Military Poll #1 Trieme loads

As a fleet is now under consideration, what to put on that fleet to explore now becomes the question.

Should we send out just settlers?

A Settler and a military escort, and if so, what type of escort, one of our horses or a purpose built one?

That is what this poll will determine.

The military favor sending our horsemen with a settler on each Trieme, to protect and explore new lands.

I'm with you AoA. Load a horsemen and a settler on each one. we will have at least 1 unit in our new built cities, then when our first defensive unit will be built, we will have a good explorator.

Btw, nice to see someone who reads the pm I send

Yes ,let's acompany 1 settler with 1 horsy.
I recomend to use the horsy at Olympia ,as it doesn't need to maintain the happiness ther for the moment ,and Olympia is building a trireme itself.But what about trireme n° 2 ?

Speed is important and we do not want to waste time producing extra defensive units in cities that could be building better stuff so I definately think we should just take a settler and the horse. Also I would like to see the horse explore abit whilst the settler starts a city and builds a defensive unit.

Originally posted by Dell19
I definately think we should just take a settler and the horse. Also I would like to see the horse explore abit whilst the settler starts a city and builds a defensive unit.

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Ditto.

I will have to go with the majority, settler and horsey. Actually I would suggest making another trireme with 2 horses! But, naa, too much time.

i like the way everbody votes!

I like the settler+horseman thing, but we don't have enough of these units right now to do it. We have two horsemen, but the one in Duck Pond is being used for martial law. Even with the horseman in Duck Pond the city will probably need an entertainer in about three turns when it grows, and this will take away valuable resources from our SSC. We can use the horseman in Olympia, and produce another one maybe in Fort Pornstar, but in several cities we are running into happiness issues that need to be dealt with, possibly by using these units for martial law.

The other part is settlers. We have five settlers and one being built in Dreadtown, so if we send two away, we will only have four settlers left to improve six cities.

My suggestion is fill up one trireme with a horseman and settler, but leave the other one empty for now. We can then build units for martial law in our cities while the triremes explore and we complete research, and then when we build some happiness improvements and wonders we can take the units we were using for martial law and send them out to explore. Another option would be to build a bunch of settlers so our cities' populations lower to where there isn't a happiness problem, and use some of these settlers to colonize.

I think we shouldn't be too hasty to load up our triremes and send them off to colonize and explore because it might inadvertently damage our cities at home.

Cant we whip up another horseman somewhere?