On to your posts:
Originally posted by
WARMASTER Marsden:
You do NOT have to pacify resistors, just let them go on resisting. Keep one (or two) cavalry in striking range in case of a flip, but otherwise leave them unoccupied. Let'em whine. Once you have obliterated their culture by destroying every last Korean city the flip chance is eliminated and then you can move in troops to put down the resistance. See?
I'm confused. First, you tell me to keep the Korean cities (and raze the Mayan cities), and now you're telling me to destroy the Korean cities.
You seriously reduce the amount of culture per turn of the Maya by sacking their capital and destroying their great temple, yes. But you didn't erase that culture that was already created, it is still there and will remain until they are completely gone. And while that one city is still there, there remains a chance, however small, that one of our cities could "go Mayan" on us again. Better to destroy them utterly than leave a flea to irritate us.
Sounds like a plan!
Plus it will give you a chance to practice naval operations!
Agreed! Anyone out there an expert on Naval Maneuvers? There's an Admiralty in it for you!
Actually, I think you did yourself a disservice turning off the victory conditions because the culture points don't appear on the victory status screen because they aren't a valid toward victory even though they still count toward game play such as culture flipping. Culture should not be ignored. I think you learned that by now.
Yeah, I realize now that I seriously handicapped the game by turning off all of those Victory conditions. I turned off Conquest and Domination because I was afraid that one of the random civs would have been Germany, Japan, etc . . ., and I turned off Culture Victory because I was afraid that one of the random civs would have been Babylon which seems to get a Culture expansion every time that Hammurabi breaks wind!
I won't ignore Culture ever again. I promise!
Originally posted by
vorlon_mi:
I just can't bring myself to leave cities undefended. I have visions of an AI cavalry slipping through and grabbing that city back without a shot fired. In your TDG, you specifically avoided building culture early, and so your entire civ has a culture deficit.
Those are
exactly the thoughts running through the hamster ball that is my brain!
I am working to avoid building a *lot* of culture early, but I usually build a little. Say, a few libraries (if I'm scientific) while waiting for cities to grow to size 4 or 5 and pop out a settler.
From now on, I'll completely ignore Temples, and build libraries when it's time to.
Originally posted by
Eltrai:
Now, we can wait for war or we can use all those cavs we have and take out Korea. You picked up two luxes so now lets use them to keep our people happy while we wipe out korea.
I think you will be suprised at how fast they fall this time, with all the cavs we have and our ability to produce so many more of them.
Go for it Mr. Pres.
It's tempting, I'll grant you that!
Originally posted by
AutomatedTeller:
Go to the diplomacy screen with joanie - along the bottom, you will see something that says something like current trades. Click on that and you will see the ongoing ROP deal, which you can cancel or renegotiate, if you wish.
I think that I will cancel the ROP. It'll be one less thing to worry about during the upcoming war(s).
I would leave any cities that can't be reached in 1 turn by a horseman (or cav, if you think the other civ has those) undefended, assuming you can get a defender to it if necessary (ie, you have rails to it).
Sounds like a plan!
Coastal cities can be left undefended, at least until someone gets amphibious warfare, and that's not likely to happen any time soon.
Again, sounds like a plan!
Originally posted by
BuckyRea:
But I wouldn't be in such hurry to cancel the RoP deal if you still need to cross French waters. Even Joanie's unlikely to do a sneak attack as long as you have a beefy military at hand. Sometimes open borders can discourage wars that you don't want.
Maybe, but I'll sleep better knowing that there are no French persons in my territory!
Thanks to all of you for your comments, advice, and suggestions.
Well, you are the WarMaster, after all . . . You know what you are talking about.
