Collosus is already obsolete with astronomy??
The wonders are obsolete or not depending of the techs the
owner has. As DP does not have astro, the collosus will work for him
It is a shame he has no real economy to produce EP against the Ai capital. He has 400 EP points on Gilga but he has not set a target AI for espionage. So this could of been rising 20 points a turn but instead is +4 a turn.
The lack of a proper economy is a unfortunate consequence of the war prep... the lack of focus on EP is a mistake though. Ok, he was focusing of Fred before, but even then there is no reason to be on 1:1 now
Even so 40-45 curs should be enough to take out the cities. Most curs should be level 1-2+ now after the first war.
It should the trick if played properly
I don't think Gilga is a big unit spammer but 1.1 seems rather low on the power rating given all the curs floating about! it could just be stables, baraacks walls etc. It could also be 3-4 LB defending each city. I learned long ago that power ratings mean very little at times due to way the Ai over build. Looking at game I can see he has steel already. So expect cannons/ long bows/knights and mace/muskets?
Indeed. I feel safe to attack a AI in Immortal @ 0.6-0.8 of his power. And to add, cuirs can make flanking damage to cannons (
if you find the cannons outside of a city ), so the big issue is most likely the CG II/III garrisons ...
Personally i would go in with a good strong 30 unit stack and 15 unit strong second stack. The danger is Gilga can attack Hamburg and Berlin on first turn of war as his knight can attack with ease. There is no cultural buffer zome around Berlin or Hamburg. Before the war check his main cities for units and deploy main stack towards capital before he reaches rifles. if he does have a stack entice it out into open field to attack it. If you wait too long you will be facing an army of rifles.
I do not fear a Gilga counterstrike ... simply because it is a AI on the other side
. They will most likely target first the troops inside of their territory, that will be the situation in hand.
The real issue is that Gilga is close of rifles ( how close ... I simply don't know. The bad part of picking the game at spaces is that you don't get the feeling of how the game is flowing so easily as that , and here we have no EP based intel :/ ). CG III rifles will shred cuirs
Anyway, IMHO war must be declared soon exactly because of that. There is most likly little time to heal or even to scout. The real critical intel is to know the forces around Eridu and Uruk , that can be got in 2 turns of scouting anyway ...
