[SPOILERS] Pindicator plays PBEM62 (not to be confused with Twitch Plays Civ)

[spacetyrantxenu]

You mean supa hot fire!

Boom, bam, bop, bada bop boom, pow. OOOOOHHHHHHHHH!

Obviously it's all about the crew you roll with. Good thing pindicator has outsourced his thread content to the Twitch Plays Civ department.

[Gaspar]

Just sayin', I'm not a rapper.

[NobleHelium]

I'm curious as to the mechanics, since I thought that religions were founded before you had a chance to do anything.

Did you queue up the settling and it did it for you?

In a PBEM the tech resolution is all done at the end of each player's turn. So I settled the city when I had one turn left to finish the technology for Polytheism. Because it was my first city ( ... on turn 32 ... on quick speed ... ) after I hit enter to finish the turn then the research was added, I finished the tech, and the religion was founded.
I didn't specify that the second screenshot was from after I hit enter; that probably was confusing if you haven't seen the trick a hundred times before.

Yeah, if I skim over something that doesn't make sense or you see anything else I don't explain well please let me know and I'll explain it better. I've been playing and reporting long enough that I assume (wrongly) that everybody will just be bored by the details. But I'm happy to explain them.

Oh right. Maybe I need to play another PBEM...

It's the same in Pitboss, you're just not normally logged in when the turn rolls.

[pindicator]

Turn 033

We'll have our third city by turn 40 if Commodore doesn't decide to do anything foolish.
I was hoping he'd move a warrior in range of our axe, but he thought that fortifying on the forested grass hill would be enough. So I moved up our first axe and started camping that fur tile. Need some happy with all the whipping we'll be doing.



Plan right now is to build our 3rd worker in 2 turns. Then we'll chop out a 1-turn axe and grow to 6. Then 3-pop whip the next settler and use all that overflow for a barracks. Or a fourth worker. Or a pair of units; at that point it depends what Commodore does.

City #3 needs to claim the horses in our south. I just haven't settled on a location yet



And finally, our scout has probably scouted its last tile (but we found dazed!)

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Oh don't mind them. Lurker policing these days like to think I've never played a game of civ before. Which is also detrimental to building community, but I'll stop before I get on that soap box. Don't worry, you didn't say a thing I hadn't thought of already. Although I'm not quite letting myself think far enough to a mounted strike against his city; that is still a long ways off if we even get there!

Edit: Why were they even on your case to begin with? All you did was say why the city I settled was a good city. (Which was really nice, btw. In a game where it feels nothing had gone right it felt really good to get a compliment over the first thing that had. )

Haha perhaps it is a little heavy policing, but I suppose being over cautious is better than having things get a bit messy. A few people thought that I had strayed the line to be giving strategic advice is why they were annoyed. I thought everything I said there was fairly evident, but who knows what people think when they play these games 'sufficiently intoxicated' eh? :P

But saying you had settled a good city was my main point. You had had events conspire against you rather unfortunately a fair bit especially needing the warrior slave, and seemed rather glum about things. I just wanted to try and lift your spirits a bit is all! It was a high risk move settling towards him that would have not been viable if poly fell elsewhere, and wanted to recognise the efforts!

Nice rap Gaspar!

On the game front, are you planning on trying to offer peace again to commodore or just staying at war?

[pindicator]

Lol - build catapults? You must be tripping. Everyone knows catapults are awful units. I mean, they can't even kill anything. 100 catapults can't even kill 1 warrior. If you can't kill a warrior then what can you kill? I'm building archers man. Tons of archers and putting them behind city walls. Build me some Chichen Itza. Ain't nobody taking my cities after that. Then we'll spam out swords and wreck face. But cats? Lol. If I wanted a pet I'd go to the humane society.

Edit: Like I said, it's like the lurker police think nobody's ever played a game of civ before ...

[ReallyEvilMuffin]

Lol - build catapults? You must be tripping. Everyone knows catapults are awful units. I mean, they can't even kill anything. 100 catapults can't even kill 1 warrior. If you can't kill a warrior then what can you kill? I'm building archers man. Tons of archers and putting them behind city walls. Build me some Chichen Itza. Ain't nobody taking my cities after that. Then we'll spam out swords and wreck face. But cats? Lol. If I wanted a pet I'd go to the humane society.

Edit: Like I said, it's like the lurker police think nobody's ever played a game of civ before ...

Archer up! Teching archery first is the only way to win the game. Why bother with swords? That archer stack will easily kill anything.

[pindicator]

On the game front, are you planning on trying to offer peace again to commodore or just staying at war?

Now this is a very good question, and one I spent the most time thinking about when playing the last turn. At first thought it seemed like a good time to ask for peace. Commodore now has sight on my axe, and he should tell that his warrior is as good as dead next turn. I can lock in 10 turns of peace and settle my third city without worrying about harassment.

But then I looked at the power graph (this would gave been a great spot to have a pic of the power graph, huh? ) and while there's an obvious spike where Commodore teched BW, after that he's built a pair of warriors at best. So he's trying to keep me on the defensive while he pushes his economy advantage and techs ahead I think. And giving him peace now would play right into that.

If he had asked for peace before I planted Fovoham (which still needs to be renamed) then he would have had that advantage because I want sure I'd be able to cover a new city and my capital against him and barbarians both with only a pair of warriors. But now I think I mop up his units and then push into his territory with my axes to make him waste resources.

Plus we really need to disrupt him hooking up that silver

[NobleHelium]

Lol - build catapults? You must be tripping. Everyone knows catapults are awful units. I mean, they can't even kill anything. 100 catapults can't even kill 1 warrior. If you can't kill a warrior then what can you kill? I'm building archers man. Tons of archers and putting them behind city walls. Build me some Chichen Itza. Ain't nobody taking my cities after that. Then we'll spam out swords and wreck face. But cats? Lol. If I wanted a pet I'd go to the humane society.

Edit: Like I said, it's like the lurker police think nobody's ever played a game of civ before ...

Archer up! Teching archery first is the only way to win the game. Why bother with swords? That archer stack will easily kill anything.

You must not have seen pindicator's last game. (Well, last last one. PB19 doesn't really count.)

Anyway, if Commodore doesn't have anything then attack him. But you might need a spear.

Of course now he knows you're going to attack because I've posted.

[pindicator]

I forgot about pb13! We did tech archery first, didn't we?