[SPOILERS] Caught in tides of war... yuris125 and Krill - PBEM56

[Krill]

It's a testing game. I don't think that "play to win" is the only idea for this game, I think it's better to "play to break stuff" and win through that.

[yuris125]

Moved everything to 9



Still keep wandering? 2 of the cow or 8 of the rice seems decent - are we looking for something better still?

[Krill]

Move scout 9 and re-evaluate. If nothing interesting shows up, I would actually consider moving the settler 7 (because it looks to be coastal) and maybe settle there. The lumber mill is a 4 yield tile, and double grass cow is decent (not high food, but then only really need 1 hill in the fog for it to be an OK capital).

You could arguably move the settler 89 or 69 though. Depends how ballsy you want to be.

[yuris125]

Scout to 9..



I think we found it. Just need to choose between 8 and 88 of the rice. What do you think? Found on the hill, keep the forest for future chopping?

[Krill]

Hmmmm.

Need 2 minutes.

[Krill]

So we need to research AH, Mining and BW to get all three tiles improved. I'm actually fine with that, IMO, that is a good chunk of commerce available.

I think the grass hill site will be slightly better, 1 more forest, can hook the cow slightly quicker, 3 grass hills plus gems v 4 grass, 1 plains hills plus gems but 2 more grass land tiles.

[Krill]

question is how long until AH. I think AH takes longer than it takes to build a worker...

[Krill]

Actually thinking about it, I'd be reasonably OK with any of the choices.

[Krill]

In fact moving to the tile the scout is on takes 1 more turn but stills speeds up the worker 1 turn net; it would delay AH slightly further though, by 1 turn, but could hook the rice immediately...

[Krill]

And if you wanted to do something slightly more insane (but still works) go for BW first, irrigate the rice and then go to mine a plains hill, we would put 11hpt into the settler once the mine is done (and grown to size 2).

Still prefer AH first though, but...that gets the gems online quicker.