Operation Three: The Greek War Machine is let loose

[GenMarshall]

4 Swords?! Erm, I beleve that we should aim for 10 Swords to capture an enemy capital city. But I agree with the rest that we are not ready to go to war just yet, regardless of the nation.

 

[Ranger99]

OKay the newest info is that it's 60 gp to upgrade from Warrior to Swordsman. So our original 6 Swordsman is now down to three.

To pull this off we'll need to most likley bypass Heidelburg for now and head staraight to Berlin.

We get the forces by running zero science and hording cash while building Warriors and then upgrading them.

We proabably won't get to ever take heidleburg though mainly becasue I believe that the French Sword is on its way to Berlin, we take Berlin then it'll change route to Heidelburg and will raze the city, oh well.

Berlin is key though.

-Ranger99-

 

[vikingruler]

heidelburg would have been razed no matter what, so that's a small loss and the only reason i wanted to attack it was to get the possibility of upgrading units. also, we should consider building a horseman in priapos or styx, not a swordman producing city, so we can get to spy on the romans. if they have say one or two legionaries and the germans have 3 spears in their city, i say let the romans soften them up then we finish off the remaining one.

 

[Civlord]

Quite impossible plan. We won't win that way, Ranger99. We cannot simply think that four swords will attack, nobody will die and they will take the city easily then head to Heidelburg and win another battle. We must be cautious, and specially, if the RNG are against us, pray .

 

[Civlord]

heidelburg would have been razed no matter what, so that's a small loss and the only reason i wanted to attack it was to get the possibility of upgrading units. also, we should consider building a horseman in priapos or styx, not a swordman producing city, so we can get to spy on the romans. if they have say one or two legionaries and the germans have 3 spears in their city, i say let the romans soften them up then we finish off the remaining one

But what if they take Berlin, or if they fail in even hurting the spearmen in Berlin? Would we stop, then? We should not trust the romans to win this war for us.

 

[vikingruler]

civlord, waiting for the romans to attack berlin is merely a chance for odds to win increase. if no spears are killed, so be it, we will commence the attack on berlin. i would also like to add that when we go to war the MA with france might get us money and trading techs to persia and germany will get us money. trade with germany would occur obviously before MA is signed with france and germany. if the trades don't occur at the very least we get cash from rome, also greekguy's build queue is finishing up soon so he will be free to hopefully build some warriors and then swordsmen after our money is exhausted.

 

[Furiey]

German Embassy Screenie taken 1250 BC.

 

[Ranger99]

Sorry Civlord I didn't mean for US to take Heidelburg...I must've worded it wrong. I was saying that the French are most likley on their way to Berlin...Thereofre we either take the city quickly, or hope that the French and/or Romans don't take it in a one turn assault.

When I was talking about heidelburg I was meaning that the French Swords will most likley head their after we take Berlin, which means that heidelburg will probably fall from the French instead of us, unless we take Berlin quickly and march onto Heidleburg instantly....

But then the Germans have more cities to the East, which are then free to assault Berlin, (captured) but we SHOULD be able to stop that by using Horsemen effectvley and razing the land area beyond Berlin, and raiding archers and such.

As for the Sherman thing...Im sorry to say I've only heard of the General Sherman...and not the other guy....lol.

-Ranger99-

 

[GenMarshall]

Im still a bit conserned about the amount of swords that we would need. 3 Swords wont be enough to crack the shell of the Berlin defense. We would need at least 7 Swords taken into account the difficulty level that we are playing in this game. The AI would have a stronger quantity of defensive units.

 

[Civlord]

Sorry Civlord I didn't mean for US to take Heidelburg...I must've worded it wrong. I was saying that the French are most likley on their way to Berlin...Thereofre we either take the city quickly, or hope that the French and/or Romans don't take it in a one turn assault.

To take it quickly, we should attack now and win the germans in the first assault. If we fail to take Berlin in the first attack, then we will lose it.

When I was talking about heidelburg I was meaning that the French Swords will most likley head their after we take Berlin, which means that heidelburg will probably fall from the French instead of us, unless we take Berlin quickly and march onto Heidleburg instantly....

We can make two simultaneous attacks. Heidelburg is not well-defended like Berlin, so I suggest a horseman attack there while we leave the swords to Berlin. Because the horsemen are faster, they will probably be fighting in Heidelburg before the french get there.

 

[admiral-bell]

I say, WARRRR! we can cripple a possibly beligerent neighbor and get a good enemy city with production possibilities. but what does our expatriot goveroner

 

[vikingruler]

i planned to attack hiedelburg, but our lack of forces makes that assault stupid and a possible suicide mission. we march in with every sword we have, excluding apollo. let rome attack berlin first, unless the germans attempt an offensive on us. hopefully rome will kill one or two spears giving us higher odds to win. if we win the war we will gain a distinct advantage in the game. if we lose, so what, germany can't touch us with our hoplites so the we are out a few swords we rebuild. we have nothing to lose in the war, just to gain.