Krill - PBEM5B - Return of the King!

[T-hawk]

a GS gives 1500+3*pop beakers (IIRC, could a lurker confirm that please?)

Correct.

So you're researching Hunting in order to hide a turn's worth of beakers as overflow? Might Cyneheard figure that out when he sees you research Hunting? Is this move worth losing the ability to build cheap warriors for HR happy?

[Krill]

Yes, researching to hide, and store up 1 turns worth of tech before I can research the tech. This is effectively what SANCTA did to research Music in 7 turn total, going from Poly>Aesthetics>Lit>Music in 4 turns flat. Proceeding 3 turns was getting Poly and Aesthetics almost finished. It is like prebuilding a wonder, but with tech.

Quechua upgrade to axe, spear and Mace I don't have machinery, and I have no metal hooked. I won't lose that ability until I tech rifling.

Hunting needs to get teching to hook the Deer I just settled for, anyway: Cyneheard teched it ages ago for that reason and for scouts.

He might figure it out. I figure that the only way I'll make it even reasonable is if I queue up DR afterwards, so that it looks like I'm teching that, and hope he doesn't check the tech screen...it's not fool proof, not if Cyneheard is 1 turn from Philo when I start.but my GS is like 3 turns away, and Cyneheard has not started teching yet, so I think I might beat him there, and this is simply a ploy to get it as fast as possible. or he might beat me by 1 turn in a race. I don;t know, and I'll have to wait to find out.

[Ilios]

, and tech Philo in 1 turn (950+1k base beakers > 2100 adjusted beakers). Take Archery as the free tech for fun.

I didn't know Philo gets you a free tech nowadays...

[Krill]

Philo, Lib, they all do the same thing really.. Got Philo a fair few turns ago...

Now just trying to figure out when to build the extra 100 workers and 50 settlers I need. Fun times.

[Krill]

Unless Cyneheard now techs Lib in 2 turns, I think I have it...

[Krill]

Foresight...I started this GS 50 turns ago.

(11:36:22 PM) Krill: we ok for getting a few turns in afterwards, or not?
(11:36:27 PM) Krill: I'mnot working tomorrow
(11:36:35 PM) Krill: so can stay up later
(11:36:49 PM) Krill: or would you rather have a relax?
(11:38:03 PM) Cyneheard: I think I'll pass
(11:38:07 PM) Cyneheard: save Lib for another day
(11:38:22 PM) Cyneheard: probably knock out 1 turn later
(11:38:34 PM) Cyneheard: oh, and start Oxford...
(11:38:38 PM) Krill: ok...

Sorry Cyneheard, but I think I'll win this one Unless you can push Lib out this turn, which would be well judged.

And I now have almost 400 pop points sitting around...

[Krill]

F5, to show the map off. Just settled WWW.

[zakalwe]

Well played, Krill - that picture says it all really. Would have been interesting to see just how big of a lead you could get following that land grab, but I can't blame you for calling it here.

[Cyneheard]

To be perfectly honest, I didn't want to spend another 50 hours each just to determine the margin of victory. Although I do think these mirrored games are an interesting way to play, Krill definitely had the better of me in this one. Hard to think of a more extreme set of game settings.

[Krill]

I have the save that Cyneheard sent after retiring from the game, if anyone wants it, I can email it over to you with my password to play on with? I intend to play out the game myself, I just don't have the time right now for a session.