RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[haphazard1]

To be honnest it is very hard to accept Sullla opinions saying that it make no sense for all non-neighbours civ to hit them while just 20t ago they were congratulating themselves about having TWICE the GDP (or food or any relevant stats) of their best competitor.
I am sure that with a much lower profil and less 'optimisation' the CoW would have been a much smaller and weaker coalition.

Is there really any effective way to hide or mask a civ pulling away from the pack? And if you artificially hold back, and do less well than you could...well, that isn't going to win the game either. What course should you take when you have the chance at a significant lead?

I guess you have to work your diplo better, but also trade off some of that growth for a larger military. If Spullla had an extra 8 or so military units during the peace, this might be a very different war. If they had an extra 12 or so units, the war might not have happened.

Also, on the other hand, had they (the CoW) delayed their attack by 10t, it very likely would have been to late with cat coming.

I definitely think the organizers of the CoW deserve credit for massing their attack in time. The window was a bit bigger than 10t -- Spullla were not beelining for Construction or Feudalism at all -- but not much bigger. The threat of a runaway was recognized and they managed to respond in time. Some of the response may be half-hearted or sloppy (as others have noted), but it did happen.