Shaka; Wonder-monger and all-around Nice Guy

[Hashoosh]

Whelp, the title sums up my prediction of what the warmonger's first 100 turns will have turned out to be. At least I'll have a huge, outdated military to look forward to!

Edit: Not what I expected

[Hashoosh]

What the frack.

[Hashoosh]

So I opened up the preliminary save for the first time, did a quick tally and then had to go get some air. The weed is strong in France, apparently. Only one city settled on a resource; copper.

Civics: HR/Barb/Slavery/Decentralization/Paganism

I DON'T HAVE CURRENCY YET. UGHHUGHUGHGUh.

Luxuries: 2 Gold, 3 Ivory, 3 Spices. Dyes unconnected and whales settle-able.
Strat: 2 coppers, 1 iron, 1 horse. Nice. No stone or marble, but I should be able to lease some.
Health: 1 corn, 1 cow, 1 crab, 2 fish, 1 sheep, 2 wheat. 2/3 granary resources, 2/3 harbour, 2/4 mammals.
Wonders: MoM (!!!), Stonehenge, Chichen Itza (), Great Wall, Mids (!!!)

Yeah, I'm in HR from Mids.

Oh yeah, 6 (Count em) workers. I haven't done a forest count, but I'll bet it's near 40.

Short term strategy is to get my GP in 7 (minimum) turns, GA/GE/2GP/GS are the odds, so 20/20/40/20 respectively. I'll be fine with whatever, GE might make me think about popping the GA right away, everything else is going right into Golden Age for civic swap.

I'll research currency, see where that takes me, shop around my luxuries and copper (I think Commodore didn't have any, I'll check again soon). Philosophy is tantalizing for what I have in mind, which is a Caste/Rep/Pacifism Golden Age civic swap, on the last turn of the hyper-GA I'll decide what I want to do. Strongly leaning towards Serfdom, maybe even a deviation to Police State. WHO KNOWS?!?!

Commodore is my only neighbour, so that sucks. And I've got a massive bullseye on my back with all these wonders. Looks like I've got the Molach of the Inca to my west, by sea.

[Hashoosh]

Quick update: I've been on my phone tethering turns in my games for a while now, so uploading pics is a no go for my data. I'll post some wine I'm home. But I digress

Popping ga next turn, fingers crossed for Taoism at philo (3t ETA) but the plan has always been for ppacifism/rep/caste in this MoM GA. Sent an iron horse swap trade to Comm to see if he was interested in fohting ruff, but he may be set on a war with America. I've got city visibility on him and can see his stack on the border
Hammer is gonna drop on someone, Comm is in piss poor land and needs to expand to stay alive.

[retep]

Well the last update was 25 days ago so I have no idea what is going on.
Things to point out:
The land is pretty weak.
I'm at war with Ruff.
Commodore is also at war with Ruff and probably will take most of the spoils.
There is a ton of forests. Since there isn't a picture of how things started I kinda confused. I suppose that AI dind't priorize chopping?
The tech was a liberalism but the only thing I can lib is Nationalism. There are a ton of key Tech missing. Like MC line and the whole Literature line.
Commodre and Ruff are going for guilds.
Nobody seems to have education yet so I will delay Lib for now.
I'm in a GA which will end this turn. There is a GS and another GP will born in two of turns. I not sure how many GA has Hashoosh use so I don't know if I should hurry the GP to born in one turn.

Is there any way to know how many GA have I used?

I think that I'll raize one city of Ruff to replant a city and bring back the troops.
Did I already mentioned that the land is full of plains, forest and little food?
I'm kinda afraid that Commodore will turn agaisnt me after Ruff.

[retep]

Okay I have read the log.

There is only one GA used.
One GS was used to bulb paper.

[retep]

Actually I'm not sure why Hashoosh was pushing for Lib so much. Molach is the closest and he still need Edu and Philo.

Unless, he was going to Lib Nationalism. Burn another GA tech Gunpowder and then draft Musketeers while building a bunch of cats to invade...Commodore?

Or I could burn another GA if get a GP differetn than a GS, and Lib Military tradition in 8 turns, yet I wonder if Lib will last that long. There is also the problem that the only target is Commodore.

Going full economy will be fine but is no going be enough to win. If/when Commodore succed on killing/kripling Ruff he would be to big. So eventually he would come after me or Kuro. Probably Kuro since he has better land and probably would be more technological backwards.

Of course if the goal is just to compite/survive then full economy route is best.

[retep]

For the love of god I forgot to take pictures AGAIN!

Anyway as I said before I wasn't going to Lib Nationalism because I didn't see any worth on it, but things have changed.
First Molach start a GA and then he finish Philosophy. He also got a GE he could very well be thinking about rushing the TAj. If that was/is his plan I couldn't do anything about it. Even Lib Nationalism there is no way I could finish Taj in time.
But this turn I got a GE myself at 11% odds.
I though I would get a GM at 20% odds then I start my golden age research Enginnering(3t) Gunpowder(3t) chemistry (3t)
finish my GA and then Lib(2t) steel.

My only competition will be Molach who could have gotten Lib in 9t to my 11t. But I was counting on him being discourage to go for Lib seems I already have a headstart over him.

Now that he is in a GA and with prospects to get Taj he could beat me to Lib even after researching Natoinalism.
So I'm going to get tha Taj pop another GP and hopefully get two golden ages back to back. I think denying Taj to Molach, who is the leader right noe, is important.
The good thing about Commodore fighting Ruff is I don't have to worried much about military right now and I can focus on getting a good tech advantage.

[retep]

Lib Nationalism, Rush the Taj. Saving gold. I'm confident that Commodore will attack Ruff next turn and depending on that I decided what to do.

[GermanJoey]

Where's the pictures?