Ugh, please don't let me do any diplomacy for this team. They'll wipe us out just to cut off the endless stream of conciousness rambling and pictures of Matt Damon. I'll stop posting now.
Ya, I'm not sure I understand that one. If wanting a good agr/wheel civ, why not Egypt? If wanting synergy with an Org leader, then why not Mehmed first and any one of Sumeria/HRE/Aztec after.
That and with India and Inca gone, there's really no reason to go civ before leader. Sumeria is pretty good though, easily a top 5 civ if their start has grains. They're pretty late in the draft order though, so it's not that bad if they can get Mehmed on the way back. Not as bad as Ragnar with the first pick or Boudica with... any pick.
(August 15th, 2013, 22:26)suttree Wrote: Do you think this is evidence of poor play (IE they should have been tracking your knight stack with spies of their own) or evidence that spies are workable (IE resources are sufficiently scarce/tactical options are available to mask a gathering stack) ?
I see it as evidence that spies are workable.
They could have built more spies, but they would have needed really good coverage of our empire to find the tiles the knights were on the turn before we showed our hand. Since knights move 6 tiles at this point, we didn't even need them to be moved from their previous position, but still unrevealed, for more than one turn. And getting enough spies to have coverage that good is expensive, even if they didn't randomly die every now and then.
We, by comparison, only needed to have good coverage of a fraction of their empire for a single turn, in order to decided to go ahead with the attack.
I believe that spies' impact on removing the fog of war advantage from the defender is much greater than their impact in removing the fog of war advantage from the attacker.
Sadly I am going to be away from this Sunday, which is 18th of August till around after 1st of September. I think I won't have internet so no advice from me either...
Yeah, I'm not happy about my past behaviour either.
(August 16th, 2013, 01:34)suttree Wrote: Good post for reference. PB10 Spoiler
(August 15th, 2013, 22:33)SevenSpirits Wrote:
(August 15th, 2013, 22:26)suttree Wrote: Do you think this is evidence of poor play (IE they should have been tracking your knight stack with spies of their own) or evidence that spies are workable (IE resources are sufficiently scarce/tactical options are available to mask a gathering stack) ?
I see it as evidence that spies are workable.
They could have built more spies, but they would have needed really good coverage of our empire to find the tiles the knights were on the turn before we showed our hand. Since knights move 6 tiles at this point, we didn't even need them to be moved from their previous position, but still unrevealed, for more than one turn. And getting enough spies to have coverage that good is expensive, even if they didn't randomly die every now and then.
We, by comparison, only needed to have good coverage of a fraction of their empire for a single turn, in order to decided to go ahead with the attack.
I believe that spies' impact on removing the fog of war advantage from the defender is much greater than their impact in removing the fog of war advantage from the attacker.
Sure, the ony reasons i see to pick Sumeria now are: Vulture's early rush, and early espionaje points to use it against neighbors (passive missions), and after Alphabet, stole techs
(August 16th, 2013, 03:40)Kurumi Wrote: Sadly I am going to be away from this Sunday, which is 18th of August till around after 1st of September. I think I won't have internet so no advice from me either...
Good holidays, Kurumi, well deserved for sure
Any thoughts about city and characters naming?
of the draft
