OFFICIAL: When to attack Wels?

[Pedrunn]

I do believe our next target should be the austria city of Wels found at the north of our empire!

We have never seen it and we only know about it because of information from German maps. But i do believe it is a city size 3-5 not very wel defended (max of 5 units defense).

So whe should we attack it?

- Now! The sooner the better!
- After having a good defense in our cities!
- Dont attack Wels but some other city
- Dont attack the Austrians anymore! End War.

What do you think?

[H Tower]

what kind/size of army do we have to attack with?

[MrBaggins]

9 units... 5 Hoplites and 4 Archers. The city site that Wels sits on is poor enough to guarantee that it will be a slaughter.

MrBaggins

[H Tower]

if it's a poor city site, shouldn't we burn it to the ground if we capture it?

[MrBaggins]

If its size 2 when we attack it, its size 1 when we occupy it.

We can disband it the same turn, and get a Settler: 10,000 people, plus 740 shields of production. Its a worthwhile payoff.

[H Tower]

pedrunn says it's a size 3-5 though. what then?

[MrBaggins]

There is only one tile that the AI might have terraformed for growth. That tile is the grassland to the NE. Without extra farming tile improvements, the city has very poor growth characteristics. It was founded after Pressburg and Innsbruck.

Its a size 2-3 tops... based on the growth spreadsheet projections. If its a size 3, which would be a size 2 when we conquered it, then I'd consider building and rushing a settler, before disbanding it, if viable, so we'd get 2 settlers out of the deal.

MrBaggins

[miggio]

i agree with Mr Baggins, we should take it and sack it. It doesnt look too mush trouble, since we are currently consolidating our defenses at Graz and Htown. We have the 9 stack to hit wels, If we didnt have to worry about our defenses then i would say attack somewhere else but, we do so attack the easy target of wels.

Although I would like to see us take cities like Lins and Innsbrook, but we just dont have the forces yet.

[Martin Gühmann]

Originally posted by miggio
Although I would like to see us take cities like Lins and Innsbrook, but we just dont have the forces yet.

We already took Innsbruck and called it H Town.

-Martin

[HuangShang]

we could take that city easily