The worker thread

[regoarrarr]

Do we want to spend any time chopping the forest 1S of Cape Town? Or just start on those roads right away?

[sooooo]

Well, we are currently working that tile. If we chop it we would have to work the lake tile and lose 1 (doubled) hammer. But if the mp experts suggest we need to then I guess we need to.

[sunrise089]

Against any sort of competent enemy, IF WE HAVE CATS (or large numbers of superior units, or lots of horse archers), I highly suggest we kill that forest. Forests are big problems in MP for two reasons: 1) they block early chokes (we're past this stage) and 2) they prevent the enemy from parking their stack with cats in the forest and knocking down our defenses under defensive cover.

If we don't have the units to attack out of our city (meaning we can hold the city easily, but won't have odds on their units in the open) then the forest chop isn't as important. I think we should still chop it though.