First of all, nice discussion here and an eye-opening sim from OH 
Here are some random thoughts to topics that I haven't replied yet:
Specialists:
Very good reminder by OH. We are not in a hurry to generate a Great Person, but we will still want to start soon. I think we want to start generating 2 Great Scientists, one of them for academy in Alfie and one for a 1-person GA so that we can switch into HR, OR + Bureaucracy and adopt a religion. (maybe produce a great person or two during the GA through Caste) Hmm.. When will we have Civil Service.. T120-130?
Azza attack + tech path:
Very interesting and difficult topic, we really should play the next 10 turns by the ear and follow Azza's development before deciding. Calendar and CoL provide both enormous boosts for our civ and delaying them in order to attack Azza with HAs + cats is a major trade-off. However, when it comes to war, speed is what counts and delaying an attack for economic techs reduces the chances of success.. So.. Immediate military beeline after Currency or maybe Calendar/Col first or some kind of a compromise between those two??
When I followed OH's sim I also wondered whether we want HBR before Construction.. The idea being that we take first cities through a quick 2-mover attack, then hold the ground for a sec and use cats (who follow a bit behind) for taking remaining cities without too big losses. As said, I'm having a hard time deciding between a peaceful but bold expansion to 20+ cities followed by guilds beeline and faster HA+cats-powered attack (an attempt to get us enough land for 30 cities asap)... Hmm..
Random stuff:
I'm hoping Barry Lyndon is putting at least some kind of a resistance and pindicator is not getting total city gifts. I fear that we will get a powerful northern neighbor.. If I have to guess, I would say that pindicator is winning a bit too easily and Barry is not too competent, but well, we know really nothing about the situation, so cross your fingers for total bloodbath.
Masonry -> Stone quarry -> chop or two into Mids sounds tempting if the wonder does not fall too early.
I guess it's safe to assume that the wonder won't be too long available and as we currently have several extremely valuable techs that we need.. Shaving off an extra turn or two from our ETAs would be great.
Here are some random thoughts to topics that I haven't replied yet:Specialists:
Very good reminder by OH. We are not in a hurry to generate a Great Person, but we will still want to start soon. I think we want to start generating 2 Great Scientists, one of them for academy in Alfie and one for a 1-person GA so that we can switch into HR, OR + Bureaucracy and adopt a religion. (maybe produce a great person or two during the GA through Caste) Hmm.. When will we have Civil Service.. T120-130?
Azza attack + tech path:
Very interesting and difficult topic, we really should play the next 10 turns by the ear and follow Azza's development before deciding. Calendar and CoL provide both enormous boosts for our civ and delaying them in order to attack Azza with HAs + cats is a major trade-off. However, when it comes to war, speed is what counts and delaying an attack for economic techs reduces the chances of success.. So.. Immediate military beeline after Currency or maybe Calendar/Col first or some kind of a compromise between those two??
When I followed OH's sim I also wondered whether we want HBR before Construction.. The idea being that we take first cities through a quick 2-mover attack, then hold the ground for a sec and use cats (who follow a bit behind) for taking remaining cities without too big losses. As said, I'm having a hard time deciding between a peaceful but bold expansion to 20+ cities followed by guilds beeline and faster HA+cats-powered attack (an attempt to get us enough land for 30 cities asap)... Hmm..Random stuff:
I'm hoping Barry Lyndon is putting at least some kind of a resistance and pindicator is not getting total city gifts. I fear that we will get a powerful northern neighbor.. If I have to guess, I would say that pindicator is winning a bit too easily and Barry is not too competent, but well, we know really nothing about the situation, so cross your fingers for total bloodbath.
Masonry -> Stone quarry -> chop or two into Mids sounds tempting if the wonder does not fall too early.
I guess it's safe to assume that the wonder won't be too long available and as we currently have several extremely valuable techs that we need.. Shaving off an extra turn or two from our ETAs would be great.