Dot mapping

[MWIN]

SW of Jumbo's looks good enough for a border city. S of Jumbo doesn't seem to block enough. Ofcourse, I am don't know much about these things. I only thinking in terms of a good blocking city...

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Hell, if we can let another city take those gems, we can drop those grass hills and work an extra specialist. Plus S13 is easier than S14.

[novice]

SW of Jumbo's looks good enough for a border city. S of Jumbo doesn't seem to block enough. Ofcourse, I am don't know much about these things. I only thinking in terms of a good blocking city...

I would also like to settle a city SW of the ivory (3NW of Brick by Brick). The ivory and the border control makes it worthwhile IMO. I think the earliest we can reasonably prioritize it though is by whipping a settler in Horse Feathers after it's produced a Hindu missionary for Seven Tribes on T100. We can't delay that missionary without delaying Hanging Gardens.

Whipping a settler out of HF might delay our Moai/HE plans for the city but hopefully not that much - building Moai will probably involve whipping for overflow anyway, so we can compromise by 3-whipping a settler with max overflow into Moai.

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

No arguments to this. Novice, do you walk around with a napkin to draw this stuff up on, or do you dream in micro?

[NobleHelium]

No need to panic over the ivory placement yet. If we plant next to the ivory we'll easily keep the tile. Even if there isn't rice or banana in the one unfogged tile to the east, it's easily possible that we might catch a food resource by planting north of the ivory.

[kalin]

I am glad novice brought settling a city by the ivory. I thought about that too, but didn't dare suggest it. It won't be a great city (the one 3NW of BbB) but it will have very good strategic value + ivory.

Kalin

[novice]

Reposting here:

I think we should postpone the previously planned backup horse spot (2N of horses) and settle a city SE of the backup horses instead. That grabs all the resources in the area, and does it quickly.

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[waterbat]

Why 1SE instead of SE-S ? ( uh think that plains square was suggested by sullla)

[NobleHelium]

Because the city would be utter crap before border pop. We can plant there if we plant the northern city first which lets us borrow tiles.

[waterbat]

Thanks. Those chops will be available too.

Lets find us some silver in them thar hills.