The cutting of Persian Trade and It's effects

[E_T]

Check out my post in Part 3 of 4 of my DFM Report for trade in this linkhttp://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=62238.

Cutting the Persian Trade route would have some startling effects for us on many ways.

[Sheik]

interesting. I can't read it all right now but will definatly take a more indepth look later.

[kring]

It is highly improbable the English are supplying their only source of Iron to the Persians. Use Control Shift M to verify they only have one source, unless my eyes are worse than they used to be.

I checked out your report. Then, I checked out the map using Control Shift M. The reason I asked for a Control Shift M was because it would show the resources available to each civ. I would encourage more people to use such a trick in situations like this. Because:


The English only have one source of Iron, connected; the Germans have two, both connected. Persia has none; there is an unconnected one outside their borders.

The English probably aren't trading any Iron to Persia, unless they are trading their only source of it, which I seriously don't believe, and the advisor shows they have Swordsman so they have been using their only source of iron. I don't know if they (Persia) are getting it from Germany or not, but they are getting it from someone somehow.

You are correct that cutting their trade route will have interesting effects; it would cause the English and Germans to be upset with them over the broken agreements as well as losing any other benefits they are getting out of the current arrangements.