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Go to war with Riders?
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| No, we should wait for Cav |
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| I don't know |
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Sharpe
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Ontario
May 1999
time: 00:17
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I am also very worried about the other continent - absolutely - especially as it appears that they are aiding LL with tech and are undoubtedly coming to our continent for iron, especially after they get Cavalry.
Depending on the situation, they will prefer Caravels for the additional transport, but I wouldn't be surprised if they came with galleys instead - especially if we gained a swift victory over LL - they might feel the need to go against us earlier to prevent us from getting too strong - and to get some dyes and their necessary iron.
Here is my suggestion - we start a partial mobilization by concentrating at least 50-75% of our main cities on building mostly Riders and some other military units for at least 5-8 turns and we start gathering our forces at designated attack start-off points (admittedly we only have a general idea, but we are going to need that long to gather together the rest of our attack force).
Have our more corrupt cities work on courthouses and try to rotate 1-2 of our cities at a time working on marketplaces and libraries so that we have them in place if we are isolated.
During the latter part of that 5-8 turn period, we check whether LL has gunpowder yet - if they do, we will need Cavalry.
If not, we might want to consider spending some money to establish an embassy and investigate some of the key strategic cities (admittedly it doesn't work if they have the units outside the cities though).
In the meanwhile, we also work on getting towards Military Tradition - we know that the other continent will absolutely be striving for it as their first priority and will be working together on it, so we should get involved (and perhaps understate our research/gpt situation  or volunteer to research Chemistry and then set our slider where WE want it so as to maximize research plus gpt) so that we at least match the other continent in getting it at the same time.
If LL somehow manages to keep up in tech, their conspiracy will be more and more obvious as we approach Mil Tradition. Regardless, we can then start the attack just before we get Mil Tradition by cutting off LL's horse - no horse no Cavalry upgrades right? It would be better if we can manage to be the one that actually researches Mil Tradition, but unless we do that on our own it isn't likely... 
My major concerns with LL are: will they try to catch up with us in military strength (admittedly they are probably hiding some of their strength via warriors & horsemen to be upgraded like we are) and whether they will complete their FP (likely in Lolita) before we attack and what wonder are they actually working on in their capital and will it be complete before we attack?
Sorry for the lengthy long-winded response, you can all now wake up from when you fell asleep during the 2nd paragraph...
EDIT when I saw UnO's response: Actually I favor getting as many Riders as we can to their core landmass - preferably 15 Riders or more!
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