[SPOILERS] Dhal gets ready to bungle another game (oh yeah some guy is dedlurking)

[Sareln]

to continue the post spam

I'm running sims a few more times and I really don't like what Stonehenge does to our city timings. On a donut map it is absolutely critical to expand as quickly as possible, else you end up squeezed in and defending along a huge front. Ideally I'd like to have a single city poking into the territory of the players on either side to give me a central spot to defend, rather than having to defend three or four cities along the entire front. I don't see why we couldn't be at 6 cities by 1AD while keeping maintenance costs reasonable.

Yeah, that other wonder - settlers and workers - tends to be pretty good. To read a person's graphs you need to spend ep on them, so there will be this 5 - 10 turn gap between meeting and graph vision if we prioritized Azza. With FIN I think we really do just want to settle a bunch of cities and work our super-cottages.

[Dhalphir]

http://mistbinder.org/tracker/tracker.php?game=bts53

Weird that Azza has had the save for over 12 hours now. Normally he has it for less than 6.

Hope I can still play a turn tonight, otherwise I'll be waiting until tomorrow.

[Sareln]

http://mistbinder.org/tracker/tracker.php?game=bts53

Weird that Azza has had the save for over 12 hours now. Normally he has it for less than 6.

Hope I can still play a turn tonight, otherwise I'll be waiting until tomorrow.

If he missed his window, and he's only got one-opportunity to play per day, then it could grow to 18-24. Patience and more planning? :P

[Dhalphir]

Well, the planning aspect I think is decided on for the next move. Move worker to improve the sheep, start a warrior. There isn't much to decide beyond that.

[Dhalphir]

Come on Azza, you have time to play Pitboss 13 but can't take the literal 1 minute that it takes to play turn 8 in this game?

[Dhalphir]

yay, azza finally played!

here's turn 9 overview

started pasturing the sheep, capital is growing

nothing new revealed by scout.

[Dhalphir]

Turn 10 comes in. Reveals bananas and fish south of the plains cow. Oh and I had contact with BaII who I guess is to the southeast of me. I think that happened a few turns ago without me noticing though.

[Sareln]

Have you got a preferred scout pattern? Should we move him a little more SE before looping north? TBH, I'd probably move him SE -> NE next turn onto that fogged hill and bring him up around to get a good view of the border we share with BaII.

[Dhalphir]

Yes, that was my plan - one or two more turns south/southeast along the coast, then loop back and clear out the remaining fog. That gives us a region about 8-10 tiles from our capital in all directions mapped out, and then we can head around the map.

[Sareln]

Good Morning!




BaII moved his scout north around the capital. Worker finished sheep, Mining is in, BW started. Own scout found some rice.