Turn 93
I realized this turn I made a mistake last turn, but meh, it's not a major one.
Scouting chariot has a few options now. I'#m not going to send it to the desert hill area, if there was a land route over there it would be have earlier cities on. Going to check out Babylon burning and return: that area will be checked out via a chariot on a galley.
superjm has tons of space, or he may have a neighbour to his east, or something. I don't know, only that this worboat is starting to head to the area the work boat from TX is likely heading. Also, ivory, the SOB.
I realized that with the worker in position, the barb busting warrior can be used as the MP in Kalamazoo on T96 after it regrows to size 4, so Kalamazoo can either go straight onto an aqueduct and run for HG, or research. I don't need to make the decision until next turn, but I'm interested in peoples' opinions on HG here.
The workers are farming the grassland, on hold to chop the forests for City Y library (works out perfectly). BCR is about to start running variable food deficits from next turn as it gives up all food resources and works mines, grass farm and a bare tile. You can see the JJ galley whip, but the mistake is not evident here:
I should have moved the warrior out of city 8, AM last turn. It would have reached ITM this turn, and I would not lose 2 hammers and a commerce, but shit happens. The chariot is backup for the barb city attack. With two chariots and an axe, the city should fall on T96: I don't need to attack with the axe until T96 now, so the axe, at 96hp, should have 98% odds against the C1 warrior, and promoting the C1 chariot to shock should have 96% odds against the unpromoted warrior, with a C1 chariot from ITM as back up. I feel much more comfortable with this plan, because if I lose 2 of these battles, I will have a damned good reason to be angry, that would be significantly worse than 1 in a 1000 chance of this happening.
But next turn there will be a warrior in to act as MP, so the loss isn't that great.
The Academy will be in place on T95 (I know it's repeating information) but at 100% it will be give about 26 extra beakers towards Currency over 2 turns. With Kalamazoo capable of going onto research, that is a further 16 beakers on T96, and 14 beakers if it builds research whilst growing. I would overflow 83 base beakers this turn from Maths@100% slider, but I don't need to. Averaging 135bpt over 3 turns gives 567 adjusted beakers, which I'll do at 100% without the Academy or research build from Kalamazoo. Add those in, and that makes up to 70 adjusted beakers anyway. So I'll drop the slider this turn to ensure we don't run out of gold on the turns we want to run max tech through the slider.
Someone generated a GG last turn. Looks like Donovan has done some damage to OH. Probably DZ's GG.
I've whipped away 6 pop this turn, from 38 to 32 pop. 263 pop in the game.
Yay Mids! Not.
As a bonus for you. FWIW, IW, at 322, requires 135 base bpt to be a two turn tech. If I only needed it to be a 3 turn tech, that would be 90 base bpt. Neither will be a problem IMO, without research builds, max bpt is something like 150, therefore with costs in the region of 60-ish at present, and going up to 70-ish with two new cities (but bring units into culture), it is easily researchable in time for eot98 if I wanted to. I will look at the options on T97, but delaying a turn is possibly better.
I am looking forward to figuring out what the timeline to Calendar is likely to be: Need to work out a settler build for the sugar and worker micro to hook the incense and sugar.
I realized this turn I made a mistake last turn, but meh, it's not a major one.
Scouting chariot has a few options now. I'#m not going to send it to the desert hill area, if there was a land route over there it would be have earlier cities on. Going to check out Babylon burning and return: that area will be checked out via a chariot on a galley.
superjm has tons of space, or he may have a neighbour to his east, or something. I don't know, only that this worboat is starting to head to the area the work boat from TX is likely heading. Also, ivory, the SOB.
I realized that with the worker in position, the barb busting warrior can be used as the MP in Kalamazoo on T96 after it regrows to size 4, so Kalamazoo can either go straight onto an aqueduct and run for HG, or research. I don't need to make the decision until next turn, but I'm interested in peoples' opinions on HG here.
The workers are farming the grassland, on hold to chop the forests for City Y library (works out perfectly). BCR is about to start running variable food deficits from next turn as it gives up all food resources and works mines, grass farm and a bare tile. You can see the JJ galley whip, but the mistake is not evident here:
I should have moved the warrior out of city 8, AM last turn. It would have reached ITM this turn, and I would not lose 2 hammers and a commerce, but shit happens. The chariot is backup for the barb city attack. With two chariots and an axe, the city should fall on T96: I don't need to attack with the axe until T96 now, so the axe, at 96hp, should have 98% odds against the C1 warrior, and promoting the C1 chariot to shock should have 96% odds against the unpromoted warrior, with a C1 chariot from ITM as back up. I feel much more comfortable with this plan, because if I lose 2 of these battles, I will have a damned good reason to be angry, that would be significantly worse than 1 in a 1000 chance of this happening.
But next turn there will be a warrior in to act as MP, so the loss isn't that great.
The Academy will be in place on T95 (I know it's repeating information) but at 100% it will be give about 26 extra beakers towards Currency over 2 turns. With Kalamazoo capable of going onto research, that is a further 16 beakers on T96, and 14 beakers if it builds research whilst growing. I would overflow 83 base beakers this turn from Maths@100% slider, but I don't need to. Averaging 135bpt over 3 turns gives 567 adjusted beakers, which I'll do at 100% without the Academy or research build from Kalamazoo. Add those in, and that makes up to 70 adjusted beakers anyway. So I'll drop the slider this turn to ensure we don't run out of gold on the turns we want to run max tech through the slider.
Someone generated a GG last turn. Looks like Donovan has done some damage to OH. Probably DZ's GG.
I've whipped away 6 pop this turn, from 38 to 32 pop. 263 pop in the game.
Yay Mids! Not.
As a bonus for you. FWIW, IW, at 322, requires 135 base bpt to be a two turn tech. If I only needed it to be a 3 turn tech, that would be 90 base bpt. Neither will be a problem IMO, without research builds, max bpt is something like 150, therefore with costs in the region of 60-ish at present, and going up to 70-ish with two new cities (but bring units into culture), it is easily researchable in time for eot98 if I wanted to. I will look at the options on T97, but delaying a turn is possibly better.
I am looking forward to figuring out what the timeline to Calendar is likely to be: Need to work out a settler build for the sugar and worker micro to hook the incense and sugar.