Turnplayer Thread #3

[ruff_hi]

Which way would I go if I was Imperio? I would be tempted to take the black route as it would cut off Cape Town from road based reinforcements and I might be able to position myself in that forest. However, it would leave a counter attack option open for Cape Town units to sally against my Northern cities.

[sooooo]

The one wildcard is boxed in blue: there is an Imperio worker building a road in the middle of the desert to nowhere. That is, nowhere except right into Templar territory! If Imperio's stack moves W/SW next turn, then they're likely planning a move against Templars. That would be wonderful for us, but seems unlikely.

What if they are sending a stack through Templars to attack us?

[regoarrarr]

What if they are sending a stack through Templars to attack us?

That was my thought too....

[T-hawk]

A Spy could prove very valuable for spotting enemy units around the borders, especially if he could do step-in-step-out tactics to end each turn within our own or neutral territory. And Engineering makes that trick that much better.

[Swiss Pauli]

Another option for the Imperio desert road is that it will head West just south of the two mountains and run up to our borders, so they can have their units in the fog, and attack Cape Town from the two-tile SE axis.

Also, maybe we should send the HA to check whether Templars have added a road into the forest 1 NW of Jericho to facilitate a move into our lands.

[sooooo]

Another idea: At Cape Town, instead of chopping the forest and farming the grass 1SE, we could just have both workers start a farm on the forest tile. The forest will still be chopped by the time Imperio arrive and it is more efficient in worker turns methinks.

[mostly-harmless]

A Spy could prove very valuable for spotting enemy units around the borders, especially if he could do step-in-step-out tactics to end each turn within our own or neutral territory. And Engineering makes that trick that much better.

We can use our chariots for this as well. At the moment I would prefer us to be visible. Deterrence.

If we have to fear another spy attempt at Cape Town, maybe we should keep both workers up there. The Banana iron won't last for ever.

mh

[sooooo]

I'm undecided about the spy issue. The chariots are good for now but won't work when or if war is declared. If we want one then now is the time to speak out since something fishy has some good whip overflow and can build one if we swap this turn.

[Swiss Pauli]

Seeing as we have good line of sight into Imperio's lands, the area where a Spy would be useful for an in-and-out would be around Jericho, but that is only possible if there's a road for him to use. So I say wait for now.

[Swiss Pauli]

We have a guest:



There are no other units under the Holkan, either. I guess Imperio doesn't have line of sight into Cape Town, and is checking out what they'd be up against.

[Kylearan]

Hi,

interesting...but why is the chariot on that tile? It could have seen Cape Town's defenders from 1NE from Cape town and move back into their borders, without us having noticed. Or didn't they know the tiles behind Cape Town?!?

I'm almost looking forward to that war...

-Kylearan

[mostly-harmless]

Double Post.

[mostly-harmless]

Thats weird, especially as their spy already scouted those tiles a few turns ago (pillaging our copper). Maybe they think by having a unit on top of it, the chances their 2nd spy gets caught are smaller???

Or they do what I suggested we do, moving units to our northern border, where they can open a second front, once war is declared.

Or they are just plain clumsy.

I other news:
PAL and Banana traded Philosophy for Compass. Clearly Banana's Calendar goes PAL's way as well to even out the beakers. Harbors together with GreatLighthouse trade routes would be a strong move for PAL.

mh

[Swiss Pauli]

Imperio are probably a bit suspicious about our roading of the tile to get access to Chichen Itza, and so they want to be sure we haven't moved in a bunch of unit to Cape Town from the fog.

[mostly-harmless]

There is a (tiny) decision to make about the galley. Do we want to move into PALs water? That would give us line of sight into one of their cities. But it would be a violation of the no scouting rule.
I am in favor of doing so.

mh