Harbourboy
Deity
Oh dear. Things are never simple. How would you sum up our current position then?
Oh dear. Things are never simple. How would you sum up our current position then?
Is that a new galley there or typical AI galley still waiting?
Looking at the save right now. It is unusual for me to not have archers in my cities - makes it harder to determine which troops are homeguard and which are for the offensive. Just a thought... since we traded for archery and have it now what if we make archers and used all our current troops for Khan? Archers are much cheaper to make then what we have guarding the cities and in production.
Still looking in detail and re-reading over thread but curious what people think about that.
Edit: Not "all" our current troops - when defending with archers I usually also leave behind a couple mobile troops to defend vs pillagers.
Build costs for current possible military units:
60 - Catapult & Sword
52 - Axeman & Spearman
37 - Archer & Chariot
I still think we need more swords and catapults but was thinking that one archer per city is cheap defense and would let us take more of our current troops with us on the offensive. With the permanant war with Gandhi I'd more likely use 2 per but not sure how you guys feel about archers so maybe one per plus one of something else would be good too.
That is a different way of defending then I'm used to but might be needed with Gandhi so close and able to land any time.
I usually make sure that I have roads on everything I want to defend then I can leave the defending troops in the city and be able to move them out to attack and then back into the city to heal in one turn. Axes are usually what I chose for this as they have the best chance vs axes and swords and then I keep a couple horse troops somewhere closeby to move around as needed and take care of anything out of one turn range of city troops.
Not to say that is the best way to do it... just what I'm used to but I know I have a lot to learn so totally willing to do it differently just wanted to let people know what I'd do instinctively so that it isn't asumed I'd do something else that you all may take for granted.