[SPOILERS] Team EggHeads: DMOC and TeddyKGB (Now Lurker-Friendly!)

[DMOC]

Turn 133 - 450 AD

A much better turn than the past few ones, I'll say. First, with the news that Barteq is suddenly willing to talk to us, Yossarian and I agreed to send this message:

Barteq,

Would it be possible to follow this plan?

1. You sign peace with us starting next turn. (EggHeads have offered peace already.)
2. We both offer an NAP with you to turn 190, effectively until the end of the game.
3. You have carte blanche with England
4. We both sign open borders with you and keep them until the NAP (helps your economy)
5. Once Antium's silver comes into EggHeads' culture control, we will gift you the silver.
This way, we move on from the war and can try to catch up to suttree/Oxyphenbutazone. =)

One more thing ... EggHeads badly need a Heroic Epic unit for our future wars against India and other nations (not you guys, of course). We see that you have a Great General warrior in Antium. May you gift us that Great General warrior on turn 137 so we can unlock Heroic Epic? We will immediately gift the warrior back to you on the same turn or the turn after. We can offer 30 gold as payment.

Regards,
DMOC of the EggHeads team
Yossarian of the Blame Caledorn Team

Here's the situation in the game.

In case Barteq doesn't agree with the Heroic Epic unit plan, we can also ask classical_hero:

Just to be sure (lurkers, any help?) ... as long as we have any 10 xp unit in possession at any point in the game, that automatically unlocks Heroic Epic, correct? Even if the unit is gifted?

We did send another message to DT, saying that neither of us are happy with this war, but also that we really have no way of stopping praetorians in the open terrain. Both Yossarian/Caledorn and us honored our Defensive Pact anyway.

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Of course, not all news is good. SutOxy built The Great Library.

Fortunately, I don't see any updates in technology (same for Cat/Bandit). My guess is that they are researching either Nationalism or Education. Probably Nationalism. Oxyphenbutazone was logged into the game at the same time, and I told him that it was obvious they were building Taj Mahal in Sneezy. He said: "Don't know how to respond to that."

Final city builds:

We are almost ready to produce our second Great Person. I've set it for no specialists, but we can hire 2 scientists next turn and still get a Great Person on turn 135. By the way, I think we should whip Berkeley for the courthouse once we get a Great Person from there. It's costing us almost 10 gold a turn!

And a few empire-wide screenshots. As you can see, we've got lots of wealth builds out there. Our break-even is 50% and 191 beakers. I've also gotten rid of some of our military builds and replaced them with civilian ones.

1. UMaryland is now building a granary.
2. UIllinois is now building a courthouse (and will probably follow that up with a libary).
3. Cornell is building a Hindu Monastery, for increased cultural pressure and hammer output.
4. I didn't whip either Stanford or UT Austin, since Stanford has good tiles to work and UT Austin I want to wait until we get the farm over there so we can regrow faster. There's benefit to keeping cities a high size, and we'll need them since we're far behind SutOxy in food. Let's hope Civil Service helps rectify that.
5. Princeton is how building a courthouse, and we're using the corn to grow it.
6. I stopped UWashington from an axe and set it to build wealth. Anything we want in this city?

Some things to decide for later turns:

1. MIT now has Hinduism. Should it build the Hindu religious buildings?
2. Georgia Tech is on wealth. We could build a Hindu Temple but we've got the culture locked down. Is it worth it?
3. UWisconsin is still building wealth but has plenty of overflow stored up. It doesn't have either of the Hindu buildings, but it could also build a lighthouse. What do we think?

I'm okay with growing a lot of our cities now. After Civil Service, I assume we're researching Metal Casting, so we'll want to whip a lot of forges in our empire. Forges are awesome, and from what I remember they make whipping more efficient, so we could get them in cities close to empire (e.g., MIT) and then whip courthouses.

And, as usual, the demographics.