Have we opened up talks with Gavagai?
Random thoughts.
Medium-Term (T50-70)
Military
-I am becoming irrationally paranoid that Cairo will move a scouting Chariot 2N of Lodi, realize that we have Axes and don't have the pop to dry-whip a Spear, and ruin our day. Unlikely, but the major hole in our defenses at the moment. Will have to keep an eye on the Power graph, and probably pop borders to give ourselves advanced warning.
-Note to self to mix in spears out of Lodi to protect against opportunistic moves from scouting Chariots.
Scouting
-We should probably squeeze out a Work Boat from Lodi sometime in this period to scout out the southern islands. Maybe there are more resources there?
Diplomacy
-After reading Charriu's PB43 philosophy of preventing each player from having a full set of resources to encourage diplomacy, it hit me that Commodore might have done something similar here, especially on a full diplo game. It would explain all the Sheep and Crabs we have. We should start sounding out Cairo and SD if they want Sheep or Crabs post-Sailing, and when we get a spare Ivory with Red city, Ivory too.
--Corollary: if they don't have Ivory, jumbos.
Wonders
-Oracle? Gut says no, but still toying with it out of curiosity. MC -> Mids probably won't work against Philosophical Gavagai, if I'm understanding the meta correctly that Philosophical->Forge Engineer->Mids is too fast to beat on the GP generation. Plus the thing is a Settler/Worker pair without Marble. What would we take besides MC, though?
--Then again, assuming we get a religion, Prophet points are all right. Though we could always bite the bullet and use Temples.
Long-Term (General)
-Looks like we're on the edges of a circle with few natural chokepoints. Borders look to be long and hard to defend. We'll probably need HAs for the mobility and opportunistic possibilities.
-Not quite sure how the prospects of offensive action will look, especially once the central of the disk (jungles?) is settled. Before that, you all know the drill, ally with one neighbor and attack the other way.
-We'll have 5 first-ring cities, and it looks like we'll be able to fit in another ring of 10 (?) cities before we bump up against SD/Cairo. Not sure what that means in RB-terms. We'll run out of space around... Civil Service? Opportunistic Mace/Cat/leftover Praet strikes, followed by a Knight conquest? We're definitely going somewhere with Mercantilism, unless there's a whole 'nother continent.
-Did you pick a Napoleon naming theme in hopes that there will be a series of grand coalitions against us that we will beat? Because that sounds oddly fitting.
Random thoughts.
Medium-Term (T50-70)
Military
-I am becoming irrationally paranoid that Cairo will move a scouting Chariot 2N of Lodi, realize that we have Axes and don't have the pop to dry-whip a Spear, and ruin our day. Unlikely, but the major hole in our defenses at the moment. Will have to keep an eye on the Power graph, and probably pop borders to give ourselves advanced warning.
-Note to self to mix in spears out of Lodi to protect against opportunistic moves from scouting Chariots.
Scouting
-We should probably squeeze out a Work Boat from Lodi sometime in this period to scout out the southern islands. Maybe there are more resources there?
Diplomacy
-After reading Charriu's PB43 philosophy of preventing each player from having a full set of resources to encourage diplomacy, it hit me that Commodore might have done something similar here, especially on a full diplo game. It would explain all the Sheep and Crabs we have. We should start sounding out Cairo and SD if they want Sheep or Crabs post-Sailing, and when we get a spare Ivory with Red city, Ivory too.
--Corollary: if they don't have Ivory, jumbos.
Wonders
-Oracle? Gut says no, but still toying with it out of curiosity. MC -> Mids probably won't work against Philosophical Gavagai, if I'm understanding the meta correctly that Philosophical->Forge Engineer->Mids is too fast to beat on the GP generation. Plus the thing is a Settler/Worker pair without Marble. What would we take besides MC, though?
--Then again, assuming we get a religion, Prophet points are all right. Though we could always bite the bullet and use Temples.
Long-Term (General)
-Looks like we're on the edges of a circle with few natural chokepoints. Borders look to be long and hard to defend. We'll probably need HAs for the mobility and opportunistic possibilities.
-Not quite sure how the prospects of offensive action will look, especially once the central of the disk (jungles?) is settled. Before that, you all know the drill, ally with one neighbor and attack the other way.
-We'll have 5 first-ring cities, and it looks like we'll be able to fit in another ring of 10 (?) cities before we bump up against SD/Cairo. Not sure what that means in RB-terms. We'll run out of space around... Civil Service? Opportunistic Mace/Cat/leftover Praet strikes, followed by a Knight conquest? We're definitely going somewhere with Mercantilism, unless there's a whole 'nother continent.
-Did you pick a Napoleon naming theme in hopes that there will be a series of grand coalitions against us that we will beat? Because that sounds oddly fitting.
More people have been to Berlin than I have.