[SPOILERS] Dhalphir PB13

[Dhalphir]

New turn

Only thing I did this turn was kill the chariot on the pigs. Lost my chariot from the north. He got very lucky, taking Plako's chariot down to 0.1 health. so I finished it off with the chariot in the capital. If only I had won with the first!! Or not lost the warrior pointlessly.




Archer due to finish next turn in the capital. I am pretty safe now. Antioch will chop out a worker into an archer next turn. Plako could still pillage the pigs if he wants to - if he moves both his chariots on to it next turn, I don't think a chariot and an archer will be able to dislodge them before they can pillage. I really hope he doesn't, my capital is the only city that is actually being productive in my empire, and that will stop without the pigs.

Offered peace once more. Maybe he'll take it now that I took out one of his chariots.

[Dhalphir]

so plako gave me peace for my world map. in the interturn he moved his two chariots onto the pig resource at Aiur.

I don't know if this was mercy or if this was the right decision by him. But he certainly could have pillaged my capital's pig resource too unless I wanted to take two low odds battles with my archer and chariot.




Moved the settler out of Shakuras where it had been hiding.




Sent it down to the southern city site.




I'm glad I didn't switch away from worker at antioch. Chop goes in, worker finishes. Worker roads the tile to the iron. In two more turns I'll have that connected, then the workers need to head down to repair Shakuras and develop the new city.




Goals for the next few turns

-Finish the iron connection
-Try to get Shakuras into some sort of productive state again
-Settle the southern city for the silver. It won't be an amazing city - slow growing due to only having a clam, but it will grab the silver and will add redundancy in the form of a second source of horses.
-Repair the war damage - pasture the pigs, farm the rice, and repair my road network betweeen Aiur/Shakuras/the silver city
-Get some spears and axes out across the empire. I need some serious military now because if plako comes knocking again...
-I also changed Sailing research to Writing at the end of the turn. If Plako is coming back to finish me, I bet it will be in a few dozen turns when he has Construction and catapults. I want to get my ivory into elephants when that happens, and have cats of my own, so Construction is needed.

[Dhalphir]

Founded Korhal this turn. Workers heading down there to improve it, and roading from Aiur to Shakuras on the way.




the iron will be connected next turn, and I'll start getting some real military after that. Most cities are done with infrastructure for now until Writing comes in.

[Dhalphir]

Bacchus traded world maps with me. Wow he's seen a lot more of the world :D




First things I noticed
1. Plako and I are off on our own, at least in this section of the continent
2. Fuck you plako, you have so much room to expand into, why settle towards me

I'll study that in more detail, later.

for now, I'm planning my fifth city with the settler that Shakuras just produced.

I'm thinking to the north, but I'm not sure of a spot. I'm scouting out the little finger of land that I labeled previously as a potential city site if it has seafood. But now I'm thinking I might want to settle the other coast.




The lower spot is far too aggressive against plako, and only picks up one food resource. The top spot is the other one. It doesn't get a food resource in first ring, so it will be slow to size 2, but after it pops borders it will be a great naval pump. My only concern - plako can approach that city almost entirely on defensive terrain later in the game. However, I can't find a spot that won't have at least one hill next to it, and there's nowhere else except the marked spot that picks up both the corn and the clam.

[Dhalphir]

Okay, so I have another settler ready for city #5. I have three and a half potential locations.

Location #1 - This would be a pure fishing village, albeit with one grass mine for some production. Might be a good spot for Moai down the line, but apart from that, pure commerce with the seafood. Not a bad location.



Location #2 - The northern of the two Xs. This would pick up wet wheat, clams (5 food with lighthouse), two grass hills (three if you count the one on the other side of the water) and two plains hills for production. This would be a monster naval city. Only downside - it can be approached from hills by plako. Does this matter enough?



Location #3.5 - I have two options here. The southern option is closer to me and gets the defensive bonus from the hill, but it loses the iron resource. It would be nice to have two of those in case plako takes one out during a war. The northern location grabs the iron, and doesn't have the defensive bonus, but it can only be approached from Bacchus' side on flat land. The only thing I don't know - would this be considered aggressive settling by Bacchus?



The possibilities in an overview shot

[Dhalphir]

In the end I've decided to put my next city here




Things I don't like about it - not much production, and only decent commerce.

Things I like about it - strong defensive location oriented towards the north. once the forests are cleared, there is two tiles of bare terrain in front of it and to the side, so to attack it or get past it, an enemy must expose his stack to the city's catapults. if I remember to build them.

It also closes off the north to plako.

[Dhalphir]

Update on the last few turns

Not much has happened. reconnected my pillaged food resources and workers are improving my two new cities.

Something exciting is happening elsewhere though

http://i.imgur.com/VDDDrZ2.png

[Molach]

Okay, I'm in charge for the next turns.

I'm secretly an agent for the Plakonian confederation, so I basically plan to delete all units and gift cities to him.

...

Changed capital configuration - from this:


To this. Less commerce, but as silver is connected just in time for the growth I think this is better. Also gave pigs to the eastern city as it was building a worker.

Want to go a unit or two then settler here?

Barb village.

I moved chariot NW N, to get some more scouting done.
He has 78% odds now. If he wins he will promote and get better odds. We can't keep this with upkeep mounting, so I suppose live and let live for now? Not in ideal position.


About Plako - little new. He has a chariot snooping on our borders, I covered a worker with a spearman. *What is he up to? He whipped two things this turn - doesn't have to mean anything as whips are good. I'll check out his power rating next turn. A steady stream of units, plus the ability to whip up an army with high population in border towns might be enough just now.

[Molach]

Hm, thought I took more pictures. Stupid ...whatever that didn't work.

Here's the middle area. There is no doubt this land is our land... only question where to settle.

The X would be good in SP, I'm thinking along the lines of "here"....Not great cities. Farm grassland, work hills, get high pop so they can whip if Plakonic arrives. Build barracks and units.

When I said "Here or 1W" I probably meant 1E.
"We used to have to live in a lake"

Even 2E on the hill? Safer yet more aggressive.

Anyway no settlers in queue yet. Capital will start one next turn I guess.

[Dhalphir]

The middle land city that originally stood there was supposed to be a bridge to the spot where plako pinkdotted serdoa. It might be worth resertling somewhere there solely as a frontline city to protect Shakuras and Aiur