I've had the "start of round" figures from Rorrak, and they make interesting reading.
At the start of Round 5, and with the initial 15,000 points per location removed;
Stirland - 125350
Talabecland - 77900
Middenland/Kislev - 71350
The modifiers are still in there, and I think we had some fairly hefty ones in Round 1.
I'm not very good at tables, but here are the round by round points per faction:
Round .............Stirland.....................Talabec...............Mid/Kis
2: ...................19650 ...................... 7450 .................. 8350
3: .................. 31250 ..................... 19950 ................ 17900
4: .................. 38350 ..................... 19850 ................ 28250
There are some oddities, in that round 2 seemed very low scoring, and scores have grown round by round.
Stirland overall seen to have posted roughly 61% more points than us, and 75% more than Talabecland.
I am also a bit bemused as to how we generated 28,250 points suddenly last round - I did a bit of emailing, and we had a few turn up, but can we maintain that?
Anyway the point of all this is the future.Realistically Stirland have it all sewn up if they continue to post those sort of figures.
If we have to fight off Talabecland, neither of us can defeat Stirland - the proof of this is in the first 3 rounds where nothing happened at Kaltenbach and Stirland were in deep doodah.
What to do now then?
The round finishes on Thursday.
I think we need to win the Watchman,
BUT we should make a late surge.I think they are about 10000 points ahead of us there - can we 'collect' that much and a bit more for a decisive move on Thursday - European time tho' - the General is doing the tally.
We need to convince/bluff Stirland we have given in at the Watchman -
and get them posting elsewhere.
We could throw a couple of minor scores at Fort Grigory, to give the impression we are fortifying it for the next round after we have lost the Watchman
There seems to be some 'new' activity at Udo's Fall - it is getting close again, and Stirland will need to counter it
The other place they are looking at is Bechafen -
We are down there now, and so it would look logical for us to attack there.
Stirland and Talabecland are starting to concentrate some efforts there too.
To Summarise:
1. We need some big scores held back for a late surge at the Watchman.
2. We post odd battles to Bechafen and Fort Grigory.
3. We do nothing at Kaltembach, unless Talabecland make a surge.
[If they do we have our back up points meant for the Watchman if we are really in trouble.]
It's 'propaganda' with our battle report posting.........
Plan open to criticism
In the meantime: - 'scores in the bank'
I have 1400 points and a game tonight - expected fairly even
Jman said above he has 1000pts approx -
Van Harl has something
Rorrak too?
Maybe let's keep the 1000+ results, and post up some draws and minors.