RBP3 [SPOILERS] - Friendly Kittens (Ragnar of Maya)

[Maniac Marshall]

I can play the current turn tonite before I leave, and will do so in aboiut 4 hours unless told otherwise.

[Cull]

I can play the current turn tonite before I leave, and will do so in aboiut 4 hours unless told otherwise.

I'm going to actually play a turn, so unless I haven't ended turn by the time you get back, assume I've played.

[Cull]

I did the microplan, but did not move military units, as I had no idea what to do with them.

[Maniac Marshall]

I'll move the units. I logged in to do so earlier, but I've had major distractions since, but I'll get it done shortly.

[RefSteel]

...there will be about three 2-3 day periods in the next month when I won't be able to do anything at all.

Uh. So I checked my calendar so as to be able to post the exact dates, and discovered that though I thought of them as separate because they're two semi-distinct events, two of those 2-3 day periods are CONSECUTIVE. So, for reference, the periods when I will definitely have zero ability to participate are:

-Friday evenings and Saturdays (all day until VERY late in the evening) as always

-The evening of Sunday, May 16 through (at least) LATE on the evening of Thursday, May 20

-All of Memorial Day weekend (Evening of Friday the 28th onward; I should be back in touch sometime on June 1st.)

[RefSteel]

I'm going to actually play a turn, so unless I haven't ended turn by the time you get back, assume I've played.

I did the microplan, but did not move military units, as I had no idea what to do with them.

I'll move the units. I logged in to do so earlier, but I've had major distractions since, but I'll get it done shortly.

Thanks very much, guys! I'll try to post some stuff later (including another update to the microplan; nothing before T108 is changed).

[Maniac Marshall]

Military units moved. There is one barb in site, very close to where I noted we had a sentrynet soft spot yesterday. Our Holkan is headed over to take care of him. If his odds are less than the 99% because he's slightly injured, will he get 2XP?

Alternatively, we could attack him with Jalthi, who should be healed in time to to get him to 10XP.

Just an FYI, England is already rolling HE units off the line, and we're down to 7th in soldiers. Not critical yet, but something to keep an eye on.

[RefSteel]

A thought: Since we're back on research, and short on workers for the moment, I think it makes sense to work the gold instead of the unimproved floodplain at Temminck for a bit. (This will delay us needing wheat too, though it appears we can trade for it from England anyway.)

[EDIT: Just did so, and it cuts the nominal Engineering research time from 10 turns to 9. We might get it down even further as we grow, but that's at least a good start. Please let me know or just change it back if you have any objections. The city will still grow by the time the cottage on its final floodplain is finished.]

[RefSteel]

One other thing: Ruby Tuesday's borders have expanded, so Krant is superfluous as a fogbuster in its current location. We could use it to fogbust more of the northeast (1NW-1NE is fastest, but the long way around through our borders is safest for the chariot itself) or we could send it back toward our other cities, for instance to relieve one of our sentry chariots so they're not both bunched together in the west. Either way, I recommend sending it 2NW to the pigs for now.

Just north of there, Prrsha is sitting in a forest busting fog on three tiles and preventing barbs from spawning on 7 more. This can be improved. It's true we'd risk Prrsha if a barb happened to be right next to wherever we moved her, but I'm still inclined to do it. Moving her 1N onto flatland busts fog on 3 MORE tiles, and stops barbspawning on 5 more. She could then move 1N again next turn into another forest (getting visibility on yet 3 more FoWed tiles and barbspawn stopping on yet 5 more) and stay there for a long, long time. Alternatively, we can safely send her home at this point if we just want her as garrison for e.g. Kilrah and another unit in our borders that can be upgraded in case of utter desperation. My recommendation is that we move her north.

I'll make these moves in the morning before the turn rolls if I don't hear any objections.

[Maniac Marshall]

Obviously, we didn't leave last night. The gf was too tired from the drive from Atl to want to turn around and go on another 2.5hr trip, so we're leaving shortly. I can keep us going through the first period of your absence as long as there is a microplan.

I will not be able to do anything on Memorial Day weekend other than play a turn according to a microplan and make quick posts here. I will not answer email or chat or do any diplo. There will be no chat/mail communication from me at all from May 26th till June 7th or 8th. Do we need to prearrange a pause?