Pitboss 18 Lurker Thread of Infinite Wisdom

[Hesmyrr]

And I discovered something very distressing. It seems that the city governor likes fur better than fish, and overrode my orders - presumably at the border pop. I can't quite make the math work for which turn we changed, but we can't get Meditation any faster by going back to the Fish.

What a mistake! If they miss the Buddhism because of weedy AI...
Looks like Barry Laydon is the real winner.

[NobleHelium]

Their Buddhism ETA has gone down by 1 every turn from what I can see in the screenshots, so I don't see how he lost anything techwise. His turn 5 ETA is still lower than Ichabod's. He just thinks he lost a turn because he can't speed it up by moving back to the fish, but he didn't lose a turn to begin with.

[mackoti]

Their Buddhism ETA has gone down by 1 every turn from what I can see in the screenshots, so I don't see how he lost anything techwise. His turn 5 ETA is still lower than Ichabod's. He just thinks he lost a turn because he can't speed it up by moving back to the fish, but he didn't lose a turn to begin with.

They are on scheduale and game actualy made them good becasue will finsh wb faster.

[Commodore]

Spacetyrantxenu (explosive, firework) as Kublai Khan (Cre, Chm) of Germany (Hunt/Mine, Kannone, Assembly Plant)

Xenu is not actually a raging force of ragey rage, despite his reputation. What Xenu actually is is a man with an intense passion and love for his cheerios, in the form of “his land”. When his cheerios get pissed in (invasion, pink dot, looked at funny), he reacts with all the hate any cereal lover should. He’s piloting here a New Thing under the sun, Creative Chm KK. He’s got a high happy cap, good promotions, good borders, good techs, laaaaaate toys. If he avoids a Cheerios Incident, he’ll do very well here. He won’t, and so he’ll do just okay.
Oxybaii(freshness, goodness) as Catherine (Cre, Imp) of the Greeks (Hunt/Fish, Phalanx, Odeon)

The RNG showed the Greeks some love here. Firstly, by giving them a decent and mildly syngeristic leader in Cathy the Expansive. Secondly, by giving them RB’s latest pitboss winner, Oxy, winner of the Worst Pitboss Ever. They should do pretty well, expanding rapidly under the protection of phalanx, then growing up under a better happy cap into the joyous sun of Imperialistic Custom House trading in Free Market. Nothing awful here a’tal.
darrelljs + Ichabod (gentle, funny) as Joao (Exp, Imp) of the Holy Roman Empire (Hunt/Myst, Landsknecht, Rathaus)

Never mind, Joao is the King of Trade. Cheap harbors, cheap custom houses, go nuts kiddo. Couple with his worker/work boat/settler discounts, and you can see Joao is prime REXin’ king. Only issue will be killer maintenance…oh wait, nope, HRE. Yeah, this is a good combo. Ichabod is the whip hand here and shows steady if slow improvement each and every game he is in, so look to this set for serious contention.
Hashoosh (youngblood, Canadian) as Stalin(Agg, Ind) of Inca (Agri/Myst, Quecha, Terrace)

Hashoosh is funny guy, in the words of Goreripper. He’s also sadly more prone to lean on “choking joy of quecha” than “terrace boosted culture”. Stalin of Inca is weird. He’s got a mysticism start with doubly zero need for it, given his cheap barracks and full-price terraces. It’s mildly antisynergistic but not too bad, though, Ind is still stronger and Agg is nice. Let’s see how the Hash handles ‘er.

[Commodore]

Sullla (professorial, verbose) as Fredrick (Phi, Org) of India (Myst/Wheel, Fast Worker, Mausoleum)

Honestly I think Sullla will completely waste his traits and just sit in the ice and watch all game long.

[Thoth]

Nice Commodore.

Though this

Only issue will be killer maintenance

would seem to indicate you have forgotten that Exp gets cheap Markets and Grocers. Definitely a power econ combination with Rat houses as backup.

[NobleHelium]

Boldly pointed out that the GSpies will affect barb spawns, indeed. So we should keep them stacked on top of another unit or deep within owned territory if possible.

[Commodore]

Yep! That's been what's happened.

[Ceiliazul]

AT's land is excellent, but he hasn't scouted any of the water before sandboxing. If he isn't careful he's going to win the Catwalk award for orphaned seafood!

This is doable. Light on defense? Yup.

[NobleHelium]

I would plant the eastern city 1S. Plains cow is a terrible tile to start with compared to wet wheat, and he's going to need the rice for the island city anyway.