dutchfire
May 17, 2008, 08:51 AM
We've talked a lot about attacking Spain. If we want to do it soon, we should start preparations now. In this thread, I'll give my opinion on what should be done to succesfully attack Spain.
Goals
The most important question to ask about any plan is, of course, "why?". A military campaign could help the following goals:
Eliminate one rival.
Get access to more useful resources. Spain has a lot of nice resources, gems, bananas, copper, dyes. All these resources could be ours.
Land grab. We currently have 4 cities, which is way to little. Taking Madrid would give us another city. And razing Barcelona would make room for another city. With the Spanish (and barbarian) territory, we could easily get 6-8 good cities in our empire, which would be quite enough to play for a space race later.
Remove cultural pressure from Arkadia. Arkadia, our commerce city, will be very important for the future of our empire. However, it is suffering from heavy cultural influence from Spain. Arkadia will never be able to reach it's full potential without razing at least Barcelona.
Pillage and raze money. We could get quite a bit of cash from pillaging and razing Barcelona, well enough to pay for the upkeep of our military campaign.
So, reasons enough to attack Spain. But we will need to get some military before we attack. I suggest New Girugevan builds a barracks and then starts cracking out axes, as they're the best city attacker we've got at the moment. Edorai should be building Horse Archers, and Arete should start with horse archers, and change to axes as soon as it gets a connection to the copper (that's a priority for our workers!). Meanwhile, Arkadia focusses on commerce, to keep our economy afloat, and get to construction.
Our wonderful great scientist Ptolemy can be settled in Arkadia, our science city. This will immediately give us +6 :beaker:/turn, significantly improving our science output. We should direct our research towards Mathematics and Construction, to grant us access to the powerful Catapults and War Elephants.
Of course, we should change our civics to Hereditary Rule to allow our cities to grow, and increase their productivity. We could also adopt Slavery to facilitate production, but that's not necessary.
It would be best to start the war when we have enough forces to knock out Barcelona, as Barcelona should be the first immediate goal of our campaign. I also suggest sending a small task force of 2 Horse Archers towards the copper north of Madrid, to pillage it and prevent the Spanish from building more spearmen/axemen. We should then march towards Madrid, and hopefully by then we will have our first catapults, to bombard their cultural defences. After taking Madrid, Hatsheput will be finished (she might have some other cities by the, but those won't have a chance to survive once Madrid is down).
Goals
The most important question to ask about any plan is, of course, "why?". A military campaign could help the following goals:
Eliminate one rival.
Get access to more useful resources. Spain has a lot of nice resources, gems, bananas, copper, dyes. All these resources could be ours.
Land grab. We currently have 4 cities, which is way to little. Taking Madrid would give us another city. And razing Barcelona would make room for another city. With the Spanish (and barbarian) territory, we could easily get 6-8 good cities in our empire, which would be quite enough to play for a space race later.
Remove cultural pressure from Arkadia. Arkadia, our commerce city, will be very important for the future of our empire. However, it is suffering from heavy cultural influence from Spain. Arkadia will never be able to reach it's full potential without razing at least Barcelona.
Pillage and raze money. We could get quite a bit of cash from pillaging and razing Barcelona, well enough to pay for the upkeep of our military campaign.
So, reasons enough to attack Spain. But we will need to get some military before we attack. I suggest New Girugevan builds a barracks and then starts cracking out axes, as they're the best city attacker we've got at the moment. Edorai should be building Horse Archers, and Arete should start with horse archers, and change to axes as soon as it gets a connection to the copper (that's a priority for our workers!). Meanwhile, Arkadia focusses on commerce, to keep our economy afloat, and get to construction.
Our wonderful great scientist Ptolemy can be settled in Arkadia, our science city. This will immediately give us +6 :beaker:/turn, significantly improving our science output. We should direct our research towards Mathematics and Construction, to grant us access to the powerful Catapults and War Elephants.
Of course, we should change our civics to Hereditary Rule to allow our cities to grow, and increase their productivity. We could also adopt Slavery to facilitate production, but that's not necessary.
It would be best to start the war when we have enough forces to knock out Barcelona, as Barcelona should be the first immediate goal of our campaign. I also suggest sending a small task force of 2 Horse Archers towards the copper north of Madrid, to pillage it and prevent the Spanish from building more spearmen/axemen. We should then march towards Madrid, and hopefully by then we will have our first catapults, to bombard their cultural defences. After taking Madrid, Hatsheput will be finished (she might have some other cities by the, but those won't have a chance to survive once Madrid is down).