RBP3 - [SPOILERS] - Team DIM (Mehmed of HRE)

[Ilios]

Well well, a lot of information to digest...

Diplomacy:

- A4

So they are pleased we’re pleased eh? Well, that pleases me…

Looking at the screenshot they sent us, it would seem that they started E of Aquilonia’s position. I’m glad that my educated guess they started with a river Rice proved to be correct.
I’m not sure, but it would seem that their silver was placed on a plains forest. Not really fair I’d say, given that ours was placed in a fetid jungle, which we won’t be able to remove until we discover sharper tools…

Meatbalz, correct me if I’m wrong, but they sent us a screenshot without the minimap, right? Then I would suggest removing ours as well before we send our screenshot back. No need to give them all our scouting secrets. (could we also remove my “city?” signs)

Is that a settler they have almost finished producing? I’m confident they will settle their second city near the horses, either N or NN from their warrior (NW or N-NW from the Corn). Could we maybe ask them to confirm? We could also tell them where we plan to settle our second city.

I think another easy way to gain their trust is regarding India. I suggest we inform A4 we’ve met them, and we then ask if they would mind us pointing out A4’s location to them.

- DJ

Fantastic catch on the Stonehedge MB!
Yes, they discovered BW around T15-16 (I don’t have access to my C&D spreadsheet at work), so India has probably been clearing their capital of its trees since. I’d probably have gone the Spulla way and chopped me some more workers and settlers out asap, but hey.
MB, do they even have a garrison unit? Another high risk start from this team!

Dotmap and Sandbox:

While I do agree that the Marble city would be a fantastic hammer site, I’m a bit concerned this would leave us a bit overextended, especially if we make it our third city.
(I think it isn’t a 2 hammer plant, looks like flat plains forest)

And let’s not forget that A4 might want the site for them.
Maybe we could convince them leaving the site for us, if we offer them the Gold/Sheep/FP site in return, AND we offer to trade the marble freely when they have a need for it (and we’re not using it to build Parthenon/Great Library/Mausoleum).

If we do get the site, I would propose we plant another city between city 2 and 3 (EE from the Spices, W from the peak tile), borrowing the grassland Sheep tile from city 2. If A4 would plant a city there, it would get culturally crushed from 3 sides, so we’d probably be able to get it as well.

Regarding the Sandbox, I was wondering how the city upkeep works.
I know the amount of land tiles is a factor, so Dazed, if you could add some more land tiles to get to the exact same tiles as the PB3 game, I’d be much obliged. But I don’t know if we need to take the total amount of tiles (ocean tiles included) into account as well. I’ll look into it as soon as I can.

Research:

I think it’s safe to assume that we’d get a few more teams into our tech alliance. So the tech we’re planning to use as trade material for could still change in the future.
I do hope we get the Marble site, so we can make use of the Masonry tech we’ll need to research, on our way to Monotheism.