Turn 96
A biggie, but next turn should be bigger. This is only half the turn. There are no cities or worker micro stuff in this report. Probably not going to do that bit until next turn once the trade routes come in and I know what I need to do to hit IW eot98. I still need to finish the turn though.
Looks we need some capture gold to get Currency at 100%! Let's see if those damned barbs oblige...
A giant FU to the barbs. The chariot is now 8XP, and needs to go wandering for that last 2XP. We get 27 gold for our trouble, nice little earner to push us towards IW, as there are only 3 turns of revolt.
Gems roaded T98, chopped T100, Mined T102. If IW finishes eot98, and that is a question of how much wealth building we do and how the trade routes work out.
On that note...
Hello OT4E.
8 cities, I offered OB, doubt he will take it. He has met superjm, and OH but not DZ.Next turn should get a trade route to see his resources, I wonder if I could trade him furs for anything now I have the second resource hooked?
The island city is settled next turn. Corn hooked T99, two forests chopped T103 and T104, library whipped T105, borders pop eot110 and should aim to have fish hooked T111 and the third forest chopped for the granary T111 as well. I'm reconsidering keeping two workers here, because another option is to grow and whip a settler here for the other island city: this would hook the sheep T114 as opposed to T117, and more importantly, it means I can send the galley south, pick up 2 chariots and go exploring. If I intend to bring a worker back, that would mean the galley has to wait until T104 to get the worker back, that is 11 tiles of exploration the galley is delayed by.
I'd rather just leave the worker.
New city! Finally made it work. Turns out that it's just as quick to get the work boat out of JJ eot99 rather than chop it here (OK, pay a little more for having the workboat, but it saves a forest).
This is one of the few double food cities I see, and I think it is the only other city site that can hold HE and make it work. So that's the plan. Chop the granary. Grow. Prepare to be a unit pump. Will build a market sooner rather than later, better before Lit than after HE.
Further scouting:
Changed my mind, decided to scout with the chariot, the missing FoW is discoverable from the northern land area, so no need to send a galley to it, better to send them deep.
OH has dyes, we share sugar, we have incense and furs, and I've taken a pair of gems tiles. I've come off better in terms of land and resources IMO. I've been considering if it's even worth attacking OH: it's not like he has anything we want, and if we can trade for the dyes, I'd probably leave him alone and try to take out someone different, someone with land. I'm considering if it's worth pushing the western front city, to lock it down and then play the happy neighbour. Otherwise, probably want to make him overextend and then push through his eastern front city with cats, swords and HA, and we have a potential tech lead to try and make that work, but we have land to grow into. Peace seems wiser.
Any preference for directions? If we go north, we can search for Whales that might be worth trying to nab, otherwise probably just go straight west. Given we can't get a galley built here for a while, it may be worth sending the current galley west rather than south: City R site to the east is double food, double inner ring forest and could easily build a galley out at size 4, but none of the western cities can do that.
I'm betting Gav is the crop yield leader. Wasn't sure if OT4E was the dark horse, but his lack of cities and pop makes the obvious choice more obvious.
A biggie, but next turn should be bigger. This is only half the turn. There are no cities or worker micro stuff in this report. Probably not going to do that bit until next turn once the trade routes come in and I know what I need to do to hit IW eot98. I still need to finish the turn though.
Looks we need some capture gold to get Currency at 100%! Let's see if those damned barbs oblige...
A giant FU to the barbs. The chariot is now 8XP, and needs to go wandering for that last 2XP. We get 27 gold for our trouble, nice little earner to push us towards IW, as there are only 3 turns of revolt.
Gems roaded T98, chopped T100, Mined T102. If IW finishes eot98, and that is a question of how much wealth building we do and how the trade routes work out.
On that note...
Hello OT4E.
8 cities, I offered OB, doubt he will take it. He has met superjm, and OH but not DZ.Next turn should get a trade route to see his resources, I wonder if I could trade him furs for anything now I have the second resource hooked?
The island city is settled next turn. Corn hooked T99, two forests chopped T103 and T104, library whipped T105, borders pop eot110 and should aim to have fish hooked T111 and the third forest chopped for the granary T111 as well. I'm reconsidering keeping two workers here, because another option is to grow and whip a settler here for the other island city: this would hook the sheep T114 as opposed to T117, and more importantly, it means I can send the galley south, pick up 2 chariots and go exploring. If I intend to bring a worker back, that would mean the galley has to wait until T104 to get the worker back, that is 11 tiles of exploration the galley is delayed by.
I'd rather just leave the worker.
New city! Finally made it work. Turns out that it's just as quick to get the work boat out of JJ eot99 rather than chop it here (OK, pay a little more for having the workboat, but it saves a forest).
This is one of the few double food cities I see, and I think it is the only other city site that can hold HE and make it work. So that's the plan. Chop the granary. Grow. Prepare to be a unit pump. Will build a market sooner rather than later, better before Lit than after HE.
Further scouting:
Changed my mind, decided to scout with the chariot, the missing FoW is discoverable from the northern land area, so no need to send a galley to it, better to send them deep.
OH has dyes, we share sugar, we have incense and furs, and I've taken a pair of gems tiles. I've come off better in terms of land and resources IMO. I've been considering if it's even worth attacking OH: it's not like he has anything we want, and if we can trade for the dyes, I'd probably leave him alone and try to take out someone different, someone with land. I'm considering if it's worth pushing the western front city, to lock it down and then play the happy neighbour. Otherwise, probably want to make him overextend and then push through his eastern front city with cats, swords and HA, and we have a potential tech lead to try and make that work, but we have land to grow into. Peace seems wiser.
Any preference for directions? If we go north, we can search for Whales that might be worth trying to nab, otherwise probably just go straight west. Given we can't get a galley built here for a while, it may be worth sending the current galley west rather than south: City R site to the east is double food, double inner ring forest and could easily build a galley out at size 4, but none of the western cities can do that.
I'm betting Gav is the crop yield leader. Wasn't sure if OT4E was the dark horse, but his lack of cities and pop makes the obvious choice more obvious.