Arise, Riders of Rohanna! Ride for Molach! [SPOILERS!]

[Ichabod]

Oh, I see. The actual bronze city is pretty good, it can be 4th city alright. Just gotta make sure we have AH by then.

[Ranamar]

I concur with Ichabod... that bronze city looks like it's going to be a monster, if you can feed and defend it. Does the pool of tears provide fresh water to adjacent spaces? I forget.

[Molach]

Lost 100 gold gambling.
I'm depressed.
No report.

[Ichabod]

Somnium can be a problem.

At least you won't need to pay until someone has currency, right?

Or did I understand this wrong?

[Molach]

Somnium can be a problem.

At least you won't need to pay until someone has currency, right?

Or did I understand this wrong?

I wish.

No, it was an event. 100 gold. 67%. Lost.

[Ichabod]

Somnium can be a problem.

At least you won't need to pay until someone has currency, right?

Or did I understand this wrong?

I wish.

No, it was an event. 100 gold. 67%. Lost.

What was the event about? I don't remember it. What would you gain with the gold, a GEng?

[Molach]

Free sage spec + 3 health.

Probably worth 100 gold, barely, if not for the fail chance.

[Merovech]

I concur with Ichabod... that bronze city looks like it's going to be a monster, if you can feed and defend it. Does the pool of tears provide fresh water to adjacent spaces? I forget.

Weirdly, no.

[Molach]

Tears are salty.

[Molach]

I see from another thread that there is a word for something I'm thinking about.

The pyft-war.

gtAngel appearantly has a ironclad time available for play (which, for real life purposes, is probably a good thing). I'd say 3-6 a.m. my time. But with another turn not played tonight, that makes 4 times that we wait around an extra day for the turn due to forgetting to attach or just not playing. I said beforehand that I could only play once a day at evenings, but for these early turns (after I got the hang of entering game and sending off game quickly) I've usually several openings during the day. Not while at work is the only ironclad rule.

A pure pyft-war is not, in my view, neither fun or proper way to play the game, but while the deepest reason for an attack remains purely game-speed related, once that idea has been planted it's pretty easy to find arguments for an attack.
* Sidar has high GnP, low production. So, given time, it will be a very advanced and difficult nut to crack.
* Sidar might have juicy settled GPs in its cities.

However civ doing the actual attacking will put itself at grave risk of a costly campaign leading to, in turn, a DoW from another power. So diplo would have to come to play. Something along "we attack together, we have a NAP during and 10 turns after hostilities cease" and agree roughly about where we end up with our borders. I wish I knew more about the map, though.
This will of course be quite a few turns into the future, at the minimum I'd need an axemen stack, or (preferred) bronzed warriors supported by catapults. (Could be reinforced by bronzed chariots if things drag out).

Something I'm thinking about, while building mighty warriors and workers and settlers...(I think I build worker then yet another settler at capital, Amon builds worker then more army. New city - perhaps Archery range? It needs to grow anyway, and amon can supply warriors - I'm already at support cap). I also think festivals after BW, then AC. Then either construction or do econ with education/myst/CoL.
Or quick AH for the scout and bronzeville. Damn all these techs.