War Academy: Pounding Persia to Pieces

[=OttomusCeasar=]

Originally posted by BigFurryMonster
2) In the City Top-5, the population number of Persepolis is red. This means that there is not enough food for the population. Why? Simply because they are in a Republic and are sick and tired of the war with us, causing them to abondon their farms (don't ask me why - they're Persians after all).
==> War Weariness is a huge problem for them, especially since they are the agressor. So Time is in our favor: prolonging the war only increases this effect.

That's a good point, I'm all for taking their whole homeland.

[Donegeal]

Excellent observation on the war weariness front BFM!

With the Persians in an internal struggle with the length of this battle, they loose their production as most of there cities will be in disorder!

NO PEACE!

Total conquest of the homeland is in our grasp!

As for the next city to take, I say Antioch as it will completely romove the threat of Iron (removing Immortals, Pikemen and Knights).

We Cannot Be Stopped!

KILL!!

[BigFurryMonster]

Originally posted by donegeal
With the Persians in an internal struggle with the length of this battle, they loose their production as most of there cities will be in disorder!

Well, until they switch back to Monarchy or Despotism...

[=OttomusCeasar=]

I wonder if the AI takes into account the repecussions and vengence exacted by the human player on those who break ROP agreements?

This may cause them to stick to their treaties no matter what from now on.

[GePap]

As was stated, we can't wipe out the Persians, unless we decide to carry out some pointless marches through other civ's soils to reach those wonderful and isolated outposts the AI so loves to make.

Also, how quickly upon our victory over Persia will we finally take America over, and start to build up the empire?

[XOR]

Hmmm... my plan is even better than I tought, I missed the 2 cities way up north...

We can take the totallity of their main homeland, including 2 luxury clusters and a wonder AND THEN still ask them for every tech they have, maybe even 1gpt to ensure another war later on. IF they dont agree to our demands we can send a couple of ships along the coast to park a few troops next to their far north cities (preferably capital) and then make the demands or just wait a bit, the longer you are in war the more the AI will value "Peace" in exchange for goods. Trust me, I am a highly experimented and evil Tokugawa.

Another correction to my previous post is, we should attack Antioch from the hill, which does not require to cross the river. But we should start with Pasagradae and Persepolis to squish their posibility to generate any half-significant force.

As for time in our favor, no, time is against us, once we take the cities we have to rush the rest of the area as fast as we can to reduce chance of flipping as much as possible, specially at Persepolis, which might flip in less than 16 turns because it shares 2 tiles of the city radius with Bactra and has a wonder.

Catapults are now only needed to get the 2 cities in the hills, about 8 should do, we can lay siege for several turns if we have to.

However, my recomendation would be Pasagradae -> Persepolis (ignoring Antioch, this will break their force in 3 parts as stated in my previous post) -> Tarsus -> send newly recruited forces and siege weapons to concentrate in Pasagradae while going for Arbela -> Regrouping in Pasagradae. Then depending on the amount of force and siege weapons in Pasagradae we could go to Bactra and Susa (if force is high) or go to Antioch while waiting for more forces.

Any excess forces from this glorious conquest should then be redeployed and employed on capturing Abe. After Abe has been captured and his people are under our rule, we should switch the production of each and every of our cities to worker, until we have enough workers (2 for every 5 cities) and then we queue all cities to build whateve city planners chose, consider it as an emergency action to respond to an underdevelopment crisis. Said queues must be short enough to allow production of military hardware soon enough for a larger scale war, the imperial war planners are treatening to organize a revolt if production of military hardware isnt resumed asap.

Persians are Sci+Ind, if they choose to change govt they will have to ge trough 5 turns of zero production and zero income.