Happy holidays everyone--I'm sure you're expecting a standard "pics are here" post, maybe with details of my score loss. However, things actually happened on this turn, so surprise Christmas report!
T62 Report:
Two things here. The minor one is that I got a Hinduism spread into Vienna, meaning not only can I get the sheep (and all the seafood) sooner, it means the chop I finished this turn can go into a Granary instead of the Monument--is it worth ever finishing the Monument after the Granary completes by the way? Obviously, the major one is that johns declared on Adrien--I have no clue if this is a scouting war or an actual war, and if it's the latter, if Adrien has enough power and/or production to fight the initial Impis. I also don't know how many Impis johns has (we've seen 3--2 from the attack on us and 1 in the south--and one died), or if he has any Axes to add in the assault. We know he doesn't have horses, since we can see his resources (presumably because he has Sailing, right? That would let him trade resources over coastline, and I don't think I've seen any connecting roads).
Next, to domestic stuff:
As you can see, the whip was to finish the worker in Aachen--this connects the gold a turn sooner, giving me the extra happiness right before both Bas-Tyra and Rillanon would grow into unhappiness, and I need more workers anyway. After that, I'm not sure what I should build next everywhere. I think Rillanon should build the Dot 2 settler next, but I have no idea where Bas-Tyra should go after its Axe--another Axe? Or maybe a Worker? I don't know when the next settler should come out--I'll be capturing Carib relatively soon (maybe even by T70, assuming axes haven't shown up yet--the warriors don't turn into archers or something stupid like that, right?
), which will bring me to 7 cities, quite a lot even though I'll be working the gold next turn (which should help a lot with the tech rate, even with the new city).
You'll also notice I bumped the tech rate down to 50%, even at the expense of a turn--that's for rounding reasons. We also have to start thinking about the next tech I want, and what that means for the future. I assume the tech path has to be AH->Fishing->Writing->Math->Currency? Can I afford to take any detours from that path and stay solvent? Maybe I should take a detour to CoL instead to take advantage of Organized/Rathuses? Something like AH->Fishing->Priesthood->Writing->CoL? That's the same amount of techs, but Priesthood is much cheaper than Math. How worth it would it be to hybridize the two and try to maximize arrow bonuses with something like AH->Fishing->Priesthood->Writing->Math->Currency->CoL? That only delays Currency by one tech (and I make a chunk of that back in arrow bonus on Writing). Any thoughts? I don't have to make any real decisions until I finish Fishing and turn back on research (10 turns at least)--though that assumes I need Fishing (and I don't urgently need it, except for Vienna, and it has plenty of food to work with for now--I expect that I'll want it sometime in the span though, since I think the span takes us to T100).
Not many changes here, except that we lost the top city mark (because johns has a size 6 city--he has two happiness resources connected already, including furs (meaning AH)) and someone's engaging in foreign trade already (since we're not last in imports/exports)--that has to mean someone's at Alphabet right? There's no other way foreign trade can occur in RTR mod right? I need to check for open borders from my neighbors next login.
Anything else lurkers want to see? I'm energized, mainly because I'm in a really good position (unlike any stage of PB18 after T20 or so) and I can't screw it up thanks to my mentors' guidance (like I did in PBEM58).
T62 Report:
Two things here. The minor one is that I got a Hinduism spread into Vienna, meaning not only can I get the sheep (and all the seafood) sooner, it means the chop I finished this turn can go into a Granary instead of the Monument--is it worth ever finishing the Monument after the Granary completes by the way? Obviously, the major one is that johns declared on Adrien--I have no clue if this is a scouting war or an actual war, and if it's the latter, if Adrien has enough power and/or production to fight the initial Impis. I also don't know how many Impis johns has (we've seen 3--2 from the attack on us and 1 in the south--and one died), or if he has any Axes to add in the assault. We know he doesn't have horses, since we can see his resources (presumably because he has Sailing, right? That would let him trade resources over coastline, and I don't think I've seen any connecting roads).
Next, to domestic stuff:
As you can see, the whip was to finish the worker in Aachen--this connects the gold a turn sooner, giving me the extra happiness right before both Bas-Tyra and Rillanon would grow into unhappiness, and I need more workers anyway. After that, I'm not sure what I should build next everywhere. I think Rillanon should build the Dot 2 settler next, but I have no idea where Bas-Tyra should go after its Axe--another Axe? Or maybe a Worker? I don't know when the next settler should come out--I'll be capturing Carib relatively soon (maybe even by T70, assuming axes haven't shown up yet--the warriors don't turn into archers or something stupid like that, right?
), which will bring me to 7 cities, quite a lot even though I'll be working the gold next turn (which should help a lot with the tech rate, even with the new city).You'll also notice I bumped the tech rate down to 50%, even at the expense of a turn--that's for rounding reasons. We also have to start thinking about the next tech I want, and what that means for the future. I assume the tech path has to be AH->Fishing->Writing->Math->Currency? Can I afford to take any detours from that path and stay solvent? Maybe I should take a detour to CoL instead to take advantage of Organized/Rathuses? Something like AH->Fishing->Priesthood->Writing->CoL? That's the same amount of techs, but Priesthood is much cheaper than Math. How worth it would it be to hybridize the two and try to maximize arrow bonuses with something like AH->Fishing->Priesthood->Writing->Math->Currency->CoL? That only delays Currency by one tech (and I make a chunk of that back in arrow bonus on Writing). Any thoughts? I don't have to make any real decisions until I finish Fishing and turn back on research (10 turns at least)--though that assumes I need Fishing (and I don't urgently need it, except for Vienna, and it has plenty of food to work with for now--I expect that I'll want it sometime in the span though, since I think the span takes us to T100).
Not many changes here, except that we lost the top city mark (because johns has a size 6 city--he has two happiness resources connected already, including furs (meaning AH)) and someone's engaging in foreign trade already (since we're not last in imports/exports)--that has to mean someone's at Alphabet right? There's no other way foreign trade can occur in RTR mod right? I need to check for open borders from my neighbors next login.
Anything else lurkers want to see? I'm energized, mainly because I'm in a really good position (unlike any stage of PB18 after T20 or so) and I can't screw it up thanks to my mentors' guidance (like I did in PBEM58).
), so there's a decent chance the city isn't attacked next turn--and even if it is attacked, it's a 3 vs 4.4 attack, which we've already survived once--though that assumes there aren't any more Impis in the fog (and note that johns is still at war with Adrien). I doubt anyone's around (I know BGN isn't), but any advice would be welcome, especially if I"m missing something 
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), but then I need to decide on the Currency, CoL, or both path. I'm leaning on the both plan (since all it costs is a couple turns of Priesthood, and I make a bunch of that back with the arrow bonus on Writing), but I'd like some input (likely from plako, unless BGN pulled himself from the streets of New Orleans long enough to make a sober guidance post 
