Of course..water...the answer was staring us in the face from the first stupid meal. A great general leaves nothing to chance, Ansom was bound to counterattack the wounded Dwagons, so Parson set up bait in a manner to lose the fewest dwagon's possible while leaving Ansom blind to the real danger...
But in the style of great military minds, no matter what Ansom did, he was booped. If he didn't risk a counter attack, he would just get hit again...if he tried to punch through the ring he would lose many troops and barely had enough to reach the center and take on the wounded dwagons he thought were there...whatever side he chose to punch through, he would be hurt and depleted, and away from the column...
And as Parson said...even if Vinnie's bats had found the dwagons, Ansom had no units that could have attacked the hex with sufficient numbers to pose a real threat to 19 wounded dwagons. Absolutely brilliant.
attacking the column required the dwagon-warlord shuffle though, so the B-dwagons are unlikely to assault the column.
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It is unknown weather Parson has commited all of the Dwagons into this assault...if there are enough dwagons at GK, there is another possibility... Wanda could ride out with the remaining warlords and a healthy stack of Dwagons (I say Wanda cause she is obviously very powerful and could animate the dead forrest units into a skirmish party) and they could hit Ansom and company. We know the Dwagons have enough move to make it to Gobwin Knob even with attacking the column again, and last turn Wanda made it out and back to drop off Jillian, so the dwagons can move. This secondary dwagon force would take out Ansom (or force surrender and take the Arkenpliers) and free the A and B groups to hit the column in the same way they hit last time and remove the remaining seige units and other targets of opportunity.
Otherwise, it will be A and B converging on Ansom to P3wn his boop and then hitting the column before returning to gobwin knob...or a lake again. If they take out the head while they are away with all the forest units...the column might never know what happened...
Re: Erfworld 66: page 60
