Exactly what I'm saying, thanks for your support, templar!
We can no longer make real progress without running a severe risk of heavy losses. Therefore we retreat into defensive positions and let them get a bloody nose, if the try to attack. This buys time, and we just wait for Cavs.
Why not? We have more towns/population, less corruption and no Despo penalty, so we should easily be able to produce more units without needing our gold. They can't cash-rush, and if they pop-rush, they loose precious population and run into happiness problems. (And they don't have enough food for efficient pop-rushing.)
Put question to Kuche that way. With Eagles support of Anarhos they should make a choice.
Only up to Education. Perhaps Invention. But certainly not all the way up to MT. (The Eagles are already working on Education.) Getting these techs from the Küche at half price, is a very good deal.
And also consider the most important aspect of this deal: it binds the Küche to us and will lead sooner or later into a Küche/Eagles conflict (why would they otherwise want to make the cooperation with us and not with the Küche...?). This is very important, as otherwise we always have to fear an invasion from the other continent, while in the middle of another war... But if we have a latent rivalry between Küche/Eagles, the Eagles will be busy on their own continent and can't easily risk an invasion.
This is the most important reason, why I want to execute the transaction with the Küche! (And as a nice side-effect we get Cavs as fast as possible and can then deal with the Anarchos...)
I wanted to. But I've been working late hours almost every day, I had to bring the kids into bed, I had the flu for a couple of days, and when I finally logged on here after a long day, you had already posted the message.
But it doesn't matter: the message was ok, they would not have accepted even with "nicer words"... Because they realize quite well, that their only chance is to beat us now. If they let us catch up, we will sooner or later come back and beat them for good...
We can do it "one after the other". And once we see the Anarchos advancing and think we need more units, we can immediately rush the market and go back to unit production.
I already told them that and it's ok. If an emergency pops up, we can stop the payments any time we want, I already got this agreement from justanick.
But for the plan to work, we must make sure that the Küche can enter 4-turn research asap. So they need lots of gold now for libraries. Later it won't help them. For us, gold is more important later (when we can do Cav upgrades...
)If we need gold for speeding up an important settler or market, it's ok to pay only 50 for a turn or so. But in general we should strive for maximum payments! Otherwise we will neither get Cavs quickly nor keep our close alliance with the Küche. Hope you understand how important that is from a strategic point.
I will try to find out, how much gold exactly they need for starting 4-turn research.
What a game we would have now.)
But it's still active in F2?!
