Game Thread

[Qgqqqqq]

Two other warriors or only the ones on hill/corn?

[Gaspar]

Current situation in Trollololololand:

[Lewwyn]

[SIZE="7"]Turn 38:[/SIZE]

I had Gaspar play the turn because I didn't feel like loading up windows. At first I just wanted him to get the Trolland screenie, but the moves to be made here were obvious.

Here you can see we went W with the warrior because we correctly surmised that Trolls had whipped an axe. Moving to this hill allows us to be threatening but also out of range of the newly whipped axe. The axe is trouble but as long as we can keep them worried about our warriors that axe has to stay home. Great news for us. The Trolls must have connected copper last turn and started an axe last turn gotten 5 hammers into it and then 1 pop whipped. That means they are only getting 1 hammer overflow from the whip, unless they had two turns into the axe which would mean 6 overflow.

We then moved the other warrior to get vision on the second city:

Those workers don't have an action but I think they likely chopped this turn and then cancelled the actions. Lot's of forests there. If we can get the warrior onto one of them we might be able to cause consternation for the workers. I'm betting they try to bring both warriors to this city next turn allowing our S warrior to play cat and mouse with the solo axe. Just have to keep them busy while we settle our pink dot + get horses.

Do we want to work out a peace treaty with them? We've hurt them, but if we can get a peace treaty while we pink dot them it'd protect the horses. Something to think about.

Home:

Worker is moving to chop. We switch the sugar and sheep next turn + start the archer in cap.

No city from Gillette yet.

[Krill]

If that axe went north how long until it reached pink dot?

[Lewwyn]

Its 9 tiles to the pink dot and 7 tiles to the horse. We settle T46. Borders pop EOT 50. We can likely start a chariot T52-T53 depending on how many workers we have at the city. 7 turns from horse tile, we need to distract them for 9 turns. And yeah we're going to need a second archer. We could get another archer EOT44 with the overflow from the Settler whip but it would delay our 4th worker, especially since if we went archer before worker I would recommend growing back to at least 3 before building that worker. But we can make that call closer to T44.

Even after we settle they won't see borders without a unit walking up there so we need to keep our warriors alive and distracting.

[Krill]

Delay the fourth worker and only send one worker to the wheat, the worker that is built at WW. Use both capital workers to road to and hook up that horse.

Also, good job catching the axe build.

[Lewwyn]

Okay went over some micro. I can get the horses pastured during T53 with roads and all with the two capital workers. If we build the Archer with the overflow from the settler whip we can get that 2nd archer into the Horse city by T49.

I can also whip the 4th worker out of WW on turn 51. The cap will grow back to 3 on t48. We can put a turn into a chariot T53 and whip it T54. It can make it into the horse city on Turn 56 with a half move left.

[Gold Ergo Sum]

I'd say it might be peace time. We made them whip an axe. And likely played havoc with worker micro. That is all good for us.

[Lewwyn]

That would be nice and all but I have no idea whether they would accept it. They might want revenge at this point. Dunno. Plako in that convo was certainly hinting at that. He definitely contacted me because he wanted to see if we were open to peace before they had to whip the axe. Forcing them to whip might be the point of no return for them.

[Lewwyn]

Adding to that. If we could get a 10T peace treaty enforced on T45 that would be excellent. We'd get the 4th worker on T46 and get our horse hooked + workers out of the danger zone before the peace treaty was up.