Strategy

[ThePlagueRat]

Well, I told them I got so fascinated by the roleplay, intrigues, characters, etc.
(gave them info about imaginatory things, mostly spam)

And said that I wouldn't leave such a group.....


Here is how Mescelic responded:

Fair enough I wouldn't want you to be labeled as a potential security breach for them, so you don't need to say anymore.

I'll say this much, though. I'm jealous of all you Roleplayers who get to create such fascinating and imaginative stories. I'm gonna have to start convincing my teammates on the GS to roleplay more...

(edit)

Yeah... I'd like to be our ambassador at GS.
I can work on my role as a naive puppet perhaps?

Calming them down with my roleplay-related political statements... while the real-politics stays within here!

[mrmitchell]

Originally posted by Togas
Keep us informed about if they make any other offers to you. My first inclination was to ask you to serve as a spy for us, but then my conscious flared up and whacked me on the head and made me think otherwise.

My first inclination would make the Apolyton cuss-word checker explode.

However, a spy idea sounds okay, except they will figure it out sooner or later,

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Togas


my conscious ....

--Togas

Save it as much as you can. From what I have seen, I am not sure there are many others in the team ...

[Ninot]

Originally posted by DAVOUT



Save it as much as you can. From what I have seen, I am not sure there are many others in the team ...

What was that supposed to mean? ANOTHER line against your teamates?

[RP] Hunter Davout, me not like you talk-talk! Me whack you good! [/RP]

[ThePlagueRat]

[RP] Scavenger Ninot, me DO like you whack-whack style.
Wanna armwrestle? Me whack your hand off... [/RP]


Theoretically, how could we ever spy on other groups?
I certainly won't be active spying on anyone...
Passively, we can perhaps gather clues and info about them?

[Ninot]

Honestly, I would hope we can set up a honor system with the other teams

keep espionage to what the game system allows.

I dont think breaking into forums is very nice.

[pikesfan]

I dont think breaking into forums is very nice.

[RP] After break in, say, “Perdon, señores” and give courtly Spanish bow. That nice. [/RP]

[mrmitchell]

I could not be a spy.

1) I couldn't keep a secret if my very life depended on it.
2) [rp] Spam like system, honor-like. [/rp]

Despite the fact that spies are a part of real world, no one wishes to simulate them (yet everyone probably plots to use them, ack :P )

[History Guy]

Hah! Pff! (Sorry, that was me tripping over Gastronome again...the little twit.)

I think that for now, we only have one really potentially troublesome civilization that we have to be on the alert for from the start. That is, of course, the Celtic civilization of warmongers. I have heard wild tales from over the mountains that they see we Iberians and Visigoths as fools and cowards, and worth nothing to humanity, and ripe for conquest. They envy, so it seems, the lucrative squid trade, and they also envy our Alphabet, which is the most stunningly amazing in the world, allowing us to overcome the "Me Grog. Grog hungry, Grog want canned soup. Grog not invented can opener. Grog not even invented can" syndrome of just about everyone else. I suggest we be on the lookout, as I have heard that they can run as swift as a stallion in battle. We must be prepared to fight them, and destroy them if necessary. They can not be allowed to grow strong, but they must be contained.

Hernan de History Guy Calamari

[Ninot]

History guy raises a point i forgot

we must keep into account that we may be a target for the warmongerers

we are just as juicy as the builders, as far as outward appearance.......


also, another thing that JUST came into mind


What about teams (maybe including us....) picking opponents based on their team members (like GS).

lets take for example, a war between Lux and GS. if GS COMPLETELY destroys Lux... there are alot of very talented Lux members looking for a new team.

This might factor into strategies and targets for any team. We should keep it in mind... players may be targets as well as their nation.

[ruby_maser]

Originally posted by History Guy I think that for now, we only have one really potentially troublesome civilization that we have to be on the alert for from the start. That is, of course, the Celtic civilization of warmongers. I suggest we be on the lookout, as I have heard that they can run as swift as a stallion in battle.

I, too, have heard of these souped-up leprechauns, but my clairvoyance suggests we will not see many for I have heard it shall cost at least one pot of gold at the end of a rainbow to acquire the services of just one of their legions.

but I foresee many things and half of them are wrong, ahh well

-el_ruby_maser
clairvoyant, half-witted cactus-farmer extraordinaire

[History Guy]

I agree with Ninot. This could be, and I think will be, a problem. Our civilization must keep from this, above all things. It is, I fear, folly. There is no other civilization than the warmongers who must be destroyed, therefore we should not seek war with these chaps.

Also, the warmongers are, as I stress, looking for war, and that is why they have chosen the Celts. They will be going after civilizations which appear to be threatening to their power first, big, wealthy, juicy civilizations. Civilizations like Carthage...or Spain. I fear we may be fighting Gallic Swordsmen in future times.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by History Guy
I agree with Ninot. This could be, and I think will be, a problem. Our civilization must keep from this, above all things. It is, I fear, folly. There is no other civilization than the warmongers who must be destroyed, therefore we should not seek war with these chaps.

Also, the warmongers are, as I stress, looking for war, and that is why they have chosen the Celts. They will be going after civilizations which appear to be threatening to their power first, big, wealthy, juicy civilizations. Civilizations like Carthage...or Spain. I fear we may be fighting Gallic Swordsmen in future times.

WE must not start a war now. We should let them start the first war, and be prepared to crush them when we do.

And, to make a point, I think our civ should shy away from COMPLETELY overconquering a civ, and leave them a city, to keep them in a game as a show of goodwill.

[Arnelos]

Concerning whether we are a target of the warmongering Celts:

TYPICAL! The Celts have long been a nuisance to we, the glorious Visigoths. Our nomadic ancestors long fought (though also inter-bred) with those vile Celts... According to our oral traditions, they've been a nuisance since the dawn of time! It should only be expected that they have ill will toward us, for afterall we are the future - the enlightened ones who will one day rule the world... they, they are the past, ones who will forever be stuck speaking as imbeciles incapable of using our more civilized alphabet.

We should rid the world of these barbarians at the soonest opportunity and rule them ourselves, that we may civilize them. Otherwise, they will wallow in their own filth for millennia to come...

Indeed, we should watch the barbarian Celts very closely.

As for other civilizations, the Carthaginians seem friendly enough and we hope to have a very productive relationship with them.

The exotic and likely far-off Ottomans must be watched carefully... they do not share many of our values and I have a suspicion that their beliefs will be greatly divergent from our own in the long-run... something that should be of great import to us. However, they may indeed make for a sound strategic ally against the dangerous "Gathering Storm", as Governor Ninot suggests.

In the end, however, only time will tell. We know so little about our world and the civilizations that may be nearest or farthest from us.

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As for preparing for war, I hear from our friends in the city of Carthage that they have the capability to use their famed masons' skills to build defensive barriers for their towns called "city walls". Perhaps we could learn this skill ourselves and place such city walls around each of our newly formed towns - that would make them significantly harder to attack for the fearsome Celts.

[ruby_maser]

Originally posted by Arnelos
As for preparing for war, I hear from our friends in the city of Carthage that they have the capability to use their famed masons' skills to build defensive barriers for their towns called "city walls". Perhaps we could learn this skill ourselves and place such city walls around each of our newly formed towns - that would make them significantly harder to attack for the fearsome Celts.

I believe we should look to building cities on hills early on. Though I hope we trade techs with the Carthaginians early, I think that (barring a starting position that precludes us doing so efficiently) we should make us of the free defensive bonus of this terrain and minimize walls to cities that could not be so well-positioned.