DaviddesJ
Deity
I'm skeptical about size-1 cities. I'll try a test, but I think you always lose 1 pop when taking the city and thus size-1 cities disappear. I've heard other people say that culture is relevant, but it doesn't seem that way to me.
I agree with MailMan, settling on a forest removes it for no benefit. But still I think cottaging was probably worth more than chopping a relatively distant tile for relatively little payoff.
I think the AI never shifts its production when it has started something, so if it was building a settler when we attack, it will finish it. Too bad that it pop rushed costing us population, though. I think the pop rush also reduces the amount of gold that we get when we capture the city.
If we can block both the cow and the rice, then he can't work so many mines, was what I was thinking. And also, since he was building a settler, blocking the cow reduces his production significantly more than a mine---it might be that we could have slowed the settler down more. Still a good result.
Libraries are only really useful in cities that are going to get a substantial number of cottages. Seems like we may want a granary for long-term growth more than a library that pays relatively little in the short term, it's close though, and eventually we will build both.
We might consider making peace with Catherine now, and attacking again sometime down the road? Downside is that eventually she will connect the copper and build spearmen, if we wait long enough. But Novgorod has minimal value to us for now, and eventually we are going to encounter war weariness, and I don't know if we want to stay at war so long as to try to extract techs from her for peace. I assume that if we do make peace, that she will be so mad at us she won't be willing to trade us techs, later.
More later when I look over the save.
I agree with MailMan, settling on a forest removes it for no benefit. But still I think cottaging was probably worth more than chopping a relatively distant tile for relatively little payoff.
I think the AI never shifts its production when it has started something, so if it was building a settler when we attack, it will finish it. Too bad that it pop rushed costing us population, though. I think the pop rush also reduces the amount of gold that we get when we capture the city.
If we can block both the cow and the rice, then he can't work so many mines, was what I was thinking. And also, since he was building a settler, blocking the cow reduces his production significantly more than a mine---it might be that we could have slowed the settler down more. Still a good result.
Libraries are only really useful in cities that are going to get a substantial number of cottages. Seems like we may want a granary for long-term growth more than a library that pays relatively little in the short term, it's close though, and eventually we will build both.
We might consider making peace with Catherine now, and attacking again sometime down the road? Downside is that eventually she will connect the copper and build spearmen, if we wait long enough. But Novgorod has minimal value to us for now, and eventually we are going to encounter war weariness, and I don't know if we want to stay at war so long as to try to extract techs from her for peace. I assume that if we do make peace, that she will be so mad at us she won't be willing to trade us techs, later.
More later when I look over the save.
