family vs family, the rematch

[The Panther]

One other thing about the assasination strategy. I did make a big mistake by not assigning adequate bodyguards to my 3 HP prophet. The fey boars were on bodyguard duty just to keep them out of harms way and prevent them from dying during a battle. I had them along solely for the 20 supply bonus, as vans do eat a lot at size 3.

While I was seiging your castle, all I had to do was put ALL my vans on bodyguard duty until the walls fell. Then there would have been exactly zero chance of ever losing my prophet to any number of assasinations.

And so, I just learned yet another key bit of information from this very game!

As for the map choice, I think that there are a lot of good maps about 100 size or less that are not wraparound. And I also think wraparound is much less important in a 2v2 than in an FFA, especially if we go with preplaced starting spots.


Panther

[Alneyan]

The Panther said:
While I was seiging your castle, all I had to do was put ALL my vans on bodyguard duty until the walls fell. Then there would have been exactly zero chance of ever losing my prophet to any number of assasinations.

Beware! Armies with only bodyguard units rout as soon as *one* unit/commander is killed. I do not know if you are aware of this fact, but it cannot hurt to point it out. It would hurt a lot to lose half your army because of that, in case the besieged try to attack you with more conventional means.

[The Panther]

Alneyan said:
Beware! Armies with only bodyguard units rout as soon as *one* unit/commander is killed. I do not know if you are aware of this fact, but it cannot hurt to point it out. It would hurt a lot to lose half your army because of that, in case the besieged try to attack you with more conventional means.

Ah, I did not know that. So the best strat would have been to put 5 vans on bodyguard duty and leave the rest on attack closest. With the fire 9 bless, 5 vans could have won dozens of assasination battles anyway.

[Zooko]

Yeah. Those blessed Vans could clean up my assassins even if there were only one Van per leader.

Too bad I fumbled all my assassins and didn't teach you this lesson the HARD way. ;-)

[Zooko]

I'm getting all excited about designing a new nation/pretender strategy... ;-)