carl corey
Deity
True. It's only a matter of who'll make the first step. Since Sisiutil's going to prepare for war anyway I hope Monty starts it, so that we don't get any penalty from declaring war on anybody's friend.
That's my thinking. If I have to, I'll provoke him. It shouldn't take much doing; this is Monty, after all.True. It's only a matter of who'll make the first step. Since Sisiutil's going to prepare for war anyway I hope Monty starts it, so that we don't get any penalty from declaring war on anybody's friend.
Believe me, if the situation had just been slightly different--if I'd had almost anyone except Montezuma to my immediate west, or even if he'd been there but with another target on the landmass for him to attack, I would have made the GL a priority. It's by far my favourite wonder, after all, and with Philosophical, it's hugely powerful.About giving up the great library though: I guess being philosophical means it doesn't matter so much, but not because you've moved up a level and want to be realistic. Actually, the GL becomes more powerful as you go up in levels. But sure, other than that, you've played very well in this game.
you could use the ten turns of peace to switch civics a couple times. then once more when the war is actually going
Would you quit with this civics change obsession of yours?!?
Lets see, taking aesthetics befoee the ai would have gained you all those techs tyou had to research yourself, openend up literatuire and the hE and NE and had you gone to Music first you'd have got a great artist. A 6000 boost of culture would have kept machu Pichu secure for a good few turns and added that religion. 5 religions with four shrines and a 50+ bouns to science in your main science city isn't to be sneezed at. That 's all spilt milk, now. Oh an you wouldn't have had Hatty found a CITY right on your border - thanks Hatty. You've even given her an open invitation to found another up against New York's border.
Engineering with its pikemen, further movement, espionage, trebuchets and castles would have been a better bet than metal casting. More spilt milk. You could use philiosophy for feudalism and engineering. It is rather late now. You've given Monty 80 turns to prepare an army for you. That he offered peace so early was because he intended to REX. He REXed and now comes his army.
I thought the plan for this last round was to finish off HC, take the two barbarian cities and then probe Monty's defences. Going OR would have helped more whilst you were building infrastructureYou have no way of reaching his inner cities and are laid out before him by comparison. You have no sentries out there, so have no idea where his main force is going.
The silver lining is that Zara won't want Monty to make too much American mince. That and your forges in New York, long bowmen and crossbowmen, macemen and knights with a bit of luck and speedy research. Make that lots of luck and some backs to wall defending. Look to capture Nubian and try to take cities in peace treaty you can raze. Mont'y bad enough without the you razed our cities penalty.
My battle plan with him is to let him come at me and exhaust his stack trying to take a city loaded with Spearmen and (I hope) Longbows. Once he's destroyed one stack against my defensive forces, my offensive forces take one of his cities. He'll likely attack that city with his next stack, which I defend by moving the bulk of my defenders from his previous target city to the recently-taken one; rinse and repeat.
I don't think I'll vassalize him. He's a horrible techer. Though he might make a useful pet dog if I keep gifting military techs to him. Thoughts?
I don't think I'll vassalize him. He's a horrible techer. Though he might make a useful pet dog if I keep gifting military techs to him. Thoughts?
No, that's Astronomy, and it's in my Intermediate Tactics and Gambits guide.In fact, I think Sisiutil's Strategy guide describes a way to get early engineering.
Sisiutil has 6 turns to finish research metal casting, whereupon he can trade for machinery with philosophy, if he is lucky.
It's pretty much impossible to bulb Engineering with a GS. Among several other requirements you have to skip Fishing to block the whole seafaring line IIRC.Then research engineering or bulb it with the coming GS.
... maybe someone has CS and wants Philosophy.
I was sad to see you upgrade your woodsman2 warrior to axeman
He would have been able to get to woodsman3 with a great general, and I think that makes a better mash unit than a chariot. As Charismatic, I'm quite certain that you can get awfully close to wood3 med3 with one GG, so I don't think you need to worry about leadership. If I'm not mistaken, wood3 stacks with medic upgrades on another unit, doesn't it?
Other than that, I think you've done a great job! That's a huge buddhist block on the go there, so hopefully you can build good relations while taking over the Aztec lands.