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

[BobRoberts]

Great update! Thanks!

That's a very impressive GNP number there. :o

[Nakor]

Thanks, BobRoberts!

Now we just have to get another 6 cities and a solid army in the next 30 turns... is that even possible?

[DMOC]

Good point about monastaries, I had completely forgotten about them! In single player it's too common for me to just get Medit/Poly early.

So let's go:

Currency -> something -> Civil Service

We want CS ASAP but we should have a couple of techs in the "something" category. How about Meditation first (so Crydee can get culture easily) then metal Casting (prerequisite for Madchinery) then Calendar then CS?

Or if we don't want to waste time with monasteries we coudl beeline to Organized Religion.

[Nakor]

[SIZE="5"]Turn 125, 225 AD[/SIZE]

Rolan finished a settler and will build an axe. Settler send to the Galley, will board next turn.

Crydee finished a Lighthouse. I set the build to a Galley, so the chop can go into that and we can switch to Spear after that.
Dantski is building more chariots, so we need more spears.

La Mut finished an Axe. Send him to the Port Natal site. La Mut will build another Axe for MP and a settler afterwards for Port Natal.

For the rest, I followed your marks. Currency will be in next turn and I agree on Meditation afterwards, we might be able to make that in 1t with a little profit.

MC afterwards sounds like the best option. We got enough happy resources for now and with the silver extra, forges would be great. We can get Calender after that before CS - Machinery.

Did you notice that CS is only 7 turns at 100% research? :neenernee

[DMOC]

Wasn't Rolan going to finish a lighthouse (for the clams)? I understand why you'd want an axe though. Maybe we should build the axe 1 turn to completion, then finish the lighthouse or something?

Okay, Crydee will chop into the spearmen.

Nakor .. what do you think about Monotheism after Meditation, before Metal Casting? Monotheism allows Organized Religion so Sethanon doesn't have to waste time with monasteries. Those extra turns saved in Sethanon could prove to be very useful. I was thinking we could go Medit - Mono (switch to OR) - Metal Casting - Calendar - Civil Service. Unless we want to do a crazy Music beeline and culture bomb to get the entire Centralia island, but that's way too off the tech path for us.

PS: I propose we build a spearmen in Krondor after it finishes the catapult.

[DMOC]

Actually Nakor, the more I think about it, the more I think we should be building units 1 turn to completion, then switching to another unit. etc.

For instance, Krondor is 1 turn away from a catapult, right? Well, how about changing that build to a spearmen, then have that complete, then finish the catapult. WE get both units at the same turn, but we save on unit maintenace costs since the catapult gets finished later. It also serves as an illusion to our opponents that we have less power than they think we do.

What do you think? It requires micromanagement to make sure we don't waste hammers.

[Nakor]

Sorry, you're right, Rolan is finishing the Lighthouse first.

I think you have a good plan with the units, though I'm not that good at micromanagement.
I'll change Krondor to a Spearman now, since the turn hasn't ended yet.

OR is a good option!

[Nakor]

[SIZE="5"]Turn 126, 250 AD[/SIZE]

Currency is researched!
Research set to Meditation (1t and +9gpt), we can get Polytheisme afterwards in 1t, then we need to do a few turns of cash.
Should we gift some to Whosit for military?

Settler cannot jump into the boat this turn, to bad.

The Parthenon has been build! And Confu spread to Stardock!

Slow going while we need to expand fast....

[novice]

What do you need meditation for if you're going for Organized Religion?

[DMOC]

With Meditation, we can build monasteries for cultural battles while having our "core" city of Sethanon build missionaries with Organized Religion.

Who built the Parthenon?