Ruined Megapolis Multiplayer AAR - [Concluded]

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 29



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Turn 29. Another fairly quiet one as we spend all our spare industry on road expansion. It's hellishly expensive to build them through thte dense forests so it's our main pain point right now. We are also having issues with recruiting population to be workers so I bump up salaries across the board and cross my fingers it helps.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 30



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Turn 30. Still fairly quiet as we push our borders out inch by inch. I have largely (touch wood) solved my internal issues it seems apart from the population struggles but even that is improving.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 31



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Turn 31. The quiet before the (expected) storm continues and we invest everything we can in getting more industtry up and running. We are still a bit behind in some crucial techs but witth our ongoing investment in BP production we can hopefully start to close the gap.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 32



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Turn 32. Bloodfort comes to us witth a border proposal that leaves him the big ruins blob to my east and I counter-offer by suggesting I would accept them if he was willing to agree to tech sharing. Elsewhere we continue our mutant extermination and otther expansion.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 33



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Turn 33. Me and Bloodfort have struck a deal, tech sharing in exchange for borders that are advantageous to him. Elsewhere some very annoying mutants decide to cut our supply lines (AGAIN).

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 34

After some holiday related delays we return to your regularly scheduled logstical nightmare!



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Turn 34. To nobody's surprise more AI units manage to cut more supply lines but this time around it's not so bad. Quite a long turn this time as I catch up from a hiatus in the game thanks to players being on holiday. Our massive industry and Bureaucratic push is finally starting to result in some upgraded assets. We are still behind in the tech race but hopefully this lays the foundations for a catch-up.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 35



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Turn 35. Not a single thing goes wrong to my great surprise. We have had some more detente with Orange devil (Bloodfort) and agreed to further border lines. Overall I aam trying to hold off the eventual player v player combat until I can get some not-shit technology to my front lines because right now any fighting would likely not go so well for me.

[eddieballgame]

Recently noticed this very well done play through.
Thank you for sharing.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 36



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Turn 36. A fairly quiet turn after an extended IRL break as we finish off the last free city on the planet and try to remember where all the moving pieces of our empire were. The tech lag we are suffering from is even more pronounced now unfortunately and it seems no matter what I do we cannot make up the deficit.

[Saros]

ORIGINAL: eddieballgame

Recently noticed this very well done play through.
Thank you for sharing.

No worries, glad you're enjoying it! I also have some MP runthrough's of the decisive campaigns series you can check out.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 37



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Turn 37. Another quiet turn and I do a bit of a deeper dive on the info my spies have gathered on the other players. I kind of wish I hadn't from the tech base Bloodfort is working with.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 38



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Well that is some bad fucking news.






The situtation.



The Feds have cut our road to two Brigades near Limespring, we are unlikely to be able to re-open it but I think we can stop them from advancing much further.

Our Troops



Federation Troops






They have four brigades vs our nine but two of theirs are tanks and one is heavy MG. The laser-tech troops give them a decisive edge but they only have less that 20% of their troops converted to lasers. I would be woried about the tanks but the terrain is nearly all forest so I should be able to hold them off until I can get lasers/polymer-tanks and better RPG's.

Right now we should be able to hold as our troops on the defensive are about as good as his on the attack apart from his tanks and they will be disadvantaged by the terrain. I think long term we have enough of an economic advantage to win this but it will be a bloody grind in the jungle and the game is now Bloodfort's to win as this will let them pick whoever they want to devour while two players are distracted.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 39



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Turn 39 and the war starts in earnest! I think Not-Feds has miscalculated where to position their initial troops as the bulk of their forces are pressing on Limespring which I will be giving up without a fight due to the terrible logistical issues of holding the road all the way there.






Sneak peek



From the AI turn replay at the end of my turn it seems the Not-Fed spearhead got cut off by my own rebels.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 40



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Turn 40. Not the Federation's offensive stalls as he seems to spot the threat to his flanks and we finally complete polymer armor which will let us design better tanks. However I am pretty sure that in my attempt to keep the video time down I forgot to actually tell the model design council to get cracking on a new tank model. Bummer!

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 41



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Turn 41. The front with Not the Federation remains fairly stable as he is unable to bring his superior tanks to bear in the very dense terrain. I threaten his flanks but he is recruiting new brigades to cover them so it's unlikley I will be able to complete any real encirclements.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 42



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Turn 42. A turn of turnaround as we try to cut off Not the Federation's armored spearhead and pile in enough troops to hopefully hold the pocket closed! I also discuss the diplomatic situation and what the future may have in store. Our new tank model also rolls very high on its design rolls to my great delight.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 43



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Turn 43. Not the Federation makes an attempt to break our encirclement and pushes elsewhere on the front. We do what local counter-attacks we can and shore up the line.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 44



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Well, no video this turn as OBS seems to have crapped out on me and not recorded the video.

Turn 44. In which I get utterly wrecked by my SHQ and OHQ commanders failing their rolls, I lose over 100 tanks and 2000 infantry on counter-attacks which really should have worked thanks to this. I also do an economic survey with the conclusion that NtF can't defeat me long term but right now is throwing the game to BloodFort.







Some Stats

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 45



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Turn 45. Not the Federation makes a final attempt to break out his surrounded troops but to no avail. We do however lose a number of our own to his brand spanking new laser-tanks. Yikes. The buildup also continues along the Bloodfort/Bolton border.


Here are NtF's new tanks compared to mine.

[Saros]

Ruined Megapolis Turn 46



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Turn 46. Not the Federation carries out some desultory attacks and our counter-attacks pus hhim back in a few hexes. The front is mostly stable in the heavy forested terrain and this is looking like the grinding war of attrition



Looks like I forgot the screenshots for this one. Oops!