r_rolo1
King of myself
Ok, sorry for the delay ... and sorry for the crappyness of the next pics editing ( done in a hurry yesterday )
I wanted to post clean slates but my imageserver is acting wonky with them, so I'll just post the maps with the arrow work on them...
First, Genghis war:
IMHO this can be done with the current means in the northern border, barring some moves from European powers in the area. The Korean stack marches on Besbalik ( crappy city, but it would drop heay culture pressure on the real stuff ) and the major army marches on Yanjing ( with the option of reinforcing the Korean stack ). Then we march on Turfan ( That is a NP city if I ever saw one ). I reserved the option to march on the Mongol cap, but it should not be needed to cap him ( and I would prefer to not meddle more in that area for the moment ) and the mongolian cap should not interfere much with our conquers. The rest of the cities is too far away to matter.
Now onto the Sal war ( I cut the Chinese part because that one is obvious ). First the march to Baghdad:
Basically is the inverse of the Alexander march onto India First we take Ghazni, then Nishapur and then straight into Mesopotamia ( that should take us between 11 and 15 turns ). I also dropped 2 options to a after Baghdad: to Mecca and to Cairo. I'll discuss that later.
Anyway I still think we are light on siege in this area ... The cities are on hills , Sal is pro and I've seen some CG I, Guerrilla II LBs in Ghazni
Now onto the after Baghdad. Plan A:
This involves a major naval action in the Red Sea, with drops to attack basically all the cities in the shores of it via sea. This would be the fastest way of making the advance given the lack of railroads for the foreseeable future in the action area, but I have doubts that we can develop the navy to this in the timeline we are talking about.
Don't worry about the mess of the arrows near Mecca and Medina. It is just to signal the options between a direct landing on the cities and dropping the troops for the siege ( or simply to skip Medina ). I also added the option for land march onto Cairo and Mecca, as stated in the previous pic.
Plan B
A more realistical aproach IMHO. Our Baghdad stack, using the OB we have with Justinian, strikes Cairo ( by my maths it should take 5 turns to go from Baghdad to Cairo using the roads around Jerusalem ). Then our transport fleet ( that will need far less investement than in Plan A counterpart ) takes part or the whole stack and drops it on Mecca. Movement plans on Aksum are also despicted , both by sea and by land. This will probably take a little longer than plan A , but it seems more solid.
What plan do you prefer? Not that it will matter for next set ( that should cover the march on Baghdad ), but I think this needs to be decided before the next player gets the game.
BTW a roster:
r_rolo1 -on deck
Thy_Spellcraft
nocho
Brian Shanahan -just layed
Liquidated -MIA ( hopefully your comp gest fixed soon )
lymond - UP
I wanted to post clean slates but my imageserver is acting wonky with them, so I'll just post the maps with the arrow work on them...
First, Genghis war:
Spoiler :
IMHO this can be done with the current means in the northern border, barring some moves from European powers in the area. The Korean stack marches on Besbalik ( crappy city, but it would drop heay culture pressure on the real stuff ) and the major army marches on Yanjing ( with the option of reinforcing the Korean stack ). Then we march on Turfan ( That is a NP city if I ever saw one ). I reserved the option to march on the Mongol cap, but it should not be needed to cap him ( and I would prefer to not meddle more in that area for the moment ) and the mongolian cap should not interfere much with our conquers. The rest of the cities is too far away to matter.
Now onto the Sal war ( I cut the Chinese part because that one is obvious ). First the march to Baghdad:
Spoiler :
Basically is the inverse of the Alexander march onto India First we take Ghazni, then Nishapur and then straight into Mesopotamia ( that should take us between 11 and 15 turns ). I also dropped 2 options to a after Baghdad: to Mecca and to Cairo. I'll discuss that later.
Anyway I still think we are light on siege in this area ... The cities are on hills , Sal is pro and I've seen some CG I, Guerrilla II LBs in Ghazni
Now onto the after Baghdad. Plan A:
Spoiler :
This involves a major naval action in the Red Sea, with drops to attack basically all the cities in the shores of it via sea. This would be the fastest way of making the advance given the lack of railroads for the foreseeable future in the action area, but I have doubts that we can develop the navy to this in the timeline we are talking about.
Don't worry about the mess of the arrows near Mecca and Medina. It is just to signal the options between a direct landing on the cities and dropping the troops for the siege ( or simply to skip Medina ). I also added the option for land march onto Cairo and Mecca, as stated in the previous pic.
Plan B
Spoiler :
A more realistical aproach IMHO. Our Baghdad stack, using the OB we have with Justinian, strikes Cairo ( by my maths it should take 5 turns to go from Baghdad to Cairo using the roads around Jerusalem ). Then our transport fleet ( that will need far less investement than in Plan A counterpart ) takes part or the whole stack and drops it on Mecca. Movement plans on Aksum are also despicted , both by sea and by land. This will probably take a little longer than plan A , but it seems more solid.
What plan do you prefer? Not that it will matter for next set ( that should cover the march on Baghdad ), but I think this needs to be decided before the next player gets the game.
BTW a roster:
r_rolo1 -on deck
Thy_Spellcraft
nocho
Brian Shanahan -just layed
Liquidated -MIA ( hopefully your comp gest fixed soon )
lymond - UP