jakobagger retrieves 1 free Mechanized unit and pays 8 Influence to retrieve 4 standard units. Phyphor has conditional orders to retrieve 3 free units and pay 4 Influence to retrieve 2 more. Alegis has conditional orders to retrieve 1 free unit and pay 6 Influence to retrieve 3 more.
Round 5: Phase 3: Recruiment Phase Summary
BobCesca retrieves 1 free unit and pays 13 Influence to retrieve 4 more plus the Merchant Prince leader. (Hacan Inf --> 7, Cas --> 6, Res --> 5)
Egos retrieves 2 free units and pays 2 Influence to retrieve 1 more. (Letnev Inf --> 0, Cas --> 3, Res --> 17)
jakobagger retrieves 1 free Mechanized unit and pays 8 Influence to retrieve 4 standard units. (Lazax Inf --> 20, Cas --> 4 + 2 Mech., Res --> 4 + 1 Mech.)
Phyphor retrieves 3 free units and pays 4 Influence to retrieve 2 more. (Sol Inf --> 11, Cas --> 5, Res --> 5)
Alegis retrieves 1 free unit and pays 6 Influence to retrieve 3 more. (Xxcha Inf --> 14, Cas --> 0, Res --> 4)
Round 5: Phase 4: Maneuvering Phase
MrBody starts the round by peeking at the top card of the Influence Deck and makes the first maneuvers.
Well, Bob. I wouldn't try too hard to collect influence since one of the cards they got was a tracking beacon. They can set off a Sol Offensive at the start of any turn and wipe out any units we collected with.
I'm gonna hit Lazax. We win wars of unit attrition and if he rebuilds his stuff they have no more money. Not sure what else we can do right now. Xxcha can just decline combat and so can Sol since he moves last. Attacking Xxcha at the spaceport might force him to turtle and he'd lose the movement for next turn. It might be worth it to use your 2 unit group to pick up 4 influence from holonet. I dunno.
Here's what I know about their cards. The good news is they kind of have crappy ones:
Lazax - energy shield, energy shield, tracking beacon, ?????
Sol r - double agent, tactical retreat, atmospheric ionizer, ????
Xxcha - Biological, Atmospheric Ionizer, ????
Really really regretting not inviting Letnev to alliance. I don't think we can even take 4 strongholds so it wouldn't matter if we brought on a 3rd, but his traitor cards would help us at least draw it out to Hacan turn 8 victory. We might just have to hope Xxcha didn't predict that.
A more thorough analysis including the info from above
Good news: Jol Nar & Hacan don't seem to have much in the way of defenses; Jol Nar may not have a bioweapon which he seems to absolutely need to win vs Lazax
Energy Rifle
Discarded
Held by Jol Nar
???
???
???
Bioweapon
Discarded
Held by Letnev
Held by Xxcha
???
???
Atm. Ionizer
Discarded
Discarded
Held by Letnev
Held by Xxcha
Held by Sol
Energy Shield
Discarded
Discarded
Held by Lazax
Held by Lazax
???
Error: Invalid movement. Mecatol Power South is more than four spaces away from Civilian Spaceport. Please revise your orders.
Hacan allied power
oh wait, does that count as the deployment step instead of movement? Do you have to choose between deploying reserve units OR moving from one spot to any other?
The Maneuvering Phase is composed of two parts: the Movement step and the Deployment step. The Hacan racial power and ally advantage only operates on the Deployment step. (And in any case, the power does say "either" so you couldn't have done both things anyways.)
MrBody moves 2 units from Civilian Spaceport to Holonet Central and pays Hacan 11 Influence (with Hacan's ally advantage) to deploy 11 units to Mecatol Power South. (Jol-Nar Influence 22 --> 11, Hacan Influence 7 --> 18) Alegis deploys a free unit to the Galactic Council as per his racial ability.
Ah, that's right. For some reason, I thought that using the ally advantage meant that Influence didn't get paid to Hacan, but that's only for the move-deployment.
BobCesca moves 2 units from Val Hamech Financial District to Adminus Imperialis and pays 5 Influence to the bank to deploy 5 units to Adminus Imperialis (Hacan Influence 18 --> 13). Alegis deploys a free unit to the Galactic Council as per his racial ability.
Egos has no units on the board to move and no Influence with which to deploy. jakobagger has the next maneuvering action, and the current board looks like this:
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jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
Deply one mech and four units to Civilian Space Port.
I completely forgot that you can actually deploy anywhere in the world (hence my earlier comment 'we cant get top right this turn')
well that opens up some possibilities.
