[spoilers] OT4E is gonna try something special

[OT4E]

Congrats!

Are you going to replant Shanghai then?

Thank you. Yes, I am going to replant it one tile to the left from its original location. Cow, fish, sheep, cooper, whales and silks! It gonna be another great city if I do not screw it somehow.

[OT4E]

Meanwhile Nyles is making pressure on my other neighbor dcodea, who is Joao of Khmer. Right now he has 2 cities and I hope he wont disturb me any soon.

I found wetbandit/ipecac's last city, and it looks that it has path to my western lands, so the sea below my cap is in fact a big lake.


According to the demographics it is size of 2 and is making 12 food per turn with 2 hammers. Unfortunately I doubt I can take it especially if they have granary there. They can just slave archers. But I have feeling that they are going to give it up, because I havent noticed any whips in civstats. It is casual game and who's gonna fight till the last soldier in it?

My most concern now is Stardoor. I have realized that his culture spreads most likely from barracks, so it is just a matter of 10 turns to whip and bring army to my walls. I have nothing to counter axe with shock, even worse if he manages to bring swords and it can turn into real disaster if he goes to HA directy. But right now it doesnt seem he is interested. His garnisson in the top city consists of 1 warrior and there is no sign of roading in my direction.



But I have to keep my eyes open. Stardoor is a new guy here and I must be ready to everything.

Short summary of my attack:
- gained 2 cities with granaries and a piece of land
- 160 + gold but of course I am suffering higher maintance
- killed 2 archer, 2 warriors and 1 axemen but lost 4 chariots
- cleared my future from facing cho-ko-nu's

I will most likely have to switch slavery. Yeah, finally. I cant work so much land with just 5 workers I have got so far. I also might be willing to use granaries in new cities properly. And at the end my 4 core cities are protected with 0 troops so far.

RustyHorseshoe is preparing to start working on Pyramids. No idea why I needed granary there since I cant grow higher than within the next 15 turns because of happy limit.


Even if I dont get Pyramids building wealth at 1.5 ratio is the best choice in my position.

As you can see I am on the way researching Metal Casting. This was a hard choice between MC, Maths and Priesthood. Oracle is not gone yet but I cant cover everything and if I dont get it going for priesthood is a waste. Maths is as good as Metal Casting, wetbandit/ipecac left many forests untouched and I need happy from Hammams, but at last I noticed forested (not jungled) gems to the west so I can grab it one day. Also I will get sailing after Metal for whales. So I put my bet on forges.

My demographs:


I am not first in everything but higher than average. Gnp is bad considering +15 culture from SH but I still have a burst of gold in treasury which I will try to invest in my economy.

[OT4E]

What am I supposed to do with this?

[Krill]

• Attack and lose,
  
• Attack and withdraw, then win on defence,
  
• Attack and withdraw, then lose on defence,
  
• Not attack but stay on the tile,
  
• Pillage the cow,
  
• Delete the chariot,
  
• Flame Wetbandit for not deleting all his units,
  
• Quit the game.

Probably missing a few options here.

[The Black Sword]

Give peace a chance?

[OT4E]

He didnt whip, so he has steel nerves. I decided to give it a turn.

[OT4E]

I lost the remains of my patience and joined game...

May be my reputation makes people think that I use every opportunity to attack, but there are always exceptions. I do not need this war, at least not right now. Stardoors can make me troubles even with 2 cities. Right now passive, lazy neighbor is exactly what I need. He is not spying on me, hasnt sent any unit towards me and both his cities are equipped by just 1 warrior.

If he continue playing like this I will return to this question, but now I will Give-Peace-A-Chance. I joined game this turn because I wasnt sure that I am ready to let 63% go as easy as 48%.

[OT4E]

So instead of declaring Stardoors, I wastes 2 chariots on wetbandit/ipecac's last city. The chances were low and in general not worth trying. I did it not to get a cheap victory because they obviously cant hurt me by any. I tried my chance to release them from playing occ for at least 30 more turns.

So I have them chance. But no luck this time. Do I give too much chances this game overall? Anyway I was paying 2 gold for those chariots. But I dropped to the 9th place in soldiers.

[OT4E]

One more dull report without screenshots.

I got Stardoor's graphs. His power seems to be 10th when I dropped to the 9th place. Considering barracks in his core cities he has nothing except those warriors. This turn though he whipped both cities I see by 2 pop, but my hope it is libraries. This however will make decent pressure on former China land because arabian UB gives +4 culture. But I hope in 20 turns when his borders pop I will be ready to deal with it.

I we planted Shanghai and it costed me -8 maintance that hurts but this city is as great as The Small One in long term.

2 more turns for Metal Casting and I start total forgification.

[OT4E]

Some picture, comments will follow later.