[SPOILERS] Jowy & Stampy

[Jowy]

Two iron, one copper. We can only reach one of them.
TT accepted OB (just not the resource trade).

[Jowy]

I hired a lot of scientist specialists now that the bulk of our force is out there.
Started research on Feudalism. We'll have a need for Longbows sooner or later.
Three reasons for that. 1. If we win the war, we need to hold the cities. 2. If we lose the war, we need to hold our lands. 3. If we get attacked by someone else.
We'll also get a Great Scientist next turn (80% probability) which we could use to pop a tech. I'm not sure what it would pop, too lazy to check a chart since we'll find out next turn anyway :P
Also offered spices to Commodore for free. Even free trades should mean a 10 turn NAP, I think.

[teleh]

It's time for war!

LURKER HAPPYSMILE JOWY WAR NOW

First though, I'll update you all on what's going on.
I'm also using a new resolution 1680x1050 for Civ4. Let me know if the pics are better or worse.
Old trick of clicking the picture for a full size version still stands.

The 1680 is good for my net connection, but the inline smaller versions aren't of much value 'cuz there's not much to make out, and having the full size image pop up in another tab is a bit irritating. Dunno what the balance option would be.

[NobleHelium]

Use the screenshot tag with the full size image.

[Jowy]

It would stretch the page I think.
Let's test:

EDIT: Removed huge pic

[spacetyrantxenu]

You used the IMG tag. Try SCREENSHOT.

Code:

[screenshot]image URL goes here[/screenshot]

So...

[Jowy]

Thank you! Didn't know we had that.
Someone could have told me before 30 pages into the thread :D

[spacetyrantxenu]

Oops. It must have been in the lurker guide to let you flounder a bit first. Sorry! T-Hawk put that element together a while back, if I'm remembering it right. A nice bit of javascript hackery.

[Jowy]

As thx, have an update early




Throwing everything at his front city, which is on a hill and has all his units, would not be a bright idea.
Don't get me wrong, I'll still check the odds in a simulation, but my guess is that it'd be bloody.
So we are going to fork his cities. Red square is two moves from three cities. He can't possibly defend them all.
Blue square is another idea, but if he keeps his army in the orange square, then he can reinforce the two cities according to our movement.
But all four? Good luck with that AT.
I guess he could do hit and runs as we move past the front city, but we have better odds defending on open than attacking that city lol.

Notice the lack of roads. This is really good for us. We'll still be razing a few though.

[Jowy]

I'm suddenly terribly aware how confusing my markings were, referring to the square with the red dot as "red square" while there are actual red squares in the picture..