(April 15th, 2014, 06:27)Old Harry Wrote: How about staying at war, blockading and pillaging Ichabod for about five more turns then getting a peace treaty out of sync with Mackoti? Do we earn money from blockading? I'm sure I have in SP...
That plan works for me. Re blockading: Dunno, we did not get any cash this turn though.. Maybe it works like fortify bonus or healing and it only happens when units don't move (which wasn't the case last turn)
Quote:Civics - I'd stick with OR for another turn at least, definitely until we've got enforced peace with Mack (I can live without the stress too) and possibly then until Wall St is done.
Sounds like a plan. Btw, OR does not impact our Wall Street ETA, I have microed it so that it will finish at exact hammers even if we switch into Theocracy next turn.
Quote:We don't have any pressing military plans right now and I don't see any of our neighbours charging into us straight away (although we need to keep a close eye on dtay), so why not pre-build all the units we can, then build wealth and get some techs that allow them to queue-upgrade? We'll probably complete the units before decay kicks in, and the only thing I think we lack right now is Cannons. (Bear in mind though that if two units queue-upgrade to the same thing we'll lose the hammers from one of them.)
Sure, although I probably finish Cavs ans Cannons soonish, because Cavs won't upgrade into anything and Artillery is still far away in the future. With rifles I'll be more patient. You don't believe me saying this, but at this point the unit cost difference between keeping the units in queue and on field is pretty minor..
Aaaanyways, I moved our ships, kept blockading, advanced our ships towards Ichabod's untouched harbors and ended turn.
Thanks to 5 opponents knowing the Steam Power our GNP is reasonable, but still far far away from rival best. If we had double the amount of cities I'm sure we would be competitive!
I like seeing that drop in Ichabod's power while ours remains the same. That probably makes me a bad person..
Not worried about Mack's power, but this. Some day that MFG will be turned into units and then we bite the dust. Or if Mack can keep up techwise with other competitors (his GNP graph is not equally impressive) he should be very fast to produce spaceship parts. This MFG makes me think that we would be better off attacking immediately, but attacking a neighbor with similar power, small/medium tech advantage (infantries) and with no other wars ongoing does not feel too appealing (and we just accepted a 30-turn NAP kind of thing).