radiospace
Chieftain
- Joined
- Sep 1, 2006
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So in my current game, I've got a runaway lead (score 1300 to 850 next highest civ), and am obviously going to win a spaceship victory.
As the endgame progresses, the Songhai attacked my oldest city-state ally, their neighbor Ragusa. When this happened previously I simply paid the Songhai off to sign a peace treaty with Ragusa and no big deal. (They are very friendly with me.) This time, though, they were in Perma-War with Ragusa, so that wasn't an option.
I decided to gift some units to Ragusa to defend themselves -- I gave them a couple of infantry and a tank (against invading cavalry and artillery). It only took a couple of turns for the Ragusa AI to blunder away these precious resources and lose them, so I gave them more... and more... and more... You don't realize how bad the AI is with tactical military operations until you're footing the bill...
Anyway, like the U.S. in Vietnam, having escalated this war to the point of no return, I've become stubborn in my pursuit of this strategy, so I am planning on building up a big army to gift Ragusa all at once, in hopes that they will actually conquer a few Songhai cities. By this time I have finished the tech tree so it will be 2 or 3 Death Robots, Jet Fighters, Stealth Bombers, mech infantry, modern armor, and maybe a couple of nuclear missiles mischief.
Here's my question: does the City-State have to pay upkeep on all these units? If they can't pay it, will they just have to disband them? Do they suffer combat penalties if they don't have resources to support the units (i.e. Aluminum for modern armor, oil for tanks, etc)? In short, is there any limit to how big of an army you can gift to a citystate without it causing some sort of epic economic fail?
As the endgame progresses, the Songhai attacked my oldest city-state ally, their neighbor Ragusa. When this happened previously I simply paid the Songhai off to sign a peace treaty with Ragusa and no big deal. (They are very friendly with me.) This time, though, they were in Perma-War with Ragusa, so that wasn't an option.
I decided to gift some units to Ragusa to defend themselves -- I gave them a couple of infantry and a tank (against invading cavalry and artillery). It only took a couple of turns for the Ragusa AI to blunder away these precious resources and lose them, so I gave them more... and more... and more... You don't realize how bad the AI is with tactical military operations until you're footing the bill...
Anyway, like the U.S. in Vietnam, having escalated this war to the point of no return, I've become stubborn in my pursuit of this strategy, so I am planning on building up a big army to gift Ragusa all at once, in hopes that they will actually conquer a few Songhai cities. By this time I have finished the tech tree so it will be 2 or 3 Death Robots, Jet Fighters, Stealth Bombers, mech infantry, modern armor, and maybe a couple of nuclear missiles mischief.
Here's my question: does the City-State have to pay upkeep on all these units? If they can't pay it, will they just have to disband them? Do they suffer combat penalties if they don't have resources to support the units (i.e. Aluminum for modern armor, oil for tanks, etc)? In short, is there any limit to how big of an army you can gift to a citystate without it causing some sort of epic economic fail?