(July 15th, 2015, 10:51)Bobchillingworth Wrote: Is the GLH still awesome? Looks like grabbing an island won't be an issue. Could found on the PH Sheep east of the capital for a lot of forests, heh.
GLH loses 1 extra trade route, but I think it'd still be very powerful for us on this map. We'll try to get it after Colossus.
I settled Novigrad before the Colossus city. I figured that we'll have time to get the Colossus in our fourth, I hope I'm right.
Some city spots in the south. Not final, of course. I've had these up for a while.
Lots of coast cities in our backlines for Colossus (and GLH).
Ignore the X NW of copper. It was something I considered for a Colossus site, but not anymore.
It's too weak for that purpose even if stronger otherwise. Less forests without border pop, no extra hammer from plains hill settlement, no shared food.
Mardoc's lands. I was hoping to go around but he blocked me off. I could have declared war to pass, but that's a bad idea.
Players are mentally feeble. Any sort of aggression risks relations. It's also why I was happy to notice Fenn declaring on Mardoc. Don't know why, didn't last long. Worker steal perhaps.
It's good for us. In the long term the natural progression on a map like this is for two to team up against one.
Sometimes I wonder if my idea of a casual game is different than others, because I haven't micro'd much and I'm a bit behind the others.
But truth is, we want to look weak in the beginning. I was strong in PBEM64. I got attacked and my other neighbor ended up significantly helping the attacker to take me down. I suppose I was the biggest threat.
What we want is potential. With Colossus, and the GLH, and being the only one with Financial trait, we should have it.
