[SPOILERS] Dhalphir PB13

[Serdoa]

Scout-move seems good, yes.

And yes, we'll have time to decide on AH/Mining later on when we know more. I guess with just 5-10 turns played it will be easier.

[SevenSpirits]

Btw I am 90% sure that Mackoti chose to team with yuri because he wanted to be Mehmed of Ottomans. That's one way to get the leader you want. I have doubts about that team working well together though.

[SevenSpirits]

I logged into the game successfully. Had to set our pw and I put it to "secret". Feel free to change that. I didn't make any bold moves because I'm really busy this week and liable to screw up very basic things. I did move the scout 1E and revealed a plains hill wine tile on the opposite side of the lake from him.

[Serdoa]

Thanks Seven. Seems the server was crashed already - I thought by now everyone would know where to put mods etc. or at least ask beforehand if not, but it seems that's not the case.

[Serdoa]

Password after the reload is now: rbpb13dj

[Serdoa]

Move scout on the hill-pigs. Revealed only a hut 2E of it which will pop next turn, yes?

Settler moved onto the PH 1S of it. Will settle next turn.

[Serdoa]

Played T1. Hut pop:



Could be worse certainly, of course, tech would have been even better, but I'm not gonna complain.

Overview of scouting so far:




1W of the rice could be our second city. Sharing both pigs, high amount of food, and even without border pop 3 GLH, which I feel is ok. Better would be on or 1S of the rice. Less sharing (but still the grassland pig) but we will pop borders on T50 again and take the row of tiles the scout is on anyhow, so if there is better stuff to grab, it probably is worth it.

But in all honesty, we can easily wait the next 10 turns before we really have to think about that.

[SevenSpirits]

Played t3. Scout revealed a whole lot of plains. I guess it should continue east or go 2N to that hill.

Our border pop will reveal the remaining tiles near the rice, so at that point we can make a solid plan for city #2.

This start looks like it will be an uphill battle. Metaphorically of course. Although even our settler had to move up a hill to start.

Our empire is renowned the world over for having the lowest land area of any empire.

[Serdoa]

Don't know if you saw it, but plako and Bacchus popped a tech it seems. Though I'm not going to do C&D. Wasn't interested in that in PB12, even less interested here with 18 players

For the scout I would suggest moving him clockwise around as by my current micro-plan we won't have many units for scouting and AFAIR in RB-Mod we won't get research-boni for meeting other players till much later in the game and also I doubt we'll get circumnavigation with him

[Serdoa]

Now who would have thought that?




plako, of all players, is our neighbour. WHAT a surprise...