[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Old Harry]

I want to move the bowman in France out to the SW next turn to scout since we'll soon have another (whip on t94 regrows straight away, then start a worker?)

Another option is to wait a bit with the bowman, let France grow to size 4 while building bowman/axe, then double-whip a worker and then complete the military build supported by overflow. Those jungles require a lot of worker turns so I think we should at least consider this. Getting new riverside cottages up earlier has value. Of course everything assumes that settling that city will be safe and our bowman wins the fight agains the spear etc.

Nice idea, I sim it out tonight.

In BoP we could build a scouting work boat to go north, or put some hammers into a lighthouse, but I'd probably go for the spear for now. I'm not fussed though, so happy to change. In France we don't have to whip straight away so a bowman isn't vital - we could build a spear or an axe. I'd like to get the axe with the aim of him getting to be a woodsman III medic eventually.

I don't like the spear build in BoP that much. The city is pretty far away from our front lines and when looking at west I don't think that we need necessirarily spears as island defenders (might be wrong of course). I think I like WB or a 2nd galley more. Those will both be needed eventually.

I'm just a bit unhappy that we're building units in Cannae and not BoP with its barracks. Eventually I'd like to have a spear in place in the four corners of our empire (near Endor, in Hastings, between Cannae and Gallipoli and on the island) just because 2-movers are so much harder to react to than axes. I don't think BoP will finish this one before t103 (due to wealth builds), so it's not that premature.

After the bowman in Cannae we get 11 hammers production before it starts building Wealth, so we could start the second galley there?

The question is: Will suttree prefer a 64 % fight against a 25 hammer unit (+giving up the city) or 50-50 shot against our 35 hammer unit? Does he have still have some surprise resources that we are not yet aware of? In his position I would keep the axe in the city and hope for a really lucky first roll, which would make the attack very costly for us.

If he sits tight I think we attack first with THH and clean up with bowmen, since the bowmen all get a hill and city defense bonus which we may need in Hastings if we upset Suttree enough...