Turn 100 - part 1
After checking our border areas I took the freedom and promoted our spear to C2 (you might disagree, sorry!, but my thinking is that C2 Formation Spear at our northern border would be good in future):
![[Image: PB%2013%20T100%20Spear0000.JPG]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2camb8afoity3nj/PB%2013%20T100%20Spear0000.JPG)
99.6 % odds were enough and suttree's forces have now been erased from our country. I also performed the worker actions (they were very straightforward this turn) and assigned tiles and builds as I think they should be. Don't wonder about Cannae, the city will get +1, +1 and +3 food surplus and grow to size 8 eot 102. (Of course, working unimproved sugar instead of riverside cottage is always solid, but now I preferred cottage because sugar does not help the city to reach size 8 earlier. Size 9 is different thing though.
Apart from our victorious spearman I left our scouts and military unmoved. Here are some random comments:
- The spearman from BoP could head towards south, maybe hang around near Gallipoli and then support settling of our city K (founded T108/109)
- The bowman in Hastings could go to Endor. We are friendly with dtay, but having a spear+bowman pair in the north is probably sensible.
- Let's keep our GG still on that copper tile. Endor is currently defendless and even though it will soon have 2 defenders in it I feel safer if we have the GG in place so that we can do some kind of emergency-morale-extra movement-action if necessary
About suttree:
- I looked so fast last turn that I did not realize that there were 2 axes SE-SE of Hastings meaning that he retreated the worker.
We can now decide whether we move Viqsi to support our bowman or if we retreat Brick. Of course those 2 axes are not alone especially terrifying so if they move SE of Hastings we are not petrified, but..
- Pitboss graphs come with 2 turns delay IIRC. It seems that suttree added another axe 2 turns ago. Next turn we'll see the drop..
- In light of the previous bullet, your C&D and our previous discussions, I think suttree has enough forces and whipping capability that it would be too optimistic to start an invasion with our current forces
- Let's hope that he is not in a total "my only goal is to make you lose" mode..
Other stuff:
- Ym settled their 9th and 10th cities this turn and they have a size 10 second/third city. It seems likely that they have taken control of the floodplains area between them and m_h. Their geopolitical situation also seems nice with weak neighbors suttree & m_h, and suttree is even raging into our direction.. In other words, they are doing quite well.
- Overall we know that there are at least 6 civs in this continent and it seems that we, dtay and yurimack are the competitive ones here while Jowy/TBS, m_h & suttree are behind in expansion and I would say that they are out of the race to win this. We, dtay & ym can of course also easily drop into the no-chance group if one of us has to fight an unproductive resource-draining war (most likely us now)..
- I think we need to produce couple of galleys pretty soon. It's not impossible that a barb galley finds its way to our lands and we need them for effective logistics as we hopefully settle more islands.. (not that many though as the island where France is seems pretty big and we hopefully get at least 2/3 additional cities there..)
Macro plan:
- let's get Alphabet (eot105) and improve our economy through trade route income
- let's backfill religious techs and bulb philosophy while adding couple of new cities (t106-115)
- let's spread taoism into our empire via org religion, tech MC and start whipping/producing infra (library/forge/courthouse/markets) while settling as many cities we can afford and have more or less peaceful spots (t116-150)
- let's eat m_h or suttree (or part of their lands) with knights/maces/cats (t150+) and let's try to do it economically. Our war effort should not crash our economy totally, partly maybe, but it's not ok if it means 20 turns pause for teching...
After checking our border areas I took the freedom and promoted our spear to C2 (you might disagree, sorry!, but my thinking is that C2 Formation Spear at our northern border would be good in future):
99.6 % odds were enough and suttree's forces have now been erased from our country. I also performed the worker actions (they were very straightforward this turn) and assigned tiles and builds as I think they should be. Don't wonder about Cannae, the city will get +1, +1 and +3 food surplus and grow to size 8 eot 102. (Of course, working unimproved sugar instead of riverside cottage is always solid, but now I preferred cottage because sugar does not help the city to reach size 8 earlier. Size 9 is different thing though.
Apart from our victorious spearman I left our scouts and military unmoved. Here are some random comments:
- The spearman from BoP could head towards south, maybe hang around near Gallipoli and then support settling of our city K (founded T108/109)
- The bowman in Hastings could go to Endor. We are friendly with dtay, but having a spear+bowman pair in the north is probably sensible.
- Let's keep our GG still on that copper tile. Endor is currently defendless and even though it will soon have 2 defenders in it I feel safer if we have the GG in place so that we can do some kind of emergency-morale-extra movement-action if necessary
About suttree:
- I looked so fast last turn that I did not realize that there were 2 axes SE-SE of Hastings meaning that he retreated the worker.
We can now decide whether we move Viqsi to support our bowman or if we retreat Brick. Of course those 2 axes are not alone especially terrifying so if they move SE of Hastings we are not petrified, but..- Pitboss graphs come with 2 turns delay IIRC. It seems that suttree added another axe 2 turns ago. Next turn we'll see the drop..
- In light of the previous bullet, your C&D and our previous discussions, I think suttree has enough forces and whipping capability that it would be too optimistic to start an invasion with our current forces
- Let's hope that he is not in a total "my only goal is to make you lose" mode..
Other stuff:
- Ym settled their 9th and 10th cities this turn and they have a size 10 second/third city. It seems likely that they have taken control of the floodplains area between them and m_h. Their geopolitical situation also seems nice with weak neighbors suttree & m_h, and suttree is even raging into our direction.. In other words, they are doing quite well.
- Overall we know that there are at least 6 civs in this continent and it seems that we, dtay and yurimack are the competitive ones here while Jowy/TBS, m_h & suttree are behind in expansion and I would say that they are out of the race to win this. We, dtay & ym can of course also easily drop into the no-chance group if one of us has to fight an unproductive resource-draining war (most likely us now)..
- I think we need to produce couple of galleys pretty soon. It's not impossible that a barb galley finds its way to our lands and we need them for effective logistics as we hopefully settle more islands.. (not that many though as the island where France is seems pretty big and we hopefully get at least 2/3 additional cities there..)
Macro plan:
- let's get Alphabet (eot105) and improve our economy through trade route income
- let's backfill religious techs and bulb philosophy while adding couple of new cities (t106-115)
- let's spread taoism into our empire via org religion, tech MC and start whipping/producing infra (library/forge/courthouse/markets) while settling as many cities we can afford and have more or less peaceful spots (t116-150)
- let's eat m_h or suttree (or part of their lands) with knights/maces/cats (t150+) and let's try to do it economically. Our war effort should not crash our economy totally, partly maybe, but it's not ok if it means 20 turns pause for teching...