Turn 107
Bad news - we got a scientist, not the engineer that the warmongers among us really wanted.
On the bright side Joey has two Iron resources hooked, so we're probably going to be good for the metal once we get the tech. 
If he adds another spear Joey should have enough to hold out against these attackers - OT won't take the capital, but might head NE to snipe The Wildlands.
This lot, on the other hand, pose a much bigger threat. Those CR axes are just deadly! Should we give Joey stone after we finish Moai?
Our final chops go into the MoM build. We have at least a coinflip now, and we can't just keep losing coinflips all game. Right?
Oh well, we'll get 250ish gold even if we lose out so that should be enough to make someone pay. We're still unsure about the shape of the next 30 turns. If we win this race (is it a race?) then there are a couple of options.
1. Build an Academy, get Iron Working and Machinery asap, build trebuchets and crossbows and hurt Toku in ten turns time.
2. Tech Code of Laws, throw a golden age, revolt to Caste and then try to do the military stuff while trying to get our astro bulb before the end of the GA. Probably half-assing both enough to mean we need to throw a second golden age straight away afterwards.
If we lose the consensus seems to be that we kill Toku.
Any votes from the lurkers?
I realised we haven't looked at the mini-map that Calendar gives us - I'll guess that we've got eight of the starting civs on our continent (there doesn't seem to be space to have another four that we haven't met so far). Assuming similar continents for the 24 civs in the game the worrying thing is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of space for the astro-islands that we've been assuming exist. Have we been given a particularly cramped start, while Joey gets endless (useless before Iron Working) lush terrain to inhabit? FT points out that only 3480/5720 tiles have been settled, so we're still confident there are islands out there. But where will they be?
One last thing - OT4E is going to start scouting us next turn. We should complete the spear in time for him to see it.
Demos and power. I'm feeling pretty secure in spite of being 13th in military power. Famous last words as we complete MoM and OT turns his ridiculous horsey army in our direction...
Bad news - we got a scientist, not the engineer that the warmongers among us really wanted.
On the bright side Joey has two Iron resources hooked, so we're probably going to be good for the metal once we get the tech. If he adds another spear Joey should have enough to hold out against these attackers - OT won't take the capital, but might head NE to snipe The Wildlands.
This lot, on the other hand, pose a much bigger threat. Those CR axes are just deadly! Should we give Joey stone after we finish Moai?
Our final chops go into the MoM build. We have at least a coinflip now, and we can't just keep losing coinflips all game. Right?
Oh well, we'll get 250ish gold even if we lose out so that should be enough to make someone pay. We're still unsure about the shape of the next 30 turns. If we win this race (is it a race?) then there are a couple of options.
1. Build an Academy, get Iron Working and Machinery asap, build trebuchets and crossbows and hurt Toku in ten turns time.
2. Tech Code of Laws, throw a golden age, revolt to Caste and then try to do the military stuff while trying to get our astro bulb before the end of the GA. Probably half-assing both enough to mean we need to throw a second golden age straight away afterwards.
If we lose the consensus seems to be that we kill Toku.
Any votes from the lurkers?
I realised we haven't looked at the mini-map that Calendar gives us - I'll guess that we've got eight of the starting civs on our continent (there doesn't seem to be space to have another four that we haven't met so far). Assuming similar continents for the 24 civs in the game the worrying thing is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of space for the astro-islands that we've been assuming exist. Have we been given a particularly cramped start, while Joey gets endless (useless before Iron Working) lush terrain to inhabit? FT points out that only 3480/5720 tiles have been settled, so we're still confident there are islands out there. But where will they be?
One last thing - OT4E is going to start scouting us next turn. We should complete the spear in time for him to see it.
Demos and power. I'm feeling pretty secure in spite of being 13th in military power. Famous last words as we complete MoM and OT turns his ridiculous horsey army in our direction...
Completed: RB Demogame - Gillette, PBEM46, Pitboss 13, Pitboss 18, Pitboss 30, Pitboss 31, Pitboss 38, Pitboss 42, Pitboss 46, Pitboss 52 (Pindicator's game), Pitboss 57
In progress: Rimworld
In progress: Rimworld