[SPOILERS] Sorry, we don't post on topic!

[darrelljs]

I guess I still like 1N for the grass hill and (at least one) extra forest. With the Slavery nerf grass hills feel more important.

Darrell

[Ichabod]

I guess I still like 1N for the grass hill and (at least one) extra forest. With the Slavery nerf grass hills feel more important.

Darrell

You mean 1NW, right?

Those are good points, by the way. 1NW it is.

[darrelljs]

Yeah, 1NW. Get used to me typing things that don't make sense and trying to intuit which phrase is the correct one .

Darrell

[Brian Shanahan]

Ye're floating dangerously on topic here.
So here's a song about a dog, to keep us on track:


Anyone else remember the show.

[darrelljs]

That's the spirit !

Darrell

[Ichabod]

That's it, right?

Techs cost an arm and a leg in these settings. Mining will take 8 turns, so we'll have it by the time the worker is done pasturing. After he's done pasturing, he'll probably have to mine both hills. After that, if we go for BW, he'll be left without things to do for some turns. Some intensive study I made show me that, if we get Buddhism, the worker can make a mine in the tile 2SW of the city, for lack of anything better to do.

What's the plan, than? Well, we go for Buddhism and we cross our fingers that our scout pops a decent tech in that hut.

Plan B is we go for Buddhism and we cross our fingers that the second city to the south has a tile improvable with a pasture.

Ah, and no forest growths, pretty please!

[darrelljs]

I think I'll make a sandbox and play with some options. I typically don't bother with getting the tech rate right and just plug that in from the game, but I do want to know the fastest way to get to chopping out Settlers.

The Sheep would be 5/0/1 and the Cow 4/2/1 correct?

Darrell

[Ichabod]

I think I'll make a sandbox and play with some options. I typically don't bother with getting the tech rate right and just plug that in from the game, but I do want to know the fastest way to get to chopping out Settlers.

The Sheep would be 5/0/1 and the Cow 4/2/1 correct?

Darrell

Yup. By the way, I'm okay with not going religion first. BW first is likely to be way better, considering our traits. Let's see what your sandbox reveals, though.

I haven't finished turn, so we can still change things, other than where to settle.

[darrelljs]

By the way, I'm okay with not going religion first.

Bah! Bah I say! Calvin & Hobbes has spoken .

Darrell

[Ichabod]

At least we'll always have good looks and charm...




Well, let's get to that turn report, shall we?

After we powergamed our way to being the last to end turn, I quickly played turn 0 and turn 1 this morning, making sure no one would steal the hut that is 2 tiles from our Capital. Better be safe than sorry, right?




The tension was unbearable...

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...

Of course, we got a map. Yeah, yeah, I know, but don't fret too much. At least it was a decent map, not a "hear thear be oceanz" map.

You see, the map revealed in details how we managed to make the worst best move possible with our settler.










Time to start training those skills... You know what I mean, right? Everybody knws what I mean...




Nothing rationalization can't solve!

You see, our moved managed to free a perfect second city spot, near the southern pigs, that will fit perfectly with our perfect plan to go for Meditation first. Our worker will be busy improving the pigs for the second city, so he won't lose meaningful worker turns by not having anything useful to do (he could always meditate, I guess, but I did say "anything useful" ). That city needs no techs teched to be profitable, due to river TRs and pigs as a great food resource.

I'm still not skilled enough to explain why we moved 1NW, rather than 1N, though. But I'm sure I'll think of something along the way.

Anyway, I think we should move our scout south, while revealing the most terrain possible. We should try to get that hut in the south and explore a bit more around the second city. A quick study of the maps, gives me this route.







There's bound to be treasure in the big "X", right?