Feb 5th 2022, 22:02:38
Well I was already built for attacking and you would have to buy more defense AND lots of new offense. There go your expenses, food consumption, not to mention all the turns not spent teching... Is it worth anything other than a missile?
Not a big deal to buy jets, make the retaliation and then resell the jets before playing a lot of turns at high expense. It is also worth it to take the turns away from teching, because when you retal and rebuild you will then have a higher tech per turn for the remaining 30 days worth of turns.
Anyone who is good at this game will always retaliate against your grab and take their land back sooner or later.
If you want to finish in the top I think you need to be more strategic with your landgrab and make it a goal to keep all of the acres you gain by attacking those who can't retal you. That way you don't trade acres back and forth with people because it is really very expensive to trade land grabs because you build, then get hit back and have to rebuild, plus rebuild cs plus grab someone again to regain those lost acres