Sent to WPC:
RB Wrote:Tatu,
Thanks again for being patient as we discussed your proposal. The overall reception to your team's proposal is definitely positive. We would like to see the German team removed from the game, and we like the T150 window pretty well. We do trust you guys enough that we can divide workload + cities up pretty fairly, so that's not a major issue either.
The one primary hurdle we face is that it's kind of difficult for us to sign this in ink when we're still 50 turns away. We have two other very strong neighbors - CFC and CivPlayers - and if for some reason things go sour with them, we need to be prepared to handle that first. I don't have any reason to believe they will attack us, but we're just hesitant to put something in ink when we can imagine scenarios where it might not work. Both of them have shorter-term NAPs with us which expire prior to T150, and neither are in a rush to extend those further right now. As a result, we're treading cautiously right now.
That hesitation aside, we're very interested in pursuing this plan. Our ideal turn number for a war is around T150, and the German team is definitely our preferred target. Here's a few questions we have:
1) How many catapults are you aiming to have by that point? We understand if it's hard to pin down a precise number, but a ballpark target number would be great.
2) How good is your map intel on German cities? We see some of their border cities, but we don't have any real map knowledge of their core. Marching blindly into the fog is something we don't think is prudent, but if you guys have more extensive map knowledge of their lands, that could help remedy our lack of intel. If you are limited in your visibility too, perhaps one of us can get a spy into their lands and map out their cities.
3) This sort of goes along with #2, but do you know where their strategic resources are? That's really useful knowledge to have in an invasion, as it lets us target those resources and disconnect them so it's much harder for Inca to defend themselves.
I think that's all the questions I have for the moment. Thanks so much for being patient with us, and we're looking forward to discussing this further.
Thanks,
scooter - Team RB