Gobwin Bump IV: A New Home

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:19 am

From E6 3rd Rr 8 (f)Fox, Commander Benji, Lvl 2 104H 72A 32D
move to E9 and trump
Kga 7 (si)Dwarf Siege, Diplomat Stefan *Rocker* Lvl 5, 104H 0A 0D

COMBAT!

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3 Dwarf Siege cwoak, and one has 4 hits left.

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:24 am

From e6 2nd Rr 4 (f)Fox 52H 36A 16D
Moves to E9 and trump
Kga 4 (si)Dwarf Siege, Diplomat Stefan *Rocker* Lvl 5, 56H 0A 0D

COMBAT!

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2 more Dwarf Siege are cwoaked. Another has taken 1 hit.

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:28 am

From D9 7th Rr 8 (p)Ti-Ni 48H 16A 32D
moves to E9 and is trumped by
Kga 2 (si)Dwarf Siege, Diplomat Stefan *Rocker* Lvl 5, 29H 0A 0D

COMBAT!

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Not enough to cwoak another Siege, so the Ti-Ni turn around and go back to D9.

The Grennen turn has come to an end.

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:02 am

The Gobwinarian turn passes without incident.

The C-Elf turn passes without incident.

Except for a Thinkagram:

"To Jadis, ruler of Narnia.
From the Lords of the C-Elfs.
A condition of war now exists between the C-Elfs and your forces.
Your actions have provoked this state.
Your violation of condition 1 of the Treaty of Gobwin Bump frees our forces to engage in hostile actions, and we will do so.
That you used cwoakamancy on the C-Elfs you slew only adds insult to our injury.
Scorn, and derision.
Your Kingdom will not last much beyond a dozen turns."

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:06 am

Ferrr-Durrrp!

The Kingdom and Allied Tribes' turn 11 has begun.

Units and Locations

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Map

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Scout Report

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by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:17 am

King Edmund examines the unknown object as the turn begins.
It seems very frustrating to call it 'the unknown object'.
If only it could be taken to Gobwin Bump, the Librarian could identify it.
Or it could be taken to the magic kingdom, and its full powers examined.
Edmund puts these thoughts aside, and repeats last turn's experiment.
The object is still glowing green, and now, when placed on a flat surface, it rolls to the North-East.
It seems to Edmund to be rolling faster than yesterturn, but not very noticeably.
He uses a lance to measure distance, and heart beats to measure time.
The object takes 15 beats to roll the length of the lance.
If only he had tried this last turn, he would have something to compare it to...

by **LTDave** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:20 am

The Kingdom and Allied Tribes turn begins now, and will end at 10am Thursday AET (12pm GMT).

by **Sihoiba** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 5:05 am

LTDave, I would have assumed you'd have offered some sort of fix for changing the rules part way through the game on Kingdom foraging. That aside the whole can't entered unscouted hexes bit does that include hexes under the c-elf veil? Also I'm really curious to find out the plan for C-elfs personality once the game is done, it seems to be all over the place from an outside perspective and therefore hard to predict.

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Dothwaki Purse: 415.4
Upkeep: 275.8
Purse: 139.6

On orders from last turn 3 Swaves move from A4 to A3 and forage as separate stacks, 3 more move to B3 and forage as separate stacks.

Code: Select all: 551 _________________ 1 650 _________________ 3 947 _________________ 1 1046 _________________ 2 1244 _________________ 2 1442 _________________ 2

Dothwaki Purse: 390.6

The remaining 8 Swaves, four form separate stacks in A5 and the other four form separate stacks in B4

Queen Jadis please order my Swaves in F3 so that two forage D3 and one forages F4

by **HerbieRai** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:15 am

Accounting summary

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Good news is with those loses we are getting income. Problem is now we have little siege bearing down on the enemy. My proposal is to get both our commanders out of the northern combat zone, have the remaining siege attack the walls, and have the kingdom fund the zergs to take out those foxes and hopefully attack the city. If we can take the city down, then we will quickly turn the tide aganst the monsters, but I don't think the kingdome can get effective reinforcments to that front in time.

