[SPOILERS] Team Unpronounceable Unicode Symbol: True Grit

[Halvgud]

I will most definitely ask more questions.

Already have one, about the turn order. As I see, I am after suttree in the war, with the other wars being ended for now. If suttree moves early in a turn, can I log in directly after he has finished his turn, even if one or two other players are ahead of me in peaceful moves? I believe suttree was #3 login earlier today, but had no time to ask then.

Logging in now... Suttree has accepted peace! Does this mean that I can log in earlier if possible/available the next turn?

I have a Wine for Horse deal with Wetbandit. Copper+Crab from Oxy. He has not logged in yet. I have one axe ready with another complete next turn.

The butcher's bill on the Southern army:
Suttree units killed: 3 catapults, 1 axeman. (1 of 4 catapults managed to withdraw)
Sisub units lost: 9 Axeman, 3 chariots, 4 spearmen.

Ok, so I have 2 turns left on Construction. I am thinking Archery(2t) followed by Feudalism(20turns at 80% slider with +1g/t) as the best available techs at the moment. Better defense is good, right?

Available choices at 80% slider:

• Horseback Riding (7t)
  
• Code of Laws (8t)
  
• Calendar(9t)
  
• Drama(9t)
  
• Alphabet (9t)
  
• Compass (12t)
  
• Theology(15t)
  
• Music(17t)
  
• Machinery (20t)

Now, on to the overview:



Blast. BGN has a settler in Yfen Kato, the coastal city he sniped. There is neutral ground 3 tiles down where he may plop a city without worrying too much about me, fencing me in. Retep has a galley close to the coast as well, unlikely to have units on it, or I think he would have moved them on land. I moved the galley, now renamed The Flying Russian, and spotted the ruins formerly known as Standing..



I may be able to move a couple of tiles up along the coast of Retep before being halted by his borders. I intend to try for open borders, though he may most likely decline after my settler move earlier. If he says no to OB, I will try to get OB with BGN, failing that I will send an OB query to Suttree. Of course, they may all decline but the worst that can happen is a simple 'no'. Well, of course the worst that can happen is that war is declared with the intent to get my head to adorn a spear in public view. I do hope that does not happen as I am quite attached to my head.

Checking the espionage:



I moved it to focus on WilliamLP as he is third highest on the score and I can get his graph in 4 turns if he does not move his esp against me.

I now have a single worker left, renamed Sogic Lense.



There is forest that I can chop, but is this the best course for my worker? I could move it southward to the mine destroyed by Suttree, to rebuild it. Ceiliazul, what is the best move I can make at this point? Chopping walls seem...wasteful. I can build walls in four turns normal or 1 turn whipped. Wonders are also low on the agenda at this time. Best move would be rebuilding the Copper resource so I don't have to rely on outside help for that.