(February 23rd, 2014, 08:22)TheHumanHydra Wrote: Edit: Nevermind, Fintourist commented on this, said it would be profitable. Any other settlement (along the border) in the works?
Maybe a replacement city in the area where Peterloo was. Otherwise the situation is same as ever, we are squeezed and out of land.
I checked the situation and I really like the idea of attacking Ichabod assuming:
1. Suttree war does not cause surprising losses
2. Mack does not interfere with our suttree war in a way that leads us wanting to simply focus on him instead, we really deserve more than 1 city for all our suttree efforts, damn it
3. We actually think that we can stay peaceful with mack for a while
Ichabod does not have Compass (and thus no Optics yet). If this does not change it means that it is completely possible to boat him very effectively. It should be possible to take Spring Breeze, Stray Geese and Eyes on the first turn of war with very little losses and the fourth city west of Eyes (don't remember the name) on the 2nd turn of war. This could be done maybe already with 4 Galleons: 2 along the Northern Coast targeting Spring Breeze (and if everything goes too easy, they could raze a coastal city from Ichabod's mainland too), 2 Galleons along the Southern Coast first take Eyes amphibiously and then unload knights into captured city so that we can immedately take the next city turn after. Astronomy is expensive and Ichabod's economy is not stellar, which means that unless he focuses on naval techs during the next 15 turns it should take a while before he can counter-attack. And we also hope that he wastes his whole army with WilliamLP.
I like this plan, because it would mean that our game will still see an offensive warfare instead of just fighting mack back the next 50 turns. It would be nice to offer lurkers still a nice last bang.
Btw, if we go forward with this, let's try to organize this so that we complete the required Galleons immediately after our bulb. And let's manage it so that we put just enough beakers into Astronomy that we just finish the tech with a bulb. I'm fine with teching Astronomy manually too, but then we would probably use our GS for Printing Press, which means that there are more beakers that do not go towards Chemistry+Steel (Although PP is pretty solid too).