Early Warfare

[vikingruler]

basically condem us to a small corner of the map with a long and drawn out campaign against a foe who has a resourceless UU which we will have no chance to counter since we will need iron and horses in our 80 tiles of territory.

i don't believe this to be true. first of all we won't be condemded to a small corner because we are seafaring so we can churn out the naval units and if needed build colony cities. also, i said we don't need war THIS EARLY. it is true the enemy's uu would leave us with no counter but we can take them out later. i say we wait for 3-4 cities, 5 or more swordsmen and then attack the indians, with adequate city defenses in all our cities. also, we can't destroy the indians because of their vitality to us. they are so far the only civ we met and need them for techs, trading, etc... we only have one warrior with a horrible name, that honestly won't discover the world on its own. we should get bw and trade it for techs with the indians. wait for swords and THEN destroy them.

 

[Nobody]

Don't we have the smallest military possiable? (other than no military)

 

[Provolution]

I say we map more, figure out the neighbors and map and so on.
Finally, India is a more peaceful Civ and we may well take them out by the end of AA.

 

[Bertie]

My usual preference is to eschew early warfare and concentrate on building a healthy, expansive, productive civilization. This is particularly true on higher levels where the opposing civs can so easily out produce the human early in the game. However, the arguments that mad-bax puts forth are compelling. The risk is actually quite minimal if our goal is not to eliminate India in this round of warfare but rather to grab its workers and then sue for a profitable peace fairly soon.

I vote war.

 

[MOTH]

Of course we don't need war this early and can win later. This is an opportunity to take the early game into our hands. This can make all the difference between India beating us to the best sites time and again or us beating them and boxing them into the corner.

I rarely take on early war in my own games, but this is just too good an chance to pass up at minimal risk.

 

[Octavian X]

I think it's an intersting gambit. I'll have to fall on the side of those calling for war. If we come out unscratched (as I think we will), we'll have the equilalent of an extra worker and a crippled neighbor. If we fail, well... We can always start a new game.

I'll go ahead and post a poll on the subject.

 

[Nobody]

But bussiness could suffer *everyone yeah grumble grumble "Nobodys right, Lets sell india cheap wine"*

 

[Octavian X]

Ah, well. That's the price one must pay for war.

The poll is now up.

 

[blackheart]

I say we map more, figure out the neighbors and map and so on.
Finally, India is a more peaceful Civ and we may well take them out by the end of AA.

Tell that to Gandhi. He's backstabbed, surprised attacked, and demanded things from me on more than one occasion.

 

[classical_hero]

I say that war is pointless. SInce i have been quoted already, I have made my feelings known and have nothing more to say but, NO WAR.