(June 24th, 2014, 16:21)Old Harry Wrote: Aw, crap, PB13 all over again. Can you tell if the Holy city got captured or razed? How do we approach Pindi? We could hold off contacting him until we have a bunch of SAs in place, then offer open borders to scout and pile the EPs on? With a powerful northern neighbour we want to get our power rating up early, so I'm inclined to go for the HA/Cat warpath.
I'm not feeling terrible just yet, I'm still crossing my fingers that pindicator had to invest a lot for this conquest (this early creating an army is costly). And we also have a chance to get quite a chunk of land peacefully and with Azza I feel we have a neighbor that we can realistically conquer ourselves when we run out of room.I would imagine that we will meet pindicator automatically thanks to our coastal cities and I believe that's fine. With Cyneheard, Cheater Hater and pindicator we would probably have enough trade routes to fill our cities (and they could all pay for OBs...)
Re holy city: I would bet my money that holy city has not been razed, but I can check that from reli screen next turn.
Quote:I think we need to figure out Azza's tech rate, once we know that we know how easy it'll be to conquer him. If that doesn't look promising then it's 1st-to or Economy...
Edit: Is the 16 turns for Maths accurate? If so that's a terrible tech rate.
Yeah, Azza is clearly behind us when it comes to tech, probably maths won't take quite those 16 turns, but he is definitely not finishing it during the next couple of turns. He has not settled his gold yet, which is at least a partial reason for his slow research.
Quote:With Pindi up north Amphi units become more and more attractive, but I just don't see him leaving us an opportunity to Ichabod him, so who knows...
Yeah, I don't think he would be equally vulnerable..
I would imagine that if we attack pindicator it means that we have already conquered our own continent and we are invading with 100+ units, which we could as well just drop next to his coastal cities. That being said, maybe Cyneheard will settle all the coast next to us and we don't really end up bordering pindicator.