(October 16th, 2013, 17:04)Old Harry Wrote: Bad news - I think those 3-point whips are 2-pop, and I've just checked in the sandbox and you can 2-pop dry-whip a chariot (I think dry-whipping is 0.66 * as many hammers, so 2 pop give 33 hammers).
Oh yeah, the multiplier is 0.66 and not 0.5 (as with wonders)
Because of rounding of score it is actually possible that suttree performed three 2-pop whips and produced 3 chariots.. On the other hand, that would be awesome. By dry-whipping suttree significantly reduced his mid-term military production capabilities.But anyways, let's not panic! Those chariots aren't here yet and neither chariots nor axes get odds against bowmen if they are sitting on jungle/forest/in a city. We also know suttree's city locations and a stack of chariots won't be here next turn..
Ok, here's what we do:
- We raze Seville with 1 bowman.
- We found Hastings and keep a warrior + bowman in the city. The city will be safe in any case.
- We put the axe + 2 bowmen (one of them could be promoted) onto the grassland tile W of Seville
- Our workers road the tile W of Seville
The reasoning:
Suttree can't have a powerful stack in range yet. His power is not too scary and we know that a good chunk of it is located at his southern border (axes defending the front with Yurimack). Now it's the perfect time to road the vulnerable tile W of seville, which makes the founding of City I significantly safer & easier (with no sign of suttree and spearman covering workers, roading the tile N of Seville will be pretty safe in the future). Our shock axe has odds against the axe that retreated and there is max. 1 chariot in range to attack our bowmen. If suttree wants to sacrifice one of his rare mounted units, which we should be able to clean up, well, that's fine.
I honestly believe that suttree does not feel comfortable with doing any aggression next turn. (He also don't have vision on any other tiles expect soon-to-be-former Seville).
And yeah, let's whip that spear next turn (this turn it would be double-moving). I hate to whip Dunkirk, because it does not have much food, but having that 1 spear will be valuable. Actually we might want to bring the spear that is about to finish in Endor here as well. We have much better visibility and more comfortable border in the north (zone defence bowman can stay there if you want?). ~2 (shock) axes, ~2 incoming spears and a handful of bowmen should be enough for the next couple of turns.
Your opinion next if you have time! I go sleep and respond tomorrow morning again! Let's stay focused!
