RP Pitboss #2 [SPOILERS] - Darius I of the Holy Roman Empire

[DMOC]

On the sugar sounds fine with me, gives it an extra food underneath the city anyway.

Yes, chop forests near Dantski's borders ... don't want him to get defensive bonuses ...

Yes, propose 1 more ceasefire. If they ignore, then assume they're out to kill us.

[Nakor]

I talked to Whosit and he has gifted us our first Preatorian. Second due in 3t.
He wants to settle 5H of Nar Shaddaa and asks us to settle 1W of the sugar in the original spot. I'm ok with that.

I'll propose a cease fire.

[Nakor]

[SIZE="5"]150 AD[/SIZE]

Axe and Chariot landed on Centralia. There is indeed a good city site with crabs in first ring and fish, silver and rice in the second ring. Not much produciton besides the silver, but due to the silver, it's worth to build there.
I tried to take a picture, but it failed, so I'll try again next turn.

Stardock was whipped for a Monument. I'll build a WB afterwards to go to our new city on Centralia. That city should start with a monument, of course....

Krondor finished the Granary and started on a catapult.

Sethanon will grow next turn, work the Marble and change build to a worker.

Rolan needs 3 more turns for the settler.

La Mut needs 3 more turns for an Axe and for growth. Try to squeeze another settler out of there before more military. We've got SOME time before t135.

Crydee will grow next turn and can be whipped for a Granary

Other news:
Dantski is researching Monarchy!
I offered a cease fire to India.
Our first preatorian is moving towards Crydee.

[DMOC]

Krondor - catapult - good. We need some siege.

Sethanon works marble - good. Marble tiles give excellent production and (I think) commerce.

Dantski is researching Monarchy. What do you think that means? I think it might be a beeline to Feudalism. If Dantski ends up fortifying Gao with 10 longbowmen, it's not worth it to attack since our traits mean that if we have similar land and population we will be more technologically advanced. Generally.

Also ... what do you think about keeping some units 1 tile away from Crydee (1 tile south) so that Dantski doesn't see them and thinks we have fewer troops than we do. Since we've got Construction, crossing rivers isn't an issue.

I'll try to check the game more in-depth soon.

[Nakor]

[SIZE="5"]175 AD[/SIZE]



Gold as well! Where to settle first?

Sethanon grew to size 7, works the marble and changed build to a worker.
I'll chop a forest to speed things up and try to get 2 workers from there.

Crydee grew, so I whipped for the granary.

We can get Currency in 4t.
Whosit is still a long way from Currency/CoL, so we might lend him some money later.

India razed Sparta and denied our Cease Fire. Reproposed.

[DMOC]

I wouldn't repropose for a ceasefire again.

Jowy's not doing so well.

I'd settle where we originally decided on a city.

[Nakor]

And then there was peace.

Jowy gifted Argos and Thebes to India and we have a NAP untill turn 150.

[DMOC]

Caught up with email, ok we have peace. Now we only have 1 foe to worry about.

One of our 3 exploring warriors just saw the 7-unit force in Kumbi Saleh ... not good. Will post screenshots and updates later.

[DMOC]

[SIZE="7"]Turn 123 / 200 AD[/SIZE]

I didn't officially end our turn, so you can change some things if needed. I added a couple of signs/reminders for the future.

The first thing I did was move our exploring warriors (one in Ottoman-Incan territory, one in Roman territory, and one in Romamalinese territory). Dantski has a 7-unit mixed attack (or defense?) force, which doesn't bode well. With his concentration of units in Gao and Kumbi Saleh, this means he probably has some kind of plan with India so that India doesn't attack him. I also explored more in Centralia. Whosit's axemen is there. Did you notice that Dantski is researching currency?





The second thing I did was mange our cities.

Sethanon looks good to me. It's building a worker in what will take 7 turns, at most (we have a worker chopping the fourest south of the city, so that the forest south of that can give health to either city). Do we want to chop all the forests in Sethanon? 2 forests gives us 1 health, but 1 forest gives us 0 health.

I would try to get 2 straight workers out of Sethanon.

We need to settle Yabon soon or else Whosit's culture will take control of it.




I moved this worker over to chop the spicy forests. We'll plantation over it eventually, but I'd like to get the chop done with and put it in a unit. After the lighthouse, I propose a spearmen to diversify our troops.



I moved one of our axes defending Rolan over to Crydee. The sooner it can get there and get fortification bonus (just in case) the better. Rolan is at 9/9 happiness and should finish the lighthouse after the settler and then make a unit.



Third thing I did was put some signs to indicate certain culturally important tiles. We need to monitor this.



More good news - we're #1 in GNP, and we're about to get Currency in 2 turns. :dancing5:



Power graph. About the only good thing here is that Dantski and us are about tied. Usually in a tie situation the defender wins so we'll have to break the balance if we attack.



By the way, I'm just curious - do we have a NAP with Rome/Whosit until turn 150?

-Last thing: what should the composition of our troops in Crydee and Krondor be? Right now we're heavily dependent on our axes. Do we want an axe/catapults only, or do we add swords to the mix (Whosit's 2 praetorians will be useful though). I think for our melee units we should be dependent on axes mostly, but with a couple of spears and swords in the mix.

A lot of what I did this round is by a defensive mindset, but I will switch to offense once the time comes.

[Nakor]

Looks good!
We have a NAP with Whosit, I believe untill t150. Why are you asking?

I talked to Plako yesterday, trying to negotiate a longer NAP, our current one ends at t135, same as Dantski. He is thinking about it but wants military aid against Whosit in the future.

I don't think we need to go on the offensive with all the land to settle yet and think we can wait for an cat/mace attack on Dantski in a while...

Remember, we need one worker to go to Centralia to help our new city there.

So, you'd settle Yabon before Port Natal then due to the culture?
Let's do that then, but try to settle Port Natal soon as well.
With Currency in we can handle more cities easily. So I suggest we try to expand as fast as possible now, while building an army on our border cities.

Tech wise, do we want Meditation? We can build a monastry in Seth and spam missionary's after the 2 workers.
After Currency: MC - CS - Machinery? Or do you want to add Calender to the mix or focus on another path?