[PB64] naufragar's bingo parlor for assassins

[naufragar]

Ah, thanks for the reminder, Mjmd. For some reason, I thought you had changed the quality rather than making the poles navigable.

[Mjmd]

I mean coast / ocean is considerably better than ice / tundra, so you aren't wrong 

[naufragar]

That EitB succession game needs to get off the ground and pick the Illians.

In our game, I am a dummy who forgot to take an "after" photo, so you only have the "before":


The hut yielded 40 gold. More interestingly, there's a green, un-irrigated corn 1S of the hut. The land looks pretty fertile so far. Feeling good.

While I'm thinking aloud, I need to redo the math on granaries vs. lighthouses first. My rule of thumb is always granary first, but I don't know how that changes with the Org lighthouse bonus.

[Jabah]

Is the water south of your city a lake or a sea ?

[naufragar]

Is the water south of your city a lake or a sea ?

A sea, unfortunately. When I get back to the game, I'll take a picture of the new corn. The eastern coast wraps around down south.

[naufragar]

Goody huts!? Who thought those were a good idea!?


Ginger popped either Mining or Animal Husbandry from a hut (+2k soldier points).

I again forgot to take a normal picture, so have one for the flying camera:


Looks like there's an equatorial jungle band a couple tiles to the north. Lot of uncertainty out there.

[naufragar]

Lots of jungle, but jungle means grassland, so it's ok:


Popped the second hut a while back for 27 gold.

Amicalola, Superdeath, and Gavagai each got a tech. Nobody gained soldier points, so all three of them researched Fishing? Huh. Interesting.

[naufragar]

My start is quite weak (only pigs and clams, requiring so many beakers and hammers), but the area around me....


Look at all those luxuries!

[Mjmd]

Did you end up simming out the start? Interested in when / where 2nd city is getting founded.

[naufragar]

Did you end up simming out the start? Interested in when / where 2nd city is getting founded.

Sorry I missed this. I did end up simming the start when I first got your screenshot. I remember I had a plan I liked going 1 worker into first settler. But then... I forgot it.  So I came up with another plan that goes for 2 workers first. The first settler gets born t37. Here's the best, most recent pic I have of the capital area:



I'm 99% certain that the first settler goes north, either to its own wheat or to share the pig with the capital. I have three fogged tiles nearby that I still need to scout. I'll use a warrior for that (and hope he doesn't get eaten by the lion lurking there. (My eastern X probably gets bumped 1 tile north, otherwise that city has very few hammers.)

The pigs+clams combo has been really slow. In terms of total food, it's fine, but needing 2 work boats, plus AH, and not having any bare hills to mine in the meanwhile makes this start quite slow. Luckily I haven't found any body yet. I didn't take a good pic of my scouting, but the land to the north forms a giant T. With luck, I can settle up into natural chokepoints on either end of the T.