the war games. The post will start with an overview of the available equipment, cards and the position of our agents. To keep it simple each agent or group of agents could report their motives, suggestions, progress with current assignements etc.

So for turn 0, we have:

Blue Team: 20 gold, 50 shafts, 5 shields, 200 loaves bread
Cards:
Puny Fifth Column (2x1FC troops for city attack)
Axe Armory (2-6 axes)
Mob of Peasant Levies (6x1FC farmers in town we control, no movement, for 3 days or ownership of native town changes)
Crowd of Peasant Levies (4x1FC farmers in town we control, no movement, for 3 days or ownership of native town changes)
Levy Deserter (target levy card removed from play)
Bribery (target brigand, privateer or merc falls under our we control, cost for merc: 2GPxFC inc equipment)
Gang of Privateers (1-3x1FC secret troops)
Gang of Wolf Robbers (1-3x3FC rogue troops)
Privateer Spy (1FC unit, costing 1 GP/day)
Band of Wolf Robbers (4-6x3FC rogue troops)

Agent Locations (intended or agreed upon for placement on Day 1) [this will be updated]

Teh-Uberness FC 3 (Birmingham)
Ifigeny FC 1
Arthur_Loxley FC 5 (Shrewsbury)
Lady_bunny FC 1 (Coventry)
Dewaugh FC 5 (Shrewsbury)
Lordrichy FC 1
Killed FC 2 (Ludlow)
Telcara FC 2
Lynna FC 5 (Shrewsbury)
Pr0pheT FC 5 (Coventry)

Bribery (target brigand or privateer becomes a privateer we control, cost: 2GPxFC inc equipment)

Bribing brigands and privateers is free. Only bribing mercs costs money.

The_Red_Chef wrote:

Bribery (target brigand or privateer becomes a privateer we control, cost: 2GPxFC inc equipment)

Bribing brigands and privateers is free. Only bribing mercs costs money.

fixed

ok you need to change my FC to 5 & I'm Shrewsbury atm

Dewaugh wrote:

ok you need to change my FC to 5 & I'm Shrewsbury atm

I have incorporated the data, but I am also waiting on Chef to acknowledge the FC change

I'll be in Brum

Lynna and I are in Shrewsbury. With dewaugh, we can take shrewsbury day 1!

I'm currently in Ludlow, I think my goal though should be to take mines early on. I'm fine with starting on nodes and hopping from node to node.

We also have a lot of shafts, we should distribute one to each team member first thing and distribute shields to any group likely to be engaged.

*** ATTENTION *** ATTENTION ***
only for blue eyes, only!!!

Turn 0-1 tactics

Formation of plans (please comment)

1) Dewaugh moves to ludlow-shrews mine and captures it
2) Pr0pheT and LB take Coventry (weapons and cards used)
3) Telcara and Iphy move towards Ludlow to meet eventually with Dewaugh and Killed
4) Arthur and Lynna start on eastern Stafford
5) Cards to be played: big Wolves group west of Stafford, puny fifth on town attack (maybe) and axe armory


Things to solve
1) Is lordrichy in Bham, what can he do with Uber to claim town?
2) Where do Lynna and Arthur attack?
3) Can they get some more people onboard as bait?
4) How do armies vs groups battles run?

Pr0pheT wrote:

4) How do armies vs groups battles run?

According ot Red, they work just like normal combat. Typically it's an instant loss for the group due to size differentials, but not necessarily for us.

Well I am deacon of Birmingham and also a resident of course and Teh is the mayor so we should have an advantage, by the way Nick97 my brother that is on the red team is in Birmingham so we will need to get it fast.

Lynna and I need to know where we are starting to move there quickly. We need to travel town to town because of council duties. I was thinking maybe Lichfield?

am moving to the Node now , so I'm in postion for the start , can my postion be updated to the Node pls

Please read!!

