The French Galley : on her way to Uber Isle ?

[DAVOUT]

The French have made at least one galley we know of. We dont know whether she is going to Uber Isle or not. Would not it be safer to sink her, immediately after we declare war (which we should do AFTER leaving the French waters) ?

The buiding of galleys by the French is expected to be significantly reduced by the war : they will loose 2 or 3 coastal cities.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I imagine it's simply scouting out the coast. The AI has a habit of sending it's galleys along the coastlines. I haven't seen them make beelines for uncharted islands with galleys before.

[UnOrthOdOx]

Chances are we will find out after declaring war. It will either continue on it's path to the island, which we can then attack it, or it will attack one of our own galleys as it will only be two turns away.

[Aggie]

I suspect the galley is not carrying a settler for one major reason. Uber Isle is far for them and more importantly there is land on the continent they can get. I doubt they would send a settler out yet. Of course if they do head that direction we can take action. I will edit orders to that effect. Just give me a little time to get some specific scenarios that will let us know one way or another.
Aggie

[Epistax]

If it is going to settle uber and has a settler, why attack it? Sue for it. Saves us the trouble, and they'll happily give it away, giving its distance.

[Aggie]

Good point Epistax, and the war might still be going by then. Also the ship could sink. The war last about 6-8 turns best I can figure. so that could be time enough to reach island for them. More for me to think about.
Aggie

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I agree with Epistax and Aggie, let's not worry about it as AI galleys are like cats, they meander about occasionally getting in your way but rarely attack anyone.

[Shiber]

We'll know in a few turns. However I'm afraid we'll only know for sure once they're in mid-sea and chasing them might be too risky. On the other hand, trying to sink their galley right now might be too risky as well.
I say we take no specific course of action. If they plan to attack our galleys there's not much we can do without seriously delaying the colonization of Uber Isle. If they plan to get to Uber Isle, which is very unlikely IMHO for reasons already mentioned in this thread we'll settle down next to their colony (that is, if their galley actually makes it across) and take control of it one way or another when the time comes.

[DAVOUT]

What about their possible map making ?

[Shiber]

Also a possibility. I just hope they don't explore Uber Isle and then sell the map to all the other civs.

[DAVOUT]

After all, we are a religious civ, so we hope and prey

[trickey]

one we declare war, we should sink it for sure. if they discover uber isle, they will trade their map to everyone, then our chances of colonizing it are done.

[Robber Baron]

Originally posted by DAVOUT
After all, we are a religious civ, so we hope and prey

Funny typo! We are a religious civ, so we hope and PRAY.
But we are warriors, so we hope and PREY, when prayer doesn't work!

[Reddawg]

I can't promise you all... but I cross referenced France's population growths and I don't *think* they've built a settler recently. So unless they've had one just hanging around for a long time, they don't have one.

Does that help?

[Max]

I think it's not even worth taking care of this galley. Most probably it will sink before it can reach Uber Isle.

Anyway we can't take the risk to sink one of our galley in a hazardous sea attack, can we?