(April 29th, 2014, 07:11)Old Harry Wrote: Nicely done with the Rifles. Five turns of drafting sounds ideal to me. Isn't it four units a turn? Have we got the happy to support 20 drafts?
We surely have enough happy and can do 24 drafts if we want (last 4 on the turn when we switch back). However, I'm not sure we have enough pop points that we actually want to convert into Infantries, because we obviously don't want to draft cities like Agincourt, Jamestown, Königgratz etc. except in absolute emergency. There are around 10-12 cities that are nice for drafting and then there are some borderline cases and some cities that can handle it twice. I haven't thought it until the end, but I would imagine that the amount of actual drafts will be ~15 unless we feel that we need more units immediately.
Quote:Do you think that peacenik Commodore is in contention for the win? I'm not sure why Mack would be taking cities off him otherwise...
I guess Commodore is not really in a win race yet, but weirder things have happened in this game..
I'm not 100 % sure of my theory, but:
- Earlier this turn Commodore got 28 points worth of population from scooter (there was no war declaration or anything so this was a deal including cities, I doubt there were any land points mixing up with this)
- Later this turn Commodore lost exactly 28 points when mack captured two cities from him. There were no names of those two cities in the event log, which means that we did not have the sight of those cities
- I've been sending some map trades around during the past turns and I think we had sight of most/all cities of Commodore --> It seems probable that those 2 cities that were captured were gifted/sold by scooter earlier this turn and that made us lose vision of them
Consequently, I believe that scooter noticed that his cities are vulnerable to mack and decided to gift/sell them to Commodore. I haven't paid enough attention so that I could say whether there was much/any money changing hands, but regardless I wonder if there exists an explanation for this where Commodore does not think that scooter screwed him..
Btw, I also briefly wondered why dtay did not get dragged into this war, but his defensive pact with Commodore had expired (probably due to him declaring 2metra if I understand mechanics correctly). Anyways, just noting this here in case it changes our approach towards him.