Languishing Yet Again (VQ game)

[Viking]

My attack dice

Request: 6-sided die x 8

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6
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Message from Holy Roman Empire:
Despicable polack defense of true HRE lands

[Viking]

West Ukrainian dice

Request: 6-sided die x 4

6
2
4
1


Message from Holy Roman Empire:
Glorious HRE attack on the vile Polacks

[Viking]

oh, well at least it wasn't a disaster..

[Solmyr]

I think Viking is starting to crack up.

Starting?

[Viking]

I think Viking is starting to crack up.

I was like this in the last game as well...

ffs 17 attack dice get 2 hits and 11 defence dice get 4. The defense is scoring par here, I'm just hitting approx 1/3 of what I should.

[Solmyr]

Protestants: Play Card as Event

#13: 1 / Reiters [RESPONSE]
If played by Ottomans, they eliminate 2 mercenaries anywhere on map. If played by any other power, place 2 of your power's mercenaries in any single space. Space chosen must be under friendly control but it does not have to be a home space for your power. You may increase it to 4 mercenaries if the space chosen is no more than 2 land connections from a home space of the Holy Roman Empire.

[FAQ: Space chosen may not be under siege or in unrest.]

Message from Protestants:
2 mercs to La Rochelle.

Habs up.

[Habbaku]

#6: 2 / Selim II [MANDATORY]
Suleiman dies. Selim II replaces Suleiman as Ottoman ruler; place this card in the ruler space of the Ottoman power card. Place the Cyprus VP marker on the first space from this list that is not currently under Ottoman control: Cyprus, Candia, Corfu. The Ottoman player earns this bonus VP if he gains control of this space at any time in the future. Admin Rating: Save 2 cards. Card Bonus: 1 card.

Message from Ottoman:
Event/CPs :

1-2/2 - Pirate Spain in Ionian Sea.

To Spain to award a card or VP, then to play.

[Berkut]

VP

[Habbaku]

I think Viking is starting to crack up.

I was like this in the last game as well...

ffs 17 attack dice get 2 hits and 11 defence dice get 4. The defense is scoring par here, I'm just hitting approx 1/3 of what I should.

QQ moar.  12 piracy dice so far with 2 hits.

[Berkut]

Spain: Play Card as Event
#61: 2 / Menendez de Aviles
Roll a die. On a 3 or higher, remove an English, French or Protestant colony from Florida. This space is under Spanish control for the rest of the game. If Spain has an Informant spying on the target power, the roll is automatic

- OR -

Spain builds a Galleon placing it directly into the Treasure Fleet Escorts box

- OR -

Spain adds a fortress to any Spanish World Map space and a Patrol to any ocean zone. [FAQ: The fortress placed need not come off those available to build this turn on the Spanish Power Card.]

Message from Spain:
Fortress in Valpraiso
Patrol in Spanish Main

[Berkut]

I think Viking is starting to crack up.

I was like this in the last game as well...

ffs 17 attack dice get 2 hits and 11 defence dice get 4. The defense is scoring par here, I'm just hitting approx 1/3 of what I should.

QQ moar.  12 piracy dice so far with 2 hits.

QQmoar yourself. You've won two critical naval battles, both of which should have been losses, and hit on 3 out of 4 dice in your assault on Malta.

You have nothing to complain about when it comes to dice.

[Solmyr]

You know, you are complaining about the Ottomans a lot, but aren't exactly doing much about them.

[Berkut]

You know, you are complaining about the Ottomans a lot, but aren't exactly doing much about them.

I should have 3 more galleys in the med right now. Absent the play of Withcraft and Pay ships, I would be able to mount some kind of naval struggle. Right now I am down a net 4 squadrons to the Ottomans from other players play, and 1or 2 more from shitty dice.

Not much more I can do right away, but we will see...

It's not like I am going to just abandon the rest of the game and throw myself at the Ottomans.

And really - nobody else has done literally ANYTHING against them at all. The HRE has actively helped them, England has actively helped them (intentionally or not), and France and the Prots have done nothing. I am the only one who has done anything, and you are complaining it isn't enough?

If it isn't enough, please, feel free to chip in something!

[Maximus]

Mind if I redo the whole thing? If he was damaged in the navigation roll I wouldn't have risked going up against 2 defense dice.

[Maximus]

Or I can spend the extra CP to have gone by atlantic coast. Berkut's choice.