[SPOILERS] 3 Players, 1 Civ, No Clues - Tatan, Nakor, and Serdoa are Darius of Rome

[Tatan]

I'm getting excited about these islands:



Low on resources, but way bigger than I expected!


EDIT: Also, note that we can now see Sunrise's research.

[Nakor]

Sunrise's research rate is scary!
We'll finish Writing next turn and will go to 0% for a few turns.
What should we tech next? I think Math - Currency? Or Calender? Or Archery - HBR?

Sunrise is sending a Spear our way, so I decided to build/whip an Axe in Nero to counter that. We can whip next turn when whip anger wears off:



Nero is progressing with TGL:



And the islands look even more inviting!

Once the Axe is whipped in Caesar, we'll finish the Galley and start another Axe for defense. We can ship one chariot with the settler to our first island. What site should we settle first?

[Nakor]

And the new turn starts. Working at home today so I can play early.
Whipped the Axe in Caesar. Caesar will grow back next turn.
Nero has 142 hammers invested in TGL, just like Serdoa told us.
Writing is done, so I put us at 0% science and Mathematics.

Judaism got founded (after Confu (Sunrise)), and the WB scouted some more. Warrior is healing from dealing with a barb warrior.

We're so bad in the demographics it isn't even funny...

[Nakor]

And another turn.
Sunrise is posing a real problem:



Then again, the Islands are so big, we can move there and keep Nero with a big garrison.



Following Serdoa's micro on TGL:





And here are our demo's....

[Serdoa]

Why is sunrise planting cities in the middle of the jungle? I mean, even if he wants to come for us (and I guess he does not and his spear is only insurance because he knows we have chariots) that doesn't make sense. Those have to be awful cities and I can't believe he has no others to plant. Or is that solely for the horse? If so, that will be a tactical advantage for us if we (or anyone else) is ever fighting him and we can take away his only source.

[regoarrarr]

1 N, 2 Ns, 1 T.

ciNciNNaTus

/resident of Cincinnati

[Nakor]

Uh oh...



I'll post a "let me live" message in the public threat.

Sunrise has to cover a worker since I moved the chariot 1S. No picture...

And Nero goes as suggested:





Corrected the worked tiles after the picture was taken.

Next turn we can put science back at 100% and tech to Math. Don't know where to go afterwards...

[Nakor]

And another turn.
Sunrise killed our chariot... he roaded the forest and attacked out. Crap.
Send an Axe over towards our border to keep an eye on things.
The only good thing is that he'll chop down that jungle for us... now we have to decide how to get rid of him...

Plako let our WB live for now (or I double moved him, :neenernee). Now the WB has to move SE and the N to scout the second island on the other side.

Galley done in Caesar, started another Axe. Need more units.

We need to decide where to settle our first island city, so guys, can you give some input? We'll need border pops there (unless we go for 4-5 cities) so that means Libraries, right?
And we need to decide what to build in Nero after next turn:



I guess Military or a Library while growing and then another Settler?
We can shuttle over 3 workers to the new island to improve tiles.
And Caesar can use a Library as well for border pops...

Techwise, we can turn science back on once TGL is finished and tech Math. What do we do after that?

[Serdoa]

Military. Can you give me an overview of what we have so far? We might have to get a few units now and then get to LBs ourselves fast. Depends on sunrise but if he attacks like that, then we have to have enough defenses around. Can we get vision on the city, to see if we can somehow destroy it?

Apart from that, why is all that hatred in the diplo-thread? I don't want to ask there in fear to stir it up even more but I don't get it. And why anyone would attack right now is beyond me anyway. At least a full scale attack. That doesn't work - at least not against players like Seven and mackoti. Or plako. Or for that matter probably sunrise as well.

[Nakor]

Okay, I'll build some more military. We now have something like 2 warriors, 2 axes, 2 chariots? Real cardboard military. Can't build spears yet.

Do you suggest we tech towards Monarchy - Archery - Feudalism before going Currency/Calender?

I don't understand the diplo thread either...