(August 6th, 2014, 04:49)Old Harry Wrote: Gertie would make an excellent Horse Archer staging point! I'm also happy with building another cheap Archer or two here over the next few turns while we can still get them.
Quote:Also - is it worth growing the city into unhappiness before we get HR so we can work those Golden Age tiles (for one turn) immediately once we revolt? Then building the Forge and Market with OR gives us another four happy...
Do you mean that we grow let's say eot117 & eot118, have one
during the t118, but get 2 units into Gertie on t119 when we revolt into HR and are then 1 size bigger than we otherwise would? Mmmm.. marginally? Depending on growth cycle we would be trading 2 or 4 food into 2 hammers and 4 commerce (+slightly higher maintenance costs). I guess the biggest upside is that we don't need to stagnate on a settler build, although we do have a spot for city #21 as well so it's not a complete waste. Hmm... Nice unconventional idea 
Quote:Once we've moved on to more advanced units (Longbows and/or Maces?) for our vulnerable border and coastal cities the Archers and Warriors currently manning them can head back to Alfie and Gertie. I think we want decent defences (2-3 Longbows) in Kirby, Englbert and Hazelnut, with zone defence units available for Butterscotch, Gertie, Marmalade and Ophelia. Hopefully our Azzan border will be covered by the units we're going to make war with.
Sounds good, although we don't want to play too conservatively and stuff every border city with units. We need to play by the ear and also trust that our high power rating (in the future) will do a decent job of intimidating possible aggressors. Of course, when Galleons start appearing we need to step up our defenses a bit, but for now I'm not especially worried for Butterscotch & Englbert etc..
(August 6th, 2014, 06:40)Old Harry Wrote: I'm getting the fear.
Well at least mack is far away and TBH if he does not get a free empire gifted there are at least 10 civs that we should fear more at this point (not because of pure skill, but because of skill+position and Nakor wasn't/isn't doing too well). Famous last words?
