Act 3, Scene 1

[ad hoc]

well i have done my first Dot Map, it's all pretty much dependent on copper/iron etc but it will do for a start. the two greens are there to show how terrain is repeated

[ad hoc]

Well not much going on the last few turns, scouting has revealed more of the lands to the North West. At the EoT i've founded Hinduism in Trantor and will now go Fishing - Mining - BW - Pottery.

The Settler will finish and found City 2 either NE of the horses or N of the furs, i'm tending now towards NE of the horses, this plants the city one turn earlier and fishing should be finished so this can immediately work the Crabs



And the demo's

T17



T18



T19



T20

[ad hoc]

Well i planted my first city, and maintenance took a hit, having to start binary research straight away



expansion is going to be pain, three or four cities only before tech crashes

[ad hoc]

Quick update, T30 has arrived and my two cities are up and running, due to maintenance costs i'm having to save cash and then research BW - Pottery - Writing



i've a good idea of the map now with terrain being mirrored with only a few variations, Health are generally mirrored for everyone as well and happies are in the same places but of various types.

i wonder if Catwalk realises i've pinched his bananas and rice

[ad hoc]

Games been held up for a couple of days now and not much has been going on

Had a bit of diplo from catwalk and decided to sound him out about an attack on Cull

From Catwalk

It may be of interest to you that Ceil has not yet met Pegasus and Cull. That helps explain his suspicion of them, and can pretty much ensure us that he won't form strong relations with them unless we push him in their arms. Unless Pegasus and Cull have an alliance, that means Cull is completely isolated. How have your talks with Pegasus been?

and my reply

I’m getting on quite well with Pegasus, a lot of it comes from playing a few PBEMs together so both know how each other thinks.

The obvious move as far as I’m concerned would be to develop close relations with Peg and Ceil for now with a view to an alliance (ok dogpile) against Cull. I don’t know how Cull’s doing it but with Sury he should be racing ahead not lagging behind.

The alliance would be formed on a basis of raze everything so no one gets an advantage in relation to developed cities and then perhaps an agreed division of Culls lands or even a no settle agreement.

A few pillaging parties (provided by Peg, Ceil and myself) could pillage Sury down to defending with archers which your Praets (and I’m sure you want to see them in action) could eat up.

The ideal time for this would be just after you have teched to IW, but planning for this would need to be in place before this so we could mount a co-ordinated strike.

What do you think? If you are interested we could approach the other two and do some serious planning

If we can get this done then i'll sound Catwalk and Ceil about dealing with Peg, i do not want to play against redcoats

[ad hoc]

The game is running slowly at the moment due to missed turns and i guess it might get slower... why?

From Ceil

i have declared war on Cull. This is a raiding action unless he leaves cities undefended.

What is the ETA on your warriors?

My reply

Both warriors will be in sight of Culls cultural borders next turn, depending on what i see i'll declare two turns later and move towards his pigs and head towards his capital

i think all we can do is choke him for the moment but if we can pillage or deny him his horses and copper then we can just pick him off at our leisure

:duel:

Ceil and i had been talking about attacking Cull on a choke/raid basis, i'd tried to get catwalk involved but he seemed a bit hesitant so it's just me and Ceil and a few warriors

In other news i have another settler out which will settle on the copper in two turns and another settler will finish in two turns which will go south of the whales in the southern lake.

Pottery completes next turn and then its on to writing for cheap madrassas

[ad hoc]

My fearsome invasion force approches Cull from the NE . I've asked Ceil if Cull has pastured his horses if he hasn't i'll move SW towards what we know is Culls Ivory and see if i can get some pillage cash

I've settled my third city this turn, directly on the copper (it's just visable in the top of the screenshot) and my fourth settler is on its way



On a side note i'm fitting Hunting in before Writing to enable me to improve the furs to the south of my fourth city (to be)

[ad hoc]

Lesson 1 - How to tank your economy plant a 4th city



Good news is i can MM to actually get hunting in three turns and i can then improve the furs which will improve everything due to the extra happy

i took the opportunity to join in the war with Cull and that has gained me a worker which is now running north so that will give me six workers for 4 cities which isn't to bad

[ad hoc]

Not much going on at all at the moment, planting Anacreon has really tanked the economy but at least i'm making a little bit of gold and should be able to get Hunting pretty soon and then i definetely need writing.

Cull has a warrior in bound towards my capital but i've now got a Chariot and Axe to deal with the threat



Diplo wise Ceil has informed me he's heading for the oracle which isn't surprising

[ad hoc]

Turn 50 has arrived, so a report on my empire

i'm lagging abit mainly due to my starting techs being among the crappiest and fur being the second worse happy but hopefully i'm not out of it yet



an overview of my cities,

Trantor, my capital city is producing a settler for my fifth city and by the time thats complete hopefully writing is in and it can build a Madrassa, i'm intending to run FOUR specialists here for a while, Prophets or Scientists are both welcome.

Trantor

Terminus, although building a few Cottages i'm thinking of this as my NE city with Corn, Bananas and irrigated Rice giving a nice food surplus

Terminus

Siwenna, the weakest of my cities but it does have unpillagable copper, Barracks and Military from here i think

Siwenna

Anacreon, irrigated Corn, Whales, 2 x Sugar and incense, going to cottage as much as i can

Anacreon

T50 demos, sorry reading for GNP and MFG but that's mainly down to Binary Research and the need for commerce, things should improve in the near future i hope