[SPOILERS]A two-four and some hookers: Thoth's thread

[Thoth]

Hrmph.

Game finally goes live and I'm stuck at work for another hour.

Bah.

[Thoth]

Turn 0 played!

password is: blow

Not very exciting turn. Settled city, moved scout. Start pottery and worker.

But there is some juicy looking land nearby:

Need another turn or two to hopefully find some food, but city 2 placed 1 tile west (4) of that floodplain can work up to 6 cottages for Gates of Steel.
The Silver will go to city 3 most likely.

I'm aiming for 3 warriors before settler. I toyed with the notion of scout after worker but that leaves me a bit short for covering cap + 2nd city. Also if someone decides to be a dick with their scout, I'd like the ability to kill it.


Demos with 2 players to go:

[Thoth]

2790 land tiles = 232 land tiles each

~15 tiles to next player.

I'll have bronze and a settler t38.

[Thoth]

I hope retep and Luddite PTFTs soon.

[Thoth]

I'll pop one hut with my borders when the turn rolls and then another next turn with my scout.

Fingers crossed for Mining and BW.

[Thoth]

Good news: Civ stats shows me getting a 6 point score increase at eot.

Bad news: I'm at work for another 5 hours so I can't log in to see what it was.

[Mardoc]

Probably someone gifted you their capital

[Thoth]

hardee har har.

[Thoth]

Fishing from the border pop and Hunting from the scout pop.

Not quite Mining + Bronze but it'll do very nicely. Fishing adds 2bpt thanks to the extra known pre-req modifier on Pottery and will get me Pottery a turn early as well as undoing the 10b Expansive penalty. Hunting is nice as it's my 2nd tech to research and it's 103 free beakers.

Yeah, I'm happy with this bit of good luck.

Elkad has also popped a tech from a hut.

Demos indicate that someone settled on a 3f tile.

[Thoth]

I'll be bringing the scout south and west over the next few turns looking for food near the Oasis/mountain and around the ivory.

City 2 could either go 3 of the Ivory (sharing Pigs with GoS) which would claim the Ivory but would otherwise suck without additonal food sources.
Or to claim the floodplains, Oasis and riverside grass tiles SE of GoS. Unless I find additional food it'll be a bit slow to start with only a +4 and a +3 tile to fuel growth but there is the makings of a solid commerce city in that area.

I'd like Sailing soonish (post mining/BW and AH). Probably directly after AH if I have easy access to copper/horses or after Archery if the resources aren't handy.