(Official)War Objectives

[Shiber]

After the palace move to Timeline the French cities won't be as corrupted.

[joncnunn]

After all the French cites are taken over and Joan of Arc brought to justice all the French citizens of our empire will be sufficently in fear of us to never rise up against us again.
(At least until the next game.)

I know that this isn't historically accurate, but this is how Civ III works.

[F-PRO]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Annex all of France, convert her cities into foreign work gangs and rebuild glorious new Apoltonian cities in their stead.

(OT) Aro needed some help with the AGS. From the looks of your picture, you are the man for the job

[Shiber]

I wonder what is Jonny's opinion regarding Ghengis's plan.
Btw, I prefer site 1a because it does not overlap.

[realpolitic]

Now that we have cavalry, is there a stronger nation we can beat up? If wewant a spaceship victory, we should use our military to slow down our real competition.

[realpolitic]

Now that we have cavalry, is there a stronger nation we can beat up?

[Meshelic]

Originally posted by realpolitic
Now that we have cavalry, is there a stronger nation we can beat up?

[Meshelic]

The 'stronger' nations apply to Germany, who has the only real military that could probably stand up to ours in battle. I wouldn't recommend war with Germany at this time, we want to keep them at bay diplomaticly. so we don't piss them off when they have their panzer tanks...

I would suggest however war with the Zulu would be highly profitable, (11, yes 11 Gems in small territory, ripe for plucking). I say we take advantage of this.

[Arnelos]

IF war is in the cards, why not England?

Our Forbidden Palace is going to end up in Contaginon in former Persia... wouldn't it make sense that the nearby English cities would make the best targets?

That said, this is in the event that war is the best option... something I'm not convinced of myself... I just want to make sure that we pick the right target if you guys are successful at pushing for A war.

[mrmitchell]

To arms! To arms! To arms! (Oh yeah were already at war well
Continue To Arms! Continue To Arms! Continue To Arms!

Put Joan out of her misery. (If you've seen modern ages Joan she'll be in a lot of misery at the UN vote, )

[Aggie]

As far as future wars, I'd say england or Zulu seems like tempting targets. England would be easy, but those gems seem to be saying "take me,take me" and 5 caravels and 15 calvary could do just that. Additionally the zulu homeland would be a big base militarily for us.
I suspect that these wars will be under a new SMC, as I do not intend to run again. Of course I will stay around, hopefully as your new Prez.
Aggie

[nz_upy]

Woo Hoo
Aggie For President!!!!

Anyway
Kill The French.
We could quite easily from this position also sack Athens if we could do so without taking a rep hit.
Considering our huge advantage over everyone.

[joncnunn]

I don't dought we could capture the Zulu island.

However, during the war, that's 15 less Calvary that could be adviable for sacking either England or Germany in response to a neighboring country declaring war on either of them.

Moreover it's going to be a drain of our resources to control.

Something like 2 defensive units per city will need to shiped over there (mostly post-war). 4 of the Calvary need to stay there as well.
Leo's has no effect over there, so the defensive units sent there need moderized first. A Baracks will need built there as well for upgrading the defense units when we acquire Nationalism and later Replaceable Parts.

All cities there will have 95% corruption and 95% waste (even with Court House + Police Station) and so everytime something needs built there it has to be rushed.

[Kloreep]

But... but... GEMS!!!

Seriously, though, we could pull in a lot of tech and money in the industrial age with that kind of luxury monopoly. I don't have the game in front of me, but I believe we are currently exporting all but one or two of our extra luxuries. Just think how much more demand there will be for lux once the AIs have the post-hospital population to need them, and the money (and techs) to pay for them. And, since we would have a monopoly, we wouldn't have to worry about the other civs selling first.

[Togas]

I'm in support of seizing the gems, but I'm hesitant towards the idea of taking all of the Zulus. On one hand, they have only 7 cities and if we left them with a few their culture might cause distress to our cities. On the other, the war would generate substantial war weariness, would take considerable resources which would be away from Apolytonia for civil defense, and would may cost us quite a bit in development and corruption.

We would have a lifetime monopoly of gems, though. It's hard to calculate just how much profit that would result in. Right now we get gems for "free" as we're trading insignifigant techs for them, but such a deal will not last forever.

--Togas