WAR ACADEMY : The geography is with Apolytonia

[Inverse Icarus]

Originally posted by GodKing
It concerns me a lot that the french are much stronger than we are (actually, about equal right now, but as they are stoping their expansion......)

Let us not focus on our next war at this time. Let us focus on our defence and our self improvements. Then, after upgrading our archers to longbowmen, our wariors to swordmen, and building an effective mobile (horse) force, and only then, should we look at our french holdings.

playing with 1.29 (which asses military strength CORRECTLY) i see this:

[BigRed515]

Originally posted by GePap
The Americans were weak an unprepared, the French won't be either, and France has access to both horses, and very soon, iron, and may quckly also gain access to extra reserves of both. Once they do, we can't really deny the French access to major resources and must fight an enemy with greater industry, pop. and resources than us.

Which should be all the reason we need to hit them hard NOW before they can build up to the point where they can use superior resources to box us off from Abananaba Minor, as well as limiting the number of productive cities we would have in the case of either a Greek or German attack.

Right now, we have the means, we have the initiative, all we need is the will to cut one leg out from another rival while we are able.

[Kuciwalker]

As someone mentioned in another thread, we could build a whole lot of Warriors and upgrade to Swordsmen. We have plenty of money, and Warriors are cheap.

[DAVOUT]

Follow up

Again, ten days in real life, but, this time, only four centuries have elapsed in the game.

On the Eastern Front, we are taking control of the strait between the Interior Sea and the south Ocean with a border of three cities. Now we are also in contact with the Brits and their city of Norwich. Berlin is at a few tiles of Norwich and Thebes. The Brits have also perfectly blocked the strait between the Interior Sea and the Eastern Ocean, and they have now only one more place for a city, between the Aztecs and the Germans.

The Germans have won the race for the city n° 1 and have settled Cologne; Boston is now in a difficult position, possibly not even connected to Chicago, and extremely difficult to defend.

The Aztecs are continuing the settlement of their corner with the city of Tzintzuntzen (3 spices?), along the eastern coast.

The Greeks have considered more urgent to settle Thessalonica, in the isle or peninsula on the other side of their channel than running to the Ivory Coast. It seems that Ephesus has deterred everybody to compete in this area.

With Grenoble, the French continue to establish themselves as the masters of Abananaba Minor, where we discover the surprise of the day: Smolensk is a Babylonian city ! To offset this loss, the Russians have founded Yakusk, but surprisingly, again, do not move toward the strait.

The Iroquois develop quietly St-Regis, on the sea side, opposite to Grenoble, and the Romans built two more cities, Byzantium and Lutetia, but do not yet seem interested by the strait as well.

The Germans, the Brits, the Persians and us in a very small and difficult area (mainly jungle and mountains) will certainly give rise to interesting events. A complete road net will be a decisive instrument in the outcome.

Who said this game was boring?