(December 2nd, 2013, 09:05)Old Harry Wrote: That all sounds good. I'm surprised the lighthouse comes out ahead of the forge, but I guess once it hits size three the lighthouse starts paying out...
Immediately when we get lighthouse into Omdurman it will be worth +1 food/turn (clams) and that lake tile at size 3 will be nice too. Going forge first only saves 60/1.25 - 60/1.5 = 8 hammers, so I would say that forge first is the right call only if it delays lighthouse by 5 or less turns. In this case the delay would be significantly bigger (we can't chop those forests quite that fast and Ondurman is currently at size 1 so natural production/whips won't help that much in getting those 180 hammers together).