Turn 108, 410 BC

[DeepO]

Another question: did we rush a temple in Monsoon? if not, we should do that as first priority. Otherwise, rushing the rest of the cat there might be helpful, which could be loaded, together with a worker, on a ship towards Inchon. A worker there could help in e.g. building a road on the hill towards Elipolis, or for simply taunting Vox. Nothing says "we're here to stay" as starting to farm the land

DeepO

[nbarclay]

We did indeed rush a temple in Monsoon. As I recall, we did it a turn, maybe two, after the Sandstorm temple.

It looks like I goofed in not preparing units to load on the new galley. I can think of three options:

1) Delay a turn and load a combination of some or all of MedInfs, pikes, and the new cat we're scheduled to build in Tempest.

2) Load a pair of WCs on it. That raises the question of whether to load regulars, elites, or one of each.

3) Rush a cat in Monsoon and load that and a WC. I don't much like that option, though, because we'd be throwing away four shields (assuming I remember the city's current production level correctly).

I can't see throwing away transport capacity on a worker at this stage. We don't have the pikes there to split our forces to protect a worker.

[DeepO]

Option 4: delay loading anything this turn, and working towards setting everything up for a good galley chain. We don't lose any units on that

Worker: might be a bad idea, but I think it would certainly send a message to Vox. We should consider that in a couple of turns anyway, so as long as we don't have a good option to fill the galley, we could use it as filler. In a couple of turns, we might not want to divert capacity, while now we would be virtually losing it (and a worker doesn't help us much in our core if we aren't planning on roading the spines soon)

DeepO

[DeepO]

BTW, the timing on that second temple is again superb
I wish I would have been more around the past few weeks

DeepO

[Theseus]

Jesu Christo!!

I spend a coupla days obsessed with AU208, and everybody shows up here!!

[nbarclay]

A galley chain would provide safety from marauding Voxian galleys (if they can come up with any), but would slow down our sustainable reinforcement rate by about 20%. For the galley chain to work, at least the Monsoon end would require galleys to actually enter the city, whereas with conventional transport, there would be no point to picking up units in the city proper. On the drop-off end, either way, ships could enter the city or not as the situation dictates. But because a galley chain is calibrated for moving units a particular distance, it would have less flexibility to move into Inchon when we need units to land and move the same turn but avoid the wasted movement when it doesn't matter. My inclination is to deliver the first couple waves of reinforcements conventionally and then set up a chain.

[Arrian]

Let's get a couple of WCs up there.

-Arrian

[Shiber]

Now that Vox has a harbor in Wittlich, they can build vet galleys.
I'd sleep well if we devote one galley to holding position on a sea tile bit little northwest of Inchon (e.g. Eliopolis-44), to give us a bit of warning ahead so that Vox can't attack our galleys while they're carrying cargo.