September 19th, 2014, 23:52
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Turn 51.
Woops. Looks like my Shock-Warrior is getting caught pants down. In the picture there's 2 warrior and worker on hill and 1S on the deer-tile there's also 2 warriors and a worker. If both of his workers road the rice he can attack me with 2 warriors. I don't think he will though because according to CombatCalculator he would have 0.79 odds with his first warrior. Gotta be careful though, don't want to get attacked by 4 warriors. That could probably kill my guy.
Notice also that Yell0w was able to get his 4th city. It's located 1NW from the hill the warriors are on.
September 24th, 2014, 09:28
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Turns 52-54.
During turn 52 I noticed that Osseous Gabella (Qqqqqqq) has already researched education:
When turn 53 opened I found this:
There's a barbarian warrior with 25% fortification bonus. I have to admit I have never seen barbs fortifying in place for that long (unless it's a lair/city obviously). So this is little bit weird. Although I'm quite happy my barbarian buddies are guarding the borders of my empire.
My Shock-Warrior did some scouting outside Yell0w's borders. As I know the starting areas are mirrored (so it seems), I'm pretty much scouting my own land.
End of the turn situation:
Turku just finished Warrens and it's gonna pump out 2 units/turn from now on! Gonna get 2 settlers next. I should have 5 cities around turn 62.
Demos at turn 54:
I'm a little bit worried about Goldfinger (HK). He's leading in most categories here. I'm high in production but low on food, that's fine - but HK also has same production than me but also 82 food, that's stunning! He's also very high in GNP, maybe even top 1.
October 16th, 2014, 19:59
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Okay, time for a proper update afer a while. The game has had a terrible pace lately which is why I haven't bothered to update much. We're having like 2-3 turns per week. Hopefully it'll get better soon.
On T58 I found that Qqqqqqq has Aristocracy now.
Which also explains this:
Evil Zombies are way ahead of others in GNP. HK prolly holding the 2nd place in GNP. Kredom lagging behind some but he has the biggest army in the world currently.
My army looks like this before settling 2 cities. Need some more workers definitely.
Settled my 4th and 5th city on the same turn (T61). Kemi and Sodankylä are the new additions to my empire. Sodankylä actually means Village of War if you translate that finnish to english. Sodankylä is going to be a good city to pump out soldiers, there's plenty of hills around it. Kemi is gonna help my research, it has lots of riverside tiles around which I'm planning to put cottages.
Also capital is building Brewing House but I might switch to settler/worker soon.
October 21st, 2014, 13:44
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Turn 64.
Looking at recent events I found this:
Yell0w switched to Slavery and God King at the same time. Slavery for sure is for sure interesting (questionable in my mind) choice. Not sure whipping population is really worth it in FFH2 (in most cases), but I personally haven't used it much so not like my words are the only truth here. This also of course means that he has Philosophy already.
Next turn I'm going to start putting those cottages up to boost my poor GNP.
October 21st, 2014, 15:29
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I'm following this, by the way, so keep reporting!
Sorry to hear about turn pace, it's kind of a turn-off, that.
If you wanna send over a save, I'd be interested in taking a look at it...
guess you'll have to trust I'm not a zombie-vampire spy.
I'm reachable with rb plus molach in one word, atthe gmaildotcom thing.
October 21st, 2014, 15:48
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Hey Molach, glad to hear someone is reading this!
Yeah, the turn pace has been bad couple of weeks but I think it's getting back on track now. We've had 1 turn/day last couple of days (fingers crossed it stays that way).
I can send you the save if you want to take a look at it. Any chance you haven't read other player's threads? I guess it doesn't matter much in this case but just curious.
October 22nd, 2014, 16:34
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Ho.
Have had relatives visiting so haven't checked out the lands yet.
I might have skimmed threads when the game got started, but not in a while, and remember nothing of note anyway.
So I can't consider myself soiled. Or spoiled.
October 23rd, 2014, 04:01
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Very nice. I've now sent the save to your email Molach, take a look and comments are always welcome! I've played the turn already. Will update here later when I got time.
October 23rd, 2014, 05:45
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Turn 65.
So now orcs can start to use cottages!
Looking south near Utsjoki I found this:
That's pretty terrifying CIV Griffon right there. There's a small chance that it could be one of my enemies captured griffon (svart's for example) so I had to contact Utsjoki's emergency center and build a scout (which I was able to get at the end of the turn). I really hope that is a barbarian griffon. This is mainly because that griffon has an effective strenght of 7.8 right now which means if it decides to attack me from sea I have no counter to it. Good news is that I can get goblin every turn in Utsjoki as long as needed. Utsjoki needs only 1 turn to finish a worker which I'm hoping to get next turn if the griffon decides to fly away.
My C2-Shock-Warrior is ready to scout again, it had to heal for 8 turns after defeating a griffon a while ago.
Empire overview:
And demos:
GNP is worse that usual due to running 0% science but other than that demos look pretty good. My food and production are also almost the same as the two civilization ahead of me (only barely). I'm probably getting Cartocraphy next then switch to Apprentieship and City States at the same time. I'm running 100% gold for one more turn I think before running 100% science.
Other option would be to go for Code of Laws and use Aristocracy but I think I prefer City States here. GodKing is the third possibility at Mysticism. Good thing about getting Mysticism is that I need the tech sooner or later because it's on the path to get RoK. However GodKing is not doing that much to me as I plan to get quite a lot of cities. Anyway, I have at least one more turn to think through my options and figure out which one I'm going for.
October 25th, 2014, 06:32
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I think my hopes were a bit too high regarding turn pace. Last turn was 2 days ago.
While not getting turns I started to think my tech plan again. As I'm going to get RoK as soon as possible I started to consider whether it's worth to bulb it. If I want to bulb it I should probably pick Mysticism before Cartocraphy and build a pagan temple so I can start generating GPP for prophet. It's not a big loss if I lose the holy city and I'm actually pretty sure HK (the dwarf empire) is going to get RoK before me. On the other hand stealing the holy city from dwarfs would be pretty sweet.
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