(October 30th, 2016, 22:41)WarriorKnight Wrote: I'm not worried about mackoti attacking right now, he offered 30 turns for a reason so it's very unlikely he'll come our way (even if our PP/RP grab told the world we're enroute to Rifles).
I wouldn't be opposed to a mackoti stab but there are a few things we need to keep in mind:
- We need to adopt a high drafting policy before we can think about it. We've sorta agreed that Nationhood trumps Bureaucracy once Rifling comes in, despite our concentrated research capital. Fortunately Nationalism is cheap to research. Very high chance that mackoti gets Rifling and Nationalism himself before we begin, but nothing we can do about that.
- We need backup from REM + scooter. There's a decent chance they do something anyway considering the land edge but AFAIK neither has Astro and they are still some turns away from Rifling. Have to wait and see how likely it is either will jump in.
- Unless mackoti researches Chemistry (unlikely) we should be able to dominate the seas. We should still be vigilant however, as galleons still have decent movement and if we succeed in taking island cities we will have a lot more territory we need to cover.
Do we have a firm plan for the JAO GP? (only thing that comes to mind is SM bulb, but that won't be helpful to us right now) Cause if we don't, maybe we should save it for the 2 man GA and plan to trigger that sooner rather than later. We could use it for free switch into NH/Rep, the boost in hammers for war prep and boost research to Steam Power/Communism perhaps??? If so, then KND should run Merchants (or artists I guess but Merchants give a higher yield) for now to get some GPP for it while the GA is still going, once we know what type it is we can work Eng or Sci instead.
Good call on KND. I was just thinking yesterday that it might be better to save the probable GS for our two man versus bulbing SciMeth. I think I will start running merchants in KND this turn to set us up to that end. I was planning on getting a market/grocer in there soon after Uni, so we could keep running merchants after our GA. If it ends up being a GE, we'll just run scientists out of there instead.