(September 9th, 2014, 11:16)Old Harry Wrote: In that situation we should think about burning the city, just for the protection that affords our existing conquests... Alternatively only putting a couple of powerful units like longbows or maces in the city would make it very inefficient for him to recapture and would let us cause him plenty more trouble. Other options are to sally around to the north or down to the south where further cities are available.
Just going in and burning the city would feel a bit wasteful as we probably can't do it with super favourable hammer exchange. So if possible, defending with selected units or simply having a strong enough stack to hold the city feel more tempting options. We have now 15 knights, 10 HAs + other stuff running around nearby so once the next wave of units (including some cats) arrives and we heal our existing forces I think there is a decent chance that we are strong enough to park our units next to azza's stack.
Quote:Also: we need to think about settling the gaps on our old border. I think we can fit two cities between Izzy and PMW and with all those forests available they could be really quick to set up. Do those settlers come after we've pacified Azza or do we want them now?
I don't think there is a huge rush right now. Let's whip out a big wave of settlers 5-10 turns before we land economics and can revolt into free market and found then a bunch of fillers and remaining island cities. Obviously if there are quality sites available and we have time to get a settler or two out it's completely fine to settle them already.
Quote:Also pt2: we need a way to pop borders for all our newly acquired cities - Music would be handy, but we're probably just going to put Barracks in production cities and Libraries in commerce cities.
After Banking do we get top-tree techs or try to beeline Economics? As visible in our demos this warfare and military build-up has hurt our GNP and winning the free GM might be difficult/out of our reach. I did not remember to check F4 this turn, but I assume nobody has Paper yet though. Anyways, after Banking we should probably save some gold for a while before commiting into one of those paths. Beelining Nationalism and trying to land Taj without standard Liberalism play would be kind of a cool play too, but Economics is pretty tasty.