Our loss of bureaucracy really hurts our hammer production
But enough griping. We have a very interesting offer that I think we should consider. First the report:
Turn 340: Free speech is adopted by everyone. grr
Turn 341 - Izzy and Gilgamesh make peace.
Turn 344 - GS born, settled.
Turn 345 - A random event gives our clams +1 commerce.
Turn 346 - Open market is put to a vote (defied). I'm hoping it'll slow down the AI.
Turn 347 - Radio is completed. All of the wonders are gone
Turn 348 - Toku wants our assistance vs. the Spanish. Riiiiiight.... He's now furious with us
Turn 349 - We strike the motherload! 65 Gold. This event needs to scale with time
Turn 350 - Toku vassalizes to Izzy. She starts spamming him with Buddhism. Ahh yes, the religious nut.
Turn 352 - Our 1st thruster is complete. Universal Sufferage is also put to vote and defied. We're not along though as Toku joins us in defying.
Our next thruster is going to finish as satellites finishes. I thought about putting off the SS parts until the elevator but the parts take more hammers in bts so we need to get cranking. I've hired engineers for the time being to speed up the process instead of the merchants. We may need to start begging around and/or trading backwards tech for gold though.
So here's the interesting proposal:
Izzy must be nuts, or she must have more power than we can see. JC has modern armor + mobile artillery. Izzy has artillery + paratroopers + marines + SAM infantry. So here's my proposal. JC still has too much on his hands (no clue who he's going after here...) but if he's after us, we're toast anyways. How about we send Izzy after Gilgamesh first, hope she vassalizes him while trying to get her to tech to at least laser, hopefully composites. Then if we still have a good tech lead on her, we may be able to send her after JC. Alternatively, we can try getting a DP with her once she cleans up Gilgamesh too.
The power ratings were put out and JC was first, followed by Izzy then Gilgamesh. We have no idea of their relative strengths though
I hate how you can't see power graphs without espionage points now.
Does anybody know if Manhattan has been built?
) has 998000, and the average of all the 5 civs except us and the deceased Darius ( RIP ) is 2438800.... Doing a back of the envelop math, that means that Izzy+ Gilga+Toku ( Charlie looks to be the weakest one IMHO ) have 5199000 soldiers, and that Izzy at top will have 3203000 soldiers ( assuming that Giga, Toku and Charlie have all the same power, a very unrealistical assumption ) and more realisticaly IMHO Izzy have something in the 2000000-2500000 soldiers range, 2-3 times less than JC. As it is a AI-AI war and JC has a better army, Izzy would be eaten alive. Do we want to give JC a excuse to eliminate his only bump in the way to his desired Dom/conquest win? OTOH it could delay JC SS buildup enough for us to win.... This one is a tough choice.
There is always the " count chickens" method: sent a spy ( if no OB ) or a regular unit and count units. Tiresome, not exact and not very useful....
