Pangaea
Rock N Roller
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Fired up the game and had a look.
+5
at 0% research, with 3 in the coffers. Founding more cities now is madness IMO. Another city will put us over the line and kill us. We are about to start a war and need more units, not more cities and maintenance. We'll get plenty of the latter from more units.
As feared Mansa has a zillion techs on us. Right now he can tech Civil Service, Machinery or Feudalism. We need to go for his throat, and fast. One thing I've learned (but am still not good enough at) from stepping up to Immortal is that we can't do everything. When we are planning war, then that is what we do. Cities and techs can wait. So I say we go into full-on war mode, pump out units, and kill Mansa. Well, leave him with one (or two) city and get some techs from him. We need it badly, because our tech rate will stink for a long time.
The red helper city would be smack in the middle of the jungle, and we probably are a bit short on workers as it is. I don't think it's a good idea. Not furrryfish either. We can set up that later, at the earliest when we have some conquest gold. We simply can't afford more cities now,and won't get the +1
from it anyway as we lack calendar.Okay, that was a brainfart, but I still don't think we can afford it. It won't get extra tile yields either; I think it is still 2F1H1C.
He has 6 cities, and we can see 4. There is probably another NW of his capital (great land) and someplace west of Horses. Djenne is on a hill, so we will need a good lot of catas. After capturing Djenne, we can hopefully move into his mainland and take Timbuktu and Kumbi, and I'd also like his city NW of Timbuktu. Then we split up and take his satellite cities in a short final war after replenishing our troops and the cease fire expiration. With taking his 4 main cities, we should get a good amount of techs I hope. But we need to take Djenne without too heavy losses (war success), so we need to bomb it down, at least some.
So in my opinion, we need to go full-on war mode NOW, and declare when we have some more swords and catas.
Not looked too closely on micro, but I'd like the chop in Prague into military instead of a Rathaus (it won't save us that much), and start working the greenhill instead of the grassland. Maybe it was to time growth with anger expiration, but we need to work our best tiles and pump out units.
Since we'll be on 0% for a lot over the next many turns, whipping the market in Vienna makes sense. But wait another turn so it regrows right away. Rathouses in Augsburg and Prague will save us about 8, quite a bit, but military is more important now. We can whip them later.
We'll walk on Djenne and it will be expensive, and we probably can't take him by surprise due to his culture spread. May be a good idea with another defender in horse and silver, just in case he tries something unfunny form his satellites.
We actually have a decent amount of troops, but need more catas. This means we should be able to start the war fairly soon, if we want.
*raises the war banner*
+5
at 0% research, with 3 in the coffers. Founding more cities now is madness IMO. Another city will put us over the line and kill us. We are about to start a war and need more units, not more cities and maintenance. We'll get plenty of the latter from more units. As feared Mansa has a zillion techs on us. Right now he can tech Civil Service, Machinery or Feudalism. We need to go for his throat, and fast. One thing I've learned (but am still not good enough at) from stepping up to Immortal is that we can't do everything. When we are planning war, then that is what we do. Cities and techs can wait. So I say we go into full-on war mode, pump out units, and kill Mansa. Well, leave him with one (or two) city and get some techs from him. We need it badly, because our tech rate will stink for a long time.
The red helper city would be smack in the middle of the jungle, and we probably are a bit short on workers as it is. I don't think it's a good idea. Not furrryfish either. We can set up that later, at the earliest when we have some conquest gold. We simply can't afford more cities now,
from it anyway as we lack calendarHe has 6 cities, and we can see 4. There is probably another NW of his capital (great land) and someplace west of Horses. Djenne is on a hill, so we will need a good lot of catas. After capturing Djenne, we can hopefully move into his mainland and take Timbuktu and Kumbi, and I'd also like his city NW of Timbuktu. Then we split up and take his satellite cities in a short final war after replenishing our troops and the cease fire expiration. With taking his 4 main cities, we should get a good amount of techs I hope. But we need to take Djenne without too heavy losses (war success), so we need to bomb it down, at least some.
So in my opinion, we need to go full-on war mode NOW, and declare when we have some more swords and catas.
Not looked too closely on micro, but I'd like the chop in Prague into military instead of a Rathaus (it won't save us that much), and start working the greenhill instead of the grassland. Maybe it was to time growth with anger expiration, but we need to work our best tiles and pump out units.
Since we'll be on 0% for a lot over the next many turns, whipping the market in Vienna makes sense. But wait another turn so it regrows right away. Rathouses in Augsburg and Prague will save us about 8
, quite a bit, but military is more important now. We can whip them later.We'll walk on Djenne and it will be expensive, and we probably can't take him by surprise due to his culture spread. May be a good idea with another defender in horse and silver, just in case he tries something unfunny form his satellites.
We actually have a decent amount of troops, but need more catas. This means we should be able to start the war fairly soon, if we want.
*raises the war banner*
Wealth can of course help if we get in dire straits.
