War Academy: Worker Gambit

[Kuciwalker]

One worker would be gone for at most 30 turns - more likely 20-25.

[Panag]

Re: War Academy: Worker Gambit

Originally posted by skywalker
Should we bring along a worker or two with our attack force? If we leave them where the AI could get them, we could draw troops out into the open and kill them more easily. What do you think?

hi ,

it could work , even if the French have workers of there own , ...

however , will they let themselfs drawn in to a good terrain , ... , UberKruX could come up with a nice plan .

have a nice day

[Jonny]

Originally posted by jdd2007
at the moment, we need workers at home. however, our first attack could be to take a french worker, which we could use.

I agree with this. Our workers need to be improving our land. Let our soldiers go to war, leave the workers at home.

[civman2000]

I agree with jdd

[GePap]

Miniater of Public works?

Aren't all workers under the minister of public works? What does the Minister have to say?

Personally, i agree with the notion that it's no time to be wasting our valuable, industrious workers.

[Guardian]

I say we don't bring any workers with the initial strike group.

First of all, our workers are valuable and we need them elsewhere.
Second, the baiting and waiting would probably delay our advance a bit and therefore could give the enemy time to produce more units...

If, however, we capture some of their workers, we should happily put them to work right in the middle of the war zone and see what opportunities may arise...

[Papa Chubby]

How exactly does this baiting work and how would we implement.
This is of course assuming that we decide to sacrifice the improvements our own workers could make or capture one of theirs.

[OPD]

there a risk of recaptured workers escaping to other French cities.

[Harovan]

Not likely. They try to escape in the closest city. This is mostly the city they are actually working for.

Again, exploit or not, I don't think it's necessary. We'll win without it.

[punkbass2000]

Originally posted by jdd2007
cheating??? its a strategy!!! people have been setting traps and ambuses since wars began!!! unless we put in a cheat code or make use of a bug, then its not cheating...

IT's not a strategy when you are taking advantage of an AI that can't figure out what you're doing. This would never ever work on a human who had a minimal knowledge of the game and strategy.

[kring]

As has been said before, our workers are needed elsewhere.

[Guardian]

Originally posted by punkbass2000


IT's not a strategy when you are taking advantage of an AI that can't figure out what you're doing. This would never ever work on a human who had a minimal knowledge of the game and strategy.

-Unless, of course, the man in charge (*cough* Hitler... *cough* *cough* skywalker... *cough*) gets so caught up in his brilliant tactical moves that he loses sight of the big picture and happily runs off to ruin himself...

[Andreiguy]

The AI can go or not go for the bait. Cheating is too serious a word for that.
Much of history was written by people who did things "cheating" while the enemy had no idea of what it was.
But anyway, I'm against the idea. The more workers to clear this stupid jungle faster, the better.

[Jon Shafer]

But the leaders of those countries easily had the opportunity to be more cautious. The AI can't weigh options and decide if it's worth the risk or not... it can't even comprehend that it could possibly be a trap. One day perhaps AIs will be able to compete blow for blow with humans, but today it can't. Therefore, any strategy that takes advantage of the AI's inability deal with a particular circumstance could be considered 'cheating', or taking advantage of the situation at the very least.

[Andreiguy]

But here's a point to consider: The AI, at least on the level we're playing on, cheats excessively.
But - does that mean we get to use our human strategy on it?
It's really a matter of opinion. But anyway, I think that a worker would be much more useful back home.