[SPOILERS] Don't mention the war

[plako]

Decided to send a message to Rome also. No response yet, but this is just half a day old:

Just poking around of the possibility to sign a deal between us. My position hasn't changed and I'm still willing to sign a deal based on our past discussion. Warfare will be extremely expensive in this setup and I see that you haven't yet started a military build up so I think it would be in both of our intrests to sign a deal.

I also suggest you take a look at territories NE from your capital. There are some developments that you might be intrested in to know about ;-).

Yes, I appear desperate . I don't really know what to do. I think HBR next might still be best just to have sensible units to build. Stack of HAs is way better than mixed bag of spears and axes especailly, if I combine these with Catapults.

[plako]

T47

I played the turn and decided to dial up Libraries in my big cities and I'll whip them out at the earliest convininet moment. I also need to consider whether running some scientists in the capital would be worth it although Academy is not very appealing with the current and prospected expenses.

I also chatted with Oledavy, but nothing concrete came out. I decided to tell them about TMIT's warrior and road that I hinted earlier in my email. Let's hope it raises some heat between them.

Here are the relevant parts from the chat:

David: Hey Plako
just read your email
what sorta deal are you talking about?
me: hi
Same old one
David: fair enough
going to tentatively say no
would it change my mind if I knew the developments to the northeast?
me: Probably not since you seem to have made yup your mind already
TMIT has a road and warrior standing in a hill close by
Wild guess. He is settling soon there his 2nd ring city
David: funny he never mentioned that

[plako]

T48

1 library down 2 whipped next turn for 3 pop. Rome surpassed me in power.

[NobleHelium]

Maybe you should establish a trade route to Rome to see if they have iron yet?

[plako]

I would need either Sailing or road. Sailing is not a high priority. Road is a possibility and actually I've thought about it and also chopping the forest NW from Felix Leca, but so far I haven't had enough troops to protect my workers. Nevertheless I'll find out soon enough, if they've iron because of the high soldier point value of Praets.

[Nydaeli]

You probably don't want to build the praetorian highway for them.

[plako]

T49

Libraries whipped. Someone (Not Rome!) surpassed us and Rome in power with a fair margin. TMIT has an unprotected worker in the south.

[Lewwyn]

TMIT has an unprotected worker in the south.

Yum! :wakka::wakka::wakka:

[NobleHelium]

You know, you could try taking the worker and then offering to trade it back for a NAP. I don't have any read on TMIT though, no idea how he'd respond.

[plako]

Chances for that worker being unprotected next turn are very low. Either he moves it away or brings someone in.