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Vice President Shaka Naldur -
I agree with your concerns about Citadel and New Castellon. If we are to defend our foothold on that continent, we will need to support them well. Definately, those 2 cities need to spend their city-building efforts on military units or constructed defences (barracks, city walls). As Minister of City Planning, I will naturally focus my recommendations on defence.
We should have Polytheism in 2 turns, and that will permit the Elephant, which is exactly the kind of offensive unit you suggest we need. Unfortunately, we find ourselves building a Barracks there right now, and it will be 8 turns before that is complete. Personally, I think we could use another Phalanx there instead (taking the loss of shields from the conversion), but that is really up to the Military Advisor and the President. Or we could change to City Walls, but that would take about 18 turns or so, and the fate of Citadel will be quite settled by then.
It might be best to have the 2 cities stay on course for Barracks and/or City Walls, and supply troops by Trimerene for the short-term.
Building a 3rd city there would mean even more military support from the homeland cities and would present one more target for aggression. I think it is better to have 2 cities well defended than 3 cities weakly defended.
We need to focus our resources here, they are very limited. We shouldn't build any new cities until we get Mike's. But we can make Citadel and New Castellon strongholds until production improves in our core cities.
I agree with your concerns about Citadel and New Castellon. If we are to defend our foothold on that continent, we will need to support them well. Definately, those 2 cities need to spend their city-building efforts on military units or constructed defences (barracks, city walls). As Minister of City Planning, I will naturally focus my recommendations on defence.
We should have Polytheism in 2 turns, and that will permit the Elephant, which is exactly the kind of offensive unit you suggest we need. Unfortunately, we find ourselves building a Barracks there right now, and it will be 8 turns before that is complete. Personally, I think we could use another Phalanx there instead (taking the loss of shields from the conversion), but that is really up to the Military Advisor and the President. Or we could change to City Walls, but that would take about 18 turns or so, and the fate of Citadel will be quite settled by then.
It might be best to have the 2 cities stay on course for Barracks and/or City Walls, and supply troops by Trimerene for the short-term.
Building a 3rd city there would mean even more military support from the homeland cities and would present one more target for aggression. I think it is better to have 2 cities well defended than 3 cities weakly defended.
We need to focus our resources here, they are very limited. We shouldn't build any new cities until we get Mike's. But we can make Citadel and New Castellon strongholds until production improves in our core cities.
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