Mackoti had a score increase, which might make the settling double-move question moot, so I logged in to check. To be greeted by this odd offer. I declined, then re-offered the same, but I'm not sure what it is that I've offered... I also (separately) asked him for clam, crab and fish, just to let him know I'm not happy about losing all of those to his boats.
Interestingly Mackoti declared on dtay and his frigates are heading for dtay's seafood... His privateer is in our waters though, interdicting a Moai tile, and threatening our repaired fishing nets next turn.
But the most important question? Where did that new city go? Well he placed it on the ruins of Barcelona. I hadn't even thought about that. I suppose a 3-food city tile is pretty good, but it just doesn't live up to having the 5-food tile does it? If I'm right it's also going to be forever before he takes the highlighted cow tile (unless he bombs one of the cities) which means both these cities are very vulnerable to us...
Anyway what do we do with our settler now? We have five possibilities that I can see.
1. On a hill this city gives Cannae and Gallipoli some cover but will never get second ring borders to make it safe from 2-movers
2. Will immediately claim back the tiles that we have cultural majority on (with the red circles) and could get the orange one back too. However it's on flat ground and Eridu is pretty hot on culture so it may not be that great a site. There is a decent chunk of commerce in those dyes though. My second favourite, although it precludes:
3. This hill takes back a lot more of our salient into Mack's interior, I think we could save this spot for later, when a road on the hill might allow us to settle and advance on Ur all in one turn (say, for instance we put a stack of 2 movers NW of Stalingrad, they could be razing Ur the next turn). If his privateer sticks around I want to do something like this sooner rather than later...
4. My favourite at the moment - it gives Quantrill cover, is on a hill and can share some workshops with Quantrill, the only food is the banana it also shares with Q though, so it's not perfect
5. If we take Madrid we could put a city on this island to use the clams
We need to decide which one pretty tonight - the settler is available next turn...
Interestingly Mackoti declared on dtay and his frigates are heading for dtay's seafood... His privateer is in our waters though, interdicting a Moai tile, and threatening our repaired fishing nets next turn.
But the most important question? Where did that new city go? Well he placed it on the ruins of Barcelona. I hadn't even thought about that. I suppose a 3-food city tile is pretty good, but it just doesn't live up to having the 5-food tile does it? If I'm right it's also going to be forever before he takes the highlighted cow tile (unless he bombs one of the cities) which means both these cities are very vulnerable to us...
Anyway what do we do with our settler now? We have five possibilities that I can see.
1. On a hill this city gives Cannae and Gallipoli some cover but will never get second ring borders to make it safe from 2-movers
2. Will immediately claim back the tiles that we have cultural majority on (with the red circles) and could get the orange one back too. However it's on flat ground and Eridu is pretty hot on culture so it may not be that great a site. There is a decent chunk of commerce in those dyes though. My second favourite, although it precludes:
3. This hill takes back a lot more of our salient into Mack's interior, I think we could save this spot for later, when a road on the hill might allow us to settle and advance on Ur all in one turn (say, for instance we put a stack of 2 movers NW of Stalingrad, they could be razing Ur the next turn). If his privateer sticks around I want to do something like this sooner rather than later...
4. My favourite at the moment - it gives Quantrill cover, is on a hill and can share some workshops with Quantrill, the only food is the banana it also shares with Q though, so it's not perfect
5. If we take Madrid we could put a city on this island to use the clams
We need to decide which one pretty tonight - the settler is available next turn...
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
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