[SPOILERS] *Placeholder* Zakalwe plays a soldier

[zakalwe]

Thanks.

News of the turn:
- Another great general born out there.
- Novice has construction due in 1 turn. That's very good for him, with his cheap odeons. Plus catapults, of course. Bridges can be useful, too.

[zakalwe]

Interesting situation in the south:




Dazed moved an unescorted settler onto that hill. Presumably he will settle next turn, and put a unit in the city. If he does, I can hit it right away with two horse archers.

I lost confucianism on turn order, which was a bit surprising but no big deal. I think Boldly must have got it, and he already has buddhism, so it had no big denial value anyway.

[zakalwe]

Poor Dazed. He had a couple of vultures one step behind, although I might well have razed the city anyway.




Novice built a catapult in his border city, and now probably feels like he's shown me that resumed aggression would be unwise. We'll see about that...

I have updated the sandbox again: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4939...dSwordSave

In honor of that, I'll also give you a tour of my cities, since it's been ages since I showed that.




















Brunei will double whip its stables and overflow into a horse archer, and the capital will double whip its library, also overflowing into a horse archer. That should bring me up to 10 horse archers. If Novice doesn't put another spear or two in his border city soon, I will go ahead and recapture it.

Djibouti has put 90 hammers into the pyramids, for failgold.

[regoarrarr]

I assume you're hoping to not have to get to a 24th city?

[zakalwe]

You're thinking about the naming convention? I can just start on A again. I would love to have 24 cities. With cheap Rathauses, I can handle it...




Dazed stacked his vultures with the workers on the jungle hill, so I retreated my horse archers.

Looks like I triggered Dazed's concession wish, but I don't think this game is ready to be called just yet. Novice is obviously the favorite with his huge lead in crop yield, but it could theoretically change, if Boldly and I manage to hit him on two fronts with accidental good timing.

Sandbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4939...dSwordSave

I will spend one more turn in slavery, then 5 turns in caste, popping the next GP after 4 of those turns. If it's a merchant I can use him immediately to bulb currency. If it's an artist, I'll use him for a culture bomb somewhere. If it's a prophet, I'm not sure. Bulb theology, perhaps. My next tech is mathematics, and after that I'll go for monarchy. I will settle the northern wines in a couple of turns.

[Bigger]

I assume you're hoping to not have to get to a 24th city?

does your English language only have 23 letters? In 'murica, we have 26.

[zakalwe]

Comoros was captured, and Estonia was razed...

They will be recaptured and resettled, though. If I get my way.

[regoarrarr]

I just meant that there is no country starting with the letter X, that is all

[zakalwe]

X-Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia?

I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.












My economy is still very competitive, and I've got an extremely good economic building available with the rathaus. So really, if I could just close the gap in crop yield I'd be back in the game, I think. Easier said than done, of course, but I still maintain that it's possible in theory.

[Commodore]

That's kind of amazing for not even Math yet.