Sorry for delay guys. Turns played!
Our economy is a crapshoot, we can really use alphabet here to build research, so after math our priority will be alphabet. Anyways, Uberfish left me with an interesting situation near Akkad. Hammurabi has 6 bowmen in the city, andw e have 6 swordsman around the area, with 6-8 more that will get there in 2 turns. 2-1 ratio should be enough here, but it will be somewhat risky.
By the time our army was ready, Hammurabi piled up a couple more bowmen..
Yikes. No chance, I decided to forget this city for now and go after northern city. I also started Library in Babylon to be whipped and chopped out ASAP. We really can use some scientist specialists for our first great person and to help us get to Alphabet. I decided to attakc Borsippa with a chariot and take a chance at 28% odds, but failed. Oh well.. Hammurabi comes up with a bowmen from nowhere near Umungdongulo, had to whip a swordsman there unfortunately.
Attacked Dur Kurigalzo in 350 BC, I think what we have to do here it basically Blitzkreig the AI. In other words, move our army near thier city on turn 1, then attack ASAP on turn 2, preventing them from whipping/building too many units in a city. If we park swordsman near a city, the AI will just keep building units there. Anyways, lost 1 swordsman at 59% odds but took the city easily.
We got a great general in one of our cities, but I dont know what to do with him. My thinking is either a super specialist or a military academy in Babylon. Babylon has better production potential than the capital so it would be best for our future heroic epic(If we want it) city. Anyways, with no threat to Akkad, Hammurabi considerably lowers its defensive situation.
We have war weariness in Babylon, combined with the whip unhappies and we already have 2 unhappy faces there at size 4. I am starving the city for now while running a scientist (We should switch that over to gold mine once the borders expand there). It will grow back tremendously quickly with the 2 corns anyways.
Also I started another settler in Ulundi for floodplains city which we can cottage spam. Im working 2 scientists there while building the settler also (Not the most optimal but we are not in any rush to get a settler out and the scientist beakers are more useful right now). We should have alphabet in around 6-8 turns after getting some pillage money after grabbing Akkad. So anyways, here is the situation near Akkad...
I would suggest waiting a turn and then moving the units into Akkad (We have a swordsman healing and 2 or 3 that cant move on the current turn). He really should not be able to hold us off this time, as the last time I checked he had 4 units in the city, so the most he can have in 2 turns is 6..
In terms of our research situation, its pretty bad but once we get alphabet we can use alot of our cities to build research which will easily keep us afloat however many cities we take. Alex and Genghis still have not adopted a religion, so we should also trade with them to hopefully grab any important tech's we are missing once we get Alphabet. Also, again, im not too sure what to do with the Great general here. What do you guys think?
Darrell is up for 10 turns.
Save:
Agree to take other cities first (or raze them) I reckoned that cities relentlessly whip defenders in BtS once you have your units parked around their cities.
