meatbalz Wrote:only thing i'd say is i wouldn't commit that many troops to taking france out, as they are more direct neighbours to england and egypt so removing them will help them more than us. let's let them do the heavy lifting there.
Actually, France is closer to us than we'd initially thought. I'm guessing they are around 8-9 tiles east, 4-5 tiles south from Midas. They moved twice before finally settling, and I'm sure they moved west. (they are 16 tiles west from Egypt). That would explain why they wanted all the land to our SE, and why they don't have any strategic resources near their actual Capital site.
That said, we probably won't be contributing more than 4 Horse Archers for the war, which we can finish easily with some chops and a whip at Midas. Compared to the huge army England is preparing (4 chariots by T75 - 6 HA by T90), our strike force will be modest.
In any case, we need to start building up our defense, because we don't know what will happen in the Rome-Portugal war, and Inca is still to our north with NAP's till T100 with both Aztec and Ottomans. By the way we got visual on Inca's demographics this turn (they haven't spent any on us yet), and they still have a much larger army than we do.
I'm glad our cities can finally start growing, in time for the Silver Mine to come online once we get IW.
dazedroyalty Wrote:I am cool with booting france and kicking their arse. However, we don't have that many troops and I'd rather commit what we do have to helping hurt Rome since I am more concerned about them long term.
The problem with us helping out Portugal against Rome is timing. Portugal will declare on T72. Unless we start whipping our small cities into oblivion, we can only finish a chariot by T72, to be sent to Rome's second city (the one closest to Inca). And Portugal cannot delay the attack, because Rome discovered IW last turn. With a little luck, they don't have any Iron within their borders, but we can't count on that to happen.