AT's PBEM 58 Thread (or, AT Break's Bad)

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B4ndit and C-H made peace. I founded ABQ:




For those of you who didn't follow the series, ABQ was the season 2 finale, where I think Walter White became irredeemable. He'd done bad things before, but this episode... man, the whole of season #2, you get glimpses of a disaster and in ABQ, you find out how it happened.

Anyway. Also got sailing, so my expenses went up some, but my income went up, too, so that evens out.




Chopped into a lighthouse for SayMyname - it needs food.

I switched my tech to IW, to start looking a litlte more dangerous militarily - also, know where iron is and be able to clear jungle for the ivory in a little while.

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Chose to pick up another missionary in Say My Name after the lighthouse, for ABQ.

eastways picked up currency.

I researched iron - it's norht of the cap, not in the fat cross. I have a decision to make about a city that will use it - grassland iron is a nice tile.

ozymandias is now building a settler.

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So, I haven't really put plans down for my cities:




Capital - will build lots of things. Financial/research center. Current focus: settlers/workers/infra. midterm - forge/library. Long term - infra and military



Coastal production city - current focus - missionaries, collosus, moai. Mid-term - anything to grow happy cap. Long-term - wonders, infra, military.




Southern combo city - settlers/workers, military. mid-term - research infra, military. Long-term - military, infra




Miitary production city. Granary, barracks, military (and more military). mid-term: Stable, forge. More mil. Long-term - more military, including ships.



Military support for Say My Name. Granary, lighthouse, rax, military. Some specialists, as well.




next city site - granary, some mil, commerce.

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presuming I am able to get pyramids via engineer, I think I'll put it in the cap. The extra GPP will help get my 2nd GP. I don't have a good idea of where I'll create a GP farm here, I have to say.

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2 turns today.

Not a lot going on - did some more exploring and I have a decision to make as to where city #2 is going:

TT is beginning to move onto the SE peninsula



I am thinking I want to plop my SE city down there and maybe move a chariot there to threaten his city. That would net me crab and fur and a position for silver. The northern city I was thinking about isn't as strong.

man, we are doing some crazy-ass farmers' gambit in this game... Shoulda played with barbs on.

Some of eastways lands:



I'm pretty sure eastways is building the lighthouse

Dale has 95 hammers in it, up about 50 from last turn. He chopped into Dale, so with the 50% bonus, that's 45 hammers right there.



I see no evidence of a forge there, so he's not building collosus and the lighthouse is pretty good on this map.

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Turn 53 has nothing very interesting to report - C-H is spending 3 EPT on me, probably to get my charts.

I am going to start building colossus in Say My Name and am building 2 missionaries in Felina, one for the new city and one for Full Measure, which is building an axe and will build a rax once it gets it's missionary.

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eastways has built more settlers - one each in Annuminas and Dale. No idea what happened to my C&D there...

He's playing a serious farmer's gambit - I'm thinking I should build 3 or 4 HA and take Dale. Course, I need archery and HBR to do that, but...

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Guess my C&D wasn't bad after all - eastways showed up with the lighthouse, in Dale. I'm still not sure how he got the hammers he did in 1 turn (3 chops?), but he did.

Dale's a pretty inviting target right now - 4 HA could take it. No such army exists, of course - i don't even have HBR - but on the other hand, he's got 2 more settlers to defend, too.

His GNP is huge, 170 (I presume he's researching something with a couple of pre-reqs)

C-H sort of looks like he's moving praets towards me - I'll check out Norende to see.

Have a settler moving to the SE, to get the crabs/deer/fur spot.

Got my WB for ABQ, will whip in a granary next turn (OR bonus, baby!)

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Someone got confucianism:

These are the scores from the last 2 turns:



it wasn't me (I got currency)
It wasn't C-H or B4ndit.

My guess is TT, for the religion, but it might well be eastway, for the courthouses (and a 2nd religion).

A shot from last turn:


Hank Schrader (the worker there) moved N to the forest to chop it. Dunno if I'll road it - part of my wants to, part of me thinks it just telegraphs my intent. The chop will go in for say my name for collosus.

Say My name is builidng a rax, for the power, then a temple, for the happy cap.

Speaking of which:



Top 2 cities in size, baby!! Cap will whip in a forge soon, so that will go down. I'm the only one to have a state religion, so the only one getting happy for it, so that's a nice help, plus of course the forges help a little.

C-H has a new settler ready to go, with his praetorian guard:



He'll certainly be able to expand in peace.

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Well,that's a little scary. I was going to build a missionary in Felina, but I guess I'm building a spear instead.


B4ndit is now the most powerful civ on the map.