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

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[SIZE="3"]T77 update:[/SIZE]

Ottomans finished Hanging Gardens, as expected. They are now in the lead and I think they're one the favourites to win this game.

Here's a tactical update:



Lots of barbs as you can see.

The westernmost barb will be taken out by the chariot we just got gifted by the Ottomans. The northern barb will be taken out by our chariot at DIM.
The eastern barb is actually the most annoying. Another barb warrior in our territory has just suicided against a Combat 2 Carthage warrior in a forest.
If I didn't need to move a worker on the forest with a white "X" so it can be chopped, then I'd just move our warrior into the forest.
I've had to move Pestilence, our third Horse Archer, into position to attack it, meaning it won't get to the French Theatre by T84 at the earliest.
You can see our other Horse Archers in the SE corner of the screenshot.
The blue X is the tile Brute, our second roving warrior, will be moving to in two turns.



Originally we had planned to found Marble city (the "green" dot) as next city, because we were afraid an Ottoman city to the site's NW would claim the wet Wheat tile with its third ring. If we'd want to, we could found it on T86-87, and this includes building a small stretch of road to speed up the settler's movement.
But it would be vulnerable, and we wouldn't be able to get it up and running fast enough to compensate for the big hit we'd take in upkeep costs. I'd like to start researching CoL next turn to coincide with the silver coming online at DIM, and I expect overal costs to increase by at least 6 gold if we do found the Marble site.
Therefore, I think it would be better to claim the northern site first (the "black" dot).
The two worker currently mining the silver move to the forest tile NW of DIM and start chopping (2). Chop is due T81, with the settler to finish T82. Both workers then move to the blue X (3) and start chopping it, finishing the chop as soon as Black dot is founded, and completing a Monument right away. They will then move south and finish a cottage (4). Together with the commerce from a trade route with an English city, it will contribute 5 beakers immediately after finishing the cottage. The Workers then move to the forests leading to our Marble site, and will start roading towards it (5 and 6).
1) Mine finished T78
2) chop finished T81
3) chop finished T84
4) cottage finished T86
5) road finished T88
6) road finished T90 - then start chopping
The worker we're using to chop the other forest near DIM (1), will move to the forest next to the Iron and start roading two more tiles towards the Marble site (2 and 3)
1) chop finished T81
2) road finished T85
3) road finished T87

Singa will finish another settler on T90, and using the interDIM roadway, will found Marble city on T92. I plan on using the free Confu missionary on Marble site to increase culture production (I think CoL/Confu will land around the same time)