Been so long since pictures I know, but I keep posting these from my non-civ computer.
Not a ton new to report, Guilds eta on track. Mankins is turning into a beast city cause of its +11 food surplus when I give it all nearby food (it shares a grass-cow and floodplains-cottage with Wilfork). That food is going to run mines + workshops and then whip in short order.
I've been thinking through how swords change battle choices. THey won't be a large part of my army cause #knights, but they make longbows a lot less formidable defenders, having equal strength and conditional modifiers (in the city attack v city on hill scenerio) and coming at 10 hammers less.
Still don't know about Whosit v Krovice. I think I've ruled out Pind because trying to hold a stretched out, cross continential empire like that feel impossible. The Hindu Holy city is nice and close by, but I don't want that particularly until Pind builds the shrine since I doubt I can force another Great Prophet. Krovice is the all around better target to pull off a victory against, but also is a whole lot more likely to react to me churning out knights with tons of whips and cause a stalemate.
The question is... will he have enough time to get to a tech to whip something effective? In terms of city defense their best bet is a race to fuedalism, but (very minor pb19 spoilers)
longbows don't really hold up that well to knights and whipping them out is harder in rbmod. What I think would work best in their situation is attacking out with catapults and horse archers, which I don't see a super obvious counter to besides "build more knights" and try to avoid getting my whole stack needlessly collateraled. Their empire is also super spread out so playing area defense is hard and I can easily run 2t fork-like manuevers.
Whosit on the other hand I think is basically an autowin. He's so far behind in tech and production, I can't see myself even getting bogged down that much. But the potential gains are far smaller and I think Krovice + CH would bite off some for themselves to further decrease the reward. Could I plow through Whosit and THEN through CH without a) running out of troops and b) krovice hitting me from behind? Probably not, though if I got to my lovely protective Oromos those would make scary city defenders for the backside.
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