I've never used the "Give us 10 turns" option, how does it work? Do we auto-declare on the 10th turn?
This doesn't matter, the terrain promotions don't apply when attacking a city. Notice it says "against UNITS in open/rough terrain". I usually lean in favor of the rough promotion since that's when you need it more.
Spies steal tech. Who's most advanced besides Rome, who we don't want to anger?
Keep them on production, mostly to make sure we get happiness wonders, will help with Circus Maximus too. Let gold stagnate, gold sucks in this game.
Keep a couple with the army, for combat road duty. The other thing surplus workers do is make human walls to block invading Great Prophets. Seriously, that works, as stupid as it is.
We'll need that cannon, 3 trebs aren't enough for a capital. One will die before they finish killing the city. Then the remaining two will barely outpace the city's regeneration each turn.
Oxford Dynamite for Artillery is the standard play for conquering. Rifles aren't super important, siege is where the real military breakpoints are. Although it may not be feasible to delay Oxford that long against conquered lack-of-universities. So just Oxford whatever gets towards Dynamite the best, if that's Fertilizer.
Unless a relevant rule has changed, always puppet first for the resistance period. Annexing does no good unti after resistance ends, but hits you with the happy penalty. After resistance, can decide on annexing.
Quote:*I promoted the purchased Trebs to boost against open terrain, since almost all Iro and Morocco cities are on open terrain.
This doesn't matter, the terrain promotions don't apply when attacking a city. Notice it says "against UNITS in open/rough terrain". I usually lean in favor of the rough promotion since that's when you need it more.
Quote:*After Gunpowder, we got a Spy. I'm not exactly sure about what to do with them and how they work, so I've sent him to Marrakesh, to give us some vision for the war.
Spies steal tech. Who's most advanced besides Rome, who we don't want to anger?
Quote:*Do we keep using TRs for food/production? Perhaps using some of them for gold would make sense nowm, because our gold production is really stagnating and the building/unit costs are starting to ramp up.
Keep them on production, mostly to make sure we get happiness wonders, will help with Circus Maximus too. Let gold stagnate, gold sucks in this game.
Quote:*I'm not sure about what to do with our workers. Some of them are fortifying in tiles waiting for the next cultural expansion, I preroaded some tiles too (not finishing the roads to get no cost for now).
Keep a couple with the army, for combat road duty. The other thing surplus workers do is make human walls to block invading Great Prophets. Seriously, that works, as stupid as it is.
(July 7th, 2015, 01:28)timmy827 Wrote: We have 3 trebs and 1 musket, I can buy 2 more units (think musket/musket, but maybe musket/cannon) in about 5 turns, so I might just get them in position to start the war. 6 units enough? I guess thawk was suggesting more for capitals...
We'll need that cannon, 3 trebs aren't enough for a capital. One will die before they finish killing the city. Then the remaining two will barely outpace the city's regeneration each turn.
(July 7th, 2015, 01:28)timmy827 Wrote: Tech: Think we research the Metallurgy line next. Oxford Fertilizer? Or should we oxford something cheaper on the rifling path?
Oxford Dynamite for Artillery is the standard play for conquering. Rifles aren't super important, siege is where the real military breakpoints are. Although it may not be feasible to delay Oxford that long against conquered lack-of-universities. So just Oxford whatever gets towards Dynamite the best, if that's Fertilizer.
Quote:EDIT: I think the general principle from reading civfanatics on conquering:
puppetting sucks now as you still get the tech cost penatly
annex large cities (capitals, and maybe size 8+? maybe can annex a smaller city if it has a new lux?), planning to buy the courthouse
otherwise burn down
Unless a relevant rule has changed, always puppet first for the resistance period. Annexing does no good unti after resistance ends, but hits you with the happy penalty. After resistance, can decide on annexing.