Cathy decideds she has too much time on her hands, and fixes her need by attacking (savaging mabye) Monty. He asked for help, and that gave me a smile. I declined of course...
This leaves
Hu/Ku unprotected!
However, we don't want Cathy to steamroll Monty! Louis will be next btw! I'm seriously considering gifting Monty Assembly line and all needed techs for that. We can't let her grow so strong, Monty has lost a city already. Luckily, he has a city on another continent, that should delay Cathy's conquest.
Medicine seems to have great trade value these days. Cathy put a decent deal on the table at the end of facism plus 630 for Med. I decline at the time. Good deal to rethink though.
Good thing that you didn't accept! We don't need Fascism at all and Medicine is a monopoly tech. JC won't accumulate WW, we'll kill everybody too fast for that.
Plastics is in, and JC goes crazy. I made a mistake and didnt cue up the WW, as JC thinks he needs to build it now. Baaaah.
This could be good for us if JC builds it. However, Sal will beat him to it. We would get the bonus from the wonder too. Why did you want to queue it? Anyway, JC will probably stop building it when we declare war, he did the same thing with the Pentagon.
Btw, to prevent JC from queuing wonders for sure
he has to research the technology first. There was a post explaining how to do that most effectively, I'll dig up the link again.
Techs:
I started in on flight, not Radio btw, as Bombers will be of much use. The calculation is that with Rock and Roll built, 9 turns from now Radio will be tradeable.
We wont be able to get Radio by trade. The only people willing to trade with us are Liz and Cyrus and sometimes Cathy on fresh reloads, that's a bug. We don't have anything to give for Radio anyway, we should protect the Medicine monopoly do delay the AI space race.
The plan was to beeline to mech infantry to get them ready in time for the final war. Sure, bombers would be nice, but that also means a lot of suicide planes for JC. We want him to build ground troops, we can live without bombers, we have artillery and tanks. I think we should go for flight only if we have to protect our skies. You've only researched Flight for one turn, we can still switch to Radio.
Strategy
We should rethink our strategy at this point. We have a great opportunity to attack Hu/Ku sooner! My initial ideas:
- Conquering Liz as planned with some modifications due to Oil problems
- Giving bunch of techs to Monty to prolong the war with Cathy for as long as possible. We could get penalties from Liz and Asoka and certainly from Cathy, but do we really care about that?
- Skipping Asoka, Hu/Cu after Liz! We have to evaluate this now, are we going to have enough soldiers when we finish the war with Liz?
So, my reccomendations here:
Use Wash Garrison and BShips to knock out Nottingham immediately. We need our oil back, so JC can have his, and build tanks. I railroaded, so it works.
You will see I only did 3 Bships. It is because I stopped a turn early. NOW is the time to declare vs Liz, as she put all her troops in the old Jap city. So CR tank attacks FTW. Btw, we have NO LV 4 troops. We have two infantry candidates, who could be our LV 4 troops, so we can unlock WP, which would take 2 turns and be of great benefit.
Nottingham ASAP, that makes sense. However, we have to protect Washington. Rails are useful, but we can't attack and move back in Washington on the same turn, Nottingham will have to wait for few turns. We need some adjustments in the plans.
So yup, thats all. PS Yamps, didnt kill the signs, not sure what I was supposed to delete.
Signs like "culture bomb please", "not for this hill", etc.
Ok guys, let's examine the situation again.
EDIT:
Montezuma must be helped with techs, this is a great opportunity to keep Cathy busy and isolate Hu/Ku, we must seize the day!
Actually that was a good place to make a pause Vra, let's hope it's not to late for Monty. Cathy will most likely take him out eventually, but let's prolong that. Machine guns, infantry, artillery, everything for Monty!
I looked at the save a bit and I agree that we can take Nottingham immediately. JC has some forces there, let's tell him to attack Kyoto and Nottingham immediately when we declare war. Battleships can bombard defense, we could also use an artillery or 2 for the job. We have 3 inf on that forest tile, we could use 2 to protect artillery and 1 for Washington. This is just a draft, we have to be careful there. We don't want to lose Washington to Liz!
Liz has many soldiers in Kyoto, that really looks like CR fest for us.
We should bombard defenses to 0% and strike immediately with 4 remaining arties and CR tanks.
