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[SPOILERS] One Jump Ahead
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It's really weird how Byzantium used to be a top pick, but now with evolved meta it's not even Top-10.
Not sure I wholly agree with it but I'll trust your (and the other players) judgment. Only one team to pick before us, we could start thinking who we want. 
I was rereading some of the PB2 threads the other day and yeah, it's interesting how much the meta has developed. It seems to be that people care much more about starting techs now than they did then (since worker first is the default play), and Byzantium's starting techs are garbage.
That said, I'm still concerned about facing BXB's 'phracts in PB11, should we get to that point.
Playing: PB11
(March 3rd, 2012, 21:07)antisocialmunky Wrote: Civilization Economics: You have 1 Cow. You build some pastures around it to feed your people. The population grows uncontrollably. You enslave everybody and work half of them to death. Boom! There's our theme for the game. It fits nicely with what I've got planned for this game. I want to improve on what I've done wrong the last two PB's. The two most important lessons I've learned from PB2 and PB9: - Economic lead wins wars and the game! - Information is damn important. We want to know what our neighbors are up to. Good luck landing an attack against us when we start preparing as soon as you start massing your army. (In before no-one signs OB with us all game  )We aim to be "one jump ahead" of our enemies this time.
Once you guys have chosen a civ I'll be able to finalise the .worldbuildersave and get it checked out. You got a final choice yet?
In that case I'm writing stuff down. Might make it easier to decide.
The two civs I'm considering are Babylonia and the Dutch. Babylonia: + Worker first + We can move in-land if we spot something good - Bowman not even needed if we have copper = Garden is okay, but happiness is usually the harder cap Dutch: = Workboat to Worker works out, but worse than Babylonia's worker first - Committal pick, can't move in-land + East Indiaman ships are amazing. - But useless without enough water. + Dike is a great UB, though it comes late. - But useless without enough water. ... In fact Portugal is probably stronger than Dutch. That UB is just beautiful. Tempting, really tempting.. This was the wrong time for you to take a 2-day break Q :P |
