MacBalt
Learnéd Fool
Shouldn't a granary be in there somewhere -- preferably right before Astro & happy trades?Marbles - forge, lh, harbour
I'm on the peacewagon. Shaka is done -- no threat there going forward. Finish him off later to give some of our new troops a little experience bump.Currently we have Mesix and culdeus for continuing the war, and WT and Blubmuz for peace. gb and berserks, perhaps I missed your opinions. I think the idea that speeding up astro to help the economy is a good one, and so am for peace, but it would not take much to finish Shaka, imo. However, will 10 turns help him organise a good defence? I think not. It will certainly help us - 1. Concentrate on astro. 2. Get some cats in stacks. Also he won't know anyone OS (have to check this), so there should be no diplo issues, except Joao, who will be dead soon anyway.
What is our long-range tech plan? It doesn't look like the AI are anywhere close on tech. Why bother with Feudalism at all? Even waiting for it to trade we ought to be able to beat the AI to guilds/banking/economics. What do we hope to pull from Liberalism? Scientific Method? Physics? Seems a waste to burn it on Communism. Might be a hoot to try to shoot for Electricity or Radio though.trades: Trades for feudalism are CS+65, mach+150, compass+CoL+155. We could put a turn or 2 into it to reduce the cash component? I notice our trade routes with Joao are non existant due to the lack of 1 road to the SW of Ulundi. This will be rectified May as well.
I still am for trading to increase world tech pace, but we can hold off trades for the moment, in case we decide to attack Gandhi first. In any case feudalism is not a priority, and other AI should get it soon enough.. Trade for happy resources.
