What are you talking about? He literally said he wanted to deal with the Highlanders now rather than kicking down the road. Also the HK can utilize their strength far faster than we can due to their slavery, private land and type of government.
Yeah, that's why I kinda want to go with the 5x Gym plan. ({M} Gym, {M} Gym x2, {S} Gym)
We can't remove their Khemeteri holdings at all since they aren't part of the lowlands. If we kick then out of the lowlands they still hold those colonies they seized, so yes they have grown in strength from this war and still hold the ability to cut off a province from us.
You do know other civs are able to settle land faster than we can right? That's been an established fact for a long time now.
They got those provinces from other war, not that one.
This strikes me as splitting the vote for fairly dubious gains. This late in the game, choices are probably limited to pre-existing options; it's unfortunate but I'm not sure it's ultimately avoidable.
Umm... Assuming you mean []Expand Economy there, that's apparently illegal
I'm not interested in those colonies. I said they have grown stronger from this war which you disputed by saying the lowlands are all they took from this war, which is wrong.
Yep. It's just enough to push the HK out of the lowlands. It's ~50 martial worth of troops doing 3 war missions, backed by 5 light cavalry and a genius leader.
We've always had Policies assume the worst possible ordering before acting, so I highly doubt we will luck out that way.
I agree that it probably won't do something bad. But the fact is, there is basically nothing for the policies to do; I suspect that it might take one or two Balanced actions and then just stop, doing nothing with the rest. Alternatively, it might take a bunch of retraining actions instead of expand econ actions.
Are you purposefully misinterpreting what I posted, or are you just really that stuck on your horse of wanting megaproject policy that you can't read into any criticism into it?
Oh. Annoying.
How so? If we get the Dam done while doing another 3 actions at the war next turn, I consider that worthwhile. It'd probably need the genius to nearly crit-fail or the HK to crit-success, but that's still a heck of a lot better than being in this same position next turn of almost-dead.
You know, I like it. Time for approval voting.
Yeah, if we stay on Levy we can definitely kick them out of the lowlands in a single phase and probably take some of the passes (all if we get lucky) which is probably enough to start triggering iStO's downside, but that's still another 2-3 phases before they'd explode.
You realize that it has only been a bit over 4hrs since the update came out? I don't think that counts as "this late in the game". Especially since AN doesn't update on Fridays, so we have at least another full day to change our voting.
I would totally consider Balanced (or better yet, Trade), if not for the fact that it would force US to do the dam. What do we cut for it? The best I can think of is a EJ action and our 3rd war mission, which is rather painful.
