(October 15th, 2013, 18:57)Old Harry Wrote: 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?
Ok, I can live with that!
It's a bit about the principle how much do we want to gamble with our defenses in order to be economically stronger.Quote: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...
Yep! That is the right order. THH, do not let us down. You will probably get a chance to perform our first city raze and move within a touching distance from unlocking HE for us. We trust you!
About worker micro at Endor:
Here are my first thoughts:
- The worker that just finished the plains hill mine moves SW and puts 1 turn into a road. Next turn it moves S-SE onto Dyes. Then it roads the dyes and spends next turns chopping the jungle away from banana & dyes tiles
- The new worker that will be born in Endor moves first SE and finishes the road. Next turn it moves SW-SE-E-chop dyes. These two workers will together improve Bananas and Dyes when Calendar comes in. (Another option would be to move towards Cannae/BoP, but I believe that supporting Dunkirk is a better option first. In this case that road SE of Endor can be skipped and the first worker can put a turn into cottage instead)
(- I think we need both of those workers that did combat roading still in the east. They should first farm the tile where they are currently, next jobs include cottaging and roading towards City J. Once the city J is founded they will farm the corn and then rice)
- The worker on the grassland hill could start mining it, but I actually think that moving W-NW onto new forest and chopping it might be a better option. That chop can be put into another worker or maybe even into the settler for our 11th or 12th city.