I think we're almost forgetting that the Zulus are still around...
Do we want to attack one first, or both at the same time? We could treat them as 1 huge civ, since the Zulus seem to have been slowly weakened.
For our War of Attrition, we will use the Persian rails against them. But first, we need to block the gap (temporarily), between New Umata, and our cities so that they don't settle there. Since the AI rarely, or never attacks armies, we can have 3 tank armies in these tiles - New Hlobane, and 1E and 1W of Hlobane. Have a border (which I'll draw) filled with tanks, and mech inf. We will also open the chokepoint, and leave some backwater cities undefended on the bottom of the continent (our railnet enables us to have a 1-turn defense).
The result?
1 - Free artillery bombardment (or, Zone of Control)
2 - Persia will throw their entire army at us, making them ripe for the picking.
3 - Makes for an impressive screenshot.
Do we want to attack one first, or both at the same time? We could treat them as 1 huge civ, since the Zulus seem to have been slowly weakened.
For our War of Attrition, we will use the Persian rails against them. But first, we need to block the gap (temporarily), between New Umata, and our cities so that they don't settle there. Since the AI rarely, or never attacks armies, we can have 3 tank armies in these tiles - New Hlobane, and 1E and 1W of Hlobane. Have a border (which I'll draw) filled with tanks, and mech inf. We will also open the chokepoint, and leave some backwater cities undefended on the bottom of the continent (our railnet enables us to have a 1-turn defense).
The result?
1 - Free artillery bombardment (or, Zone of Control)
2 - Persia will throw their entire army at us, making them ripe for the picking.
3 - Makes for an impressive screenshot.