Turn 212
Situation remains unchanged, mack declared and offered peace:
I accepted and offered OBs. Mack also declared scooter, probably offered peace there as well. I wonder what he is planning. Are mack & scooter just going to let plako consume Bacchus in peace so that we get 3 fairly equally strong leaders.
Us vs. Ichabod naval situation update: (only counting our ships that already are nearby)
Frigates: 11 vs 9
Privateers: 2 vs 1
Caravels: 2 vs 3
Galleons: 2 vs 2
Galleys: 0 vs 2
I spent a long-time wondering about whether we should switch into Nationhood. Economically it does not necessarily make sense, because giving up bureaucracy for 5 turns means a loss of 300 commerce and 45 hammers. It saves 250 gold in civic costs though (In 100 % gold mode we only lose ~25 gold per turn). We are only going to draft ~10 rifles, because as already said, 2-pop rifle drafts are not that awesome. They are still ok, so let's say we save couple of hundred hammers overall. In the end I still did it for macro/meta reasons. I want a couple of rifles into certain border cities stating to Ichabod that there is nothing to achieve for his knights, and also stating to dtay and mack that there won't be any free 2-mover attack opportunities available. And in the end, when our winter finally comes, I would guess that it's the hammers and not the money that is the true bottleneck in our defenses.
After going through our cities and adjusting them to new situation I have certain drafts in 8 cities scheduled (D,F,I,M,N,Q,T&Y). Possible additions are Omdu, Hastings, Watling Street and Zanzibar, but those are border cases due to their decent size and tile yields. One or two of those 8 more suitable cities are possibly drafted twice, but I haven't decided that yet.
Otherwise it was a fairly quiet turn, I work-shopped over couple of farms but left most still untouched, because I did not want to kill our irrigation chain. I shifted some units towards dtay front, our peace ends EOT215.
Steel should finish EOT215.
Demos & Power:
I promise to put more pictures in the next report!
Situation remains unchanged, mack declared and offered peace:
I accepted and offered OBs. Mack also declared scooter, probably offered peace there as well. I wonder what he is planning. Are mack & scooter just going to let plako consume Bacchus in peace so that we get 3 fairly equally strong leaders.
Us vs. Ichabod naval situation update: (only counting our ships that already are nearby)
Frigates: 11 vs 9
Privateers: 2 vs 1
Caravels: 2 vs 3
Galleons: 2 vs 2
Galleys: 0 vs 2
I spent a long-time wondering about whether we should switch into Nationhood. Economically it does not necessarily make sense, because giving up bureaucracy for 5 turns means a loss of 300 commerce and 45 hammers. It saves 250 gold in civic costs though (In 100 % gold mode we only lose ~25 gold per turn). We are only going to draft ~10 rifles, because as already said, 2-pop rifle drafts are not that awesome. They are still ok, so let's say we save couple of hundred hammers overall. In the end I still did it for macro/meta reasons. I want a couple of rifles into certain border cities stating to Ichabod that there is nothing to achieve for his knights, and also stating to dtay and mack that there won't be any free 2-mover attack opportunities available. And in the end, when our winter finally comes, I would guess that it's the hammers and not the money that is the true bottleneck in our defenses.
After going through our cities and adjusting them to new situation I have certain drafts in 8 cities scheduled (D,F,I,M,N,Q,T&Y). Possible additions are Omdu, Hastings, Watling Street and Zanzibar, but those are border cases due to their decent size and tile yields. One or two of those 8 more suitable cities are possibly drafted twice, but I haven't decided that yet.
Otherwise it was a fairly quiet turn, I work-shopped over couple of farms but left most still untouched, because I did not want to kill our irrigation chain. I shifted some units towards dtay front, our peace ends EOT215.
Steel should finish EOT215.
Demos & Power:
I promise to put more pictures in the next report!