Turn 111
Brief report, but graphs on superjm in the spoiler tag at the end of hte report.
The barb city is going to die quickly, either to me or to OH. He doesn't know that I have the other two chariots in the area, but he will do next turn. I could raze the city T113 at the earliest.
Still nothing on the island. Probably space for 3 cities, but I will have all tiles that are claimable from the island visible as of next turn. I am considering getting a 9th settler somewhere to claim the entire island before the GA starts, so I can pop borders with caste artists. Only hope for happy now are whales and I'm not holding out hope for that, but holding this city protects my northern cost which is going to have 2NE and a HE accessible by coast, so I kinda of want it for that.
The sugar is improved but OH lacks Calendar, and the iron shows itself to be hooked but does not show in the available resources to trade. I believe OH has settled on the sugar and mined the iron without knowing.
superjm has a coastal holy city, and Moai built already (stone is nice to have). Antium is his second city, Cumae his third. I don't know why he built walls unless he is terrified of me, or OT4E has tried a naval invasion in the past, but that makes no sense.
29 food down on Gav. OH did not finish MC last turn, I am waiting to see if he gets it this turn. Long shot theory: someone else settled on OH's sugar and OH is deciding what techs he needs to get to remove the interloper.
tl;dr: superjm is only a threat if he creates a window of opportunity with Medieval era units, but my reply are Xbows, HA and Carracks and sink everything at sea. Given my weakness in coastal production, that would likely not work, but would cause enough of a delay that I would crush whatever landed. Knights are going to be the best window, but I don't know if he will get a tech edge large enough to make that work, not if we land MoM.
Brief report, but graphs on superjm in the spoiler tag at the end of hte report.
The barb city is going to die quickly, either to me or to OH. He doesn't know that I have the other two chariots in the area, but he will do next turn. I could raze the city T113 at the earliest.
Still nothing on the island. Probably space for 3 cities, but I will have all tiles that are claimable from the island visible as of next turn. I am considering getting a 9th settler somewhere to claim the entire island before the GA starts, so I can pop borders with caste artists. Only hope for happy now are whales and I'm not holding out hope for that, but holding this city protects my northern cost which is going to have 2NE and a HE accessible by coast, so I kinda of want it for that.
The sugar is improved but OH lacks Calendar, and the iron shows itself to be hooked but does not show in the available resources to trade. I believe OH has settled on the sugar and mined the iron without knowing.
superjm has a coastal holy city, and Moai built already (stone is nice to have). Antium is his second city, Cumae his third. I don't know why he built walls unless he is terrified of me, or OT4E has tried a naval invasion in the past, but that makes no sense.
29 food down on Gav. OH did not finish MC last turn, I am waiting to see if he gets it this turn. Long shot theory: someone else settled on OH's sugar and OH is deciding what techs he needs to get to remove the interloper.
tl;dr: superjm is only a threat if he creates a window of opportunity with Medieval era units, but my reply are Xbows, HA and Carracks and sink everything at sea. Given my weakness in coastal production, that would likely not work, but would cause enough of a delay that I would crush whatever landed. Knights are going to be the best window, but I don't know if he will get a tech edge large enough to make that work, not if we land MoM.