Quote :

PropheT says (4:21 PM):
the main issues with the strategy is me, you two, the cards we will play, our purchases, the handling of arms
PropheT says (4:22 PM):
I say I do coventry, leave bunny over there with some cards and go to birmingham
but you two, are an issue
maybe being in shrewsburry will keep the defenders of stafford at bay
and it is a good strategy to stay there
Arthur says (4:22 PM):
so stay?
PropheT says (4:24 PM):
we will be sure after the following
can we please run the info from the forums with the info you may have on the members of red team?
PropheT says (4:26 PM):
mooseboy13, anonymoose, girls8539, nickc97, morg, rhenova
PropheT says (4:27 PM):
mooseboy13 is gone from coventry
Arthur says (4:28 PM):
i will lavabo them
and update their positions asap
PropheT says (4:28 PM):
anonymoose: shrews, morg: shrews
PropheT says (4:29 PM):
can you please check on the army
who is in it?
I will do the people I have in the list
Arthur says (4:29 PM):
no one is in the army only jorne
PropheT says (4:29 PM):
so he is on them
where is the army now?
shrews?
Arthur says (4:29 PM):
yeap shrews
PropheT says (4:31 PM):
girls: derby
she cannot move
PropheT says (4:32 PM):
rhenova: birmingham
how can this be possible?
are they not required to have 5 players in staford?
PropheT says (4:36 PM):
don't they have anyone in stafford?
Arthur says (4:38 PM):
i'm not sure. and yes they have to have 5 start in stafford
i'm not sure anyone is there lol
PropheT says (4:39 PM):
that may prove to be our advantage
give me a sec
I am preparing something
can you do me a favor please?
I only need one thing from you and this is major
PropheT says (4:40 PM):
as much as you can, and I know you have lots in your mind, to nudge people who are online to be active
just that
to get to the staffordwargames forum
Arthur says (4:42 PM):
so who do you want me to nudge?
PropheT says (4:43 PM):
I will post a thread with maps with our agent positions and the enemy positions
and I would like people to visit it once per day and give some updates
Arthur says (4:45 PM):
okies i can totally tell ppl to visit
PropheT says (4:49 PM):
do you have any free pic host account?
Arthur says (4:49 PM):
yes photobucket
PropheT says (4:49 PM):
can you please post a map in the turn 0 thread cause I don't have one now and I need to create one?
and I have not a lot of time now?
I will get back in 2 hours or so
PropheT sends:

Open(Alt+P)

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PropheT says (4:52 PM):
what do you think?
Arthur says (4:52 PM):
that looks good
PropheT says (4:52 PM):
mooseboy is probably in the mine node north of coventry
Arthur says (4:52 PM):
nick is in bham i think
PropheT says (4:53 PM):
I am going to go and get his sorry ass
Arthur says (4:53 PM):
lol
PropheT says (4:53 PM):
we need to tell our guys to wipe them in birm
can you please post that?
Arthur says (4:54 PM):
i'll post our whole convo
PropheT says (4:54 PM):

thanks
I will create a better map and send out assignments later on
Arthur says (4:55 PM):
ok cool will do
PropheT says (4:56 PM):
thanks mate
Arthur says (4:56 PM):
no problem. gonna do that now

I believe I told pretty clearly that Ifigeny and I had to start in Shrewsbury. There is no way we can start anywhere else. (we were outside the county and will arrive in Shrewsbury the 14th, start of the games, no time to travel anywhere else)

I have to stay in Shrewsbury to run as mayor, so I can't do any travelling, sorry. Ifigeny might however join another group.

Telcara wrote:

I believe I told pretty clearly that Ifigeny and I had to start in Shrewsbury. There is no way we can start anywhere else. (we were outside the county and will arrive in Shrewsbury the 14th, start of the games, no time to travel anywhere else)

I have to stay in Shrewsbury to run as mayor, so I can't do any travelling, sorry. Ifigeny might however join another group.

have I pointed that you should not be in Shrews? don't worry, we will do the best we can to accomodate this

Here ya go folks:



Thanks Prophet.

thanks Arthur, I managed the beast named phtobucket and I have something updated:

updated once again!!!

please all review the above map and send comments. final instructions will be posted tomorrow

My Thoughts:

1. I'm concerned about Shrews. If the army in Stafford uses it's cards to boost the size of it's army they could get wiped out first turn if they stay in Shrews.

2. If you're revolting you don't need to group, but should weigh the options. The positive for not grouping is deceit, particularly if they aren't certain you're a blue. The advantage to grouping is combining FC to be harder to kill.

3. We can only use 3 cards a day and have a lot of good ones, lets try and use them effectively. Also we can't forget that they too have cards and will likely sabotage our plans too.

4. I think we should either be going for a quick victory, or an entrenched guerrilla war. I think we can win either, but the strategies are very different and I'm not certain we've picked one or the other. The quick victory focuses on taking towns faster than they can reclaim them. The entrenched strategy involves taking lots of mines to build resources and win.

Wow! Nice map!

You only hold the castle, not the capital though.