(November 16th, 2018, 14:40)Rusten Wrote: Take your time. As mentioned in my 1st post it is indeed easier to judge with more scouting, so I support waiting until BW, but I'd be surprised if an earlier granary beats out an earlier settler.
Just been looking at the spreadsheet, so this is just a rough calculation on a Friday night with a headache, but this is what it looks like. Remember settler1 eot30
Worker3 eot32, worker4 eot36, settler eot39, granary eot41, leaving 3 chops and using 1 pop whip that wears off around the time reaching size 5, and can then triple whip settler3 around t53, Warriors eot44 and eot50.
Worker3 eot32, settler2 eot38, then split option for worker 4 or settler3. Due to fewer workers, corn can't be hooked before t44.
If going straight settler, it completes eot36 but corn can't be hooked before t42 and we burn worker turns moving the worker.
The tldr for me is that disregarding the tech options, it's better to just grab the third and fourth worker before the settler, and we have the option of not chopping, instead putting roads down to the corn/fp site, not whipping just pushes back the settler to eot40, a single turn. Or just chop out the settler and overflow to settler4, which would then be due eot45. And if we one pop shipped on t45, the granary could be completed eot47 with a single chop and the foodbox half full. I think this works with wheel>Agri>pottery, and still allows the corn to be hooked asap.