Oxy breaks from convention(possibly)

[Oxyphenbutazone]

TBS accepted peace, as expected.




Found Commodore's borders down south




A look at the border region, thinking of prioritizing the cow choke city down here and the deer choke city up north and then back filling from there.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Made contact with Commodore




Seems like an ok neighbor to have. Switched EP spending on to him.

Copper is showing up in dotmap-friendly places:







And finally, overview:

[wetbandit]

Friendly copper locations. Unfriendly looming Barb warrior. Does that copper at Rice City change the priority of City #2?

[Oxyphenbutazone]

We're Maya so Holkans can be built before copper is hooked and horse will be connected pretty early, so I think a late copper hook-up is fine.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

grumble grumble Dtay holds up every other turn grumble grumble...

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Sorry for lack of reporting: I'll try to get something up soon.

I've really lost focus on this game: I forgot to get a warrior back and now a barb warrior is threatening settlement of my third city.

[wetbandit]

Turn pace just slow?

Disappointed that Gaspar's thread has All The Lurkers?

Another side effect of losing 1000 coinflips at the beginning of the game?

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Serious question: is it worth settling the city next turn, if a barb warrior is next to it?

1 barb warrior vs. 1 warrior with hill defense+barb city defense

Go big or go home?

[wetbandit]

Running it through Cyneheard's calculator, you have 9.96% vs 90.04% (barb win/barb lose). Can you appreciably lessen the risk next turn? By how much?

If you have another warrior or 2+str unit that can get to the tile the next turn, your odds of losing drop considerably; to the point where it doesn't make sense to take the risk. A loss here would be incredibly frustrating. If you're looking at waiting two turns or more because of the barb, well you should probably wait, but I also have gambling tendencies.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Barb moved away