Turn 97
This is going to be a bit longer than T96, but it will be split into two parts. Some of it is going to be the previous rough workings post rewritten for my own benefit though, and tidied up with correct turn dates now that I know what is happening with IW.
The new world map is above. The only comment I can really make is that OH got screwed, and looking at the map reinforces how little there is to gain by attacking him.
First of all, the easy stuff: exploration, which is already shown in the world map.
I reckon that I will need two galleys and 4 fast movers to scout the rest of the map. One east, one west, and a possible third going south with another two fast movers depending on if I can get them out. City R will get out one galley, so the galley used for settling the island will go west as previously stated; it will pick up the 8XP chariot and a scout.
Tech doesn't really have a heading to fit under, but I'm going for IW in three. I could get it in two, but the cost is that the few cities I have on workers and settlers would need to stay on wealth, and it would delay hooking sugar and hooking the fish for the sugar city, delay incense, settling cities R and G, and hooking food at gems city (Smashing Thirds). The one turn delay is not that costly, but delaying it a further turn doesn't really save me much. The cost is almost every city is going to be on wealth though. Gems will be hooked T103, so cities can grow eot102 into unhappiness.
Given I will be able to play around with the wealth builds after the first turn, ITM may be able to put a few hammers into a market, but more likely it just slowly grows, with growth due eot101 unless I swap from a cottage to a hill mine, which is planned to time growth. Or more precisely, ITM will pick the pig up after IW, whilst saving gold so the Academy is defunct, and work as many hammer tiles during those turns. It requires 9 food to grow, so it is trivial to work max food and grow it when necessary, and requires little thought.
LBJ will hopefully turn off wealth next turn, and make 13 foodhammers next turn to get the settler to 50/50, and still whip the settler T99. This settler will settle the sugar city, City B, on T105. It needs to grow to be able to work every tile including the village eot97 (so avoid growth turned off), and food box will be 20/30, regrowth@4 eot100. Probably regrows on an archer to size 5 eot102, I do need them.
Given that LBJ has priority for turning off wealth, MtK is likely to run into unhappiness issues and require turning on Avoid Growth. Looking at putting hammers into the worker on T100, but might be able to squeeze it in T99 to complete T103 Given the settler for this area actually runs all the way from AM, I am considering using workers to road the incense (have to do this within 10 turns anyway), the plains forest and the capital flood plain to speed the settler reaching here. Still working on that due to timings due to the wealth builds, but the critical issue is that MtK becomes more important to get off wealth than AM.
Beyond that, I need to get the grasslands improved, yet more worker turns, so there is still the possibility of a worker double whip after this worker anyway.
There is still nothing to say with this: 15 more turns of working scientists means no other tiles can be worked without the corn, and AM is using it. At least this is one place that does not requires worker turns!
I'm now being turfed off the PC because the missus needs to do work. I'll finishes this up in a few hours.
This is going to be a bit longer than T96, but it will be split into two parts. Some of it is going to be the previous rough workings post rewritten for my own benefit though, and tidied up with correct turn dates now that I know what is happening with IW.
The new world map is above. The only comment I can really make is that OH got screwed, and looking at the map reinforces how little there is to gain by attacking him.
First of all, the easy stuff: exploration, which is already shown in the world map.
I reckon that I will need two galleys and 4 fast movers to scout the rest of the map. One east, one west, and a possible third going south with another two fast movers depending on if I can get them out. City R will get out one galley, so the galley used for settling the island will go west as previously stated; it will pick up the 8XP chariot and a scout.
Tech doesn't really have a heading to fit under, but I'm going for IW in three. I could get it in two, but the cost is that the few cities I have on workers and settlers would need to stay on wealth, and it would delay hooking sugar and hooking the fish for the sugar city, delay incense, settling cities R and G, and hooking food at gems city (Smashing Thirds). The one turn delay is not that costly, but delaying it a further turn doesn't really save me much. The cost is almost every city is going to be on wealth though. Gems will be hooked T103, so cities can grow eot102 into unhappiness.
Given I will be able to play around with the wealth builds after the first turn, ITM may be able to put a few hammers into a market, but more likely it just slowly grows, with growth due eot101 unless I swap from a cottage to a hill mine, which is planned to time growth. Or more precisely, ITM will pick the pig up after IW, whilst saving gold so the Academy is defunct, and work as many hammer tiles during those turns. It requires 9 food to grow, so it is trivial to work max food and grow it when necessary, and requires little thought.
LBJ will hopefully turn off wealth next turn, and make 13 foodhammers next turn to get the settler to 50/50, and still whip the settler T99. This settler will settle the sugar city, City B, on T105. It needs to grow to be able to work every tile including the village eot97 (so avoid growth turned off), and food box will be 20/30, regrowth@4 eot100. Probably regrows on an archer to size 5 eot102, I do need them.
Given that LBJ has priority for turning off wealth, MtK is likely to run into unhappiness issues and require turning on Avoid Growth. Looking at putting hammers into the worker on T100, but might be able to squeeze it in T99 to complete T103 Given the settler for this area actually runs all the way from AM, I am considering using workers to road the incense (have to do this within 10 turns anyway), the plains forest and the capital flood plain to speed the settler reaching here. Still working on that due to timings due to the wealth builds, but the critical issue is that MtK becomes more important to get off wealth than AM.
Beyond that, I need to get the grasslands improved, yet more worker turns, so there is still the possibility of a worker double whip after this worker anyway.
There is still nothing to say with this: 15 more turns of working scientists means no other tiles can be worked without the corn, and AM is using it. At least this is one place that does not requires worker turns!
I'm now being turfed off the PC because the missus needs to do work. I'll finishes this up in a few hours.