[spoilers] AT makes a funny thread title

[AutomatedTeller]

Krill and Mr Cairo's made peace.

Everyone's power is going up.

Question: if I dow SD and steal a worker, can I move that worker that turn? He's got one uncovered chopping jungle that I could snag and pull back, sacrifice a chariot for it. I think the answer is yes, but I'm not sure.

[Old Harry]

Nope. You have to wait a turn.

[AutomatedTeller]

Thanks. Still worth it, trading a chariot for a worker.

[AutomatedTeller]

Well, I was going to try to burn mars, but he put 2 more spears there, so that's expensive now.

Also, Krill is about to research Metal Casting.

And MrCairo built ANOTHER wonder in his capitol. I feel he's trolling me now, daring me to attack and take his capitol, which has like 5 wonders in it now.

[AutomatedTeller]

SD is burning about 100 gold per turn. He's 3 turns from Feudalism, but he'll nearly be out of A) gold and B) GA - I don't think he'll be able to get to guilds.

I'm running culture in TedRadio - I wish I had thought to do that when I did the culture bomb - mistake on my part. In any case, Titan is going to have a problem. I'm also going to run culture in the city near Mars, to up it's pressure on Mars.

I switched back to rep - I need research right now. 4 turns to machinery, 6 to engineering. This is at a sustainable pace - I'm even making money. 9 turns to a GP from AllThings - that may change with HE going in next turn, I'm not sure.

After engineering is probably compass - OnPoint badly needs a harbor for the health bonus, as it's not on fresh water - maybe optics and then paper? I do need to pick up feudalism.

Tech-wise, I think I'm up:

Aesthetics
Civil Service
Literature
Music
maybe CoL, maybe priesthood.

on SD.

He's up:

Monarchy
Machinery
soon to be feudalism.

I can't imagine he has anything else I don't have.

Krill just started machinery, as well. He's saving money, though.

[AutomatedTeller]

So, thinking about what's going to happen:

SD is making a push to knights. In, say, 8-11 turns (I'm guessing his break even is about 50% without a GA - he can 3 turn feudalism in a GA, s 6 turn it at 50% in a GA, 7-10 turns out of one, so say 8 turns for Guilds - eh, say in 10 turns, he'll be able to switch a bunch of keshik builds to knights and turn off research to upgrade keshiks to knights. He whips 8 knights that turn, and then 2 turns later, 8 more. So, in 15 turns, with whipping, upgrading and staging, he;ll have about 20 knights. Yikes.

I will get engineering in 9, along with a GP for a GA. I can make 10-20 pikes in that time and upgrade important cities to castles.

Once I get engineering, a strike on Titan is advisable, to at least knock him off his game. If I can time that with a seaborne strike at Mars with crossbows, that would great, but I assume he'll have LB in there by then. If not, it will be a major mistake.

I do need to get some XBows to my southern island at some point.

[AutomatedTeller]

SD has 1 turn to Feudalism, I have 2 to Machinery. MrCairo is 22 to machinery, Krill is 1000.

[AutomatedTeller]

Things are going fast

SD is done with his GA.  He's now 3 turns to Guilds.  Dunno if he has to adjust his sliders - I'm guessing he does.

I went heavy wealth/research and am 3 turns to engineering. 

Mr Cairo picked up machinery and is on engineering, too.

Krill is on machinery and might end up being the guy that SD runs over.

SD doesn't have anyone in Titan with vision, so I'm planning on putting a stack 3 tiles away with cats and elephants and hitting Titan with it and with HA - I dunno if I'll take Titan and burn it or just let it sit.  I'd like to replace MorningEdition, but we'll see.

[AutomatedTeller]

SD sent me an iron for iron trade request. I turned it down.

What does that generally mean? Be a war ally against others? I dunno - I would take that if he hadn't taken my city.

Never do a small injury!!

[AutomatedTeller]

Turn 146

So, some actual pictures

1st, demos:

This is me at 100% science, running some wealth and some research, and SD's GA is done.



2nd, the area around former MorningEdition



My hope is to kill or drive off his vision keshik. I also hope that stack is not enough to really frighten him - the plan is to kill units in Titan, not have him build up the defense enough to actually stop me fortunately, he can't whip any thing in there - LB or anything, cause he isn't size 2, so anything has to come from elsewhere.

I hope to hit it with the cats, the HA and then clean up with elephants - I want the elephants unhurt, if I can make it happen, to defend against his counter. It might end up a disaster, I dunno. He might put enough in there that I decide to leave it alone.