CommandoBob
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If we head west and clear out that nest of English Infestation, we will need to rush some galleons. At most, we have one galleon on our west coast. We do have one frigate.
We have two artillery units on the mainland, they can head west. We are building one more artillery, but it is some po-dunk town, so it won't be ready for the war without buying it.
In Little France we have 8 artys, 2 Cav and 2 Rifles. With the arty we can pound down Reading, but we need more Cavs to take the town on one turn.
Littler France, that island to our west, needs more than 2 artillery. We could plan to capture Reading on Turn 2 of the war (on Turn 1 we will move our units adjacent to Reading). On Turn 3 we could move them to Rennes and ship them back to the mainland, which will take us into Turn 4 before they land. On Turn 4 we ship them east-to-west, load'em up and move'em across. Where they will move one tile per turn due to lack of roads.
Hmm.
Little France has the biggest prize, rubber, so we need to keep focused on capturing Reading and roading the rubber forest. Again, 2 more Cavs should do the trick.
In Littler France, we can't get the artillery from Little France into the action in a reasonable amount of time. We may be better off building a bunch of Cavs to take down those English places. Losses will be high, since we won't be doing any bombardments. And Cavs are somewhat weak on defense, so we would need some Rifles to brace them up.
I think that a force of 10-12 Cavs and 3-5 Rilfes should be enough to capture some English cities and force Elizabeth to the diplomacy table. By then, we should be strong enough to demand the remaining cities on Littler France.
But the real prize is the Reading Rubber Forest. Second prize is Littler France joining the Greater French Empire.
The real benefit is in keeping Hiawatha from thinking that we are easy pickings in warfare. A possible side benefit of this war is that the Iroquois might declare war on the English all on their own. I think that would help us. (Well, we could make war on England and hope that Hiawatha does the same. We get the rubber, make peace with England and then attack Hiawatha while his units are attacking English cities and not defending Iroquois cities. We get more cities and some mountains that might contain green glowing stuff that goes boom and/or soda pop containers. Nice dream, probably won't happen.)
We have two artillery units on the mainland, they can head west. We are building one more artillery, but it is some po-dunk town, so it won't be ready for the war without buying it.
In Little France we have 8 artys, 2 Cav and 2 Rifles. With the arty we can pound down Reading, but we need more Cavs to take the town on one turn.
Littler France, that island to our west, needs more than 2 artillery. We could plan to capture Reading on Turn 2 of the war (on Turn 1 we will move our units adjacent to Reading). On Turn 3 we could move them to Rennes and ship them back to the mainland, which will take us into Turn 4 before they land. On Turn 4 we ship them east-to-west, load'em up and move'em across. Where they will move one tile per turn due to lack of roads.
Hmm.
Little France has the biggest prize, rubber, so we need to keep focused on capturing Reading and roading the rubber forest. Again, 2 more Cavs should do the trick.
In Littler France, we can't get the artillery from Little France into the action in a reasonable amount of time. We may be better off building a bunch of Cavs to take down those English places. Losses will be high, since we won't be doing any bombardments. And Cavs are somewhat weak on defense, so we would need some Rifles to brace them up.
I think that a force of 10-12 Cavs and 3-5 Rilfes should be enough to capture some English cities and force Elizabeth to the diplomacy table. By then, we should be strong enough to demand the remaining cities on Littler France.
But the real prize is the Reading Rubber Forest. Second prize is Littler France joining the Greater French Empire.
The real benefit is in keeping Hiawatha from thinking that we are easy pickings in warfare. A possible side benefit of this war is that the Iroquois might declare war on the English all on their own. I think that would help us. (Well, we could make war on England and hope that Hiawatha does the same. We get the rubber, make peace with England and then attack Hiawatha while his units are attacking English cities and not defending Iroquois cities. We get more cities and some mountains that might contain green glowing stuff that goes boom and/or soda pop containers. Nice dream, probably won't happen.)
