As promised, a general overview. The game has been down for days due to the Liberalism bug for dtay, so we have only just restarted.
First up, a city list!
I have one more city to add to this list, then I am officially out of peaceful expansion locations. I don't think I'm going to go and attack anybody, but it gives me a solid core for when plako comes knocking.
Demographics at 100% science
My economy is healthy. Not competitive with any of the frontrunners, but I'm the best of the middle of the pack. My army is sufficient - slightly smaller than plako's, much bigger than Bacchus'. I will have Feudalism in about 7 turns, so I'll be able to whip my cities to the ground with longbows when plako does come knocking.
A land overview, from North to South. this takes quite a few photos due to the shape of my territory.
The final city is going on the X in the final screenshot. It's not that great a location, but it picks up a wet wheat and can work some extra cottages allowing Korhal to take better advantage of it's Moai by working more water tiles. I'll be hooking up whales and wine in the next few turns, so that will put my happy cap at 15, which is good.
Diplomatically (such as it is in this type of game), my relationship with Plako is friendly but with a tinge of inevitable doom. Apart from the early city raze, twice now i have made mistakes that could have cost me a city to him if he had chosen to take the dice roll and go for it. Instead he's shown mercy. He'll probably regret that when he invades and I grind him to dust against the bodies of my armies, but it means that I am under no illusions that he wants to take me out of the game - he just wants to win, and I am his best and only path to do so.
Bacchus, however, I think is a different story. I very aggressively and opportunistically settled the jungle against him right in his face, and unfortunately for him he got involved in some silly fights with retep and WillLP at the same time, and couldn't do anything about it - he just had to watch as I settled four excellent cities that are all a lot closer to him than to me.
But what was I supposed to do? My logical expansion path probably should have gone a good 2 cities deeper in Plako's direction, and had Serdoa been playing, possibly would have, but given the way this game has played out, a very long north-south empire was the only option unless I wanted to be stuck on 7 cities the whole game. However, I wouldn't blame Bacchus the slightest for wanting to take a piece of me as retribution.
So that's my civ. In good shape.
That's my neighbours. Mostly hostile.
And that's my plan. Get to Feudalism. Revolt to Vassalage, prebuild a bunch of longbows then wait for Plako to attack.
