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

[Old Harry]

Turn 152

Slowcheetah is gone, Lewwyn declared on Azza and I think Plako will eat Dhalphir pretty soon. Its annoying that the only neighbour we're likely to fight is Mackoti. Speaking of whom - Mack has OBs with Suttree and can attack us on t156. I've offered Suttree plain OBs but will reoffer them with a happy resource if he turns it down. We badly need to know if a stack of 2-movers is flanking us.


On techs Mack wins yet again - he got Education, so is going to easily beat us to Economics. So I guess we're grinding towards rifles instead now... Sigh.


I've got a bit of time today so I thought I'd do a city-by-city post (for my reference as much as anything else), spoilered for the number of pics - shout out if you spot anything dumb THH:

Agincourt hits 396 GPP the turn Konig pops its merchant, the next three turns the silver tile isn't getting worked, which is horrible in a golden age especially, but we need that great guy!


Bay of Pigs will grab the fish to grow onto all its great tiles in a couple of turns time.


Cannae isn't working three great tiles to be in a position to get us our 700 Great Person sooner. We hoped to get a Great Scientist to bulb education in the race for Economics but I've switched back to a Great Merchant as we think the return for GMs is higher. If we do get the scientist I'll try and bulb Astro with him. Although it could be time for an academy in the capital. I'll have to do some sums.


Dunkirk is one of our best military pumps, allowing 4 turn (GA) knights. I'm wondering about 2-pop whipping a knight once we're out of the GA, but its probably best to wait and 1-pop whip.


Endor needs a grass mine to stagnate, and it's growing this cottage for Agincourt.


France grows quickly - I think it'll 1- or 2-pop whip a settler after this trireme.


Some day Gallipoli could be our best commerce city. Still a way off though. We need a bank here. Although we're going to be running a great Merchant economy for a little while, so it's not that urgent anymore. In fact I might switch tech to Paper to get the increased bonus on our research.


Hastings has a Longbow decaying in the queue that we won't build, at the end of the GA there are a few places that can keep producing Knights, so the question is do we switch from vassalage to Bureau and build stables to keep pumping 5XP knights?


Issy is another good military pump.


Jamestown is the Knight king though.


Fingers are crossed for the Great Merchant from Koniggratz.


Light Brigade could also do with a Bank soon.


Midway pays its way. It'll probably just pump navy for the rest of the game. It's also good to have the spare sources of iron.


Nuremburg is our most food-poor city, but if we farm the available grassland it can grow to be a reasonable commerce place. Forge then Courthouse next?


Omdurman still hasn't produced a great person, and will continue not to until Konig and Agincourt have popped again. After the GA it'll whip the temple and work 3 specialists while growing big and working lots of specialists in short Caste breaks. I think we'll generally dip into Caste after we sign peace with Mackoti.


All Peterloo's lovely forests are gone, and what do we have to show for it? Some cultural buildings and a longbow. It's going to be a commerce city, although not a great one.


Quantrill already pays for itself, we need more crappy cities!

It turns out we've been behind Mack not Plako on GNP. Sigh. At what point do people normally say GG in games he's playing in?


Power makes me a bit happier, Demos are still reasonable, even two turns after Fintourist left!

I haven't ended turn because I have some units unmoved on dtay's border that I need to wait for him to move so as not to double move/leave a city stupidly vulnerable. Also I don't know if I'm going to switch research to Paper...