[SPOILERS] Strong on paper. yuris125 as Huayna Capac of Ottomans, take 2

[yuris125]

T4 - Fishing
T9 - Pottery
T10 - Worker done, Workboat next
T13 - Mining
T19 - Workboat done, capital at size 3, Warrior next
T20 - Warrior done, Workboat for the 2nd city next
T22 - BW, capital at size 4, switched to Settler
T25 - Mysticism
T27 - Settler done with a chop, WB resumed
T28 - Adopted Slavery
T29 - Edirne founded near gems
T30 - Meditation, Buddhism founded in Edirne, WB done, Worker next
T34 - AH
T38 - Writing, Settler whipped in the capital, started Oracle
T40 - Ankara founded near copper
T45 - Oracle done, took Metal Casting
T46 - Bursa founded in the far south-east, near horses
T47 - Mathematics
T50 demos - this is when I realised I was in trouble, despite leading in score at that point



T57 - Konya founded in SW near Mist
T58 - Currency. Decided to go IW and Calendar to clear the jungle and connect the resources I have
T61 - Samsun founded in the west
T64 - IW. Gaziantep founded on the eastern coast
T68 - Sailing
T71 - Founded the ill-fated city of Diyarbakir

T73 (current) demos



I have 2 Settlers in positions to found backfill cities marked on the screenshots in the previous post, but that's it for expansion. With my lead in production and backwardness in other categories, I think a HArcher attack on Gaspar/Noble or Mist/Ichabod is the best way to go from here

[Catwalk]

Did you consider settling SE of Diyarbakir? Less aggressive, gets the wet rice first ring, might have been less provocative. Also, was it deliberate to space your cities out quite a bit (from the looks) or more a consequence of the dotmap?

[yuris125]

Did you consider settling SE of Diyarbakir? Less aggressive, gets the wet rice first ring, might have been less provocative.

Yes, I considered it, but Diyarbakir is a better spot with banana in the BFC. Probably would've been the same outcome, too

Also, was it deliberate to space your cities out quite a bit (from the looks) or more a consequence of the dotmap?

Consequence of the dotmap, didn't see a way to pack cities more densely. I still can found a city 4E from the capital, but there's no food

[Catwalk]

3E of the capital will grab the same amount of land and you have 2x wet rice to borrow for growth. That would leave you with 10 cities, not including Diyar. You have a crazy amount of cottage land available, might be enough for a long-term comeback with generous amounts of luck and skill. You're in the hole right now due to a lack of capital, but your growth potential is still healthy IMO. Income is atrocious, but it should recover very fast with cottages all over the place and you have just barely enough to settle the last 3 sites. How many workers do you have?

[yuris125]

Haha, and now Mistabod declared war on me too. A stack of some Horse Archers (8 or so, was too lazy to count). Will lose Konya, hopefully will keep everything else

[yuris125]

Well, the game ended all too quickly for me. Mistabod took Konya (the city closest to them), and razed Istanbul. Losing two cities was painful; even more painful was the fact that I didn't have any land to expand from there

After I scouted the continent, it looked like there was a lot of ocean on the map. I decided to try to go all in on Astronomy, hoping for another continent somewhere. Unfortunately, if it is there, I didn't find it, and now it doesn't look like I will be able to move there

Gaspar/Noble attacked me with Cho-Ko-Nus, and Longbows didn't have a chance against their collateral damage. I did my best on defence, but it was not enough. I'm down to my last city at the moment, and they may take a few turns to heal their troops, but they most definitely will take the city. Unless that other continent is actually on the map, and I find it very soon, this is another game where my Ottomans didn't stand a chance