Thirty hours and three turns have passed since last we spoke! Let's see what's up:
We've made it a little bit south and west from where you last saw The Merovech Patrol. Very quiet - no more animal sightings in the west or vision on BXB's scout in the east. Given that my east is tightly constrained and my north is hard to develop before IW, I think most of my expansion should be this way. Sadly, there's almost no food here! I'm not sure what to do about these dry lands, but I'm about to hit a leg of the same river that flows through my capital, so maybe there'll be lusher territory there.
Regarding Ah's worker actions: with my lack of time to sim things out, I decided that my best bet was to modify my original plan as little as possible. So Ah finished his chop, is moving to chop another forest, and once he finishes that second chop will mine the copper instead of mining the grass hill like in the original plan. Is this optimal? Almost certainly not. Is it strictly better than my original plan while not sacrificing anything and requiring very little legwork? Sure is. "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
Demographics dump for the last three turns behind a spoiler:
Retep grew to s3 and then whipped. I guess he slow-built a work boat, and is now whipping another? Only thing that makes sense to me.
We've made it a little bit south and west from where you last saw The Merovech Patrol. Very quiet - no more animal sightings in the west or vision on BXB's scout in the east. Given that my east is tightly constrained and my north is hard to develop before IW, I think most of my expansion should be this way. Sadly, there's almost no food here! I'm not sure what to do about these dry lands, but I'm about to hit a leg of the same river that flows through my capital, so maybe there'll be lusher territory there.
Regarding Ah's worker actions: with my lack of time to sim things out, I decided that my best bet was to modify my original plan as little as possible. So Ah finished his chop, is moving to chop another forest, and once he finishes that second chop will mine the copper instead of mining the grass hill like in the original plan. Is this optimal? Almost certainly not. Is it strictly better than my original plan while not sacrificing anything and requiring very little legwork? Sure is. "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."
Demographics dump for the last three turns behind a spoiler:
Retep grew to s3 and then whipped. I guess he slow-built a work boat, and is now whipping another? Only thing that makes sense to me.
Playing: PB11
(March 3rd, 2012, 21:07)antisocialmunky Wrote: Civilization Economics: You have 1 Cow. You build some pastures around it to feed your people. The population grows uncontrollably. You enslave everybody and work half of them to death.
. Bordering a non-newb team, which has three experienced members who can bounce ideas off each other, with one of the most powerful UUs for offensive warfare, is 
I favor spiraling outward from the capital for helping me find my first few cities, but it does have the distinct disadvantage of not knowing where exactly my opponents are until later. Since I have no intention of rushing, it's not a huge deal (though BFC copper for spears and axes is certainly nice in case Byzantium or France are closer than I expect and they get frisky...).
. Will heal up here over the next couple of turns and then probe forward cautiously. I figure we've got ~15 more turns until the barbs proper start showing up, and I'd like to get every bit of scouting information I can before then.
