Turn 222
We have Coal, but in very weak locations:
These 2 are our only sources. The are annoyingly both at the dtay border and tile yield wise useless. Eastern coal is just outside Jamestown's BFC and LB's coal is simply a weaker tile than merchant while building wealth.
But this was interesting:
William has a real army it seems.
When counting 1 one cav inside Manon there are 40 cavs and 14 cuirs in this picture. He must have been upgrading quite a bit, because he does not have Rifling that long. So yeah, he probably would survive a while if attacked although I believe that plako is just happy to consolidate his gains for now. WilliamLP's future does not seem too promising though, because he is quite a bit behind in tech and probably has spend quite a few turns of research into army. For example he lacks chemisty IIRC. So yes, his WilliamLP's economy is not terrible, ours is maybe just 20 % better, but he simply has not accumulated enough beakers so I would imagine that he will not really have anything to say when the era of tanks comes. 
Not that we have much either I guess :P
Btw tanks, I checked civilopedia and they did not seem to have Barrage promotion available there. I'm sure I have used that in Single Player back in the days so maybe I just missed it? EDIT: Nevermind, quick googling shows that it was removed in later patches, makes sense.
As discussed, we don't feel too threatened, but playing turns will be much more relaxing if we have new set of enforced peace locking our huge border with mack:
Thanks!
My PBEM45 attack on Sareln and these 2 declarations against Ichabod have been maybe the most exciting turns I've played although they haven't contained too much of real fighting. Preparing something like that is quite fun as well. It's surely clear, but I have to mention that OH deserves equal amount of credit/blame when it comes to our crazy attempts during this game. 
Yeah! We are actually finishing our 7th Courthouse in 3 turns.. AGG has really made us to skip those, which also means that our EP generation sucks and we lost Ichabod's and dtay's graphs this turn. Let's run 10 % EP slider in couple of turns and get them back?
Jamestown started a Levee, maybe drydock after that!
Domestic head-scratching:
I'm having a hard time trying to decide whether we should switch back to Theocracy. It would feel wasteful to produce a bunch of 4 XP Frigates, but strictly economically OR is a better deal (not really a game-changer or anything). Maybe 5 turns in Theocracy starting next turn and then back to OR?
And yeah, do you have preferences where we put our overflow when we finish Sci Meth and start saving gold?
Assembly Line?
Railroad?
Physics?
Biology?
Lib-Communism?
I don't think we have had so many interesting tech options for quite a long time.
Will we go for naval power aka Railroad+Physics+Artillery+Combustion in some order for destroyers?
Or improve our land units by taking Assembly Line for draftable rifles and maybe head then towards Industrialism?
Or think that we can get away with something Economical such as Biology
Btw, RBMod tech costs make this era pretty interesting despite huge land disparity. We are actually not that many techs behind leaders, but still when we look at accumulated beakers the difference is quite significant. That means that turn-wise we are again enough behind so that we need to fight with a clear tech disadvantage if scooter or mack (or Commodore?) beeline strong military techs and utilize them immediately.
We have Coal, but in very weak locations:
These 2 are our only sources. The are annoyingly both at the dtay border and tile yield wise useless. Eastern coal is just outside Jamestown's BFC and LB's coal is simply a weaker tile than merchant while building wealth.
But this was interesting:
William has a real army it seems.
When counting 1 one cav inside Manon there are 40 cavs and 14 cuirs in this picture. He must have been upgrading quite a bit, because he does not have Rifling that long. So yeah, he probably would survive a while if attacked although I believe that plako is just happy to consolidate his gains for now. WilliamLP's future does not seem too promising though, because he is quite a bit behind in tech and probably has spend quite a few turns of research into army. For example he lacks chemisty IIRC. So yes, his WilliamLP's economy is not terrible, ours is maybe just 20 % better, but he simply has not accumulated enough beakers so I would imagine that he will not really have anything to say when the era of tanks comes. Not that we have much either I guess :PBtw tanks, I checked civilopedia and they did not seem to have Barrage promotion available there. I'm sure I have used that in Single Player back in the days so maybe I just missed it? EDIT: Nevermind, quick googling shows that it was removed in later patches, makes sense.
As discussed, we don't feel too threatened, but playing turns will be much more relaxing if we have new set of enforced peace locking our huge border with mack:
(April 15th, 2014, 17:19)Molach Wrote: A bit belatedly, but we should add this to PB 18 awards:
The Fintourist award: For the most surprising & crippling naval/amphibious attack in the game.
Thanks!
My PBEM45 attack on Sareln and these 2 declarations against Ichabod have been maybe the most exciting turns I've played although they haven't contained too much of real fighting. Preparing something like that is quite fun as well. It's surely clear, but I have to mention that OH deserves equal amount of credit/blame when it comes to our crazy attempts during this game. (April 16th, 2014, 03:21)Old Harry Wrote: While we're in OR should we build the forbidden palace somewhere and a drydock in jamestown?
Yeah! We are actually finishing our 7th Courthouse in 3 turns.. AGG has really made us to skip those, which also means that our EP generation sucks and we lost Ichabod's and dtay's graphs this turn. Let's run 10 % EP slider in couple of turns and get them back?
Jamestown started a Levee, maybe drydock after that!
Domestic head-scratching:
I'm having a hard time trying to decide whether we should switch back to Theocracy. It would feel wasteful to produce a bunch of 4 XP Frigates, but strictly economically OR is a better deal (not really a game-changer or anything). Maybe 5 turns in Theocracy starting next turn and then back to OR?
And yeah, do you have preferences where we put our overflow when we finish Sci Meth and start saving gold?
Assembly Line?
Railroad?
Physics?
Biology?
Lib-Communism?
I don't think we have had so many interesting tech options for quite a long time.
Will we go for naval power aka Railroad+Physics+Artillery+Combustion in some order for destroyers?
Or improve our land units by taking Assembly Line for draftable rifles and maybe head then towards Industrialism?
Or think that we can get away with something Economical such as Biology
Btw, RBMod tech costs make this era pretty interesting despite huge land disparity. We are actually not that many techs behind leaders, but still when we look at accumulated beakers the difference is quite significant. That means that turn-wise we are again enough behind so that we need to fight with a clear tech disadvantage if scooter or mack (or Commodore?) beeline strong military techs and utilize them immediately.