m4gill4 Wrote:The sad part is that the only team that whosit can attack is A: Protective, B: totally expecting it.
Their leader is Gandhi, not Wang Kon. So they're Spiritual/Philosophical. They're not going to have time to get any leverage out of Philosophical before war hits (a fast Academy would be, what, T80? And I don't think they can afford the hammer investment in turning two citizens into scientists that early). Spiritual will save them just the 1t with the switch to slavery. (In this situation, Wang Kon would be a lot stronger. At a minimum, they'd get 1 extra commerce a turn from the furs, and Protective archers, but Protective is almost always a terrible trait. Certainly Athlete agrees, having played Spi/Pro Saladin in the PBEM game).
For the lurkers who missed the set-up of the game, they're playing unrestricted leaders (there was a snake pick: Athlete's team got 1st choice of either civ or leader, and then the 20th choice, Broker's team got 2nd choice and 19th, etc. etc.). Sullla's thread has a nice rundown in the first page about leader choices, some of the other threads do as well.