[SPOILERS] Charriu and Zalson are fighting the honorable post count war!

[Charriu]

Ah thanks. I didn't know that. It still amazes me that I still discover small details like this.

[Charriu]

T36:

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RFS still did not found his city. What on earth is he waiting for? Meanwhile his warrior is moving back; maybe he needs more defender or happiness patrol? I also noticed that more and more players find their city and other naming schemes, which is great. I always love seeing those naming schemes.

Right now I'm working according to my "Delay Revolt Plan". I tested and validated that it's correct, but please don't concern yourself about anything after T52, I did not start planning after the third settler comes out. I will post the plan here if I did some more tests, but I'm pretty confident with this plan.

The reason why I stopped planning after the third settler is that I started exploring again with War Wilhelm (currently 1NE of the pig). Hopefully this time we can uncover more of the east. I also moved War Walpole to the west of Wind Raptor, just to have another look at RFS. Don't worry I won't move far away with him.

[Charriu]

This is what I'm planning to explore with Wilhelm. His current position is marked with a red dot:



Unfortunately he has to be back to protect the third settler on his way to cow city (Karlabos).

[Zalson]

That seems a decent exploration route! Any animals over there, as far as we know?

[Charriu]

T37:

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RFS still hasn't found his settler, so I had to calculate where he could be. He had 4 turns of movement, so I see two options for him:

• He moved to "RFS Settler here?": This is an absolute crazy move. He only has 3 warriors. One has two stay home to make his cap happy. One went north of Wind Raptor. So he only has one warrior for protection. With moved he propably overtook his warrior in movement. This also a crazy move because he knows that I have already founded my city.
  
• "awesome city for RFS": I suppose that he moved his settler slow under the protection of his warrior. This is, as already been said, a great city place. The only thing that's throwing my calculations of is the fact the he could have founded this city this turn.
  

I really think that he moved or is moving his settler to the "RFS Settler here?" spot. But we will know for sure next turn when I can move to the forest 1W of War Walpole.

Back at home everything goes according to plan. So far no animals near War Wilhelm. There was this lion, which killed War Walter back in the days, but who knows where he is now. I also thought about that spot south of the capitol and I think we won't need a galley to scout that spot a bit. In 13 turns my cap pops borders again, which will give me vision about that terrain.

[Zalson]

RFS-81 is still fairly new to civ4. I wouldn't be surprised if he grew to size 5, double-whipped a second worker, and only now has started a settler.

[Charriu]

In that case his dedlurkers would have made a bad job or he ignored them. I don't think that this is the case here.

[Charriu]

I want to carry out a certain action that I'm not sure would constitute a double-move (I think it doesn't); could a lurker check by our thread?

Well that's a nice bit of info from Coeurva. Last time I checked he and RFS did not have contact, so I don't expect that this "double-move" is not towards RFS. So could he move towards me. This would be only the case if he moves any of his warriors towards my border, which he saw under the fog.
The third candidate is any unknown player, which would be great news, as it would mean that he is occupied with somebody else.

[Charriu]

T38:

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Finally RFS founded his second city and as it looks it was good to send out my warrior. He took the wise choice to settle that awesome spot with 3 lakes and 2 food resources. This is great for another reason. Someone could still found a city between us, but it would be a terrible city, because I'm sure that I can hold on to the crab. I orderer War Walpole back; I think I know enough. His warrior is faster at that city then mine and I don't provoke anything that way. I'm really fine with that city placement for now. If nobody settles between us this could be a peaceful border, although I want to look into capturing that city later.

Back at home everything goes as planned. Now that RFS is far away enough I will keep my current microplan "Delay Revolt plan": I will post it later. War Wilhelm keeps on exploring, but just found a mountain. Next turn I will finally revolt to slavery.

[Zalson]

Let's go find out exactly where RFS-81's second city is, pressure him back for being nosey?