[SPOILERS] Ceiliazul is Player One: Louis of Egypt

[Ceiliazul]

Hey, checking in-game, looks real good. I'd even feel good about our chances to win if it weren't for our nearest neighbor. The core looks good, and is growing.



The settler at the East edge of this shot will settle this turn at the newly ungentized Plako site. Another archer and settler are ready to settle the southern rice:





Priesthood tech is for monarchy, and I'll lobby hard for Code of Laws after that. Monarchy first though, because we must grow bigger. We appear to be a solid 3rd place in the things that matter, but Krill is running far ahead:





Seriously. Ouch.

I didn't move any units, Nakor you certainly get the honor of settling those 2 cities. I did reallocate spy points to Krill, hoping to get his tech visibility. Azza's graphs look bad enough that he's unlikely to be a long term threat.

[Ceiliazul]

I also had to queue something in Thebes, so I chose archer. By all means, keep your plan. I'd like to see the 'veteran' archer at Middletown shifted to a border city. If we can unlock Heroic Epic without a hot war that's a big deal.

Next 3 city names (one of these could be Thebes renamed)

Distracted Globe
Archaide
Frobozz

[Ceiliazul]

Dang, I see civstats we JUST missed each other.

[Nakor]

Yep, just missed each other! We can chat through gmail, if you'd like. I'm at ikingbas at gmail dot com.

Settled the two cities, but need to change the names in accordance with your naming theme.
Whipped the worker in Middletown. We'll build another archer-settler there, I think before building a Library.
Thebes started on a worker as well. To much unhappiness to grow, and we do need more workers. Always.

We've got an awfull lot of room to expand into at our back, but I think that means we should settle towards Krill with a bit of speed. The more land we can claim, the better we'll be in the end.

Krills size 14 city...
How did he manage that?

Anyways, techwise Monarchy first and then? We can go CoL as you suggest or we can go to the top and grab Aesthetics/Literature. Or we can go for MC to get triremes and forges. We need everything, but what first?

[Nakor]

Here is our civ:



Free lands to the south:



And then the bad news, or is it good news:



You can see that we'll have Iron connected in 2T, so that helps a lot in feeling safe.

[Nakor]

Slowly building up and making ready for more expansion. Not a lot happening.
The Krill - Azza war hasn't made any progress.

[Ceiliazul]

Nakor, I see a swordsman building in Globe (northen city), but looks like this would be a great turn to whip. It's a 2pop whip now or grow into unhappiness next turn.... even if we 1pop whip next turn the city is still unhappy.

One more team to play, if you see this let me know.




Also, nice scouting. If we can actually claim all that land, we'll have a real shot... just gotta keep Krill off our backs.

One question: How did this happen? Looks like the warrior is facing North?

[Ceiliazul]

Krill-Azza have made peace. Either they just wanted 10t enforced peace, or maybe a worker steal.

I just noticed Distracted Globe is on "avoid growth"... what's the plan there?

[Nakor]

Most cities have a lot of unhappiness. We need to let that whip anger wear off so the cities can grow. And we don't need the sword now since more cities will cripple us even more. But feel free to whip.
About the warrior... Moved to fast there....

[Ceiliazul]

Most cities have a lot of unhappiness. We need to let that whip anger wear off so the cities can grow. And we don't need the sword now since more cities will cripple us even more. But feel free to whip.
About the warrior... Moved to fast there....

If we can delay the sword, what if I swap Globe to a settler? That also saves us from unhappiness next turn.