[SPOILERS] Yossarian blames Caledorn

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Turn 88

Scouting

Continuing through OxySut's empire, we've uncovered Nivose. Let's take a look at the other cities.



Their capital, Vendemiaire, has a palace, granary and lighthouse. Nivose only had a granary, btw.



Frimaire has a library and granary.



Pluviose has a granary and totem pole, for super archers.

Hopefully we'll make contact with Orgy soon. We should be the first ones to get contact with everyone. Caledorn, any interest in doing a story post for that occasion? I see Care Bears are starting to get into it.

Overview:

I'm starting to grow the cities that are at their current happy cap, in anticipation of the silver coming online on T91. Leane the Axeman has +80% bonuses compared to the barb's +50%. I decided not to give him either of the two available promotions, but now I'm thinking that's a really bad idea. With the pause for classical_hero I could log back in and give him C1 or C1+Shock. What do you guys think?



A city 3S1W of Gov't Shutdown is a priority to lock in the wine and FP for us. We've already got hammers invested into a settler in GS that we'll resume once it grows. I think this should be our next city.



I 2-pop whipped an Axe in SC, with the overflow completing the workboat this turn. It'll arrive at Hangover's fish the same turn borders pop. There is still some overflow that will go into a spear out of SC, next. Silent Neighbor and Bad Econ are trying to help remedy our major worker shortage.

Expansion areas:

We've conceded most of this land to BowAivo. I figure to keep them friendly for now while we deal with Rome. We can go take all this land later after we've finished with the praets. That city south of GS is important now. At some point we'll want a city in the southern peninsula that will claim the horse and dye, and share the pig, and eventually a filler city in the hills north of Hangovers.



This is the area EggHeads wants us to settle. The pigs / wheat / copper city will actually be really good, and I'm growing more confident that Dinos will be Rome's first target. We should start getting the settler and workers ready to lay down this city as soon as the praets are sent east, as Old Harry suggested. What would be the best location for a city east of Server Problems? On the desert hill next to the silk? Or 1W so it can share the capital's fish? Or the north-most desert tile so it is more easily reinforced from our core?



The sugar city needs to be our objective in the inevitable war with Rome. If we can get that, and EggHeads or Dinos takes their iron city so they can't build any more praets, I think then the war will be a 100% success. Then we can fill in that nice juicy land between us. Razing Neapolis would also be awesome if we can do it.

Demos and stuff:

We're doing ok here, I think. Fairly middle-of-the-pack, but we're way ahead of our neighbors in food, and about even or ahead of them in GNP. It's the northern teams that are ruining the grading curve, so they'll have to duke it out amongst themselves at some point. We'll help EggHeads come out on top of that fight, hopefully.



But this shows why we're in trouble. Not being Fin is killing us. We're breakeven at 10% research, and Currency is a 30+ turn tech for us right now. We really need to be laying down the cottages. I used our Scientist to build the academy in the capital, but it's not helping us at all at 0%. And Server Problems doesn't even have a library yet so I can't even put up some scientists!



And that shows Care Bears completing the 'Mids and catapulting even further into the lead. This is really going to be a handful for EggHeads and Maga to deal with if something isn't done soon.

We received this message from Care Bears today:

Thanks. That reminds me I should write a post in the story thread...
Yes, Rome connected Iron a few turns ago. Indeed their Iron city is located near our Southwestern border, on the other side of a polar landbridge. Our border city is extremely well fortified / defended so I don't think Rome are a great problem for us. They seem to play AI diplo style and don't respond to their mails. Their EP don't go on us for the moment so I think we're pretty safe. Being power #1 helps, too. Do you fear some kind of Roman aggression on your own?
About religion, the Monotheism religion is still available. I wonder why no one tried to grab it.