06-02-2003 20:42									#1
	How to deal with the possibility of ND settler on its way... Support Apolyton

I'm posting this here for more feedback....
I wanted to post a jpeg of the proposal but it will have to wait until later. I'm currently at work



....Well, I ran a scenario and found that it is possible for the fog to look the way it does according to my earlier post.

A unit positioned atop the mountain NW of the one which contains the gold resource would have created the pattern we are seeing.

It means they probably have not scouted that area yet after all.

However, I took a look at the horse resource too, and could not see it in the blow up just as ET couldn't. They could be concealing a unit that is currently on that tile. The fact that they positioned the text right over the top of it could have been done to try to cover their tracks. If this were true, they are only six turns away from their specified location in their proposal, seven away from actually founding the city.

Now, who precedes who in turns for the save? If they we precede them, we can have the jump on them in that they will enter our line of sight when it is still our turn to move.

We could conceivably attempt to cut them off/delay them with the spearman from Saragossa, reinforce Sargossa with the spear that will be escorting the settlers from Pamplona, and have the spearman and settler rendevous at the new city site.

Another possibility is that we could do this is conjunction with help from.... GoW

Bare with me. We could offer to sell GoW Writing for less than the alloted 60 gold in order to enlist their services in forming a wall with the spear from Saragossa that a potential ND settler could not get around.

GoW could not be told the purpose of their mission, only that we would be willing to knock off such-and-such gold from the deal if they would be willing to take their western-most warrior and beeline for "X" tile.

We then proceed to move the spear out of Saragossa to be directly beside them at the appropriate point in time. And the settler from Pamplona (and maybe the warrior south of GoW's warrior) follow up behind. Also, the spear out of Pamplona instead go to Saragossa to garrison the city. It would only be undefended briefly.

	06-02-2003 21:01									#2
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Thanks to the clever trick señor dejon has played in the main forum it seems that we will have an extra day to deal with that

I honestly don't believe that they have this area unexplored. Specially because they have these scout units. They are clearly hiding something from us. Units? Resources? Who knows.

Personally I wouldn't like to feed GoW with anything (gold, techs, permission to go to war against ND) unless we really got a high benefit from that. Of course if that benefits our interest let's do that then, but keep in mind that if GoW get too powerful eventually they will try to attack us.

Anyway, if finally we decide to hire GoW services, we must be sure before that they have enough units to do their mission.

	06-02-2003 21:49									#3
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IMHO, adding GoW into the problem we have with ND would just make it more difficult.

	06-02-2003 23:36									#4
	Picture of the FU - ND plan :) Put an end to popups!

This would be a picture of the proposed plan if Glory of War were involved. This does not include a timeline for when units would have to leave, etc. I post it anyway, in hopes that I can get images to work

Forgive the image quality...

Alright, I'll show you. The link to the page is here

Last edited by ruby_maser on 07-02-2003 at 00:30

	07-02-2003 00:03									#5
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*bump*

I have included a hyperlink to a jpeg of the plan in the last post since the image would not be so kind post on its own