We are at war

[FrustratedPoet]

Will we be able to see if the city currently known as 'Port Isolation' changes hands, so we can get some proof that Vox are really attacking GoW?

[alva]

We should be able to see that, yes.

I doubt the others are in it though, but what could be possible, is that the price Vox has to pay to get that BoBvox city back, is to attack us.

Even that doesn't make sence (at least not from Vox's POW, but, that hasn't stopped them before)

[FrustratedPoet]

I suppose we can assume that this turn Vox landed a stack of Spears and Immortals on the hill 3 of Port Isolation. If they don't capture the city next turn then we will have to start getting very suspicious.

[nbarclay]

I can see it now: GoW to Vox - "We'll give you back your city if you attack Gathering Storm." And thinking, "And once that happens, we'll move in when we get Riders and take the land from both of those civs." But that's just paranoia - isn't it?

[alva]

Damn, we can't even set our ambassy to good use, to see what's happening in the rest of the world. (Although in MP, that could still be 'technical' ).
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GoW will still need iron (ND?).
But they would set the door wide open to ND (let Gow get some units to our continent, cut the iron supply....)

[alva]

Should we go looking for 'non-attack-treaties' with other teams?

[Shiber]

If noone objects, I'll try to ask any members of GoW that I come across for a screenshot of the Voxian invasion force. We'll see what we can make of their reaction to this.
Btw, now that we have a trade route with GoW, perhaps we should start a harbor in one of the coastal cities where we don't have a barracks and don't intend to build one in the near future? GoW said that they are interested in having iron, if only for just one turn (where the turn afterwards they would cancel the trade by declaring war and then signing peace). Surely they would pay a significant amount of gold for this, as we are their only choice - no iron in the islands that they've scouted, no trade route with RP (they need to build a harbor in Barcelona, and only then they can trade), trade with Lego still isn't possible technologically and ND is certainly not an optional supplier.
Btw2, I'm SO glad that we decided to build Monsoon away from the mountains! Whew!!

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by alva
Should we go looking for 'non-attack-treaties' with other teams?

I don't think they would be worth the paper they're written on.

[Arrian]

Ok, we need to get the spears we do have up on the mountains ASAP. We need to recall the WC in the western desert. We need to shut off research and upgrade all warriors we can.

Then we whittle them down while building up our forces.

-Arrian

[asleepathewheel]

They landed two immortals to the west. Whats that about? Take out the lone warrior there? They could have done a lot more damage on the interior of the country.

[nbarclay]

They're probably looking at our warrior and seeing a swordsman, the same as I am.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by nbarclay
They're probably looking at our warrior and seeing a swordsman, the same as I am.

good point, but I would think the extra 5 turns to get those immortals to a city would hurt them more. They could potentially take and burn a city in that time. Now we have turns to build a defense and counter-strike that will be waiting for them when they move south. Granted, they don't know what we have south and don't know where to attack, so I suppose securing the north is an understandable first priority for them.



Is there a direct road through the jungle to the north, or are we going to have to take dissville with swords and then build new roads?

[Aeson]

Has there been any diplomatic contact with Vox?

[nbarclay]

No diplomatic contact that I'm aware of.

With Grog dead, we have no way of knowing the status of the road between Dissidentville and the rest of Vox's empire. If they play it smart, they'll leave the road while they're on the offensive but be ready to pillage it if the tide turns against them.

[Aeson]

Let's get both Spears in Arashi, ready to move up onto the Mountain 9 if Necessary. Put 2 reg Warriors up on the Mountains by Hurricane to stop landings (reg Warriors do this as well as anyone).

Only upgrade the Vet Warriors for now. We have enough warning to get the others in place before we'd need them.

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This probably will work out about as good as we could have hoped for. There were some diplomatic problems with declaring war ourselves, this leaves us no blemish on our honor.

When Hurricane finishes the Pyramids, it could beat Vox by itself I'm afraid (once we get to Feudalism). They are really invading us with their infrastructure looking like that? 3 size 4 cities... I think the military advisor has hoodwinked them.

For now let's just hold back, and force everything off the mountains coming towards Arashi (Spears or Swords fortified on a mountain are 4.5 defense). Switch Bolderberg or Tornado to a Spear. Then use WC's to clean up anything that drops down into the flat. All our WC's should be in Arashi for now.