Turn 84:
Hello.
He just settled his 6th city this turn, this settler will be his seventh. We don't know if he is settling and island or his mainland. We will know next turn if he has Sailing. Sailing now presents itself as an option after Alphabet. Best case scenario? Alphabet eot87, Sailing eot91 with research builds. More likely I delay Alphabet slightly, start research T86 with the capital library in place? Oh not, one turn trade routes is worth more than a turn of 100% research through the capital library.
Chariot checks next turn to show units in the city. Wait until size 2 and capture, chariot to return to Sing Sing Sing to lower supply costs and barb cities don't grow if you have units outside them. I want to delay capture until closer to IW, but I won't turn down the happy if it's attainable.
This forest disappeared on T83. The world map from T82 shows the forest there: someone has settled a city off the forest, as no one settled a city last turn, and then chopped it. Could be anyone. I was wondering if we could make a play for the marble, but obviously not. I need to get the HE chariot down here with the medic scout, see if it is OH, or someone different. Probably OH, which is setting this continent up for some ethnic cleansing. I expect the city to be 1SW of the sign, with a future city to go 1N of the corn, and a missionary popping borders.
Stream of consciousness: as the worers are running off to desecrate the land to speed up Mids, there will be no further tile improvements for 10 turns. The deer is given up next turn, meaning there are only 8 tile improvements to work. I want that commerce from JJ, so plan, grow JJ to size 3, work sheep and two furs. Finish the work boat then build another: I'll have to get workboats out of JJ for the coastal cities anyway, and galleys aren't available yet. Next turn it only needs the sheep and a furs to work anyway.
BCR therefore picks up both farms and the hill. Growth@4 eot87. Yeah, one of these cities gets double whipped...Worker whipped T89, overflow into further worker leaves it around 40/60 eot90, likely completed either after growth@3 eot92, worker eot94, stack whip anger and whip T91 leaving BCR@size 1 with 14 food in the box, or just complete at size 2...or potentially, just hide the overflow behind a research build and regrow. If JJ does the double whip though...growth@3 eot85, growth@4 eot87, double whip worker T89 exactly the same, and then hide the overflow, but I can't complete the first workboat because I'll burn overflow. I could delay the worker slightly to finish the workboat. This would only delay the worker by one turn, so probably worth it, and then JJ can hide the overflow until it is ready to finish another worker, or I can dump it into a galley to whip. That's better IMO. The downside is that BCR doesn't have a third tile to work next turn. I could one pop whip a further worker in BCR on T88 actually, stopping at size 3 and working a bare plains hill to reach 6 base hpt. Or give up 3 hammers for 3 commerce and work a river plains tile.
I'll mull this one over. I am going to need workers if we hit Mids to improve the extra 25 tiles I want to grow onto immediately after swapping to Rep, but at the same time I want to grow BCR onto mines to build research, mines that we don't have. Fuck it, the unhappy would wear off before reaching the rep happy cap, so it's probably worth it to whip the workers in both cities.
I reckon Gav is 100% reliant on his capture gold to reach Alphabet, and OH isn't much better off looking at his graphs. This game feels like PBEM5B again: some players balancing expansion with bankruptcy, others balancing expansion versus tech.
Hello.
He just settled his 6th city this turn, this settler will be his seventh. We don't know if he is settling and island or his mainland. We will know next turn if he has Sailing. Sailing now presents itself as an option after Alphabet. Best case scenario? Alphabet eot87, Sailing eot91 with research builds. More likely I delay Alphabet slightly, start research T86 with the capital library in place? Oh not, one turn trade routes is worth more than a turn of 100% research through the capital library.
Chariot checks next turn to show units in the city. Wait until size 2 and capture, chariot to return to Sing Sing Sing to lower supply costs and barb cities don't grow if you have units outside them. I want to delay capture until closer to IW, but I won't turn down the happy if it's attainable.
This forest disappeared on T83. The world map from T82 shows the forest there: someone has settled a city off the forest, as no one settled a city last turn, and then chopped it. Could be anyone. I was wondering if we could make a play for the marble, but obviously not. I need to get the HE chariot down here with the medic scout, see if it is OH, or someone different. Probably OH, which is setting this continent up for some ethnic cleansing. I expect the city to be 1SW of the sign, with a future city to go 1N of the corn, and a missionary popping borders.
Stream of consciousness: as the worers are running off to desecrate the land to speed up Mids, there will be no further tile improvements for 10 turns. The deer is given up next turn, meaning there are only 8 tile improvements to work. I want that commerce from JJ, so plan, grow JJ to size 3, work sheep and two furs. Finish the work boat then build another: I'll have to get workboats out of JJ for the coastal cities anyway, and galleys aren't available yet. Next turn it only needs the sheep and a furs to work anyway.
BCR therefore picks up both farms and the hill. Growth@4 eot87. Yeah, one of these cities gets double whipped...Worker whipped T89, overflow into further worker leaves it around 40/60 eot90, likely completed either after growth@3 eot92, worker eot94, stack whip anger and whip T91 leaving BCR@size 1 with 14 food in the box, or just complete at size 2...or potentially, just hide the overflow behind a research build and regrow. If JJ does the double whip though...growth@3 eot85, growth@4 eot87, double whip worker T89 exactly the same, and then hide the overflow, but I can't complete the first workboat because I'll burn overflow. I could delay the worker slightly to finish the workboat. This would only delay the worker by one turn, so probably worth it, and then JJ can hide the overflow until it is ready to finish another worker, or I can dump it into a galley to whip. That's better IMO. The downside is that BCR doesn't have a third tile to work next turn. I could one pop whip a further worker in BCR on T88 actually, stopping at size 3 and working a bare plains hill to reach 6 base hpt. Or give up 3 hammers for 3 commerce and work a river plains tile.
I'll mull this one over. I am going to need workers if we hit Mids to improve the extra 25 tiles I want to grow onto immediately after swapping to Rep, but at the same time I want to grow BCR onto mines to build research, mines that we don't have. Fuck it, the unhappy would wear off before reaching the rep happy cap, so it's probably worth it to whip the workers in both cities.
I reckon Gav is 100% reliant on his capture gold to reach Alphabet, and OH isn't much better off looking at his graphs. This game feels like PBEM5B again: some players balancing expansion with bankruptcy, others balancing expansion versus tech.