T112-T113:
As of this turn all my cities have foreign trade routes of +3 and on in my capital even has +4. Most trade routes are going towards pindicator or AT and the +4 trade route towards Mr. Cairo.
I've found pindicators borders and can see Superdeath across the sea. It looks to me like Superdeath might be in a similar situation like Jowy with only 2 land neighbors and ocean to his west.
Now here is my big surprise attack towards Mjmd, but first here is what I know. Mjmd has 2 spearman stationed in Cornbread and at least 1 axeman in his snow city. I will use my Great Spy to gather more intel on the border area before the war starts.
I plan to collect 6-8 Gallic Warriors with Guerilla II on red and my 3 chariots on blue. Those should be out of his view as FlyingBarbarian will pop borders again soon. I will start the war in the second half of the turn. In the beginning of the war all units will enter his border and cross the river. Next turn he can only move in units. Any whip will come to late. The plan is to raze the city.
After the raze the Gallic Warriors will use the hills again to move south. As an added bonus the won't produce supply costs for this one turn. They will cross the river to the south city to get a better angle for the attack. While they move south the chariots will move south too, but on their way they will try to cut any supply lines towards the south. They will be escorted by the Great Spy giving me enough info about any incoming units. Lastly I will use my galley (yellow) for the island city to transport 2 axes to the front. I will only move them to the yellow spot after the war started, so no reason to hide the units. I plan to keep this city.
The war will start sometime between T125 and T130. I don't want this to be a quick and short war, like a quick surgical operation. Of course a lot of this can change depending on what Mjmd does, what my Great Spy finds and what Jowy does on the east side.
You also might have some questions like these?
Why delay the Golden Age from the Great Spy?
One of my main purposes of the Golden Age aside from the better tile yields would be to start civic switchs. I will finish Monarchy soon after the Great Spy finishs and could switch into Hereditary Rule and Organized Religion. Now HR has the same cost as my current civic there, so the only benefit would be the happiness from HR. But with Monarchy I can connect Wine and I will also connect Fur around the same time, with those I don't need more happiness right after I get Monarchy.
Now OR would definitly be useful, but it also has some downsides. It has a higher civic cost, I plan to build more units for the war after Monarchy is done and I still need to spread Judaism to all my new cities that will benefit from the bonus the most. I think delaying OR won't be a big disadvantage for me.
As you can see I don't have the immediate need of these new civics. I also will settle more cities and would like to grow them more before starting the golden age. Lastly the other reason is that after Iron Working I want to go towards Feudalism and with it I want to do a big civic switch to Hereditary Rule, Vassalage, Serfdom and Organized Religion.
Why raze Cornbread?
Because it's just a bad city that increases my maintenance, will be swallowed by enemy culture and just stills more important tiles from FlyingBarbarian. Razing it also eases the border situation here.
Why keep the snow city?
It has fish and fur in its second ring. Now it mostly has Tundra tiles which sucks, but almost all of them are on a river, so I could build farms on them. With Serfdoms these tiles become 2/1/1 which is better than nothing. Now this city will be on flatland and harder to defend, but I would guess that any border situation down there is less tense. I would guess that Mjmd has another city down south there either 2S of the copper or 1S1SW of the copper to connect the whale. Depending on the outcome of the war I might even snipe that city.
