Turn 85
Turn rolls are starting to become more tense, waiting to see if someone completes Mids, and the turns gain in complexity as new players start to affect decisions.
The odds are not fantastic, but I'm reconsidering trying to kill 2 warriors with the F1 chariot. The chariot would get 3XP for a victory, so one outcome is to attack, promote to F2, heal, attack again, promote sentry and unlock HE (I say outcome, because another is to plan extensively then bounce doing no hits to the first warrior. I don't want to tempt fate). Odds of the chariot dying over both attacks is something like 30%. But this is not unreasonable: It's to unlock the HE, not to take the city. There is backup from the axe to take the warriors out, and I would not want to take the first battle unless teh axe was in position anyway, and only after the city has grown to size 2. The 4XP chariot in Sing Sing Sing could promote C1 and get 89% on the first battle, and then 96% with the second if promoting shock, which is around 18% chance of dying at some point. But the main point is the 6XP chariot can remain to the west and try to get 2 more barb kills itself. So two opportunities to get units to 10XP.
The barb city is right in the perfect location for the dotmap IMO. There is so little food in this area no point cramming the cities in, and every city can be covered from the tile 2SE of Sing Sing Sing.
Galley. I wonder if I'm the only player to not have Sailing at this point? Also note superjm has Henge.
Exploration plan: this workboat should probably head straight east. The workboat from TX can go straight south and see who is to the east of OH, or if we get OB, it can try and go through OH.
The more interesting point is that I likely need to settle City R sooner than expected to put the boundary down between Superjm and us. I expect he may still settle for the islands. Fair enough, but I want him to know that his settling on the mainland is not going to be tolerated. OTOH, he has Rome, so "tolerate" means breaking anything he sends the turn it lands and walls in city R because it's on flatland. more on Superjm after the demographics screen.
superjm had a worker mining the copper, so I reckon the galley is empty and moving it forward was a thread to not declare war. Like I want that, I want trade routes even if I still need to tech Sailing to get them with him.
Someone is 8 turns ahead on the GS. I'm actually surprised I'm not further behind, I usually screw up the GP game until CoL lands and then bang out 5 GP like most people do. I'm still thinking that the front city here is the tile west of the corn. Pop borders, vision from two hills, a longer line of movement along hills for attackers and a straight forward canal city. Easy to set up with single inner ring forest to chop to get the granary, but going to have to irrigate everything from the north over plains once CS is in. And again, pressure to set up a third front city when I'm broke.
Over halfway, 9 turn rolls to go. As of next turn, this is 5 turns of max tech, of 400 base beakers available now. Pretty much at the point that we can go straight Currency if we miss Mids.
You'll note that the screenshots have shown various tech rates. I calculate, that due to growth over the next 3 turns, I only need 40% slider this turn to finish Alphabet eot87, so that's what I'm going with. Next turn grow onto a furs and LBJ picks up another capital cottage, and the capital gets the library. Base bpt jumps to over 80.
I was fairly sure that Superjm is top food, if only because when I logged in, I don't remember the top food being triple digit but now it is, after he played. And with his just settled 6th and 7th cities, I'm doubting my memory. F8 shows OH still has top pop at between 15-16%, I have 28 pop at 13%, so roughly that captured city plus a pop point or two is the difference, 34 pop maximum. I don't see superjm making 102 food given that two new cities make at most 8 each unless he has about 4 source of happiness and all his other cities are between size 6-8 but then he'd be top pop. Superjm can't be second in land eihter, as the new city gave 3 tiles but second place land went from 108K to 110K, and OH is still way below us in F8. That could be anyone, OT4E settled a city but borders can pop between turns.
Still no one with trade routes though.
Turn rolls are starting to become more tense, waiting to see if someone completes Mids, and the turns gain in complexity as new players start to affect decisions.
The odds are not fantastic, but I'm reconsidering trying to kill 2 warriors with the F1 chariot. The chariot would get 3XP for a victory, so one outcome is to attack, promote to F2, heal, attack again, promote sentry and unlock HE (I say outcome, because another is to plan extensively then bounce doing no hits to the first warrior. I don't want to tempt fate). Odds of the chariot dying over both attacks is something like 30%. But this is not unreasonable: It's to unlock the HE, not to take the city. There is backup from the axe to take the warriors out, and I would not want to take the first battle unless teh axe was in position anyway, and only after the city has grown to size 2. The 4XP chariot in Sing Sing Sing could promote C1 and get 89% on the first battle, and then 96% with the second if promoting shock, which is around 18% chance of dying at some point. But the main point is the 6XP chariot can remain to the west and try to get 2 more barb kills itself. So two opportunities to get units to 10XP.
The barb city is right in the perfect location for the dotmap IMO. There is so little food in this area no point cramming the cities in, and every city can be covered from the tile 2SE of Sing Sing Sing.
Galley. I wonder if I'm the only player to not have Sailing at this point? Also note superjm has Henge.
Exploration plan: this workboat should probably head straight east. The workboat from TX can go straight south and see who is to the east of OH, or if we get OB, it can try and go through OH.
The more interesting point is that I likely need to settle City R sooner than expected to put the boundary down between Superjm and us. I expect he may still settle for the islands. Fair enough, but I want him to know that his settling on the mainland is not going to be tolerated. OTOH, he has Rome, so "tolerate" means breaking anything he sends the turn it lands and walls in city R because it's on flatland. more on Superjm after the demographics screen.
superjm had a worker mining the copper, so I reckon the galley is empty and moving it forward was a thread to not declare war. Like I want that, I want trade routes even if I still need to tech Sailing to get them with him.
Someone is 8 turns ahead on the GS. I'm actually surprised I'm not further behind, I usually screw up the GP game until CoL lands and then bang out 5 GP like most people do. I'm still thinking that the front city here is the tile west of the corn. Pop borders, vision from two hills, a longer line of movement along hills for attackers and a straight forward canal city. Easy to set up with single inner ring forest to chop to get the granary, but going to have to irrigate everything from the north over plains once CS is in. And again, pressure to set up a third front city when I'm broke.
Over halfway, 9 turn rolls to go. As of next turn, this is 5 turns of max tech, of 400 base beakers available now. Pretty much at the point that we can go straight Currency if we miss Mids.
You'll note that the screenshots have shown various tech rates. I calculate, that due to growth over the next 3 turns, I only need 40% slider this turn to finish Alphabet eot87, so that's what I'm going with. Next turn grow onto a furs and LBJ picks up another capital cottage, and the capital gets the library. Base bpt jumps to over 80.
I was fairly sure that Superjm is top food, if only because when I logged in, I don't remember the top food being triple digit but now it is, after he played. And with his just settled 6th and 7th cities, I'm doubting my memory. F8 shows OH still has top pop at between 15-16%, I have 28 pop at 13%, so roughly that captured city plus a pop point or two is the difference, 34 pop maximum. I don't see superjm making 102 food given that two new cities make at most 8 each unless he has about 4 source of happiness and all his other cities are between size 6-8 but then he'd be top pop. Superjm can't be second in land eihter, as the new city gave 3 tiles but second place land went from 108K to 110K, and OH is still way below us in F8. That could be anyone, OT4E settled a city but borders can pop between turns.
Still no one with trade routes though.