FiveRings,
Thanks for the turnset - I've only had a brief look, but overall it seems to be going well.I'm not sure what those Gunships are doing out of position, but I'm sure there's an explanation.
Can't believe that we picked up another Great Scientist! I'd look at changing that Scientist specialist to a 'citizen' Specialist and building a Confucian Temple in Delta of Horror so he can be added as another Priest.
War weariness sure is biting hard! You might be right that the commerce slider be swung up more toward 40%, but bear in mind that the population will be pretty quick to re-establish itself after Korea's out of the game which is almost the sole objective at this point.
I would have hoped that Churchill might have edged his way up to 'Pleased' by now. Very unlikely that he'll cause us any grief, but would prefer to have it as a guarantee.
Mao's unwillingness to talk and Open Borders might mean that we'll need to drop off troops by navy to take that southern peninsula city (can't recall its name right now).
Given our potential close proximity to tripping Domination, we might think about letting Churchill take Washington? That is, we bomb it down and leave a sole injured American defender for Churchill to finish off. Washington has no great WoWs, so it shouldn't be too damaging to let it go to the English. A thought at any rate.
If you mean the choppers off Seoul, they were mopping some WK's infantry (and a settler who disappeared in a thin air) there.
I had checked the domination thing and won't bother too much about overstepping the requirements before capturing all Korea. I think we better keep Washington, Seoul, Wonson, and we actually might need to keep a couple of WK's other cities as well.
I'd prioritize taking his off-land citites (on islands in the North and South) and then reinforcing the armies North and Center in order to be more or less get clear about the Dominance situation. There are quite a few units in the building pipe that would be more than enough to get those off-cities and then move back to the main frontline.
On the GrSc: I'd expect that we get a Gr Merchant in a dozen turns, and might think about keeping the rest of the GrPs for a next GA - I hope that won't need 4 of them!! - or for bulbing techs, just in case. I'd be OK with making the GrSc into a citizen, although the benefit from the bulbs is too low, it seems. I think I don't understand how this might heighten the chances of getting a prophet.
BTW, I also couldn't understand what clues you used to reach the conclusions - several posts back - re WK's and Church's willingness to halt or continue the war. I thought that this might be done based on whether they kept open - in the dialogue window - the possibility to ask them to end the war, but the situation was reverse to what I'd have expected: Church wanted to continue the war (no big surprise, as he had just wiped out WK's stack) while WK could be asked to make peace.
Yah, the 1 point upgrade in our relations with Churchill was a quite disppointingly small token of appreciation.
BTW, WK has quite a stack in Wonson or a nearby city (I don't remember exactly) that should be kept watched. It's much bigger than what he has in Seoul, so might reinforce the latter or try to counterattack somewhere.
, but then regretted I haven't whipped them up earlier - I wouldn't have lost a couple of fishing boats...
) might be our best choice seeing all other specialist slots other than Artists and Scientists have been taken.
pressure from Stalin and Wang Kon. I also used two of our GPs. i was unable to find posts pertaining to what I was supposed to do with them so I culture bombed one captured city (Boston) which, to me, still seems like the correct thing to have done. The GSc was used to build Academy in Iron Fist. Another GP is due soon (3 or 4 turns).[/SUMMARY]
. I hit enter and the 2 promoted gunships are shot down anyway.
for the effort and loss of 1 heli. Same as with the other GPs, I didn't know what to do with the GG so I settled an instructor in Black Horse.
, 31% that we won't again), but maybe we should keep it until Wang's dead where we can then ensure quickly claiming the land that until then we'd been struggling to avoid securing for fear of tripping the win too early?
