Ministry of Imperial Expansion Potential Crisis

GhengisFarb™ · September 17, 2002, 22:16

My first official thread!

Okay, here's the deal England's sending a spear and settler to claim New Sidon (their currently passing the Tyre Concentration Camp for Miseducated Persians (TCCMP)). We need to get a settler there ASAP.

BigFurryMonster · September 18, 2002, 03:15

Ouch. That's a very old map you're using :-)

adaMada · September 18, 2002, 06:48

IIRC, that was the current map when Ghengis originally proposed it and drew the map up, which was a little while ago...

-- adaMada

GhengisFarb™ · September 18, 2002, 07:53

Yeah I noticed the British invaders when I first opened the save and wanted to bring this up immediately but Aro needs time to rdo the map.

Reddawg · September 18, 2002, 08:31

I've found in my games that it is very possible to stall settlement motions by foreign civs. If a unit can be detached, preferably a horseman or war chariot (for it's movement points) it can harry them in their path. The AI will not settle on certain land squares and as such you can delay the settlement or perhaps permanently forestall it (they eventually give up). The more units that can block it the better, altho I realize we're hard pressed with units already (stretched a bit thin).

Aro · September 18, 2002, 10:41

The new map is in my site, http://www.arociv.com/Maps.html .
There's a new map of Uber Isle, too.

Aggie · September 18, 2002, 11:18

Since it appears the germans have no great desire to resettlemunick, could we use that settler to settle new sidon. Just an idea.
Aggie

GhengisFarb™ · September 18, 2002, 18:11

We'd still have to make another settler and move it out to New Munich.

And that's assuming he'd get there. Our settlers are the dumbest and laziest beings in the history of all 3 versions of Civilization! They refuse to move, sometimes spending 3-5 turns sitting in a city and not going where they were supposed to.

The settler for New Munich had two sets of identical written instructions and two pictures with arrows in case the moron couldn't read AND IT STILL WENT TO THE WRONG TILE.

Aggie · September 18, 2002, 19:21

The thing is all but one of those dyes near munich will be in are territory soon so I am unsure if we even need that settler, since the germans don't seem interested(though i wonder if the english could be)though the one from loveshack could fill the bill if necessary once loveshack gets to 3 we can rush, actually we won't have to rush we can time it to be built at the same time as the city gets to 3 cool. We could bring the other dyes online until that city is built. Also I can move units to slow him down.
Aggie

GhengisFarb™ · September 18, 2002, 19:29

What do you have against cities? We have to build cities to play the game. If you don't want cities why are we taking the Persian cities?

E_T · September 19, 2002, 18:08

We can block him from getting to the New Sidon Location (that will require some of our troops). But the real thing that needs to concern us is: As soon as Tyre is abandond to build New Tyre, they will build where ever they are at.

We need to have a Settler on the New Tyre location when we abandon Tyre! This will prevent them from building where ever they will be at.

Actually, I think that the location of New Tyre should be exactly where the English Settler is currently located. It will be less impact on other cities. It will be on a river, so we won't have to build an Aquaduct. And have more access to more potential farmlands, so to feed the mine workers that we'll employ (8 vs 7).

E_T

[EDIT]: I see in GF's plan that he's already set the New Tyre Site to what I had origially posted.

P.S. We should rename New Tyre to Aggoplis!