Do we continue war with Persia

[=OttomusCeasar=]

Why is it called "Uber Island"?

[OPD]

Just to clarify my opinion aswell.

I am very much pro this war in the understanding that it does not seriously require the production of our more important cities.

Although the persian land is plentlyful I do not support any kind of mobilzation for war i.e. most of our cities producing units for this war.

[BigFurryMonster]

Originally posted by =OttomusCeasar=
Why is it called "Uber Island"?

Someone named it after himself.

[Aro]

Originally posted by =OttomusCeasar=
Why is it called "Uber Island"?

Originally posted by BigFurryMonster
Someone named it after himself.

"Someone" knowed as the King of Warmongers.
Our (former?) SMC, UberKruX. The SMC now is Aggie.

[=OttomusCeasar=]

SO what's the rule? Whoever sees something first gets to name it?

[Aro]

There's a criteria, but I can't find the thread right now. I'll try some research later, but you probably can find this info (or a link) in the directory thread .

[Proserpine]

Continue for now. Keep situation under review. Peace at most opportune moment, post-capture of T&S

[Hagbart]

I agree with GhengisFarb, we can't risk losing our resources!

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Originally posted by =OttomusCeasar=
SO what's the rule? Whoever sees something first gets to name it?

Actually, he "sighted" it as early as 2000 BC or thereabouts (whenever Apolyton's cultural radius expanded a second time). He saw a whale and more coast, and deduced that there had to be a landmass there. The name "Uber Isle" stuck, for some reason (probably because no one else had any ideas).

He also was the first to determine the location of the Americans (before we made contact with them-- he somehow managed to see their borders).

Oh, and keep on fighting until we get Tyre and raze Sidon. Gordium would also be nice, since it puts us within striking distance of Persepolis.

[wervdon]

Although the persian land is plentlyful I do not support any kind of mobilzation for war i.e. most of our cities producing units for this war.

Well said OPD, I support the war as well if we can fight it with what we have and use our production for colonization and development. If its going to require us to mass produce a bunch more units to win or replace our losses, then we have better things to do for the next 20-30 turns.

[DeathByTheSword]

i say fight the war and split up production between uber island support/infra homeland and war units! but stop after sidon, tyre and maybe Gordium IF it doesnt take to long!

-no one benifits from prolonged war- Sun Tzu

[wervdon]

i say fight the war and split up production between uber island support/infra homeland and war units!

Heh keep in mind that persia will still be there until someone else conquers them, but Uber Island is only exclusively ours until someone develops astronomy and caravels EDIT: Or builds the lighthouse, but I have no idea who is building it or has built it

[DeathByTheSword]

We can colonize it still and IF we can take the 3 cities within 8-10 turns (is that long not keeping any civIII game myself so ) i am all for the war if not get the hell out and colonize Uber island with 3 more settlers from the main land!


btw the second rank cities can build units for war and the big cities like apolyton and stuff can build caravels/settlersstacks/workers

[wervdon]

*mutter* just noticed from the war academy post that America signed an alliance with Germany against the aztecs. Im not sure how I missed it from the chat summary

That definately changes things. If we fight persia, we most probally will be seeing aztecs in our fragrant valley. That certainely won't do.

We should make peace with Persia asap.
Send our existing military to mop up the americans in as rapid a campaign as possible.
And let our core cities concentrate on Uber Island.

[adaMada]

Right now, I don't think that we should declare peace with Persia... I posted the Aztec thread, but I'm not sure they're a huge threat. I think most people will come back and say that they'll be preoccupied with the Greeks closing in from the East and the Germans attacking from the south. In that case, they probably won't have much military to spare, even with America being as weak as it is.

Furthermore, I think we could probably handle both wars at once (as long as we're just talking about America) if we kept the Persian war going, attacked America, and then came back and finished the Persians, though that's another thing I'm hoping the Military Academy thread will answer.

-- adaMada

Edit: Don't worry about missing it too much; I probably would have too, except I asked the people at the chat what had happened and it's my job to look for things like that (for the next week, anyway ).