About GoW, Lux and ND

[jdjdjd]

I had the thought in another thread. ND and Lux may not have a military alliance against GW, but perhaps they have agreed to a REX strategy to seal off GW in the North.

I also bring this up, we have reached the West Coast, and it is not too far off from Madrid. The piece of land that is South of the Jungle where E_T proposed cities 5 & 6 (South of the Neu Dem capitol), may be not too big, but most importantly to us, uninhabited by any other civ. There may be more land on this map in the North west of Legoland, perhaps this continent has two pieces connected at or around Lego. Or there is a second continent to Lego's west, which contains our missing civs, VC and GS.

Obviously, there is still too much to speculate on. My point is, while we do not want any of the three to get too large or powerful, our joining any war could do us more harm than good. We may do best by staying neutral and concentrating on building our own defenses and REX into the South West and also in the SouthEast - to keep Lux from expanding into it - than to get into a messy alliance with GW.

[jdjdjd]

You know, I just checked the merged minimaps again, and given we did hit the Western Ocean as did ND, I don't think we are on the same continent Lego. Which may mean Lego is with GS, and we are with the rest (assuming VC is on the NE corner of the map.) Or VC could be on the other continent.

How does that help us ? I don't know it just means sealing off the South from others is vital.

[GodKing]

If they gang up, then I say we pick on one that will benifit us the most and sneak attack from the rear - just pillaging and taking of workers, any undefended cities they may have, so on and so forth. Nothing searious, but a general weakening of their infrastructure so as to let GOW get some breathing room..... and net us a worker or two if possible. I don't propose all out war as REX is to important at this stage.

[Thrumble]

Originally posted by GodKing
If they gang up, then I say we pick on one that will benifit us the most and sneak attack from the rear - just pillaging and taking of workers, any undefended cities they may have, so on and so forth. Nothing searious, but a general weakening of their infrastructure so as to let GOW get some breathing room..... and net us a worker or two if possible. I don't propose all out war as REX is to important at this stage.

That's a good idea, no one is going to want to gear up for a full scale war at this stage, especially not at the risk of losing territory to GoW.

ND is far enough away through the jungle that we could be at war and do guerilla actions without worrying about them coming after us. GoW would appear to be the easier target and an alliance with GoW could end up directing the brunt of ND's offensive might their direction and not ours.

Note that our goal is not to take or sack ND, simply tie them up while we settle the south. This tactic would tie some of GoW and ND's resources into fighting each other and guarding settlers/new cities thus slowing down their REXing.

[mrmitchell]

Hrm...

As confusing as this all is, I'm trying to make a map of the feelings of each team to another. I mean, like the Foreign Advisor screen in Civ, but with different things to point out. I hope it helps. :P

[mrmitchell]

NEWSUPDATE:

Just got the thing done. (Didn't take long )

However, do we still have the problem of "cant attach images in private forum"?
If so, I can just email it to all of you (it's only 14KB) but if someone can post it on their website, mucho gracias.

And BTW, it really sucks now. I'm guessing it will get better.

[Hot Mustard]

Originally posted by mrmitchell
NEWSUPDATE:

Just got the thing done. (Didn't take long )

However, do we still have the problem of "cant attach images in private forum"?
If so, I can just email it to all of you (it's only 14KB) but if someone can post it on their website, mucho gracias.

And BTW, it really sucks now. I'm guessing it will get better.

mrmitchell - I would be happy to host your image. Email it to me (dejon@rogers.com), and I'll email you back the IMG tag to use in a post.

[Thud]

Posted By Togas in Diplomacy Thread:

Message from Ghengis Farb:
quote:


We have one hugging the east side of Demogyptia's
borders also so either we'll meet in the East or the
West.

I am assuming you are researching Writing.

We are researching Horseback Riding if you let us know
what you are researching we may be able to lock a
trade in for the techs we are currently researching
with the following clause:

We won't trade the tech you traded us if you don't
trade the tech we trade you. This will give each of
us full control over the tech we researched.

Lux apparently had ND break a land agreement with them
and isn't too happy with ND right now.




I told him that this was a wonderful idea and that he should have his ambassador contact adaMada immediately to begin to work out the details.

I love how Lux and GoW are talking poorly about ND, and ND is talking poorly about GoW. It's going to be interesting up there in the future.

--Togas

I don't think this bodes well for ND. Apparantly they've been making a few enemies. I smell a great war brewing. Further, if we decide to have a de facto alliance with GoW... 3 civs to one is truly outnumbered. Of course, we could always sign with ND, but again it all depends on their location and strength.

[GeneralTacticus]

From what we've heard about ND from the others, I would think that we should join in against them, rather than supporting them - if they really did geta settler from a goody hut, it would be a good idea to cut them down to size, as long as we can be assured of non-interference - and if the others are trying to do the same thing, then we can be assured of that.

[Thrumble]

A quick question:

Do we have the "restart Civ" ability on? If one team was wiped out early would it restart somewhere else?

[E_T]

The best thing is to try to play them off on each other. With ND making big waves up north, they are likely to have to deal with both GoW & Lux. The things is, they will have to watch there backsides, because we are there (although, on the other side of a Jungle).

With our Non-Agression Pacts that we have (or are getting) with the others, we can sit back and watch the fun, while the others duke it out. This will also make them fairly weak & allow us to get properly strong.

Pride cometh before the Fall, and so far, ND is being very Prideful.

E_T