Do we continue war with Persia

[Aggie]

This is a fairly straightforward question. Do we continue the war with persia or make peace. I know a similar poll exist, but I wanted to do this to see if any views had changed with the current situation.
Aggie

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I know thats a lot of archers but we have to strenghten our position against them now or we'll be at their mercy later.

Personally, I think Tyre, Sidon, and Gordium. Gordium's the key, with it we force them to defend FOUR cities from us, as we have our teeth clasped around their proverbial throat. At that point they shouldn't be able to succesfully threaten us again.

Currently they can ALWAYS sneak attack us with troops as their cities are just too close to ours. They can steal a dye with a higher culture rating and reduce the workable tiles of Geofront and Ubergorsk. They can take Ubergorsk's iron. They NEED to be pruned back while we are in the position to do so.

[adaMada]

Aggie,
Nearly everyone supports the taking of Tyre and Sidon, and then some support going further. Talking to Togas, we decided to continue fighting until we had taken those cities and could get a tech (since there was overwhelming support for going at least that far), and then to come back to the people and discuss it some more. Having said that, I do support the continued discussion on this topic, and want to see how this poll turns out.

I should probably PM you on this so we can chat for a bit about it since I'll be running things at the Foreign Ministry for the next week... I'll do that later, though, since I'm running low on time now.

-- adaMada

[Aggie]

i agree with the overall idea Ghengis. I just want the a poll to confirm we continue. I plan on doing this after every stage. I'm just trying to figure out how to save geofront. We can get the other spear(from napolitan) there in time. They will have 2 units damage or destoyed when they attack sword. That leaves 5 archers vs defenders of geofront. We could knock one out with horse and take out another one with sword. We upgrade spear to pike this turn(in uber) use pikeman to cover them. We most likely end up with a 3 archer army that would be unable to attack. So we can save geofront. But i figure if we continue the war we will lose 1sword and one spear at least. before we assault tyre. Now unfortunately the warriors weren't sent from seeberg to upgrade as early as i desired so they are a few turns from getting upgraded at uber(otherwise we could just go into tyre after battle). Still they should be there to take sidon. My recommendation is continue the war.
Aggie

[Duddha]

War is generally a good thing.

[wervdon]

If we can win (and I see no reason why we can't) then they should be made to pay for violating the RoP.

[WhiteBandit]

Eh, that seems like a fairly imposing Archer stack near Geofront. It looks like they are now finally sending their main troops toward us.

If the odds are in favor of our defense, then by all means continue the war so we at least capture/destroy those cities, however I feel that any "gains" we make will be expensive, both in terms of replacing units lost and replacing infastructure that has been destroyed.

[wervdon]

After seeing the updated map of uber island, I have to change my vote. We need to focus on that island, Persia is just a distraction at this time.

So I basically say that we only continue with the war if we can be successful in the war and still build and ship 4 more settlers to that island as well as keep enough lytons to rush build whatever else we need on the island.

I do however, think we should remember the treachery of the persians and after we secure our current position resume operation kick persian ass.

[Torkkeli]

I'd say end the war now, build up our cities and forces and take them all later....

[BigFurryMonster]

Can we still strike before they have Immortals ?

[Donegeal]

I belive the legendary Uber said it before: "We must not loose focus".

Being a builder, my confidence in war is easily swayed (like seeing huge stacks of Persian Archers), however, with our new Pikemen and the upgraded WF, I believe we can remain steadfast in the line of fire. This is the brunt of the Persian Army and when we defeat this offensive, we will see little resistance comming our way. Attack now, destroy Persia, take the Pyramids spice and Incense and remove our eastern border!

[BigFurryMonster]

...and, do they offer us anything for peace?

[theViking]

I think the best we can do at the moment is to make peace with the Persians, then send a settler to the Iron between Coventry and Antiich or as close as possible, and make a city to get control of it. Then send 5, 6 or 7 setllers to Uber Island and take control of all of it before anybody else can get over there.

[OPD]

This is basic stuff. The AI sends in there millitary we wipe them out and then we march into their territory and take their cities unopposed.

The archers don't stand a chance. Of course we should play it safe but a vet pikeman fortified in a walled town against a reg archer is a joke something like a 4.6% that the archer wins.

Yes continue the war. Get our troops ready while the Persians throw theirs away and then start the counter offensive.

[wervdon]

Just to clarify my change in opinion had nothing to do with any archers. The island is just too big to not concentrate on. Fully settling and developing it asap will do more for us than fully conquering persia IMO. (we'd need to build the forbidden palace in persia to make it productive)

Also, Im not too worried about when/if they get immortals at this point. By the time they do, we'll have musketmen to defend (unless the banana has cursed us with no saltpeter) and knights to attack.

I'm not 100% against continuing the war though IF we can do it and still give Uber Island all the attention it'd get otherwise. If we have to make a choice though, Id definately go with the chance to greatly increase our core of productive cities in an easily defendable position.