{SPOILERS} 2metra, Dreylin & OT4E. This is the beginning of a wonderful friendship.

[OT4E]

GE was born in Commodore's cap. I really worry that it can go for UoS though Commodore has just 1 religion building I think. Hope he uses it for golden age or leave something more suitable later.

Taj Mahal gone to Gwazdak, so he will have long golden age. But I more worry about dtay, who has just got Printing Press and now has 2000 GNP. With such rate he can get rifles soon and spoil our plans ...and he continues planting cities. WHERE?!

2 turns for Sankore for us.

[OT4E]

Forgot to report the turn. Furungy got real troubles. His cap is whipped to the size of 6 and he has still lost Upsala.

I chopped all and seems it worked. But can anyone check it for sure?

[2metraninja]

We got UoS. Well done, guys!

More good news, this time international ones: REM/AI declared war to GermanJoey. We are out of harm's way and our neighbors are fighting fruitless wars for revenge.

You were wondering where Dtay keeps settling. I think this pic answers yours question:

[OT4E]

Dtay got Replaceable Parts. And we now see his research, he is 1 turn from Horseback and still have +200.

Do we still want library in Samarkand (42 base coins) and 54cents (45 base coins) or we focus on knights. I personally think that we need to attack dtay. He is not in organized religion and will not be good at making buildings, we dont need to let him switch comfortly and continue researching rifles. But this is a matter of just 2 knights and even less.

What do you think?

[OT4E]

Suddenly the turn switched.

We have 7 knights and 28+28+22+28+29+24 of base hammers every turn building military, that's over 2 knights per turn. That's interesting.

[2metraninja]

I agree we should wreck his ride.

He have no real army, as shocking as it might be to me. Plus, he bleeding can get the attention of other sharks in the region which dont want to see dtay growing monstrous and they get consumed at his leisure in convenient for him time.

As for libraries, I am not 100% sure. One part of me wants to go all knights, but the rest of me knows this is not going to be a ride for glory in the sunset. We will need to keep crawling up in economics. Another possibility is to use our cheap banks and actually accumulate money while we build scientific buildings. This contradicts with the way of the warrior obviously.

[2metraninja]

Yep, our production is very good. The watermills/windmills plan was very very good one.

[2metraninja]

If we somehow suddenly manage to build up to 30 knights without Dtay noticing and taking counter-measures, this will give us the tool to go deep in Dtay's soft and rich core like a hot knife goes through yellow butter.

[OT4E]

As for libraries, I am not 100% sure. One part of me wants to go all knights, but the rest of me knows this is not going to be a ride for glory in the sunset. We will need to keep crawling up in economics. Another possibility is to use our cheap banks and actually accumulate money while we build scientific buildings. This contradicts with the way of the warrior obviously.

No that's not vital for our economics. We have more commercial cities that are busy with building only financial constructions and this is not gonna change. But some of non-commecial cities are using cottages and growing them and trade routes are awesome in all cities above 10, so we could do better in economics, but just a bit better.

[Dreylin]

Yeah, we've got to go for it before he's got an enourmous lead (as opposed to just a huge lead).

Do we need to get silly things like Construction & Catapults...? Or are we just making amphibious Knight attacks from the North?