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^^ That sounds like a good analysis ^^
I won't get a chance to look at the save until late tonight, but I'm all for that plan.
I won't get a chance to look at the save until late tonight, but I'm all for that plan.
Darius has ivory, and is likely 2 techs from jumbos--they need HBR in BTS.I don't favour attacking Darius: he already has Monarchy which means he's the tech leader and (probably) on the way to Feudalism and Longbows. He also has Jumbos which, if paired with an Axe, can give us headaches.
I think Darius will likely have HBR already, which would leave him one tech away from Construction now (assuming he has Maths). He has enough pop to aggressively whip emergency defenders, so my worry - now that we're too late in the timeline for it to be a true rush - is that attacking Darius has a high chance of failure.Darius has ivory, and is likely 2 techs from jumbos--they need HBR in BTS.
His lands are way better, and my thinking would be to rush him before he gets too strong. Ivory is huge for us. It is clear Darius is the stronger AI and will be better to steal from--I guess it just comes down to is it better to get a little more tech or whack the main threat. I vote for taking out the main threat.
Are we allowed to extort tech with this variant?After we take Thebes and Heliopolis we can see what we will get for peace and go from there.
I felt not, but PMed Darrell this morning for confirmation and he replied that we may only extort techs we're allowed to research, which is more or less Alphabet.Are we allowed to extort tech with this variant?
I'm generally not too concerned about metals in an early axe rush, especially iron. Yes we could face axe/sword/spear now but that might be a net positive. AI is more likely to send axe/sword out of cities to attack us and axe, spear cost 52h and sword 60. If no metal can only build cheaper WC and archer. So AI has less units and not really any better. Axe is better but sword worse and spear much worse for AI.@ungy - I'd like to get your input about the war with Hatty in light of the Iron trade. (I'll see whether it could be pillaged on T1 of the war.)