How to take on Vox (the initial stage 1)

[alva]

How are we going to do this? Are we going try to take the initiative imediately, or go defensive for a while.
They don't seem to have many units close yet, but that could change quickly of course.

We don't have all that many units yet either, and IMO, certainlly not enough, to go on offensive, so that doesn't leave us with much choice, does it.

However, will we lure them into our (culture) territory, or take them on, on neutral terrain..


Any thoughts....
(or plain battle plans will do too )

[Shiber]

I'd rather take them out in the open, if we can. The less of our territory that they can see (and later sell in the form of maps to other teams), the better.

Regarding the question of whether we should fight a defensive war for a while or eliminate the invasion force and then proceed to assault their cities immediately, this depends greatly on what the future holds. Hot_Enamel told me that GoW wouldn't like to invade Vox because their horsemen would be slaughtered; if what he says is true, and if RP and ND both realize that they'd be at a great disadvantage on Vox's homeland, where immortals will be able to attack them quickly (more likely before they can attack any Voxian units/cities themselves), and decide not to invade Vox, then I'd suggest that we hold off our counter-assault on Vox until we've got knights.
However, if it turns out that Vox's homeland is at risk of being taken by Bobians, then we'd have to rush to grab it before anyone else does.

Btw, let's see a GS veteran spearman on the iron mountain near Dissidentville!

[Arrian]

We HAVE to be defensive right now. We simply don't have enough troops to attack them.

We upgrade all the warriors we can, we use our WCs, and we use our GA to build a whole helluva lot more.

-Arrian