Kandros of the Clan - How many powers of 2 do you need?

[Krill]

The MM I ran before, that I used to determine if I should build a worker before the warren because I popped agriculture, basically involved farming the wheat and 2 fp. But now that I popped mining I could swap that around a bit and mine a plains hill, so I'd get the warren a bit sooner and leave the capital at size 5. Growing to size 6 isn't strictly speaking necessary. I agree that long term getting Calendar first would have been ideal, but I've been playing under the assumption that the PoW would have been built by t60 at the latest. Now, I could perhaps have slowed that down a bit, making Calendar feasible, but I needed to tech Bronze working, which would have taken me up until t55 at the earliest, and then get Exploration for roads, which could have taken a further 6 turns. If Calendar pushed that back by 10 turns, which is a reasonable assumption as it takes 13 turns to research, then Serdoa would have been able to attack me with PoW when I had only just been able to get bronze warriors, but not the ability to build roads, which would have meant that Serdoa would have won the war because I'd never be able to attack his units before he could cast slow on my units, taking away their movement.