(December 3rd, 2013, 13:57)Old Harry Wrote: ...Decisions, decisions.
Yeah, before we actually decide what to tech after Feudalism I want us to construct a preliminary plan for our GA. In my earlier thoughts I was thinking that we birth 3 Scientists and 1 Merchant: 2 Scientists would be used for Astronomy bulbs and GM+GS will get us a 2nd GA, either immediately or a bit later when we feel that there is a good moment for some kind of a economy/production push. However, as already written if we want to bulb Astro, (which is at the very least an interesting option) we need to avoid Civil Service and because Vassalage is not quite as good as I was hoping this is a trade-off that we need to think thoroughly. There are of course other alternatives including more traditional Education bulbs, Academies, artist bombs, small shrine or GE chances etc.
I have today constructed (in my head) various attack plans/scenarios towards different opponents that could with either little or lots of luck improve our position. Unfortunately mackoti got a little bit too much for a fairly small investment so I'm sure we both agree that we need to improve our position significantly by getting more land from someone. We would of course do this anyway, but now we might need to do something more radical and risky, because I don't want to spend next 70 turns with 10 cities behind with no food to grow our cities big and without FIN-trait compensating for the lack of land.
Anyways the selection of an attack scenario of course impacts our tech choices and order so I try to post my ideas at latest by tomorrow. We are not in a hurry though because we can still remain flexible for the next ~10 turns if we want (we tech Feudalism and save money afterwards).
In other news:
- Mackoti has now again OBs with suttree. ****ing annoying. Suttree declined our OB offer so it's unfortunately fairly clear where the preferences of our little kingmaker lie..
So yeah, I guess we need to consider some kind of crazy attacks through suttree's land (that we are speculating ourselves 
). Anyways, at mackoti's current power levels and distribution of units I doubt there is anything coming our way.- Mackoti declared plako. We can of course hope for a real conflict, but I guess mackoti just got his OB set full and does not want to trade with the civ with GLH. (he has OBs at least with pindicator IIRC and also with some others I think but can't remember now). Well at least we agree with this policy.
- No new city captures for Ichabod this turn..
But only 1 whip from slowcheetah.. 
Should we try to do some kind of business with suttree? Without OBs (@lurkers: we want better vision of our border areas or reacting will be difficult) our life will be again annoying in 8 turns when our enforced peace ends and we probably need to whip once again more units in order to be safe from his stack... Any ideas apart from trying again in couple of turns with maybe some payment??