[SPOILERS] Turning in the widening gyre: Thoth has another go at BTS

[pindicator]

Hey Thoth, just wanted to say grats on a well executed attack. Hope you don't take any of my behavior as being directed against you personally.

[Thoth]

Hey Thoth, just wanted to say grats on a well executed attack.

Thanks. Seems to have worked out about as well as it possibly could have. 7 Impis was excessive vs what I actually faced.

Hope you don't take any of my behavior as being directed against you personally.

No offense taken.

Better luck next game.

[Thoth]

4 turns, 4 cities. That went a lot better and faster than I was expecting.

I now have a hell of a lot of land to play with:

Next city will be on an island for the IC trs and I'll be getting some Ikhandas up to help defray costs as well as the usual cottages ect.

I think I've got just enough gold to clear the rest of Sailing + Writing. After that I'll be saving gold for awhile until I get more commerce flowing and a few Libs up. I need to spend a bit of time revising my dot maps and expansion plans.

[Mardoc]

Is that a GNP of 3?

[Krill]

Out of interest, you know you can take screenshots in game that give .jpg files for you to upload? No need to use paint or anything to copy/paste?

[Ceiliazul]

Is that a GNP of 3?

Add culture, so more like 15?

[Thoth]

Out of interest, you know you can take screenshots in game that give .jpg files for you to upload? No need to use paint or anything to copy/paste?

Thanks to a somewhat wonky hardware config, Windows thinks that my one and only monitor is actually "monitor #2" so the ingame screenshot utility doesn't work

Hmm. Just checked for shits and giggles....it's working with my new monitor. Kewl.

Is that a GNP of 3?

Yeah, 3gpt at max tax with two cities still in revolt. Fun times.

Not quite as bad as it looks, I'll be adding commerce and cotts over the next couple of turns. OFC I'll also be adding another couple of gpt in unit support. Offshore trade routes are going to be nice.

[pindicator]

Yeah, 3gpt at max tax with two cities still in revolt. Fun times.

Not quite as bad as it looks, I'll be adding commerce and cotts over the next couple of turns. OFC I'll also be adding another couple of gpt in unit support. Offshore trade routes are going to be nice.

I know I built you a couple

[Thoth]

I know I built you a couple

I probably won't pillage them for the gold. I've got a turn or two before they're in my culture in case I change my mind but I'm going to be short worker turns in the near future so I'll probably just work them instead.

Ikhandas are going to be a useful cost control stopgap until CoL.

[Thoth]

Sailing is in, 3t to Writing at 100%. There might be a turn of slippage.

Overview:

Military:

Forgot to grab a screenie of the demos but I have a slight mfg edge, a large (circa 82 vs 63 for #2) food lead, ditto military. GNP.....well I'm in 3rd at 100% while teching writing at 145% bonus. Once my last conquest comes out of revolt I'll be at 0 gpt if I run max tax.



OFC I'm adding 3 commerce worth of cottages next turn to keep me in the black and I'll be adding a couple more riverside cottages within 5 turns. I need offshore trade routes and more luxes stat. Both of these things are in the works over the next 10t