T3 External Consulate - The End of India

[Bertie]

Our peace treaty with Inda has expired. Whenever the Commander of the Armed Forces has our troops ready we should declare war on the Indians.

A particular priority will be taking the cities of Jaipur and Bengal: these have access to gems, and more importantly appear to form a chokepoint to the rest of the world. Bengal will probably self-raze when we take it; we should have a settler nearby so we can establish a new city at a strategic point if necessary.

We had planned to leave India with only one city far from us (Over There). Unfortunately India managed to lose that city. Although there are some good reasons not to completely eliminate the Indians (not taking a hit to our rep is perhaps the most important), keeping them alive is probably not worth the trouble. The External Consulate therefore recommends we eliminate the Indians. For this reason I don’t think we need to raze any of their cities in the forthcoming war. The war should be short, and flip risks minimal.

Thoughts?

 

[zyxy]

I agree with eliminating them. If their cities have decent locations (not on a food source or so), then I would keep all that don't autoraze.
If we do not eliminate India, then we should consider razing Delhi and Bangalore because of the flip risk, and our gains from an Indian war would be minimal.

 

[mad-bax]

Yes. The time has come to eliminate the Indians. A second peace deal would take a long time to get and would get us nothing in return. We should take all of their territory. MAking peace deals before elimination is an efficient early game tactic to take cities and techs for free, but we are past that now. We now need to steam roller over everything to the domination limit.

Let us consider also the timing of the government switch. Do we have enough units to take out the Indians whilst in anarchy? IMO we do.

 

[Furiey]

Yes, we stopped earlier for techs, now is the time to end them. Once we take Delhi and Bangalore the flip risk will be dramatically reduced anyway so I probably wouldn't raze them. I too believe we have enough units to not delay our government change, but they need to start marching soon. We don't have to wait to upgrade our Horses either - Sun Tzu will soon be built, so we will be able to upgrade in any city as soon as Chivalry is available.

 

[Nobody]

your deputy agrees mr bertie

 

[Bertie]

Poll is up HERE .

 

[Chieftess]

Yes, eliminate the resistance! We should sign an alliance against them too just to hasten it...

 

[GenMarshall]

Just eliminate the threat of the Indian insurection.