[SPOILERS] - social distancing with pindicator

[GeneralKilCavalry]

updated sim 4 u
https://www.dropbox.com/s/vvl5mn0fi2jp18...dSave?dl=0

[pindicator]

Thanks!

password: burgerking

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And we're off!

[Thoth]

Have Numids been buffed in this mod?

[pindicator]

They are the vanilla BtS version: 5 strength, free Flanking 1, 20% base withdrawal, +50% vs melee

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Possible city location on the plains sharing the fish. Probably not city #2 though.

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Agriculture in.  Bronze Working next.
Borders popped:




Iron Working just got bumped up in priority.

It looks like the land may dead-end to the east.  Not sure about the northeast since my first pass with the scout right now is to try and find a suitable spot for city #2.

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Worker finished end of t11 and immediately started to farm the wheat tile.

I started a settler next.




I'm not going to finish the settler at size 1 -- or wait, I should look at that. But what I'll do instead is wait until the farm finishes and only then switch to a warrior. The growth to size 2 will time with the completion of the warrior and then at size 2 we'll finish the settler. This way I'm spending the least amount of time working inefficient tiles: the 1/2 forested grassland hill is much better to put into a settler than the 2/1 wheat is for growth and into a warrior.

I'm still trying to tack down where city #2 is going to go, but the best bet right now is to put it right on that hill the scout is currently on. That would give me irrigated corn first ring. Alternatives are east of the corn so I also get the banana first ring or on that grass tile between the banana, rice, sugar, and gems. That last may actually be the superior long-term location, but it's also a lot of jungle to deal with. Still, I can farm the rice and the banana both and have a good city for whips once Pottery is in. (Likely going Wheel -> Pottery right after BW finishes.) Too bad I'm not CRE: i could settle right on top of the banana or on top of the sugar.

My scout is circling around west now to see if there's anything that direction that looks better. And of course the location of Copper will weigh heavily in deciding where that city goes.

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Oh, so as far as the worker plan goes:

We're going to finish the wheat, move to the grass hill south of the capital and then mine that. That will time when the city hits size 2. Right now there's a bit of a debate between swapping off the settler on t16 when the wheat is finished and then growing to 2, or swapping off the settler on t15 a turn before the wheat is finished. Thinking behind the second plan is that 2+5+5+5+5 still equals 22 and gets me to size 2. But in addition this also will time with growing to 2 right when Bronze Working finishes at the end of turn 19. So we'd then go to Slavery right away, whip out the settler on t25, settle city 2 on t28 (depending) and the overflow in the capital can go towards a work boat while it regrows to 2 while the worker is freed up to help get city #2 started. Though I'm probably going to want a second worker shortly after regardless.

Alternatively the vanilla version is to swap to the wheat on 16, grow to 2 on end of t20, start the settler and then have the worker chop it out as wheel still won't be finished yet. Settler comes out on 26, a turn slower, and the revolt happens on 26 or 27, while the settler moves. This way I use an extra chop but am a population higher, can slow build the rest of the work boat and then use it to grow to 3 on as well, but with a little more overflow and I can slow build the work boat at the capital.

It will probably depend more on growing to 3 and what I'm able to use my workers for that I use to decide on. Or if I can't decide then I'll do the less cute play and just wait for the wheat to finish then revolt after and chop out the settler.

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Farm is done, so we're switching to a warrior and growing. Couldn't figure any way that the cute play worked better so I'm just going with the basic plan.




Also found another good candidate for a second city.