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(May 11th, 2015, 10:27)AdrienIer Wrote: I logged in to see that our empire is in good shape except for the part where we have almost nowhere to expand and are almost 100pts behind Commodtay. Their landgrabbing towards Retep still baffles me.
Not really. retep is Imperialistic so it makes a bit of sense that Commodtay would try to limit their expansion the way we (somewhat) did with Joey. More on our troubles with retep in a moment.
Quote:We really need to take cities from Elkad. Still only an axeman in the Hague : awesome.
Yes, I switched to Chariot mobilization again for the following reasons:
-GJ is at war with HAK at the moment.
-Elkad currently has his Copper disconnected.
Not sure on the reason for the latter unless he is planning for cheap HR happiness. But he is not in the civic at the moment. Any ideas on that one?
To counter this, I have made the following changes:
-Duquesne: from Settler to Chariot (every 2 turns)
-Oswego: Chariot in 3
-Bringing Chariot back from NF
-Bring Chariot scout back from north pole island (only another source of Furs present).
-Will be sending 2-3 FWs back to Duquesne. The idea is to make them look busy while really being staged to build a quick roadnet if we can take Rotterdam first.
I think we can make this happen in 4-5 turns with 6 Chariots, 4 FWs and 2 Axes. Rotterdam is obviously the wild card here.
I also think we need to take on this plan regardless of what happens to our west.
Speaking of which.....
Not sure if you saw when you logged in, but retep made another aggressive move by putting a Galley 2 tiles away from our as-yet-unsettled hill site for the Ivory town. What concerns me is that for the last two turns, retep has finished last and taken great care to log out before playing the new turn. So it seems that he is locking in turn order for something.
I spent a long time weighing the pros and cons before ultimately deciding to settle the new city of Quebec. This further decimated our binary research (-63 v. +18) but I put Currency at 100% now for 5 turns. I am so tired of not making progress on it, especially when the need for production and military techs seems imminent. Once our cities grow a bit, there is still a slim chance we can get Currency in 5 even if we have to work some suboptimal water tiles for a turn.
Anyway, back to Quebec. There are two ways this can play out:
1. retep is just guarding the Wine location
If so, no harm no foul. It will just be a pain to support Quebec against such proximity since its the full 5 tiles from our capital. Plus we would need some naval back up in the area, so IW after Currency looks promising for Triremes.
2. retep boats and burns Quebec next turn
Pretty unlikely, but if he does it will set the tone for the rest of our relationship.
The only reason I think this may be possible is because retep has had his Chariot scouting the hill 2N of Quebec for the few turns. Also, the apparent turn order lock. And if this does happen, we'd need to decide if we want to stay in an unprepared war or make peace in order to serve up my favorite cold dish at a later time. We may also need to prioritize IW (Triremes, Swords) over MC after Currency, and then have a talk about Construction because I will not let something like this slide.
