[spoilers] Going Dutch: The Commodore Files

[Whosit]

Nice!

[Mardoc]

Longbows with Combat I, Drill I, CGI? Seems like you ought to name them after Robin Hood's band .

[Whosit]

Sadly, this version of the mod still lacks the Drill I promotion for Protective Archers.

[Krill]

Also thought that the ervent only applies to archers, not all archery units?

Well fuck, turns out events are more OP than expected.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Take that, plako!

(What, me? Holding a grudge? Say it ain't so! )

[Bobchillingworth]

Oh, sweet. Going to summon the spirit of PB2's slaze?

[spacetyrantxenu]

Only if someone gifts me an army.

[Commodore]

In my excitement, I forgot to mention this extremely forgettable fort I settled. I can't imagine why it slipped my mind.

At least it's on a hill for defense. If defenders are found.

That was so last turn. This turn...looks like Gavagai is starting the HAK-attack-track party! Over-under on when Mackoti joins in? I'm going with "whenever works to give him the lion's share".

Still the most irrationally tense border ever. SO. MUCH. NEGLECTED. PRIME. LUSH. LAND. SOUTH.

[Commodore]

Make that Mackoti declaring immediately. So Gavagai and Mackoti are in the bog standard Feeding Frenzy, and HAK is not long for the world. Everyone is growing much bigger...and we're more or less stuck at "filler" and/or "clam island" until Astronomy. Still going to follow Dtay and Gawdzak to Economics first, though. Hate being stuck at this size now.

20% smaller if we'd conceded that peninsula to Plako.

When murdering time does come, we'll pump out 10xp knights from Ghost Story's Heroic Epic at a rate of one every two turns. Those can then go onto East Indiamen for Fun and Games.

Painful to grow, but we will add workshops eventually.

Plan Nutty Irrigation is rolling really nicely. Current momentum is towards the wheat up beyond Proven Guilty, but upon reflection I think I'd rather freshen things for Ghost Story first; the filler city near that dye waits for Free Market only.

More grasslands farms than I like, more plains farms (any) than should ever ever be seen.

[Mardoc]

Looking like pretty quick progress. A couple points:

1. Most cities are on unit builds. I'm not sure this is wrong, but it'd be nice to see your reasoning. Do we have graphs on Plako that show he's building, for instance? It's just - in an era where you're looking to build and tech, it seems to me that you want the minimum military required for defense/deterrence, and otherwise every hammer to go into something to boost our cities.

2. Research path is what? Paper-Edu-Banking-Economics? Any particular reason why Edu comes before Banking? It seems to me with the breakeven around 50%, that banks would be more useful than Universities.

3. Any chance that Taj is possible? IIRC we do have one of the only marbles...