[SPOILERS]Novice, Spacemanmf and Athlete4life10 are HUYANA CAPAC OF CHINA

[novice]

Novice can answer the question of what Pegasus is building.

Maybe he's building an axe or a spear, and the game shows the 35 hammers but not the overflowing hammers.

[spacemanmf]

Turn before that he grew to size three and the governor assigned the mined copper, which is what we see in the demographics, if I understand PBEM mechanics correctly

Yes but even though the copper was assigned it wasn't actually used as that was effectively done at the start of the next turn. Edit: I think I see what you mean. But I still don't see how he can have got two consecutive 5-hammer builds.

Good thinking on the "horse town" - I had forgotten about that when trying tot up the hammers. I can only presume that working the town was purely to tech more quickly. I don't think there is any difference between overflow hammers and build hammers - as far as I know it's just hammers in the box.

My 'Beware!' comment was more aimed at ad hoc and Pegasus - for now anyway. But good to know we have 16 turns. Not to get to our exploring warrior, mind.

We should mention that we think TT has built an Impi to both Pegasus and Ruff. We can also mention to Ruff that we thought he researched Hunting recently and is now on AH, and also that he built a warrior recently. As well as progress on the Great Wall, I also asked if his settler would be ready soon. The more information the better.

[novice]

Got it.

[spacemanmf]

Ooh, don't keep me hanging...

[novice]

It's a good thing we don't have a C&D department anymore, cause if we did, it would be stumped.

Someone has a MFG of 11 (!) this turn, and what's more, Pegasus still has 35 hammers in the box in his capital. What?

Pegasus has helpfully coordinated with Ad Hoc. If we head SW-W-ish with Seven we should meet Ad Hoc in ~4 turns. I moved Seven SW, let's follow the coast. We're also running from a bear, forgot to mark it with a sign though.

Ruff cleared up the "health hammers" mystery:


I sent him the formula for calculating hammers in the box.

Finally a look at the demographics and top five cities:

[novice]

I found some scribbled notes on a dusty desktop in our abandoned C&D department:

No techs were discovered. TT gained 3k score, 1k pop and 1k power as he founded his second city. He's producing a granary in one of his cities which explains his MFG of 11.

Our rivals got 12k in additional soldiers, this must be two axemen, one from Pegasus and the other one most likely from Ad Hoc.

[spacemanmf]

Perhaps it only shows what's in the box to complete it. So Pegasus has built an axe, overflowing into another axe with the aid of a chop or two.

I did load up the save. Was going to suggest telling Ruff that we knew about his warrior, and also that TT had built an Impi, plus we thought he had researched Hunting and is now teching AH.

I agree that Seven should continue on the SW path, avoiding the bear. We can tell Pegasus that the bear is the reason for not being able to follow his precise path. Which is primarily true.

I like the zoom in on Stamford Bridge in the top 5 cities. It says "has been".

[spacemanmf]

Been messing around with the power graph:

[novice]

Been messing around with the power graph:

Excellent! For the T36 tech for Pegasus, I don't think we found a suitable 2k tech, so it was probably tech+warrior.
EDIT: And I'm pretty sure Ruff got The Wheel. We should ask about that and hunting.

[spacemanmf]

So we think Pegasus has five warriors and a brand new axeman? That seems somewhat excessive, especially since none of his warriors have come our way.

The graph analysis suggests that Ruff has two warriors, like us.