Cut the Russian Road?

Tubby Rower · Mar 17, 2006

There is a Russian road that is neutral territory for at least 3 tiles.

Russia is our most favoured nation, yet Germany is more friendly than Peter is. Russia has demanded Alphabet IIRC which should be taken into account. They also have only Archers (In Diplo, Peter says "Fear my archer").

So should we cut the Russian road in neutral territory?

I think no if we think that they could become more friendly, but yes if we are thinking of bypassing Mongolia and going after Peter first.

GeorgeOP · Mar 18, 2006

To help with the discussion, here is the road.

At this time, I have no feelings either way. I want to hear arguments before I make up my mind.

Swissempire · Mar 18, 2006

Nah, keep the road

Furiey · Mar 18, 2006

We could pillage all 3 portions of the road in neutral territory. If nothing else it will slow them down a bit as they have to divert workers from improving cities to re-building roads.

robboo · Mar 18, 2006

how much of an advantage does this give us?
will it hurt our relations?

Advantage gained is a few turns of their worker..and i dont think it hurts relations...so lets cut the roads..as much as we can.

Vind2 · Mar 18, 2006

We should cut the road, it will get them to waste some time. I doubt Russia will be the MFN for ever. Also its our little way of getting back at them

Pajka · Mar 18, 2006

But on the other hand if we cut the roads it will cost us some time which could otherwise be spend on scouting.

Vind2 · Mar 18, 2006

Pajka said:
But on the other hand if we cut the roads it will cost us some time which could otherwise be spend on scouting.

We already have a unit on the roads. It could cost us maybe 1 turn. It will cost them more.

robboo · Mar 18, 2006

not much area down there to scout anyway..only so much time before our warrior scout gets eaten by a barb ax like the last one did.

Tubby Rower · Mar 18, 2006

before our warrior scout gets eaten by a barb ax like the last one did.

WEll I just DP'ed so No more units will be lost until I play again. I lost 2 the first time I Dp'ed and 2 this time. Good thing that I won't be running next term

BCLG100 · Mar 18, 2006

May as well pillage if it isnt going to have that much of an impact on us.

dimaliok · May 15, 2006

Ya think about the COSACKS oh **** :suicide:

dutchfire · May 16, 2006

cut their traderoutes
I should be done in 5 turns (move left pillage, move right pillage, move right, pillage) and those 5 turns are very safe so no problem

ice2k4 · May 16, 2006

Even after we cut, we can continue to cut the new roads the build until the warrior is killed by a barb axe. Should be wuite fun in my opinion.

dutchfire · May 16, 2006

but it's between two cities so it can take a long time until the barb axe shows up, we could go on until the cultural borders expand

greekguy · May 16, 2006

cut the road. it's bad for them, and there's no downside for us except for 1 turn it takes to cut the road. doing so will make them waste time roading the tile again, so yeah, we should do it.

DaveShack · May 16, 2006

Someone run a test of cutting a road and see if the AI's opinion changes.

If it doesn't change, then cut away and keep cutting. :evil:

robboo · May 16, 2006

This is very very old... and it was never cut. I think its a bit late to worry about it now.

ice2k4 · May 16, 2006

Still I think we should try and divert the russians workers to re-building roads that we will keep destroying until the borders touch eachother.

DaveShack · May 16, 2006

robboo said:
This is very very old...

You're right, it is. Can't believe I didn't notice that -- must be because "Mar" and "May" are kinda similar.

However, if there are any exposed roads... :evil:

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