Reign of Meadishi II

[McMeadows]

I apologise for the slow motion of this game.

The empire is growing. We're lagging in techs. Joncnunn explained his strategy of fighting a big neighboor (Urakami) to have them sign peace at the expense of some techs. At the moment, the best we can get is 1 gpt. Meanwhile the Matsunaga are a small neighboor, we could easily take over.

I understand Joncnunns point of view, but I also see the risk of having to fight a hard war and suffer quite a few losses. For that matter I would prefer to turn our eyes on Matsunaga to acquire their cities. This growth will allow us to have more economical strength as well as more capacities in training new units. We'll also be able to have 1 border less, so would be less vulnerable to suprise attacks.

I see some great city spots:
111 from Noriko's Seaview
333 from Gems r Us

Rather than play and teach, I'd like to have some input on the idea's of you all.

[McMeadows]

Reign of Meadishi II

double post for some reason

[ormuzd]

I like the idea to crush Matsunaga once and forever. But we need to be at war with only one neighbour at any time.

I guess the Urakami have yamabushi monks and it will be very hard for us to attack them. If possible, make peace and some gold, maps, techs from them.

[McMeadows]

Re: Reign of Meadishi II

Originally posted by McMeadows At the moment, the best we can get is 1 gpt.

[ormuzd]

sorry, idn't see it

[Addled Platypus]

Agreed on Matsunaga being the first to go

then maybe hop across to the small Island ?

[McMeadows]

Originally posted by Platypus Rex
then maybe hop across to the small Island ?

As far as I remember correctly, it's a peninsula.

[Paddy]

Welcome back Meadishi the II

[joncnunn]

We currently have a cease fire agreement with the Matsunaga that they gave us four techs from.

I'm all for pointing sticking the Matsunaga, but not until that agreement expires so we can honorably do so.

On the Urakami, dispite being bigger, they aren't seriously threatening us, so they're no need to rush into a cease fire yet.

Granted we don't have enough units on the front line with the Urakami to go after a city yet, but we can still kill the weak units in 1 and 2s they keep sending over.

[joncnunn]

I think a naval invasion is kind of out of the question for the near future. In addition to needing more miltary units for a naval invasion due to distance from reinforcements, it also requires a significant investment in Galleys.

[joncnunn]

Our Army when completely healthy can kill one Yamabuski Monk on flat terraign easily. Armies can heal in enemy territory as well.
So far I haven't seen any Yamabuskis outside of cities.

[joncnunn]

On future city spots, there is currently a Matsunaga unit-pair on 3-3-3 Gems R Us, so they may found that city for us on their turn.

[McMeadows]

Originally posted by joncnunn
We currently have a cease fire agreement with the Matsunaga that they gave us four techs from.

I'm all for pointing sticking the Matsunaga, but not until that agreement expires so we can honorably do so.

Against the AI I don't give a -bleep- about the rep normally, but this is a team game. So keep speaking up.

[joncnunn]

With the combo of DemiGod and AP, our reputation is extremely
important so we can buy techs with GPT.

We can't pointly stick them all. And indeed buying two techs in my reign first (with GPT) allowed much better techs to be gotten from the Matsunaga. Neither of these deals would have been possible in a reasonable timeframe if I had to pay the entire amount in upfront cash.

There are also 17 other civs in this game.
If we ruin our rep, we can't trade easily except with those at war with the same civs we are.

[Addled Platypus]

its those small pesky details that I gota remember

thanks joncnunn