Sir Bruce Wrote:It looks like Whosit is realizing his mistake in signing up for the CoW. I think his decision to join the CoW was the most questionable of the CoW members. If he had focused more on destroying Korea, then he would have open land to on all sides and could expand like crazy instead of building 4 galleys and more Praets and shipping them halfway around the world.
Maybe the war with Korea could be over quickly enough that it still works out for him. I still don't see why he's so eager to send his troops all the way over to India. Maybe he just really wanted an alliance and this was a way to demonstrate good faith?
I think Kathlete and Whosit are the big winners from the CoW stuff - less risk to themselves, remove the danger of a runaway tech team and they're both in strong postions to expand and, even better, not on the frontlines if by some weird twist it all goes wrong.
Figure Whosit was already planning the army for Korea, so getting further use out of it for the diplomatic benefits/rival stomping would seem good? I do agree that sending it off and diverting resources into galleys before Korea is dead seems a bad idea.
Thinking Dantski and Jowy potentially get to carve up indias cities (if not razed) or at least get some nicely developed lands to squabble over.
The group I think it makes least sense for are Nakor/DMOC and their no expansion room. Build an army to help out other players with more room. Woot.
I almost think they'd do better aligned with Spulla and stabbing Dantski in the back - but the diplomatic fallout would be too horrendous to contemplate at this point.Feeling a touch sorry for Spulla, but guess they've just set themselves up as too tall a poppy. Think as someone upthread said, that scientist was possibly a step too far!