Well Sol, what are you going to do? If you deploy at least one unit I can deploy my last unit on galactic council for free and move the blob to battle hacan in south. Getting your army ready to take top right next turn if we don't win the battle seems neat.
Unfortunately, there are no enemy blobs I can attack (except the two Jol Nar in holonet, but meh). I will be deploying so you can reinforce with the full 6, but I'm going to think on it for a bit... this is an interesting setup. I may harvest some influence and I will be playing a card so next round I can bid and give some to jako so he can continue to resurrect and deploy.
jakobaggerLO THY DREAD EMPIRE CHAOS IS RESTOREDRegistered Userregular
edited June 2012
If you've got nothing more exciting to do, taking out the two Jol-Nar in Holonet isn't such a bad idea. Need to starve them of influence, and you don't have to worry about your own fleet. Plus, you'd be in position to attack Adminus next turn.
Ally is already there. And I have to move because the fleet is moving to right on top of me since it's a +4
Move all from Cultural Center to Holonet Central
Deploy 5 to Sallab Slums
Jako, if you really do have a tracking beacon, now would be a good time to play it. I can dump my guys anywhere for free, so even if we do lose some of these battles, I can deploy right to the strongholds
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You won't know the 1 card we started out with, and Letnev draws an extra card from the pile without you looking at it.
jakobagger wins the card, paying 6 Influence to the bank. (Lazax Influence 34 --> 28)
Round 5: Phase 2: Bidding Phase Summary
Card 1: Won by jakobagger for 1 Influence (Lazax SC --> 3, Inf --> 34)
Card 2: Won by Phyphor for 6 Influence (Sol SC --> 2, Inf --> 12; Lazax Inf --> 40)
Card 3: jakobagger transfers 8 Influence to Alegis. (Lazax Inf --> 32; Xxcha Inf --> 20) Won by BobCesca for 5 Influence (Hacan SC --> 3, Inf --> 20; Lazax Inf --> 37)
Card 4: Won by Phyphor for 5 Influence (Sol SC --> 3, Inf --> 7; Lazax Inf --> 42)
Card 5: jakobagger transfers 17 Influence to Phyphor. (Lazax Inf --> 25; Sol Inf --> 24) Won by Phyphor for 9 Influence (Sol SC -- > 4, Inf --> 15; Lazax Inf --> 34)
Card 6: Won by jakobagger for 6 Influence (Lazax SC --> 4, Inf --> 28)
Current Situation
Deployed Units: 0 Units
Reserve Units: 14 Units
Available Leaders: Spy Master (Strength 1), Legate (Strength 2), Magistrate (Strength 3)
Casualties: 6 Units, Sovereign (Strength 4), Overseer (Strength 6)
Strategy Cards: 6
Traitor Cards: 4
Deployed Units: 8 Units + 2 Mechanized Units
Reserve Units: 0 Units
Available Leaders: Centurion (Strength 2), Praetor (Strength 3), Prefect (Strength 3), Chancellor (Strength 5), Mirritar (Strength 6)
Casualties: 7 Units + 3 Mechanized Units
Strategy Cards: 4
Traitor Cards: 1
Allied with Sol and Xxcha
Deployed Units: 10 Units
Reserve Units: 0 units
Available Leaders: Commander (Strength 2), Captain (Strength 3), Colonel (Strength 5), General (Strength 6), Admiral (Strength 7)
Casualties: 10 Units
Strategy Cards: 4
Traitor Cards: 1
Allied with Xxcha and Lazax
Deployed Units: 16 Units
Reserve Units: 0 Units
Available Leaders: Ambassador (Strength 5), Diplomat (Strength 5), Emissary (Strength 5), Envoy (Strength 5), Orator (Strength 5)
Casualties: 4 Units
Strategy Cards: 3
Traitor Cards: 1
Allied with Sol and Lazax
Deployed Units: 9 Units
Reserve Units: 11 Units
Available Leaders: Engineer (Strength 1), Analyst (Strength 2), Factorum (Strength 4), Preceptor (Strength 5), Technocrat (Strength 5)
Casualties: 0
Strategy Cards: 3
Traitor Cards: 1
Allied with Hacan
Deployed Units: 9 Units
Reserve Units: 0 Units
Available Leaders: Negotiator (Strength 1), Trade Captain (Strength 2), Smuggler Lord (Strength 4)
Casualties: 11 Units, Master of Lies (Strength 3), Merchant Prince (Strength 5)
Strategy Cards: 3
Traitor Cards: 1
Allied with Jol-Nar
Round 5: Phase 3: Recruitment Phase
MrBody has no units to retrieve from casualties. BobCesca is up next for recruitment.
