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Sareln · March 29th, 2011, 18:43

NobleHelium Wrote:Oh, I've never seen anyone use it. It'll probably be better if you road diagonally toward the north or south instead of building it directly east. Then when you plant another city in either of those directions there will be fewer road sections required.

It's not really all that useful. Though the BUG mod definitely made a huge improvement on it by letting you dotmap in-game. That feature is awesome.

I'll think about the road some more, but the current placement is to speed up the settler by one turn. Since my next city after the copper location will go south, ideally I'd want to put the road on that forested hill. Sadly, because of how hills work, that won't speed the settler up at all frown

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Sareln · March 29th, 2011, 22:55

I think I've made a mistake prioritizing GNP over Production in getting the settler out on a double-time. I'll be switching the worker from mining to chop and respec'ing the capital for fast production. This'll get the settler out in ~3 turns and 3 turns for movement will have me ready to settle on T58. If Tredje and Mardoc are racing for that copper spot than I've probably made a game-costing mistake. alright

spellman · March 30th, 2011, 00:04

merp

Sareln · March 30th, 2011, 00:15

spellman Wrote:merp

Your sympathy is appreciated. rolleye

Sareln · March 30th, 2011, 00:39

Chat with Iskender:

Synopsis: Serdoa popped and used a Great Merchant Trade mission on Iskender by threatening to pop the Pyre. This caused Sqaureleg to start prepping for a mass PZ upgrade rush from Serdoa, hence the wood golems. A bit of talk about the clan, and some chat about Orbis - conclusions, fun for SP but unbalanced and buggy as all get out. Serdoa probably has a scout in the general area, though I don't know if he's going to be able to contact me.

Sareln · April 2nd, 2011, 13:43

Tredje Wrote:[COLOR="DarkOrange"]This just in from Clan lands:

After being refused pay for several weeks a band of Goblin Archers have abandoned Queen Sheelba's service to seek out a better existence someplace else. Impressed by the purple clothes and ornamental jewelry worn by the inhabitants of an empire in the west (even the men), they decided to see if it wasn't possible for them to become as fabulous as the locals. Upon being asked what she tought of these desertions, Queen Sheelba simply grunted that a real Barbarian would be satisfied with some strips of leather. She then added that the crew could be a little rampacious and high spirited, as Goblins often can be.[/COLOR]

Two interpretations:

He's finally decided to come screaming across the border with his gobbo archer in an attempt to get a choke going (probable)
He got hit by a strike and disbanded the goblin archer next to me (less likely)

I expect to be at war when I open the next save.

Sareln · April 2nd, 2011, 14:15

'Tis war with the Clan. banghead

Let the record show that I tried to be reasonable in this regard. alright

Capital swapped to a warrior, no need to pop a settler out, I'll just eat the hammer decay if it comes to it. Capital can do 1-turn warriors, am moving my worker to chop forests that goblins can't reach.

The Clan has shown with 2 goblin archers, and I know they've got a C3/Shock goblin rider around. Goal is to see if Tredje gets reckless and tries my C2 Warrior on a Hill.

Philosophically, this war is Tredje's to lose right now, so let's give him as many opportunities to lose it as possible!

Pictures later.

Here we go!

Mist · April 2nd, 2011, 14:24

I'd still do the settler. Assuming he doesn't commit anything else ( above those 2 goblin archers and a wolfrider ) a settler with 6-8 warrior escort will reach the copper site. And you'd be in much stronger position having that copper, even if you had to settle on it to get bronze weapons.

Generaly I think it'd be a mistake to turtle up, terrain near your capital is very good for hostile choke, especially one archer based.

Sareln · April 3rd, 2011, 14:56

YACWB:
Synopsis - some pleasantries, WB thinks it'll take 10 vanilla warriors to clear 2 goblin archers on flat land stacked together. Fewer obviously if I can catch them apart. I slip in the fact that I've got mining in there.

Sareln · April 3rd, 2011, 15:06

Mist Wrote:I'd still do the settler. Assuming he doesn't commit anything else ( above those 2 goblin archers and a wolfrider ) a settler with 6-8 warrior escort will reach the copper site. And you'd be in much stronger position having that copper, even if you had to settle on it to get bronze weapons.

Generaly I think it'd be a mistake to turtle up, terrain near your capital is very good for hostile choke, especially one archer based.

I'm going to chop out the rest of the settler, which means I can spend this turn building a warrior (1st turn of chop). The settler will be chopped into and finished next turn with 3 hammers of overflow, which will buy me another one turn warrior for 3 more turns I think lol

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His goblins have not managed to group up yet, and it's not clear that they're going to try. If they group up and try and stay near/on defensive terrain, I can manage their movement. I'll have to draw up a map. I'm also assuming his wolf-rider is on the way, so I need to be careful not to leave myself exposed to that. If he doesn't group up, then my goal is to force him onto indefensible (flatland) terrain and then try and mob to kill. If he just fortifies his archer on a hill somewhere, I don't care and go on to found my city. Will probably found on that hill site, since I can use mass warrior to clear out the lizardmen lair. Capital is basically going to be on warriors for the foreseeable future.

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