If he settles it (Ankara) where he does for me, it's a garbage city on a hill so it's just plain annoying.
I finally opened that save after finishing DC12, and I must stand by my comment. Yes the city is garbage, but it's a free, comes with a worker or two and some target practice for the atlaists. It's one of the dumbest moves to make as Sully, but I like when they forward settle on me, I would almost pay them for it if there was an option
I played till turn 120 or so, and will post a t100 screen shortly and some more info.
I have went after him while building NC, and slowly eliminated his defence force 3 warris, 2 CA, and an archer with my atlaists. Then took the city with a 3hp (after bombard) spear.
Settled on marble, i wanted the observatory but could not get happy enough to avoid settling the lux. He came with a lively bunch of CAs, comps, and spears but i kept picking his melee and he lost them all and finally gave me peace for all his lux.
Which was about time as Boudica was getting restless after taking two Arab cities and asked if i cared to deal with ghandi. I was quite annoyed with him for settling another garbage vity on the coast north of my cap, i had my sights on that nice gold hill with two horses in range and he put it two tiles north, almost in tundra, sandwitched between 2 CS, talk about garbage location. So i figured it will be easy, said yes in ten to the offer and worked on Sully. I DOWed as promised, then finished mopping Sully and went after Vijayanagara with atlaists. To make a llong story short, three Long Count GPs later i was still there with XBows, SMs and pikes and still getting nowhere.
Mostly because Harun and Will figured that if i was fighting only two fronts it would not be fair and I can start getting delusions of Domination grandeur and added Western and Estern fronts. FOrtunately western was in the same spot as my war with Sully so i wa ready and in the east my ally stopped Will cold in the jungles.
But they had lots of CS allies between them and Valetta really made my life hard. until i got peace with them i could only get two CBs in range and one meatshield to take damage, so i was not making progress. He changed his alleginace 3 or 4 times and now finally is in Arab sphere and both Harun and Will gave me peace. Not knowing how much longer this situation will last and not wanting to still be there when arty comes, I pushed in with all i got, lost 5-6 units (more then in entire DC12) and took that damned city on t 116. I will press on until i get Delhi i think, just need new meatshields before i go there.
As you can see my BPT also does not stack well against Peter but i can live with that.
Harun despite losing half his cities is in the lead and wonderspammming with the best of them, sometimes two per turn. And making me want to go there and pay him a visit. But since his CAs are now in their prime i hope someone else deals with him.
Religion wise I went with idols, tithe, asceticism, production 15% and IP. I remember seeing IP vs RT thread and must say this game makes me forget about ever using RT again at higher levels. My religion is spreading like wildfire with only 1 missionary, but I enhanced with MLC GP. And that's on deity vs some powerful religion spammers like Celts and Spain. No desert folklore either, I think I might be able to convert the whole world here. Since I have no religious buildings to buy, and don't want more prophets, I will buy 200 faith inquisitors and stockpile until I get the holy cities. Besides Celts I don't see anyone else getting their religion to spread my against my pressure.
This is second time I don't see an attached SS in last two days. Is it just me?
