CommandoBob
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I think Niklas just wanted a short set to take out the Aztecs. That's the impression I picked up from his comments and his log. So I think sercer88 is Up.Will Niklas be finishing this set, or will sercer88 take over from here?
But sercer88 may think different.
India should be easy to deal with, but at some point we'll have to stop France. Joan has three cities and a Wonder Addiction problem, which is good. If she's building Great things, she's not building military things. But if she decides to go a-conquering she could be making one turn swords with no problems at all. So I think she needs to be the next big target and the real question is how do we deal with France.I guess we need to decide on the next target. India could be good, it's close to home and seems to have good lands. Besides, they might have no elephants yet. Rome is another option, but legionaries are tough to kill at this stage.
We at least need an embassy with France to see more of the French lands. (And perhaps other embassies also and for the same reason, though this is an expensive way to do fog-busting).
I might be overly concerned with France and I sort of hope that I am. If France is not a threat we can pretty much do as we please. (We'd pick off the AIs one by one and just stroll into the position of world leader. We'd start on one side of the world, build up our forces, pick a direction and steamroller over the AIs. And after the fighting was done the pre-selected surviving AIs would vote us in a world rulers.)
Should France really be as dangerous as I fear, then we have to be more careful and focused. If France were close we could deal with her whenever. But France is on the far side of the world from us with buffering AIs between Smurkz and France, going both east and west from Smurkz. So we just won't be able to react to France in a turn or so. We'll need a plan well in advance before we invade the shores of Normandy.
IBT Suggestion
What if we selected a few AIs and established embassies with them before proceding any further? We would establish the embassy(s), take screen shots of the capitals and then save the game while we discussed what we found.
I would select France, Persia and maybe Rome.