Ok guys, I just received confirmation from India that Hernan is no longer. He has served us well, and will be mourned by the whole empire of DIM.
This puts us in a bit of a pickle, because I was hoping we could use him to meet Aztec, and move Brute back to our borders. Now we have to decide wether we want him to slog west to try and find Ruff's capital, or tell him to head home.
The reason I would prefer to give a worker, is that if we do go for HBR, we'll need to supplement a tech to balance an Alphabet trade.
These are the cheap techs we will probably have researched, and which A4 will probably skip:
- Hunting = 40 beakers base cost
- Archery = 60 " "
- Masonry (to hook up the Marble) = 80 beakers base cost
If we don't tech Writing (120 beakers), I'd say we can use Hunting and Masonry to trade for it. We would the need Archery to balance out our HBR (250 beakers) for Alphabet (300 beakers) trade.
This will leave us with zero techs to offer them in the near future. So unless you guys want us to research a tech we probably won't need, I don't see what we could offer them to compensate for the Marble site.
Dazed, you seem to prefer the Horse site as first city site. MB, I recall your initial preference was Horse site as well, but as you're going to micro for the gold tile, have you changed your mind?
This puts us in a bit of a pickle, because I was hoping we could use him to meet Aztec, and move Brute back to our borders. Now we have to decide wether we want him to slog west to try and find Ruff's capital, or tell him to head home.
The reason I would prefer to give a worker, is that if we do go for HBR, we'll need to supplement a tech to balance an Alphabet trade.
These are the cheap techs we will probably have researched, and which A4 will probably skip:
- Hunting = 40 beakers base cost
- Archery = 60 " "
- Masonry (to hook up the Marble) = 80 beakers base cost
If we don't tech Writing (120 beakers), I'd say we can use Hunting and Masonry to trade for it. We would the need Archery to balance out our HBR (250 beakers) for Alphabet (300 beakers) trade.
This will leave us with zero techs to offer them in the near future. So unless you guys want us to research a tech we probably won't need, I don't see what we could offer them to compensate for the Marble site.
Dazed, you seem to prefer the Horse site as first city site. MB, I recall your initial preference was Horse site as well, but as you're going to micro for the gold tile, have you changed your mind?