Hashoosh completes his 5 year plan for domination of the Andes

[Hashoosh]

See also: plakos cre trait stealing my first ring fish tile. I have no illusions about my shot at winning or a good finish in this game, I guess I'll just try to improve my gameplay and make myself a thorny enough neighbour that plants like that wont happen in the future

That's the idea for this game going forward.

[Hashoosh]

OK Parkin, here`s the deal. This might get awkward for you if you have to play more than one turn, since I`m planning on razing that TBS city

Next turn: Whip chariots in Cap and Tzeentch, put overflow from terrace in Leman Russ into a Quechua.

Move scout 2E to get visibilty on TBS southern city. Move spear to cover two workers on gold tile. Road the gold tile.

Heal axe in Leman Russ (1t I think)

If Dazed has moved to threaten my fortified Quechua with his axe (1 tile away), retreat the Quechua.

If not, dont do anything in the West (unless he starts walking towards my cities).

Start bringing the eastern Quechua back west, keep him out of LOS of TBS city. I know you`ve got knowledge of his civ, so this could get really awkward.

I don`t imagine I`ll be going to war while you`re subbing, since I`m expecting to be back on Sunday in time for that turn. If not, I`ll post more detailed instructions on Saturday, when I`ll know for sure.

Thanks a tonne for doing this, I`ll have my cell so you can reach me via PM or posting in this thread if you don`t feel comfortable playing both turnsets or have any questions.

[Lord Parkin]

Just read your thread for the first time.

Well... I can't unread what you wrote, so I may as well play now.

In future, probably best to find someone else to sub if you're plotting war against someone I'm currently subbing for. Especially if it's only for a single turn. It puts me in the awkward situation of having to play against "myself" as if I didn't have certain knowledge. This is why I generally avoid all other spoiler threads while I'm subbing for someone - especially spoilers of neighbours.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 71

Okay, whipped the capital as requested. Also whipped Tzeentch since you explicitly said so, even though it already had a Chariot 1 turn from completion. I guess you want to use the overflow on something else?

The Axe requires 2 turns to heal, not 1 turn as you thought. As you didn't specify which promotions you'd want, I had no choice but to let him take the 2 turn heal.

Looks like dazed's Axe moved twice before I could log in. He's now, um, underneath your Quecha. Moving the Quecha would not reduce the threat, so I just left him where he was.

There was one Worker sitting in Tzeentch which you left no instructions for. After some thought I sent him 2SE to build a road this turn. This will speed up your Chariot's movement from Tzeentch by 1 turn if you choose to finish it next turn.

Demographics.

Free advice, based solely on the knowledge you have of the world:

- I would recommend very strongly against this attack. You have 4 cities, 4 Workers, and no source of happiness at T71, which is not a good position to be in. However, your position will not be improved in any way by merely razing other players' cities. Perhaps it's cathartic, but it won't help you out in the long run.
- You have no fewer than 6 quite reasonable city locations marked out, and I think you could manage more if you made some effort. Instead of focussing on attacking your neighbours (which gains you nothing except maybe a future site to settle), why not concentrate on expansion you can easily achieve and work towards a respectable empire of 10+ decent cities? You even have a Settler at 93/100 hammers which you're delaying to build Chariots.
- Why do you want Stone anyway... are you planning on building Moai soon? I don't think you're in a realistic position to make a shot at any of the early wonders (even if it wasn't a 34 player game).
- Cottages! All that uncottaged riverside grassland around the unhappy size 3 city of Waaagh makes me sad.
- Get yourself some happiness. Monarchy is a sure bet, since you have a source of Wines and can make great use of Hereditary Rule. The land you have is actually quite excellent - mostly grassland with plenty of food - so once you raise the happy cap you can spam cottages and vastly improve your situation.

[Lord Parkin]

Haven't heard from you yet regarding the next turn. If you don't post or play within the next hour, I'll take my best guess.

[Lord Parkin]

Ah good, I see you got the turn. That takes care of that then.

[Hashoosh]

Thanks for the advice LP, I heeded it. Two cities will be planted in the next few turns.

I guess I was a little pissed getting a city spot taken by about 3 turns from the time I was going to settle it. Getting blocked off from those green eastern lands sucks, I guess it's to the high seas for me!

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 79

All builds were queued so no issues there.

Did my best to guess what Workers should do. Chopped with most, sent two SE towards Leman Russ since the borders will expand onto the Gold next turn. Brought Work Boat into Leman Russ since the Fish should switch inside your borders soon.

Demographics.

[Lord Parkin]

Hope everything's alright, you seem to have disappeared for the moment.

Turn 80

Again no new builds in cities, so just kept the Workers doing what they were doing. Not sure if you want to finish the chops which are now at 2/3 completion, or wait for Maths to arrive in half a dozen or so turns.

Borders expanded at Leman Russ. The Gold will be hooked up at the beginning of the next turn. The Fish will flip into your border the turn after. That'll be quite a nice city very shortly.

Demographics.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 81

Held off on finishing chops, prebuilding roads/mines underneath instead.

Leman Russ is much nicer now with the Gold. The Fish will flip next turn!

Demographics.