(January 30th, 2014, 22:37)Old Harry Wrote: By the way, I'm not sure I answered on the use of the artist. I think it'll be about the same length of time to get gp's out of cannae and om. So the only problem is if they are both scientists.
Unless I'm mistaken Om would be significantly faster, but with our whipped empire GA can also wait for our amazing recovery...
Quote:I have a feeling we're in a fight to the (our) death with Mack now, and the artist bomb is our best chance of hurting his core. So I think its worth the risk. If we do have a window before he builds up his military again its going to be short, so we either take some cities now or sit back building cats and cuirs to suttree him when he comes back at us. Either way we're probably just delaying the inevitable, but hey, its worked for suttree for a long while!
Yeah, I don't think Mack would want to be at war with us. He would surely prefer just teching peacefully for 30 turns and then eating us with tech advantage. We are doomed to lose this war unless we keep trading units with 2:1 or better ratio, which is unlikely. So yeah, this is not going to end well, but our hands are pretty much tied, with angry suttree and capable-of-sniping-cities mackoti it's not really realistic to fight a war against dtay or ichabod far away from our southern front. (I would love to see some opportunistic strikes against someone though, TBS?) As a conclusion, it's fine for me to skirmish in the south as well as we can, hope that mack does something crazy stupid or someone joins our fight, and then eventually lose due to that enormous MFG+GNP difference and simply keep cursing the map, m_h and suttree..
