Merum
Permanent Jet Lag
Alright, it's bad news, but we can probably survive this, although it may not be pretty.
I count 9 longbows within 3 turns of striking Beijing at this point. We have an ax, a spear, an archer, and two warriors in defense. One warrior can be upgraded to ax at a cost of 80 of our 110 gold, and another ax can be built in two turns. There is one turn left on the monastery.
We are currently 5 turns from paper. Construction can be had in 4 turns, and although both Frederick and Huayna have it, neither will trade it to us. I know it's a detour from our planned path, but I think it's a must have tech for this very reason. We need cats to defend against stacks that are superior in either technology or numbers. Cats are cheap to build, disposable, and in quantity, devastating to enemy stacks.
I'm not really happy that we allowed our military to be so weak for so long, although I understand the reasons for it, and have agreed with the strategy. Lesson learned there.
Washington may have been bribed into attacking, but I think it's more likely resource and space motivated on George's part, and we're the weakest target available.
There's only one civ who even shows a possibility to attack George, and that is Izzy. However, we don't have enough goodies to make it worth her while, and we probably don't want to start that sort of fight right now anyway.
With the obvious risk being that we get dogpiled, which we really can't do anything to influence now, I think we need to tough this one out on our own. So, this is what I recommend:
1. Switch research to construction.
2. Let monastery build complete, then axe, axe until construction is complete.
3. Upgrade warrior to axe only when longbow attack is imminent on the next turn
4. When construction arrives, cat, cat, cat and hunker down until we can buy peace.
Our happiness resources are going to be pillaged, starting with the silver next turn, and the furs after that. We're going to have to micromanage the citizens to make the best of what we've got.
Don't really see much more in the way of options. We just have to try to hold on the best we can until either we can take the offensive or buy ourselves a peace to rebuild.
Now for more scotch.
I count 9 longbows within 3 turns of striking Beijing at this point. We have an ax, a spear, an archer, and two warriors in defense. One warrior can be upgraded to ax at a cost of 80 of our 110 gold, and another ax can be built in two turns. There is one turn left on the monastery.
We are currently 5 turns from paper. Construction can be had in 4 turns, and although both Frederick and Huayna have it, neither will trade it to us. I know it's a detour from our planned path, but I think it's a must have tech for this very reason. We need cats to defend against stacks that are superior in either technology or numbers. Cats are cheap to build, disposable, and in quantity, devastating to enemy stacks.
I'm not really happy that we allowed our military to be so weak for so long, although I understand the reasons for it, and have agreed with the strategy. Lesson learned there.
Washington may have been bribed into attacking, but I think it's more likely resource and space motivated on George's part, and we're the weakest target available.
There's only one civ who even shows a possibility to attack George, and that is Izzy. However, we don't have enough goodies to make it worth her while, and we probably don't want to start that sort of fight right now anyway.
With the obvious risk being that we get dogpiled, which we really can't do anything to influence now, I think we need to tough this one out on our own. So, this is what I recommend:
1. Switch research to construction.
2. Let monastery build complete, then axe, axe until construction is complete.
3. Upgrade warrior to axe only when longbow attack is imminent on the next turn
4. When construction arrives, cat, cat, cat and hunker down until we can buy peace.
Our happiness resources are going to be pillaged, starting with the silver next turn, and the furs after that. We're going to have to micromanage the citizens to make the best of what we've got.
Don't really see much more in the way of options. We just have to try to hold on the best we can until either we can take the offensive or buy ourselves a peace to rebuild.
Now for more scotch.
I'll have time to check the save tomorrow. One more turn as planned sounds ok, tho.
From my test games it was pretty much a sure thing we would be decced eventually. That it was from a civ with no metal is at least one lucky break.
