[Spoilers] Gavagai, Bacchus and Elizabeth Form a Romantic Trio

[Bacchus]

Can't see a mid-turn score increase in civstats for China, Babylon, Carthage or the Ottomans, have they still not founded? What's going on?

[Gavagai]

Yep, I noticed that too. We will need to assume that they are still on one city.

[Gavagai]

We have a horse:



I don't yet know what to do with it. We are short on workerforce and it will take a lot of worker-turns to connect it.

EDIT: No horses are visible near Egypt. Also take a note that they saw our horse.

[Gavagai]

I know how we can use this third pop in Yark which Bacchus is so anxious to breed: we will slave it into a worker.

[Bacchus]

If Henry roads the mine, then moves to the forest SE, road-chops it, the chop should still fall into the Settler. He can then road-pasture the horse, all this should take 2-1-3-2-4-2 turns, so we'll get horses on T58 — pretty much just in time to whip the third pops in Yark into a Chariot on T60. I'm not sure that we want this chariot all that badly, but it will be able to get into the heart of the flood region on T63, probably just slightly after our axe. At minimum this will really make them think thrice over where to settle.

BTW, I voluntaristically went with "English monarchs" for the workers and "G.I. Joe characters" for the military.

[Gavagai]

Jester founded an early third city. And he (surprisingly) still doesn't have his gold connected.

[Gavagai]

Shit, I just realized that Jester actually has NOT seen our horse: his warrior was one tile too far.

[Bacchus]

Naster were not actually the first to three cities, Zulu were last turn, displaying the power of Imperialistic. I wonder, given the amount of warriors, how many workers does Egypt have for its three cities?

In other news, we should probably look at the techs researched by rivals to see whether it's worth even starting on Priesthood. It probably is, but you know.

[Gavagai]

1) I'm pretty sure we won't have much competition for the Oracle. When we discovered Meditation early, it immediately made going for the Oracle very risky for everyone else.
Also, if someone goes for the Oracle now, it would only make sense for him to go via Polytheism route. Hence, we will get our warning when someone takes Hinduism.

2) I think Egypt went worker-settler in the capital and now has two workers.

[Gavagai]

As Jester moved his warrior away, I carefully advance forward with one of my own warriors. Capital has grown to size 4 and started to work a mine and Yark has switched to a cow.