RBP3 - [SPOILERS] - Team DIM (Mehmed of HRE)

[meatbalz]

yeah, i looked back and ilios posted a couple as attachments. ilios, could you take those down/edit them?

ok as far as the game's concerned - nothing back yet from our new acquaintances. i guess realistically speaking, they'd have to tell us something pretty ground-breaking to make our scout move anywhere but W or NW-NW next turn.

best guess is given their starting techs (ag+TW), they'll go for a worker+AH start - we'll find out soon enough. strangely enough, i noticed 3 of the top 5 cities were founded in 3960BC. the ottomans' is up there, named Aquilonia. i looked it up and yeah, they're definitely going with a conan theme

here's the demographics:



should be useful as warrior-first starts like ours will show up next turn.

just doing some thinking on the GNP figure in particular. the CRE civs get a bonus, but still to be pulling in 21/turn versus our 17 they must be running 2 gold/turn more than us. maybe Willem working a 2-gold tile? will look back on how demographics work in a sec

[meatbalz]

ok looks like it's as simple as a CRE team with Ag researching AH or min rsching BW...

4 culture, 4 espionage, 13 beakers total rsch.

Pericles
Suryava
Kublai
Zara

would all qualify.

[Ilios]

Attachments have been removed. I was thinking of uploading microplans, so there isn't a block of boring text (for some). How do I do that then?

Sockboy + ad hoc + WarriorKnight + Pegasus = Zara of Ottomans
Refsteel is not on that team.

Anyway, let's try and get sight on there capital before it pops its borders again.

[meatbalz]

thanks ilios. yeah i was referring to the friendly kittens team. visibility woud be ideal, agree 100%. we've got 17 turns to get it so should be ok

[meatbalz]

turn rolled over

immediate decision: where does the scout go?



next turn decision: where does our new warrior go?



i moved him as we're sure to want him along on of these 3 routes.

new warrior started as planned. no word yet from the ottomans.

[meatbalz]

also, one team (a/k) increased their score thanks to their capital hitting size 2. i want a 3 food tile too

[Ilios]

Scout NW to desert hill. I'd prefer to keep the warrior two more turns where it is now, until we hit size two and we can finish the second warrior in two turns if needed.

After that, I'd move warrior 1 (did we name him yet) along the western route for a couple of tiles, and then swing south.

[Ilios]

Or we can move scout W, but that would leave him in the open, with two possible tiles holding barb animals.

[meatbalz]

yeah, too risky to leave him in the open. if we lose him, let's lose him to bad luck and not unjustified risk-taking it would be useful to hear back from the ottomans re: barb animal sightings. their thread's been very active since we met in-game so i wonder why they aren't answering...

i'd like to move relatively soon, i'm a bit fearful we'll get a "reputation" as we've been among the last to end turn several times. it shouldn't matter since we're on a 24-hour timer, but you know it probably does.

[Ilios]

Dazed? Ok for Meat to move there?