I've had a look at the save, and at the moment I see two ways our nation could head. The peaceful way, and the military way. I'll try to explain the general plan of both strategies, list the advantages and disadvantages of both strategies.
The Peaceful way AKA Pax Confucius
At the moment, we're the score leader. However Bismarck is posing a threat to that situation, he has had his first great scientist and used it to lightbulb Philosophy. He is now Taoist. He has also built the Pyramids. I fear that he will expand quickly, and that his empire will be big if we don't stop him. He could be unstoppable later, when he has had time to improve his empire and protect it. At the same time our neighbour Napoleon is backwards, small, and without room to expand. We have locked him succesfully in a corner of our continent. If we can do the same thing with Bismarck, and Julius Caesar at the same time, then we'll be the uncontested leader of our continent. What we will have to do for this to succeed is settling more cities. I propose the following locations in this order: City A, Banana City, Ivory City, Fishing Village, Plantation City, GP farm, City X
For this plan to work best, we should trade Priesthood and Horsebackriding to Julius Caesar for Mathematics. We should then research Calendar (7 turns) for plantations, machinery (12), paper (10) and printing press (31) (helped by lightbulbing). NoneOfTheAbove and Riversight should grow to their maximal happiness at all moments, during this growth they should build military units. When they're at their maximum happiness, they should build settlers and workers, with settlers being the first priority. Equus Aurum should build confucian missionaries and perhaps squeeze in a worker every now and then. Coppertown should build workers and settlers when it's at 4 pop, so it can work all it's best tiles. To reach size 4, it should build a granary first.
Advantages
This plan will give us:
Disadvantages
The Warmonger's Plan AKA Die Napoleon, Die!
Napoleon has placed some of his cities near ours. They're only defended by a small forces. We could easily build a small army of Keshiks in a couple of turns and take Rheims and Lyons. We could then capture Orleans and Paris, thereby killing Napoleon off completly. This way we'll have eliminated one opponent, and we'll have a new area under our control. We should make the same trade for Math with Julius, and then research construction and machinery.
A possible attack plan:
Build Keshiks and swords in NotA and send them to Lyons, send our current army towards Rheims, declare war and take the cities on the first turn. Then move in on Orleans. This war could be started within 10 turns if we concentrate on it.
Advantages
Disadvantages
Now, I apologize for this long post, but I think we have something very important to consider at the moment. I'm leaning towards the peaceful plan at the moment, and I hope that you will contribute other plans or improvements for these plans. I'm looking forward to hearing all your responses to these plans.
The Peaceful way AKA Pax Confucius
At the moment, we're the score leader. However Bismarck is posing a threat to that situation, he has had his first great scientist and used it to lightbulb Philosophy. He is now Taoist. He has also built the Pyramids. I fear that he will expand quickly, and that his empire will be big if we don't stop him. He could be unstoppable later, when he has had time to improve his empire and protect it. At the same time our neighbour Napoleon is backwards, small, and without room to expand. We have locked him succesfully in a corner of our continent. If we can do the same thing with Bismarck, and Julius Caesar at the same time, then we'll be the uncontested leader of our continent. What we will have to do for this to succeed is settling more cities. I propose the following locations in this order: City A, Banana City, Ivory City, Fishing Village, Plantation City, GP farm, City X
Spoiler screenshots :
For this plan to work best, we should trade Priesthood and Horsebackriding to Julius Caesar for Mathematics. We should then research Calendar (7 turns) for plantations, machinery (12), paper (10) and printing press (31) (helped by lightbulbing). NoneOfTheAbove and Riversight should grow to their maximal happiness at all moments, during this growth they should build military units. When they're at their maximum happiness, they should build settlers and workers, with settlers being the first priority. Equus Aurum should build confucian missionaries and perhaps squeeze in a worker every now and then. Coppertown should build workers and settlers when it's at 4 pop, so it can work all it's best tiles. To reach size 4, it should build a granary first.
Advantages
This plan will give us:
- a lot of uncontested land. And we all know that land is power.
- almost all resources, granting bigger cities, and therefor more productive capacity.
- A great cottage economy. We can reach printing press very soon by beelining. We will have a lot of grassland after the jungle is cleared, and all this grassland can be cottaged.
- A buffer against foreign attacks.
- We will still have the chance to knock out Napoleon after we've executed this plan, as he doesn't look like he's getting anywhere.
Disadvantages
- There's a chance that Napoleon will attack us, although we're currently the most powerful nation in the world, and we'll most likely be able to hold that position.
- Other nations might get to certain city sites first.
- The expansion will cost a lot of gold and production, and might leave us behind for a period of time. I think that in the end, the expansion will pay of though.
The Warmonger's Plan AKA Die Napoleon, Die!
Napoleon has placed some of his cities near ours. They're only defended by a small forces. We could easily build a small army of Keshiks in a couple of turns and take Rheims and Lyons. We could then capture Orleans and Paris, thereby killing Napoleon off completly. This way we'll have eliminated one opponent, and we'll have a new area under our control. We should make the same trade for Math with Julius, and then research construction and machinery.
A possible attack plan:
Build Keshiks and swords in NotA and send them to Lyons, send our current army towards Rheims, declare war and take the cities on the first turn. Then move in on Orleans. This war could be started within 10 turns if we concentrate on it.
Spoiler :
Advantages
- We'll knock out Napoleon permanently.
- We'll build up a army to go after other civs next.
- All Napoleon's territory will belong to us.
- No more threat near our core.
Disadvantages
- This plan might give Bismarck and Julius Caesar the time to fill up the rest of our continent with their cities.
- The cost of the war might make us backwards in comparison to the economical power of Bismarck.
- This plan might harm trading, as we'll kill of one trading partner, and get diplomatic problems with the other two.
Now, I apologize for this long post, but I think we have something very important to consider at the moment. I'm leaning towards the peaceful plan at the moment, and I hope that you will contribute other plans or improvements for these plans. I'm looking forward to hearing all your responses to these plans.
