Limited Otttoman War

[Hot Mustard]

Good input, dexters.

I'll be posting Turnchat #9 SMC orders sometime in the next couple of days. We are preparing to attack the Ottomans at Erdine, and Aydin if necessary (might get as peace payment). As part of the attack plan we will be settling that Iron city.

The other settler is indeed headed for the forest tile inside the eastern river but outside the mountains. BetaHound (DM) had a suggestion for a third city over there as well.

Watch for both of our orders to provide feedback prior to Saturday's chat.

[Donegeal]

Well, I have been away for some time now, and will be away for two more weeks in a couple of days, but until then....

I am concerned about all this talk of hooking up the iron and changing our build queues to Swordmen. Yes, building the Iron city is indeed a very good idea, and I would even say hooking up the iron is a good idea also, but not until we are ready. If you want to go after the Iriquios, then change most of our builds to Warriors (not all, leave at least one city building Archers. ALWAYS be building Archers somewhere) then connect the iron for one turn only to upgrade the warriors. The following turn, pillage the road to prevent it from moving. The next time to connect it is for Pikemen. My main concern is not building Archers. Archers are our life bread. We die without Archers. 50 gold to upgrade a 2/1/1 20 shield Archer to a 6/2/1 70 shield Amphibious Bezerker. This is how we are going to win the game. Bezerkers are going to be used into the industrial age.

Archer! Archer! Archer! Archer! Archer! Archer! (you get the picture)

[MrWhereItsAt]

Thanks donegeal- we need to keep in mind that Archers will help us lots in the future. BUT, unless we are going to use them for the Ottoman war, we can wait. Invention is a LONG wayoff, and we can build Archers all the way up to there. Building warriors seems like a good idea when we are close to getting the Iron hooked up. We don't want lotsa warriors built when the Ottos (or someone else) steals that Iron from us somehow.

As for pillaging the road after upgrading all the Warriors - that may be too much trouble for when we need to reconnect it again, unless we really have an overwhelming force, and we can either do without Iron for a bit or we are confident we have the workers in place to reconnect on short notice.

[OPD]

I think building warriors now for upgrade is the way to go. BTW do we know if the ironquios have horses? The sooner we hit them the better as they have expanded alot and so have lots of cities to sue for.

[Beta]

So, given the events of the recnt chat, who cam up with the dumb idea for this thread anyway?

[MrWhereItsAt]

I can quietly lock and erase it from history if you'd like...

Then no-one (else) need ever know...