Our spies report that Persia has acsess to Iron

[E_T]

Originally posted by kring
We need to figure out where the Iron is coming from to block it. Has anyone used Cntrl Shift M to see the uncluttered map and compare Iron sources within Persian territory?

You can trade away your last/only source of any resource; I have done it several times myself. I doubt the AI would be willing to do the same thing, though.

Also, my understanding is that Anarchy is a random number instead of a specific number, lasting 4-8 turns IIRC. At least, the games I have played, the number of turns varied, even within the same game.

See Part 3 of 4 of my Detailed Report in this threadhttp://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=62238

E_T

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by kring
Also, my understanding is that Anarchy is a random number instead of a specific number, lasting 4-8 turns IIRC. At least, the games I have played, the number of turns varied, even within the same game.

You are correct, for the human player (not us in this game as we are a religious civ). However, for the AI on emperor it is a random number between 1 and 3 (1 and 2 for Diety etc...)

[kring]

I checked out your report. Then, I checked out the map using Control Shift M. The reason I asked for a Control Shift M was because it would show the resources available to each civ. I would encourage more people to use such a trick in situations like this. Because:


The English only have one source of Iron, connected; the Germans have two, both connected. Persia has none; there is an unconnected one outside their borders.

The English probably aren't trading any Iron to Persia, unless they are trading their only source of it, which I seriously don't believe, and the advisor shows they have Swordsman so they have been using their only source of iron. I don't know if they (Persia) are getting it from Germany or not, but they are getting it from someone somehow.

[Donegeal]

They must be getting it from Germany.

Would someone please post a screen shot showing possible trade routes of England? If England can trade with Germany in any way shape or form, that will be how Persia is getting the Iron.

[kring]

I didn't notice a connection between Germany and England (I could have missed it), but it is late so I am off to sleep. It is indeed puzzling to me how Persia is doing it.

[BigFurryMonster]

A more detailed discussion of the Persians' access to Iron can be found here .