[SPOILERS] Mardoc gets back on the horse

[Mardoc]

We're still behind in crop yield. But we're getting better!



Just need a few chariots and a couple ferries, and we can dotmap tons and tons. I don't know if I'll wait for scouting info to settle the first couple mainland cities, it seems we already know a fair bit from our culture. Might perhaps require a copper-clad garrison unit, though.

[flugauto]

Will Boyle's 2nd clam get a workboat?

[Mardoc]

Will Boyle's 2nd clam get a workboat?

Yes, with the overflow from Lavoisier's settler. Not sure that Boyle is going to be able to actually keep the clam, I might give it to a silver/deer city instead.

Having trouble using all this food; cities don't shed whip unhappy fast enough. Which means I need more cities to spread it out to, and more happiness.

Sadly, Buddhism isn't spreading any yet. So it's still probably not worth the time to revolt.

[Mardoc]

Starting island is full. Arguably Dalton was even a mistake, but I guess it'll be worth having once we get the Colossus built.




I doubt that barb city is perfectly placed...but a city for the cost of an axe instead of a settler is awfully tempting. May very well consider that a bonus gift from the RNG (once it grows). For the time being, we'll focus on settling the west.

Demos are...not as pathetic as I'd expected. Although bear in mind we've two wonders and the free monuments boosting GNP

[flugauto]

Dalton can culture flip Polynesian.

[Mardoc]

I'm not sure it can. Culture rules over water, I think are that it can only go to tiles that are in the BFC of one of the tiles on the island. Which Polynesian isn't.

But...even if we could, I don't think I'd want to. Four warriors = 4 XP on an axe!

[flugauto]

I'm not sure it can. Culture rules over water, I think are that it can only go to tiles that are in the BFC of one of the tiles on the island. Which Polynesian isn't.

But...even if we could, I don't think I'd want to. Four warriors = 4 XP on an axe!

You are right. My wishful thinking.

[Commodore]

Once you settle the continent (unless I'm missing a variant rule where you don't do that?), culture will extend that far.

[Mardoc]

(unless I'm missing a variant rule where you don't do that?),

Nope, nope, this delay is oracle with a side of . I'm still not sure settling Dalton was a good idea, maybe I should have reshuffled things to get my galleys out earlier and settled mainland instead. But it's a cheap city to support, just needs a warrior and a few worker turns.

[Mardoc]

Hmm, this is maybe insane. But what do you think about settling the marble-fur island with our next settler? We'll have a settler ready real soon now, and a boat in the area, and we don't have our strategics hooked up yet, so I'm a little antsy about plopping down onto the mainland.

The city itself won't be worth much. Could steal the deer from Bohr, and eventually get a lighthouse in place to work a bunch of coast. It'll basically never produce any more hammers than it needs for its own infrastructure, and workers/settlers don't look promising either. Some commerce is about it, and spreading out any whip unhappy from the deer food.

But it wouldn't really need a garrison, either, and we do want the resources! Marble has no immediate use but eventually is quite good, and fur would be handy yesterday. Working around a size 4 happy cap is intensely annoying, and that'll just get worse. We're looking to relieve that with Buddhism and HR, but those aren't until the GA. Also will claim gold and silver on the mainland...once we have a garrison that can resist the barbs, still probably 5-10 turns out, minimum.

I guess what it comes down to is: spend fewer resources, now, for a lesser reward? Or more resources, in a few turns, for a greater one? Not like this is our last chance, we'll have boats pretty regularly out of Bohr, I think, and settlers from everywhere. But this is the only settler that may have to wait for an escort, since he'll be whipped from Boyle any turn now, while we still haven't gotten horses and copper quite hooked.