Turn 67
Well, I was one of the first to log in this time, but I'll probably end the turn, do military moves and whip the settler for our 7th city in the morning (if Azza has not played by then, so be it).
Meanwhile let's show some overview pics for a change:
1. I'm starting to lean more and more towards retep's guess/wisdom and say that we are on a 3-player continent. It's still very much possible that there is something west of Brick+Mardoc, but yeah, this might well be a "squeeze-Azza-Continent"
2. That said I think our position is very decent or at least has some potential. I'm still dreaming of winning settling races in multiple directions:
a. Pushing west first towards Azza has obviously been a good call here if we can avoid an early war.
b. If we can get still those 2 cities in the north, one of them tagged with "Moai" I'm satisfied. The challenge here is not only Azza, who we have kind of blocked. I'm actually more worried that we find a creative neighbor who will contest all the sea food there..
c. In the east in my dreams we get the whole coast. The extreme SE is a lot closer to Cheater Hater, but I'm hoping that he will be busy with expanding east and thanks to map trading it's possible that he will never (way too late) find out that it would be pretty reasonable from him to get couple of cities on our continent.
d. That looks very very much like an island SW of us and SE of Azza. Actually I think that is technically now confirmed as well. I'm hoping that we get to settle the most SW "C" sign before Azza and can jump into island from there.
e. Best case scenario is that we get 20 cities here peacefully which would be a ridiculous improvement from PB13, where there were significantly more land tiles per player, but we were out of land despite being first civ to 15 cities. And even that required warfare with 2 neighbors (m_h south, suttree east) and clashing borders with the other 2 (Ichabod west, dtay north). However, I guess it has to be expected that someone will try to ruin our sand castle sooner rather than later..
Some observations:
1. It seems we have gems, Azza gold and Mardoc silver. So in order to get all metals we need to conquer our continent. I guess Commodore has prepared us a clear game plan
2. Thanks to our sugar city we should have 6 luxury resources, we did not really steal Azza's happiness, he has 6 as well, but so far I only see silver for Mardoc. There is surely something in the fog, but I imagine that he will put Buddhism happiness into good use this game
3. Azza has a stone resource next to his gold so I hope that he won't contest our stone+crabs city (I still probably want it to be our 9th/10th city.
Well, I was one of the first to log in this time, but I'll probably end the turn, do military moves and whip the settler for our 7th city in the morning (if Azza has not played by then, so be it).
Meanwhile let's show some overview pics for a change:
1. I'm starting to lean more and more towards retep's guess/wisdom and say that we are on a 3-player continent. It's still very much possible that there is something west of Brick+Mardoc, but yeah, this might well be a "squeeze-Azza-Continent"
2. That said I think our position is very decent or at least has some potential. I'm still dreaming of winning settling races in multiple directions:
a. Pushing west first towards Azza has obviously been a good call here if we can avoid an early war.
b. If we can get still those 2 cities in the north, one of them tagged with "Moai" I'm satisfied. The challenge here is not only Azza, who we have kind of blocked. I'm actually more worried that we find a creative neighbor who will contest all the sea food there..
c. In the east in my dreams we get the whole coast. The extreme SE is a lot closer to Cheater Hater, but I'm hoping that he will be busy with expanding east and thanks to map trading it's possible that he will never (way too late) find out that it would be pretty reasonable from him to get couple of cities on our continent.
d. That looks very very much like an island SW of us and SE of Azza. Actually I think that is technically now confirmed as well. I'm hoping that we get to settle the most SW "C" sign before Azza and can jump into island from there.
e. Best case scenario is that we get 20 cities here peacefully which would be a ridiculous improvement from PB13, where there were significantly more land tiles per player, but we were out of land despite being first civ to 15 cities. And even that required warfare with 2 neighbors (m_h south, suttree east) and clashing borders with the other 2 (Ichabod west, dtay north). However, I guess it has to be expected that someone will try to ruin our sand castle sooner rather than later..
Some observations:
1. It seems we have gems, Azza gold and Mardoc silver. So in order to get all metals we need to conquer our continent. I guess Commodore has prepared us a clear game plan
2. Thanks to our sugar city we should have 6 luxury resources, we did not really steal Azza's happiness, he has 6 as well, but so far I only see silver for Mardoc. There is surely something in the fog, but I imagine that he will put Buddhism happiness into good use this game
3. Azza has a stone resource next to his gold so I hope that he won't contest our stone+crabs city (I still probably want it to be our 9th/10th city.