A general hypothetical question:
Perhaps there is no right answer and it's merely based on play style, but I wanted to ask your opinions.
You're the undisputed powerhouse of the game, ahead in techs and troops and land, and you would like to gain a domination victory. At this point, you have about 1/3 of the land. 2 civs have bit the dust, 5 remain. Standard pangaea map, end of the industrial age. (ok, so the hypothetical quickly turned into my current game)
Anyway, either way it looks pretty obvious that you'll win, but you'd like to do it as smoothly and easily as possible. The Mayans are the second strongest civ, but only about half my territory. They have been my allies and often gracious towards me. They're a few techs behind. My military is "average" compared to them. They are my immediate neighbors, I share a long border with them, the other civs are on the other side of the continent which can't be reached by land because an Iroquois city was built on the isthmus. I would say, why hesitate, crush the Mayans, but they have fortified a giant stack of troops outside a recently conquered Aztec city. Very weak units, longbowmen and crusaders generally, but about 50 or so of them, so it would just be a headache having to waste time killing them all. Every other civ, on the other hand, is pretty weak and far behind in tech. I'm a couple turns away from tanks.
So the "hypothetical" question is, do you attack your strongest ally and then move on from there, or do you ally with him again against the rest of the world? Attack the Mayans, or conquer the Iroquois starting with their isthmus city, thus denying the Mayans land access to the rest of the continent, and probably ensuring that they won't land any troops there to take any of my future cities?
Just curious would other people would do in the same situation.
Perhaps there is no right answer and it's merely based on play style, but I wanted to ask your opinions.
You're the undisputed powerhouse of the game, ahead in techs and troops and land, and you would like to gain a domination victory. At this point, you have about 1/3 of the land. 2 civs have bit the dust, 5 remain. Standard pangaea map, end of the industrial age. (ok, so the hypothetical quickly turned into my current game)
Anyway, either way it looks pretty obvious that you'll win, but you'd like to do it as smoothly and easily as possible. The Mayans are the second strongest civ, but only about half my territory. They have been my allies and often gracious towards me. They're a few techs behind. My military is "average" compared to them. They are my immediate neighbors, I share a long border with them, the other civs are on the other side of the continent which can't be reached by land because an Iroquois city was built on the isthmus. I would say, why hesitate, crush the Mayans, but they have fortified a giant stack of troops outside a recently conquered Aztec city. Very weak units, longbowmen and crusaders generally, but about 50 or so of them, so it would just be a headache having to waste time killing them all. Every other civ, on the other hand, is pretty weak and far behind in tech. I'm a couple turns away from tanks.
So the "hypothetical" question is, do you attack your strongest ally and then move on from there, or do you ally with him again against the rest of the world? Attack the Mayans, or conquer the Iroquois starting with their isthmus city, thus denying the Mayans land access to the rest of the continent, and probably ensuring that they won't land any troops there to take any of my future cities?
Just curious would other people would do in the same situation.
