Manifest Destiny II

[Chieftess]

Thunderfall (Thor) - "Take 20 of your finest men, and sail to where the sun sets. There you will find a city. Plunder, Pillage, and Raze all that you find". (I think I got that right - Grey Fox and our resident Vikings kept repeating it in the chat... )

(yes, this is informational)

Ok, since it appears we're a breed of warmongers this game... Here's a poll on how we should expand.

Northern Lands - Control Russia, Babylon, Japan, and America.

Northern Hemisphere - Control Russia, Babylon, Japan, India, Iroquois, England, France

The West - Control everything west of the landbridge

The East - Head east and control that area east of the landbridge.

Domination

Total Conquest

 

[GenMarshall]

We should control the Northern lands. We can also control a significant portion of the land bridge and build our own version of the Magenot Line fortifications .

 

[BCLG100]

we should control all lands are side of the bridge

 

[Shaitan]

I think conquest of the world is a worthy objective. We'll probably hit domination before completing it though as I suspect we will have development following in the immediate wake of our rampaging forces as we bring enlightenment to our barbarian foes.

 

[Donovan Zoi]

I voted NONE only because with domination or conquest, you don't utilize all Demogame leaders effectively as you would in a more balanced game. Plus, I like to play the good guys who, after early expansion, build a great empire ready to take on anything that comes their way. Reactionary, maybe, but ready.

In the early phases, though, I think we can take away bits of America, Japan and India(and finish off the Aztecs, of course) and then never back down from another threat again. Plus, expanding into Russia and Babylon would give us too many corrupt cities.

I am not a dove and I will fight a worthwhile battle when it comes, but I think this Demogame should be more balanced after early expansion.

 

[Chieftess]

Then you should've seen the 1st demogame.

We were more of a "Reactionary" type civ... and we had cities sitting right on the border of being corrupt. (from 25% corrupt to 50% corrupt just within 5-10 tiles).

 

[Veera Anlai]

It's my opinion that if we're going to attack Japan, we might as well take the rest of the west as well ;-)

If we want a Conquest/Domination victory, then we can work from there.

 

[Grandmaster]

First englighten Japan, then America, and then all other barbarians who stand in the way of world progress.

Conquest is not our goal, it is our RIGHT.

 

[Cyc]

Well, I would have to agree with Grandmaster. Take Japan, or as much of it as we wanted, then turn on our friends the Americans. They have some beautiful land up there, that should be ours. With all of that, I then would propose a time of development of substructure, Culture, and Military through Science. We then pounce on the first fool that invades our lands. I don't think we should worry about Babylon or Russia, unless we become over-developed.

EDIT: Anyway, I'm voting Northern, even tho Babylon and Russia would not be included in my goal.