Using anarres'Flip Calc (
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53157) I can see that most cities in Inda
have very high chance of flipping, we need the Indians dead ASAP.
900 : rush a few Libs in India,
910 : French advance some SoDs towards us, form a human wall to prevent them entering, I dont like the look of it...
Moving in to destroy Karachi.
ibt : French complete Smith
920 : Dortmund is founded by Cattauragus and Centralia, will be the base city for Iro attack.
Karachi si captured and SoD is stationed there for healing and flip purposes.
An incursion in Iroland shows numerous French SoDs coming at us
I take an important decision : we cant get to the Indian cities before 15 turns without an ROP.
However we could get the French to finish off the Indians for us. They can be bought into an alliance vs India for 1 lux plus 15g.
So between being tied to the Iros for 20 turns (for ROP) or tied to the French for 20 turns I choose the latter I am sure
that deal will finish just when we finish the Iros and are at the gates of France.
ibt : The French declare war on us ! The complete Cops
Dortmund falls and is autorazed we lose 3 knights.
930 : we found Brandenburg on Dortmunds' site and kill most of the Frech SoDs only some Musketeers left. They probably are in GA.
ibt : we get a Leader defending so I named Not Long ! as I thought he would get killed before the turnends but no he survives !
We lose 2 knights a pult (as bait) and an MDI.
940: we lose a Knight, but get rid of most of French troops, Horsa the leader forms an army. Peace with India wont even give us
Banking Chemistry and Navigation...
ibt : France's attack force retreats, they were only a few wounded units left.
950 : Problem now is that we have a peace deal with Iros for the next 10 turns ! So we can't start moving through their territotry as I expected.
I want to ask the opinion of the team now as to what we should do, we could upgrade galleys, fill up caravels and go knowck the 2
last indian cities. However the war with France would cause a problem as the indian cities are right by France.
http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/MLDR01-950_AD.zip