[SPOILERS] TT tries yet again to not be terrible

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we're not last in score anymore, yay! passed Azza and 2metra .

[NobleHelium]

[Twinkletoes89]

A little ironic that the turn after posting that & settling that city, we have gained contact with Azza & Jowy (Azza from East, Jowy from South)

Unfortunately this has put back the settling of city 5 by 2 turns more.

Azza appeared with a chariot which could have struck and killed the city as I moved the axe first to check for such things before settling. We have a spear which we can place on the spot next turn, but Azza has not ended turn yet for this turn and I lost cities & settlers like this in the last limited diplo game I played so I'm not risking it this time.

Jowy turned up with an Axe not far from Forever Alone, but that will be garrisoned by an axe and spear pair before he could strike at us too.

Reallocated EPs to Jowy first as he is higher up the scores. He has 4 cities (like us) and Azza has 5.

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ah, cool. good to see we aren't far behind in the city count.

I don't think azza would go out of his way to harass a low score civ that isn't a neighbor of his.. He usually goes for the builder game and is pretty defensive. Better safe than sorry though. how long until writing? will be nice to have some scientists to go with your rep government <G>

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thats Jowy's borders sticking out there. we've made contact. TT has a 5 cities settled, same as Jowy and 2metra, and a 6th settler build. looks like he's sending it north. wouldnt be a bad idea to send it south or build more to claim the south now that we know there is someone so close. I'm also thinking for tech, math-calender-iron working (to start chopping out jungle). Calender first because I would like to make a run at MOM, which would be very useful for us.

You're doing a great job with building military. I recommend building more cottages in the capital only. we can rely on specialists in the other cities, but it would be good to spam cottages in the capital for when we get beuracracy. and try to work the cottages whenever possible! (which also means stop whipping the capital hehe). next turn when the capital grows maybe take a citizen off a seafood to work cottage and mine, since we're close to happy cap until the +3 whip unhappy wears off.

Also, I turned the research down to 50%. You had it on 70. sorry, its painful to me to see you not using binary research. pls try to keep it at 0%,50%, or 100%. the early game is when we can lose commerce to rounding. not a huge deal, but why not? you can always turn it up to 100% if you want to finish off maths quickly.

[Twinkletoes89]

I'm not sure that we should be planning another wonder build right about now. MoM is great and all but we aren't industrious, don't have marble and I think settling the land is much more important. I think IW is more important to get these juicy fertile jungle grasslands worked.

I'm building cottages elsewhere because some cities don't have that much production and I want them working tiles they can use that we will appreciate later.

Current settler is going to go south but I'm not 100% sure which is the best site, will do a dotmap now and let me know which you think we should go for

[Twinkletoes89]

For your perusal:



The white 4 pointed star is our spear, the 2 white diamonds are our axes and the settler is currently moved to the white triangle.

In terms of settling order, I'm thinking Red, Black, Yellow, Blue.

The land is so good around this area that I don't want to waste any of it and I want close connections for easier border defense.

I'd be tempted to move Black 1W to try and maybe steal the horses but I think it might be too provocative and not worth the effort. I could also easily push it back in the settle order, I am just concerned with getting a presence there before Bespin pops its borders again and also sealing ninja off from any more thoughts of expanding into my territory

[Twinkletoes89]

Just quick update - been a busy time IRL.

We are now at six cities with Red Dot (called Futurama Fry) now settled. That has taken us ahead of all the players we have contact with in terms of number of cities.

Colossus fell before the Oracle (don't see that very often) - must have been a MC hut pop or one extreme beeline but hut seems more likely.

Azza is at 3 cities, I'm pretty sure he's being killed by someone right now - wonder if he has Iron or the attack was a pre-emptive strike to stop him from getting it.

Made a tech trade with Jowy this turn - Polytheism for Meditation. I imagine he may put a bid in for Monotheism soon after but as he will likely only offer me Archery & Priesthood (neither of which appeal to me and so he gets the benefit of OR for very little) I am inclined to refuse an offer like that.

I'm thinking of maybe building Moai soon - possibly in Success Kid using the remaining couple of chops once Math is in. Might make that city more useful. It would also be nice in the capital but would need to take mines off our super production hub and I don't want that really.

Overall, I think we're in a solid position here. Middle of the road with decent potential for competitiveness. I'm playing better than I normally do, but I still feel like there may be others doing slightly better.

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confused - success kid has 1 lake tile that it will never work. not even sure it can build moai since it isn't coastal.
anyway I know we have stone so it can be built quickly, but im not sure we really have a good candidate atm for moai - not sure its worth it.

kinda shocked the oracle hasn't fallen. I wonder if we should give it a go?

[Twinkletoes89]

Oracle has fallen, but it did fall a turn or so after the Colossus.

Success Kid was the wrong one. I realise after you replied that I meant Business Cat for Moai