that looks good from the micro perspective 
we've talked about the short-term priorities often and i think we're all pretty clear on what we need to do for the next 5-10 turns. looking a little further out, we as a team have to start asking ourselves a couple of questions:
- if we're saving worker chops for wonders, which ones? we've seen teams go after wonders very early so far in order to make sure they get them w/ 16 teams competing. you can bet krill will go after parthenon, ottomans will target HG (hammams in every city), everyone wants the GLib... what do WE go after? No point saving chops if we donât know what theyâre going towards when they could be going into faster expansion NOW which translates into multiplicative gains down the line.
- per the micro plan above, we're going to have 5 going on 6 workers (assuming midas also builds one?), for 3 cities and 3 warriors - tricky and brute don't count. also i think barbs start showing up when 3rd cities get founded - we're still 15 turns from a real unit. it's a bit of a farmer's gambit.
- when are we planning on having marble city founded. corollary to that, how many "real units" would we consider to be a sufficient skeleton defence to have DIM start the required settler - 1? 2? 3? When do we get the ottoman chariot? Ottos are ahead of us in terms of settling, remember we need a big head start or to get some serious culture in there, otherwise the city is crippled.
These are the techs Ilios mentioned would be part of the tech trade
*Iron Working
*Horseback Riding
*Monarchy
*Mathematics
*Metal Casting
*Currency
*Aesthetics
HBR is cheap, but weâre a civ whose main strengths are economic. If we forego HBR (hopefully England picks that up), what do we go for? Any progress w/ Egypt in terms of Mono? I still think our chances of getting it are negligible. Would it make sense to target Aesthetics (for GLib) or Currency (for CoL). And more generally, what is our plan as far as getting CoL is concerned.
Weâve done a pretty good job on the near-term picture but at the moment weâre playing without a long-term plan in place. Itâs probably the right time to start thinking about it. I'm just bringing this up because while the micro looks good, we're ignoring the bigger strategic elements (what do we do about rome? what is in OUR best interests to research for the first round of trading? do we go balls-out for CoL once the trades are in? who, strategically, make the best allies for us? do we join at the hip with ottomans until the late game?) - again, we've done the right thing to be focused on the short-term until now, but this is the right time to start forming some longer-term plans.
we've talked about the short-term priorities often and i think we're all pretty clear on what we need to do for the next 5-10 turns. looking a little further out, we as a team have to start asking ourselves a couple of questions:
- if we're saving worker chops for wonders, which ones? we've seen teams go after wonders very early so far in order to make sure they get them w/ 16 teams competing. you can bet krill will go after parthenon, ottomans will target HG (hammams in every city), everyone wants the GLib... what do WE go after? No point saving chops if we donât know what theyâre going towards when they could be going into faster expansion NOW which translates into multiplicative gains down the line.
- per the micro plan above, we're going to have 5 going on 6 workers (assuming midas also builds one?), for 3 cities and 3 warriors - tricky and brute don't count. also i think barbs start showing up when 3rd cities get founded - we're still 15 turns from a real unit. it's a bit of a farmer's gambit.
- when are we planning on having marble city founded. corollary to that, how many "real units" would we consider to be a sufficient skeleton defence to have DIM start the required settler - 1? 2? 3? When do we get the ottoman chariot? Ottos are ahead of us in terms of settling, remember we need a big head start or to get some serious culture in there, otherwise the city is crippled.
These are the techs Ilios mentioned would be part of the tech trade
*Iron Working
*Horseback Riding
*Monarchy
*Mathematics
*Metal Casting
*Currency
*Aesthetics
HBR is cheap, but weâre a civ whose main strengths are economic. If we forego HBR (hopefully England picks that up), what do we go for? Any progress w/ Egypt in terms of Mono? I still think our chances of getting it are negligible. Would it make sense to target Aesthetics (for GLib) or Currency (for CoL). And more generally, what is our plan as far as getting CoL is concerned.
Weâve done a pretty good job on the near-term picture but at the moment weâre playing without a long-term plan in place. Itâs probably the right time to start thinking about it. I'm just bringing this up because while the micro looks good, we're ignoring the bigger strategic elements (what do we do about rome? what is in OUR best interests to research for the first round of trading? do we go balls-out for CoL once the trades are in? who, strategically, make the best allies for us? do we join at the hip with ottomans until the late game?) - again, we've done the right thing to be focused on the short-term until now, but this is the right time to start forming some longer-term plans.