On the other front, the siege is not against our walls, so we are safe as long as we are behind them. I vote to keeping that a stale mate and giving funds to the zergs for the northern expansion. This would be gambling that the C elfs are going to be spending a turn or 2 to mobilize their forces.

Edit: In more detail. Zergs pop another 8 cannoneers in E9, and have each stack of 8 attack one of the fox stacks. This should take out their OHWs. Then we use the siege on the walls. to do some damage to the defense. Phase 3 is popping 4 cannoneers for beta's stack and another stack of 4 cannoneers and 4 Heavy Cannoneer to attack both the stacks inside the walls. Even if we roll minimum for everything, this should take out both those stacks OHW. If we do more damage to the walls with the siege, the second stack may be able to be a bit weaker.

Up to this point would be 312 in popping points, and assuming the kingdom gives all its treasury to the zergs, would leave them with 482 (this is before upkeep) to pop units to take the city. If the siege does minimum damage we may still have an issue.

by **Sihoiba** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:19 pm

Can we get a week extension, without the answer to the questions I won't be able to do my turn, and I'm going to be away for several days.

by **LTDave** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 8:19 pm

Sihoiba wrote:LTDave, I would have assumed you'd have offered some sort of fix for changing the rules part way through the game on Kingdom foraging. That aside the whole can't entered unscouted hexes bit does that include hexes under the c-elf veil? Also I'm really curious to find out the plan for C-elfs personality once the game is done, it seems to be all over the place from an outside perspective and therefore hard to predict.

I'm not sure how to answer these ones.
I won't be offering a fix for changing the rules, since I didn't change the rules. All forces could forage from the beginning, it's just that the rules didn't say that explicitly - and no one asked. This is one of my little "the universe works like this" things, but no one asked about it.
Just like no one has asked what the C-elf veil is, or how it works, or why it comes and goes... I'm not saying I'm going to answer those questions, but you might glean some information if you ask.
Can you enter the veiled hexes? No. The idea of the game is to keep the turns quick, so we don't have 'move in and see and then decide what to do.'
On the C-Elf personality, I'll start by saying that I'm not a role player, I'm a wargamer, so if the personality seems peculiar that's my excuse.
If you want to find out more about them, here's the general upshot:

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Sihoiba wrote:Can we get a week extension, without the answer to the questions I won't be able to do my turn, and I'm going to be away for several days.

Yes, sure, a week seems fine. In fact, have a look at the other thread.

by **Sihoiba** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:12 am

LTDave wrote:
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But by and large they've just been xenophobic isolationists, bound by a treaty not to attack the forces of Gobwin Bump. They don't like the treaty, but have been honouring it. But now, having been attacked by legitimate Gobwin Bump forces, they see the way clear to get involved more directly.

I'd say that makes sense, I'd argue however they'd broken the treaty attacking allied barbarians, but I think it's fair to say Barbarians are treated as second class citizens which is consistent with the comic.

by **LTDave** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:21 pm

Ok.

So it's been a few weeks, and as folks have indicated in the other thread, the joy has gone from this incarnation of The Battle For Gobwin Bump.

I'm going on my Spring holiday tomorrow, and won't be online for a few weeks, so I'm happy to call this one over.

Thanks to all the players for contributing - I think we've all learnt a lot from this game.

I'll be back in a month or so, and I might have a new idea for a new game, but no promises.

Thanks again.

by **Twoy** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 7:48 pm

LTDave,
I have enjoyed your games a lot. You have given me many hours of fun. This one just did not quite work as well as some of the others. I'm going on vacation for a couple of weeks. Perhaps I'll see you when you are back.

A test of New Erf is getting started at http://newerf.ephpbb.com/. It may crash and burn, but I have already had a few hours of fun from it.
Twoy

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