[SPOILERS] Welcome to the Kuro Corporation! (Kuro and BaII)

[BaII]

I'm thinking we need to get Metal Casting After Feudalism to get out Triemes, and yeah Retep is what we would be like if we had managed to nab TGLH.

[Kuro]

Dunno if we'd be quite Retep-ian (I imagine he has a lot better land than our shitty icy north), but we'd be in a lot better shape, yeah.

Not much going on: David Buick whipped a Spear, which will overflow into an Axe, and afterwards it will whip a Jewish Missionary to spread that to a city so we can use that city to better spread it elsewhere. I killed Sisub's Chariot and offered him peace (He has no more units around us and only 2 cities). Oh, and our Galley did not die to the barbarian Galley, so it'll start exploring the fogged land, which so far is just ice.

[Kuro]

Here's an update, everyone:

1. Currency came in! Really helped our GNP, though I forgot to record the exact amount: We're making like +12 GPT more than before, I think? Really helping us push towards Construction.

2. WilliamLP is going Music-wards. We still need to head there for Cathedrals and possibly Sistine Chapel.

3. I founded a new city one or two turns ago, Frank Purdue:



Total iceball, but it'll snag the furs and can build Temples to count towards Cathedrals, so there is that. Dunno why I decided to name it Frank Purdue. It has a lot of roads because most of our land is improved and, with Wolseley/Chevrolet gone, I have nowhere else to send them.

4. Some of my Workers road towards our next city, which will get us Marble, giving us a chance to build the Sistine Chapel in John Dodge.



5. Demographics.



I'm still upping our soldier count, but it is a bit slow-going. Most of our cities are decently well guarded, however (The least amount of units in a city not just in the iceballs/Buick is 2 Axes and 2 Spears and that'll be going up), so we have a decent base to build on by adding some Catapults and Longbows. WilliamLP seems to have a large power rating and given his Catapults and Horse Archers will probably be coming after us. Another option, though, is he could be going after Retep, who is the only person he doesn't have an open borders agreement with.

As a note, at 100% science, the Demographics show us with 146 GNP, 6th in the game. This is surprising and pleasing given how bad our demographic standings have been.

[BaII]

just out of curiosity, how many cities did we get burned down so far? Also might want to go for Metal Casting after Feudalism for Triremes to protect our waterways, as well as forges to help us produce the hammers needed for Cathedrals their pretty dam expensive at 300 a piece.

[Kuro]

just out of curiosity, how many cities did we get burned down so far? Also might want to go for Metal Casting after Feudalism for Triremes to protect our waterways, as well as forges to help us produce the hammers needed for Cathedrals their pretty dam expensive at 300 a piece.

First off, Azza died, which is unrelated but...we're not the first people to die in this show!

Secondly, we've had two cities "essentially" burned down (Wolseley burned down for real and BoldXenuBrick-replaced, Chevrolet captured). Everything else remains intact.

I'm thinking of possibly going MC before Feudalism because we could use the hammer bonus quickly and Feudalism is a bit expensive so we might want to build stuff up a little before going to it (A little bit of cottage growth, get Furs/Fish city I founded it's Furs online and growing, etc). Also, it'd help actually build the Longbows.

[Kuro]

I've been putting all my EP into WilliamLP for a while now to see if I could get City Visibility, as he never put EPs into us. Surprisingly, this worked!



There's pretty much no military units in range here. I am going to see if I can build some Scouts to scout out his other cities to get visibly with any speed.



How are we not last in any demographic? What has Sisub been having done to him?

[BaII]

Guessing he is getting destroyed in a war like Azza?

[Kuro]

Guessing he is getting destroyed in a war like Azza?

Maybe. WilliamLP isn't at war with anyone we know, but we still have not met Suttree, Molach or Oxy, so it is possible he is at war. It is odd for him to have a high Power rating and yet have almost 0 units visible (All that I can see is an Axe and a Warrior, both in a city).

[BaII]

If we don't see any units nearby we might be able to try for a snipe. With a couple of chariots or we could tech HBR for Horse Archers for a quick snipe.

[Kuro]

If we don't see any units nearby we might be able to try for a snipe. With a couple of chariots or we could tech HBR for Horse Archers for a quick snipe.

No horses.