War Academy: Chariot Road question

[Captain]

Hey all, I won't be around to debate this but I wanted to put it out there.

Originally posted by notyoueither in another thread, I hereby open this proposal to analysis by our acclaimed War Academy.

esp. I want to get Sir Ralph's opinion as he is our Academy's leader.

What about a road linking Apolyton with Blue City and Banana HQ? 2 tiles of jungle.

Then 2 or 3 more tiles of jungle brings us to New York. By the time we launch Eagle, the Americans will almost certainly have linked New York with Washington.

4 o4 5 tiles of jungle links our growing empire for troop movements and brings dyes to the capitol.

[notyoueither]

I'd have to say that I like the idea.

Not sure how it effects chariots though. For later campaigns archers are a better bet due to the shear amount of jungle, whether we are attacked or are attacking.

However, the road would triple the movement of either war chariots or archers, so it's good for either.

[UnOrthOdOx]

I was wondring the TIMING of this road. Is it to be done after the useful tiles are already upgraded, or are we to divert resources to the road.

It would even speed settlers to the new lands.

[Jon Shafer]

I think that this could actually work... we'd have to have 2 roaded/mined tiles within Termina, Apolyton and Blue City in order to allow for maximum efficiency, but after that, then probably a road would be very beneficial.

[Robber Baron]

I assume we'd upgrade enough tiles to put our four core cities into production mode (as orginally planned in Case Pink) before roading to Banana hq (and eventually, points north.) Judging from the savedgame, we're pretty far along on that already.

[LordImpact]

The faster we can move our units into the battlefield the better. I am leaning towards this plan.

--Impact

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Robber Baron
I assume we'd upgrade enough tiles to put our four core cities into production mode (as orginally planned in Case Pink) before roading to Banana hq (and eventually, points north.) Judging from the savedgame, we're pretty far along on that already.

Yes RB. That was my assumption. Finish the base 2 per city improvements first, then build the road. I think they may still be building the road when we take NewYork, but never underestimate industrious workers.

[Harovan]

Sounds like a very good plan. Good work, Captain, and worthy of a staff member of our War Academy! I will cross-check your plan and try to make some maths as soon as I get home from work and have access to the save and the map. Now that we have horses, we could use our UU.

The only thing that bothers me is, do we really want to have a GA so soon? With poorly developed cities this is near to nothing.

[OPD]

We could have riding in about 10 turns.
If we don't want a GA

[ThePlagueRat]

What's the defense value of our UU, the War Chariot ?

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by ThePlagueRat
What's the defense value of our UU, the War Chariot ?

Uno.

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by ThePlagueRat
What's the defense value of our UU, the War Chariot ?

it's basically a cheap horseman that cant cross jungle/mtns/etc.

[Jon Shafer]

Originally posted by UberKruX
it's basically a cheap horseman that cant cross jungle/mtns/etc.

It would have been a killer way to crush one of our neighbors if it weren't for that jungle...

[ThePlagueRat]

3/2/2 or something? Well, Samurais got 4/4/2.
The people once voted to emulate Egyptians. (and I was stunned)
That's democracy in a nutshell...

[Sheik]

Originally posted by OPD
We could have riding in about 10 turns.
If we don't want a GA

This is a great point. I think we need roads. Roads will be bennificial to the war effort but on using war chariots I am not so sure.