shyuhe
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I've started playing and found Joao on T+3. He's directly south of Vicky. His capital (non-hill, I took OB) is 3 turns from iron city.
So, you mean to say that he only attacked with one of his Galleys being visible?Ok, I had to pause the set as Ragnar declared war on us with a galley. The offending galley is now dead.
Yaaaaa!upgraded the warrior into a mace
Indeed, but it's a better return on investment than upgrading an Axeman or a Swordsman.(pricey!)
That's a tough call. Attacking sooner gets us one City sooner, but it also means that he'll switch back to Slavery as soon as he possibly can and will start whipping units in other Cities.Do we want to invade Willem with just 2 boats to hit Amsterdam? Or wait for 4 boats to hit both Amsterdan and Utrecht? It'll take another 3 turns, plus an extra turn for the southern boats to sail over.
Well, it looks like 2 AIs were Pleased with us (Cathy and, oddly enough, Willem), so those 2 AIs got a little bit angrier at Ragnar for attacking us.Stupid Ragnar:
Hmm, the last bit of that last image got cut off--maybe you, too, ran out of image hosting space?Joao:
Okay, let's do so.Willem is happily in caste and can't whip. Since the second batch of boats will still beat the engineering date, I'm inclined to wait for a simultaneous attack as well.
Well, if we have a fully-healthy Trireme, I would prefer to fight with it than to fight with a Galleon.The boat came from west side of the penninsula near the trireme. I imagine the other two galleys will follow shortly. We have a spare galleon that we can use to poach his ships. Our western front has two triremes (one injured) and we have an extra galleon en route.
Ohhhh, sweet! Nice idea! Even troops from capturing Amsterdam could head SW out of Amsterdam, followed by loading-up into Galleons.After we capture Utrecht, we can move ships into the lake to hit Hague without having to cross the island.
Hmmm, well, that's good to know.Horse archers are rubbish at stack defence. There 50% bonus against catapults only applies when you attack.
Should we think about sending a land-based unit to scout out his lands?I've started playing and found Joao on T+3. He's directly south of Vicky. His capital (non-hill, I took OB) is 3 turns from iron city.
After we capture Utrecht, we can move ships into the lake to hit Hague without having to cross the island.
Without seeing Gem City, I predict that it will be junky. He only had 2 sources of a Gem Resource the last time that I saw the saved game, and one of those is in Utrecht. There is still a lot of Jungle around the Gem City area.
Okay, that's fine. Hit both at once, with the 5th Galleon going to Utrecht.I still think we should attack Amsterdam and Utrecht on the same turn. By my estimate attacking Utrecht with everything would only speed up it's capture by 2T, but the delay in capturing his capital would be longer than this
I can play forward a bit more -- probably play 2-3 turns a day over the weekend since it'll just be warring logistics.
Also, what about Cathy? Are we going to abandon the land troops at Willem? Since we have access to that Lake to the north of Utrecht, it seems wise to keep at least some Galleons around, so that we can attack Cathy from both land and sea... or even just attack from two sea-based locations at once and only following-up later with additional troops sent via land (or Galleon chains directly to the front lines).