[Spoilers] Bacchus debuts on RB showing unmatched vision and slick dice-rolling

[Bacchus]

So retep decided to scout towards us, his scout is currently on the gems and alas won't be thrown by the expanding borders due to war, but whatcha gonna do. I moved the warrior down to prevent any nuisance like a pig camp (we completed the pasture this turn).

[Bacchus]

This is all pretty ballsy, but also a bit WTF. He must be pretty sure I don't have bronze connected AND that WilliamLP won't send a rogue Quechua to cause some pain. We might have to chop a warrior here, but that's life. AH in 3, faster than archery now, but of course without a guarantee that we have horses anywhere. Nothing metal appearing on retep's graph though, so I'm not worried.

[Gavagai]

It's too early to consider chopping a warrior. He will need more than two warriors to take this city and you don't have any vulnerable tile improvements which you will have to protect.

[Cheater Hater]

Was that retep's only copper that you could see? I'm assuming that since we got screwed on copper so much we'll have horses reasonably close
(How bad would the horse location have to be in order to have us settle that eastern copper instead?

[Bacchus]

@Gav I know. I am chopping into a worker anyway, though -- 27 hammers!

@CH Yep, that's the only one. The question is not so much about settling copper as researching Archery earlier. We don't really have to wage offensive war at this stage. For defense, though, if retep continues this silliness, we pretty much have to go Archery unless horses are on a river :/

[Bacchus]

Retep retreated his guys back, I am a-chopping a worker, scouts are scouting. The eastern got beaten down to 0.2, so he is just running around to make the most of his endangered life, which is proving to be much longer than I expected.

[Bacchus]

Southern expanses, so empty:



I'm expecting to find someone on the subcontinent that seems to follows after the neck, though.

AH next turn. Demos with pig connected are meh, but not catastrophic (8-15-8).

Ichabod started spying against us to catch up on points. We are currently 20/20, our split is 1 to Inca and Khmer, 2 to Greece.

[Bacchus]

An avalanche of good news this turn, first:

Second:







Third:

This makes me think that there might not be anyone to our after all? That would be just unfathomably awesome.

New micro is to grow Demolished Man to 4, and then whip the settler. Research set to the Wheel.

[Cheater Hater]

Seems good--hooray for moving into range of horses
Are there any other horses in the general area, and does retep have any?

[Bacchus]

And the pop is:



Faster Monarchy, I guess. Judaism? Doubt it. Confucianism? Maybe. Frankly, this is a poor pop in comparison to our northern neighbours' Archery.

The world as we know it: