Well I wanted to start this new thread to find out how many players out there have done this mistake. I was in a 2v2v2 default resource, coastal, population 75 game. My personal favorite. I love lower population games, due to the fact of more management requirements. Well me and my partner Stooge Nuef were in a Iron Age war against 4 other Stooges, by the way how many stooges are there? I was Phoenician and he was Hittite, and my plan was to got o Iron and build a mainly Scythe Chariot army, and tribute my gold for his HCATS. Well everything was working to plan. Had great gold mining pits in my base, and we teamed up against 2 players and beat them and then came against 2 other players and was having a great battle against them. In those battles I made between 20 to 30 SCs and went in for battle trading my wood for his gold. I just couldn't just over welm their army. I kept reaching my population limit so when a SC went down another one would be produced so I could basically keep sending in my SCs but not enough to win. I was then into the game 2 1/2 hours and finally started to run out of supplies, and it was late. East Coast here! Today I was going over the game with 20/20 hindsight, and remembered my mistakes. I could have not fought through such a NARROW PASS!!!!!!!!!!! Or I could have done other things and used my transports, or more boats, or this or that. Then it came to me I was always just 3 or 5 SCs away from over taking them. My FISHING BOATS!! I never got rid of the, even though it was so later into the game and had fished out the closed in sea that they were into. After the game they were just sitting there taking up population space. So this long explanation for this question is this. How many of you just leave your unused fishing boats just sitting there while they take up your population space? I had about 20 and I don't think that you need that many in mid to late Iron Age. What are some of the real experts, since I'm a late comer less than two months playing, opinions on use of fishing boats in Iron Age when you have plenty of supplies, and are in battle and keep hitting your population limit? What should you do to lessen your pop? Get rid of fishing boats? Or some Vills? Or use your vills to build farms instead? Which would use up limited wood supplies. Or do you get rid of your boats for a while and then rebuild them in another sea later when you are not in battle? Any opinions or comments would be appreciated. Just none of the Scythe Chariots suck or I hate them, because I hate them to when they came after me in large numbers. Thanks!!! Go Connecticut Number One in Men's and Women's Polls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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