Diplo-update
As I'm sure you all read about it in the other threads, a couple of turns ago, Krill asked for a diplosummit between him, India and ourselves. Here's the summary of what he proposed:
- Krill can build the Oracle by T62, coinciding with him researching Writing, allowing him to sling into Alphabet. (he's skipping BW and Pottery to do it)
- A tech alliance needs to be formed
- He will then spread around the tech to those with cheaper techs to trade around (e.g. Archery, Sailing, etc)
- Every team gets one of the more expensive techs to research. We've established the important ones:
*Iron Working
*Horseback Riding
*Monarchy
*Mathematics
*Metal Casting
*Currency
*Aesthetics
- DIM will probably head for Archery, then HBR. We will self-research The Wheel, but will be skipping Pottery IF I can get guarantees from Krill we will be getting the tech on T62. If he can't, we'll be self-researching it before heading for Archery.
- So far, Egypt, India, Portugal and DIM have commited themselves to the alliance. I've just received confirmation from the Ottomans that they're onboard as well (more on that in a minute)
- The alliance will probably include a couple of other teams (most likely Aztec and Carthage), but it goes without saying that the larger the alliance, the more unwieldy it becomes. The hard part will be to convince those teams to skip some essential techs to focus on their assigned tech.
As I'm sure you all read about it in the other threads, a couple of turns ago, Krill asked for a diplosummit between him, India and ourselves. Here's the summary of what he proposed:
- Krill can build the Oracle by T62, coinciding with him researching Writing, allowing him to sling into Alphabet. (he's skipping BW and Pottery to do it)
- A tech alliance needs to be formed
- He will then spread around the tech to those with cheaper techs to trade around (e.g. Archery, Sailing, etc)
- Every team gets one of the more expensive techs to research. We've established the important ones:
*Iron Working
*Horseback Riding
*Monarchy
*Mathematics
*Metal Casting
*Currency
*Aesthetics
- DIM will probably head for Archery, then HBR. We will self-research The Wheel, but will be skipping Pottery IF I can get guarantees from Krill we will be getting the tech on T62. If he can't, we'll be self-researching it before heading for Archery.
- So far, Egypt, India, Portugal and DIM have commited themselves to the alliance. I've just received confirmation from the Ottomans that they're onboard as well (more on that in a minute)
- The alliance will probably include a couple of other teams (most likely Aztec and Carthage), but it goes without saying that the larger the alliance, the more unwieldy it becomes. The hard part will be to convince those teams to skip some essential techs to focus on their assigned tech.