damnrunner
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I think upgrading like that would be potentially very useful. Of course we have to do it before sancta gets construction and has enough time to move catapults to the front line. Also if it does work we will want to follow up very soon thereafter with a culture bomb in Angle. If we really start rolling Sancta we can offer some of the god from captured cities to our allies.
My thoughts:
Should we add a few xbows into the mix. Maces are great but xbows are just as good against axes. We can use some of our less productive cities to build a few archers which could be upgraded to xbows.
Elephants - I'd like having them - but we can't use gold to upgrade to them. We may be better off building two axes instead and upgrading them both.
Do we still want to build a stable in Aktau if we do this. We may be better off building catapults/axes. If the plan is for a fairly quick war, the stable will have negligible benefit since the city will not remain a military production city for long. One counter argument would be that having x2 promoted units would let us have a sentry and health promoted unit in our stack - which would be pretty useful (but not necessary) additions.
What to do with Haz. If we really want to go all out on this we may want to build a few more units in Haz instead. Another option would be to build a market - giving us a lot more gold for upgrading later our units when the time comes.
My thoughts:
Should we add a few xbows into the mix. Maces are great but xbows are just as good against axes. We can use some of our less productive cities to build a few archers which could be upgraded to xbows.
Elephants - I'd like having them - but we can't use gold to upgrade to them. We may be better off building two axes instead and upgrading them both.
Do we still want to build a stable in Aktau if we do this. We may be better off building catapults/axes. If the plan is for a fairly quick war, the stable will have negligible benefit since the city will not remain a military production city for long. One counter argument would be that having x2 promoted units would let us have a sentry and health promoted unit in our stack - which would be pretty useful (but not necessary) additions.
What to do with Haz. If we really want to go all out on this we may want to build a few more units in Haz instead. Another option would be to build a market - giving us a lot more gold for upgrading later our units when the time comes.