@Egos, will you spend influence to retrieve more than your free units?
jakobagger, you're up for recruitment.
That's the maximum, right?
jakobagger retrieves 1 free Mechanized unit and pays 8 Influence to retrieve 4 standard units. Phyphor has conditional orders to retrieve 3 free units and pay 4 Influence to retrieve 2 more. Alegis has conditional orders to retrieve 1 free unit and pay 6 Influence to retrieve 3 more.
Round 5: Phase 3: Recruiment Phase Summary
BobCesca retrieves 1 free unit and pays 13 Influence to retrieve 4 more plus the Merchant Prince leader. (Hacan Inf --> 7, Cas --> 6, Res --> 5)
Egos retrieves 2 free units and pays 2 Influence to retrieve 1 more. (Letnev Inf --> 0, Cas --> 3, Res --> 17)
jakobagger retrieves 1 free Mechanized unit and pays 8 Influence to retrieve 4 standard units. (Lazax Inf --> 20, Cas --> 4 + 2 Mech., Res --> 4 + 1 Mech.)
Phyphor retrieves 3 free units and pays 4 Influence to retrieve 2 more. (Sol Inf --> 11, Cas --> 5, Res --> 5)
Alegis retrieves 1 free unit and pays 6 Influence to retrieve 3 more. (Xxcha Inf --> 14, Cas --> 0, Res --> 4)
Round 5: Phase 4: Maneuvering Phase
MrBody starts the round by peeking at the top card of the Influence Deck and makes the first maneuvers.
Well, Bob. I wouldn't try too hard to collect influence since one of the cards they got was a tracking beacon. They can set off a Sol Offensive at the start of any turn and wipe out any units we collected with.
I'm gonna hit Lazax. We win wars of unit attrition and if he rebuilds his stuff they have no more money. Not sure what else we can do right now. Xxcha can just decline combat and so can Sol since he moves last. Attacking Xxcha at the spaceport might force him to turtle and he'd lose the movement for next turn. It might be worth it to use your 2 unit group to pick up 4 influence from holonet. I dunno.
Here's what I know about their cards. The good news is they kind of have crappy ones:
Lazax - energy shield, energy shield, tracking beacon, ?????
Sol r - double agent, tactical retreat, atmospheric ionizer, ????
Xxcha - Biological, Atmospheric Ionizer, ????
Really really regretting not inviting Letnev to alliance. I don't think we can even take 4 strongholds so it wouldn't matter if we brought on a 3rd, but his traitor cards would help us at least draw it out to Hacan turn 8 victory. We might just have to hope Xxcha didn't predict that.
Deploy all 11 reserves to mecatol power south (11 influence)
Good news: Jol Nar & Hacan don't seem to have much in the way of defenses; Jol Nar may not have a bioweapon which he seems to absolutely need to win vs Lazax
Energy Rifle
Discarded
Held by Jol Nar
???
???
???
Bioweapon
Discarded
Held by Letnev
Held by Xxcha
???
???
Atm. Ionizer
Discarded
Discarded
Held by Letnev
Held by Xxcha
Held by Sol
Energy Shield
Discarded
Discarded
Held by Lazax
Held by Lazax
???
Superweapon
???
Hacan allied power
oh wait, does that count as the deployment step instead of movement? Do you have to choose between deploying reserve units OR moving from one spot to any other?
Move 2 units from spaceport to holonet central.
This is a risky move, Bob. Taking the Navy base or Adminus would give us a one stronghold buffer so they can't win this turn.
BobCesca is up for maneuvering.
Ah, that's right. For some reason, I thought that using the ally advantage meant that Influence didn't get paid to Hacan, but that's only for the move-deployment.
BobCesca moves 2 units from Val Hamech Financial District to Adminus Imperialis and pays 5 Influence to the bank to deploy 5 units to Adminus Imperialis (Hacan Influence 18 --> 13). Alegis deploys a free unit to the Galactic Council as per his racial ability.
Egos has no units on the board to move and no Influence with which to deploy. jakobagger has the next maneuvering action, and the current board looks like this:
I completely forgot that you can actually deploy anywhere in the world (hence my earlier comment 'we cant get top right this turn')
well that opens up some possibilities.
Well Sol, what are you going to do? If you deploy at least one unit I can deploy my last unit on galactic council for free and move the blob to battle hacan in south. Getting your army ready to take top right next turn if we don't win the battle seems neat.
Move all from Cultural Center to Holonet Central
Deploy 5 to Sallab Slums
Jako, if you really do have a tracking beacon, now would be a good time to play it. I can dump my guys anywhere for free, so even if we do lose some of these battles, I can deploy right to the strongholds