[SPOILERS] Team EggHeads: DMOC and TeddyKGB (Now Lurker-Friendly!)

[DMOC]

To other people playing in this game: please refrain from reading this thread until after the game is over (or until defeat).

Within a category, the table of contents entries are listed in order of where the post is located in the thread.

Table of Contents

Important Posts

• Pre-Pre-Game Thoughts
  
• Initial Starting Position
  
• Pre-Game Power Rankings
  
• Why Sury II of Byzantium?
  
• Actual Starting Location and Initial scout move
  
• Turns 0-33 Micromanagement Plan (edit: later modified here, but only consider up to turn 33)
  
• Likely Openings by our Opponents
  
• Turns 40-49 Micromanagement Plan
  
• Random Thoughts (Turns 55-60 ish)
  
• Workers and Warriors on Turn 60 / 1600 BC
  
• Diplomacy Update (Turn 109)
  
• The Grand Plan (1 AD Onwards)
  
• Diplomacy With Asterix (1 AD-ish): Some relevant posts (in order) are here, here, here, here, and here.
  
• Current NAP Deals, 50 AD (Turn 117)
  
• How Lurkers View This Game (Just an Observation)
  
• Diplomacy Update (Turn 120) and later after a long pause, here.
  
• Stop the presses! Barteq/Rome responds! (Turn 132/133)
  

Selected Turn Reports

• Turn 0 - 4000 BC
  
• Turn 5 - 3800 BC
  
• Turn 10 - 3600 BC
  
• Turn 15 - 3400 BC
  
• Turn 20 - 3200 BC (have contact with Team Care Bears)
  
• Turn 25 - 3000 BC (have contact with Team Margarita)
  
• Turn 30 - 2800 BC
  
• Turn 35 - 2600 BC (have two cities now)
  
• Turn 40 - 2400 BC
  
• Turn 45 - 2200 BC (have three workers now)
  
• Turn 50 - 2000 BC (have three cities now)
  
• Turn 55 - 1800 BC (have contact with Team Eagles & Condors)
  
• Turn 60 - 1600 BC (have contact with Team Orgynized)
  
• Turn 65 - 1400 BC (almost have 5 cities now)
  
• Turn 70 - 1200 BC (have contact with Team Blame Caledorn)
  
• Turn 75 - 1000 BC (have contact with Team Gladiator's Glory)
  
• Turn 80 - 875 BC (#1 in population, with 7 cities)
  
• Turn 84 - 775 BC (have an academy in the capital)
  
• Turn 90 - 625 BC (The Hanging Gardens!)
  
• Turn 100 - 375 BC (11 cities)
  
• Turn 107 - 200 BC (Hindu missionary deal)
  
• Turn 114 - 25 BC (13 cities, Organized Religion & Monarchy)
  
• Turn 118 - 75 AD (awaiting Rome's attack...)
  
• Turn 120 - 125 AD (Asterix replaced, map trades, and Lurker-Friendly reports)
  
• Turn 122 - 175 AD (Calendar resources starting to get connected, Code of Laws on the way)
  
• Turn 125 - 250 AD (SutOxy are pulling ahead)
  
• Turn 128 - 325 AD (War with Rome!)
  
• Turn 131 - 400 AD (We made a mistake.)
  
• Turn 135 - 500 AD (Civil Service finished) Note: At this point, discussion in our thread stopped, so the turn reports are in consecutive posts for easy reading, up to about turn 150. ~DMOC
  

Teams

1. Team Eagles & Condors - Oxyphenbutazone and suttree (formerly, Kurumi / HBHR)
Pacal II (Fin/Exp) || Native America (Dog Soldier (Axe) and Totem Pole (Monument); Fish/Agri)

2. Team Dinosaurs - Whiteye / Raptorous
Darius I (Fin/Org) || English (Redcoat (Rifle) and Stock Exchange (Bank); Fish/Mining)

3. Team Asterix (formely, Team Master and Margarita) - Asterix (formerly, Maga_R / slaze)
Willem (Fin/Cre) || Ottoman (Janissary (Musket) and Hammam (Aqueduct); Wheel/Agri)

4. Bowsling / Aivoturso
Mansa Musa (Fin/Spi) || Zululand (Impi (Spear) and Ikhanda (Barracks); Agri/Hunt)

5. Team Orgynized - Lord Parkin / Arkipeller / Magno_uy
Huayna Capac (Fin/Ind) || Netherlands (EastIndiaman (Galleon) and Dike (Levee); Fish/Agri)

6. Team Blame Caledorn - YossarianLives / Caledorn (with Scooter, Old Harry and Cheater Hater dedlurking)
Isabella (Spi/Exp) || Inca (Quecha (Warrior) and Terrace (Granary); Myst/Agri)

7. Team Care Bears - Yuufo / Bisons
Victoria (Fin/Imp) || India (Fast Worker (Worker) and Mausoleum (Jail); Myst/Mining)

8. Team EggHeads - DMOC / TeddyKGB
Suryavarman II (Exp/Cre) || Byzantium (Cataphract (Knight) and Hippodrome (Theatre); Myst/Wheel)

9. Team My Little Marathon Cannibal Pony - Classical_Hero / Halvgud
Napoleon (Org/Cha) || Sumeria (Vulture (Axe) and Ziggurat (Courthouse); Wheel/Agri)

10. Team Gladiator's Glory - Barteq / Geo (with Harami dedlurking)
Ragnar (Fin/Agg) || Rome (Praetorian (Sword) and Forum (Market); Fish/Mining)