Remember SG7, OCC deity? When we final went to war with the AIs, each one had built about 10-20 units in each city. They have to build something.
dG has 2-3 productive cities. Look at it this way, would you rather we build workers and he builds units we have to kill later or we build units and he builds workers for us now? Orleans already has barracks and granary. It can build a lh and units. His settler turned back, so evidently he's not going to build any more settlers. What'll he build?
Now suppose we capture two workers, then he kills one of our chariots, so we can't DoP without an expensive tech. So we trade him CoL. I wouldn't mind seeing him build a couple of chs for us before we capture his cities, although there' sno guarantee he would. Of course, there's no guarantee about anything, but I don't see why we need to play so conservatively. AIs are stupid. They make every decision, unit by unit (except of SoDs...). One unit will decide to attack our chariot, the next will decide to explore Churchill, one archer will hunt mushrooms in the forest, the next will board a galley, and the gally will travel to Timbuktu.
Btw, I doubt we'd steal only 2 workers. We should be able to steal a couple every turnset or so, at least until T117. Then it may be more difficult accessing wkrs. If we could only get 1-2 workers, then I'd agree with you. I just doubt it will play out that way, becaue dG is still in REX mode.
But whatever. Mitchum, just go ahead and play and do what you think is wisest. It's your turnset. Play conservatively if you prefer, no probs. Take a smart risk, if you prefer, and if you make a mess of it, no probs, we'll clean it up! Be flexible. Have fun and enjoy!
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IIRC, there's 3t of scrubbing left.
