Opportunities...but for which side? What if the Persians actually decide to help China?
Well, I quote 'befriending the distant enemy while attacking a nearby enemy'. It's generally true I guess.
Opportunities...but for which side? What if the Persians actually decide to help China?
Good point, the Chinese Russia war is meant to be limited. Russians only seek to secure that fringe city, which the Chinese claim to have settled unknowingly but demand us to ignore its security threat to our capital. We have no interest in the other barren land of Chinese.
There will be no limited war on the Chinese front. If Russia crosses the Chinese borders this will only end with the fall of Moscow or Beijing. We do not respond well to threats.
DLC was a mistake, which I felt was played for too long between intervals (more than a week for a turn sometimes) in between and not having a continuous sense of game altogether. It was started with peaceful mind, then it changed somehow, then I was hoping the aggression will satisfy at some point, now it finally settled a little bit for me.
Similarly in this game here, counting on China not declaring war on Russia after setting that city will be day dreaming, so it might as well say it out loudly and amuse everyone while provoking someone to make the game play more dramatic in its own way. I think we have played enough games (mostly Speed) that we know empty threat and propaganda won't work on the Chinese Empress, but secretly planning an attack for a very long (real) time is too itchy for me. I will keep thinking about it, so saying it out and knowing it coming will be better for me personally.
I am back at home
Thank you for delaying the game for two weeks.
If China has a military base in Siberia who cares, but if it has the base setup all the way accross the continent, and right at Ukraine...... and we are supposed to do nothing about it?
Ukraine is a real analogy of a state very close to Moscow. Maybe Stark knows how close it is.
Replace Ukraine with Cuba, and Moscow with Washington, your fellow Americans will know the gravity of the situation to the Russians now.
The Chinese Empress Wu didn't bother scouting and asking Catherine before settling in a generalised direction towards Russia.
The picture intentionally not showing the two yellow dots on the mini map, but if you look at the sheep and mine, they are in the yellow border.
And if it was for coal, why not fill the empty space just east of that Songhai city? The city doesn't have enough food, not even the pearl is in the 3rd ring. I don't see any value of this city except provoking Russians to make excuse for confrontation.
Clearly I'm right, see the two dots of Russian border? And the city is not even coastal, why not build one city 1 tile north to make enough food and grow the city in the long turn? Or is it just a gabbage city to just assault the Russian core? Count how many tiles to our border: 5, make it almost 0 with roads and railroads.
Clearly I'm right, see the two dots of Russian border? And the city is not even coastal, why not build one city 1 tile north to make enough food and grow the city in the long turn? Or is it just a gabbage city to just assault the Russian core? Count how many tiles to our border: 5, make it almost 0 with roads and railroads.