I am not sure whether it means they can just squish our ships, but it seems that they at least have a shot at developing ramming if we war.
Oh you completely misread that.
Fast galleys, aka the Cutter design, are a Speed Speed Size model, which while capable of capsizing smaller ships(like the pre-docks vessels and possibly our Outriggers), not suited to ramming equal sized vessels or larger vessels(like our longships) until they develop true rams.
Rams are relatively poor options for sinking longships however. The construction is better at impact resistance, though again, it won't show up yet.
Basically yes they can just run over our fishing boats, but not our longships. For those they do boarding actions
4. We'd need both though. ~20 years (one turn) of intermittent siege is a lot, especially for freshly-placed colony.
Like...yes, they key is getting to break the blockade before they grind down RB. While also paying attention to nomads, to Lowlands which will probably be soon attacked because Lowlands and no climate change and to other stuff that pops up here and there.
I doubt we can manage all of the above, given that I think we'll need all of the next turn's action directed to the new Trade Post if we commit. Double Main Boats + Secondary Boats would probably bridge the gap enough.
Which is not a bad action plan with Baby Boom meaning we need resources, huh.
Reasonable to push some Support their way even if the Trelli don't declare war then, the more resources the harder it is to crack them if they do later.
And spam boats.
But Boats are probably slightly better off, our periphery states will be building boats of their own to catch up, but they can't Support Subordinate like we can.
I mean...we are their large trading partner, so I do not think they'd have nearly as good a lifespan without our mercury, Tyrian Purple and stuff and without us, in turn, buying up silver and other goods.
Yes. That's one of my arguments that a war is NOT inevitable, because it's immensely expensive to fight us, and gets MORE expensive with the WTP.
What about Bungie's point that the Khemetri will likely get in on the act, with way more gold than the Trelli, and other Mediterranean powers will too? Leading to a huge bloodbath that the Trelli no longer control.
At that point, we may well start picking up refugee waves from Trelli.
Depends on if they wreck their own trade advantage. Reminder that the WTP would give us full control over Black Sea trade, i.e. the whole reason that the Trelli are rich, and if they fight us they lose the Black Sea trade.
If we have the actions available, I'm cool with that. Salterns are great. Aqueducts... eh, true cities get increasingly fragile as you make more of them.
Someone (veekie maybe?) suggested that our norias might even give us more options for saltern sites. Cool.
Yep, pumps to move seawater above the waterline.
I assume our crops are all surface based so they are vulnerable to damage via burning or weather.
If trading missions are sent out, would they look for new plants / farming methods ?
I really want for us to get a potato or something underground. It's much harder to destroy a crop if you cant just burn quickly.
Burning crops is harder than it sounds. Nobody has oil yet. It'd be actually rather hard to burn them. Easier to salt them(but thats for us.)
