[SPOILERS PB71]Krill: By the numbers, when the walls fell (on everyone else)

[Krill]

I have a size 4 capital with granary completing eot29, foodbox 20/28 and making 7fpt. Gems hooked and worked t28, growth@5 eot31. BW due around t31-32 and revolt to slavery due T33. Quite a few choices but still suspect double whip at size 5 into two workers is best, but then getting the settler is always a bit of a challenge. Shouldn't focus on just the settler for the second city though, need to consider the third settler as that can come pretty quickly here and I want to know where copper is. I kinda want fishing for the extra two workable tiles and need Writing to have buildings to dump hammers into at the capital, or I'm going to be forced to build a barracks (could be worse).

I think it was Bing that landed the Polytheism religion.

Any questions might be answered.

[Krill]

At some point over the next few days I'll take a couple of overview screenshots and stitch them together for a world map, but the news of T27 is that yuris is working a gold tile at size 2, which raises questions if he is building a granary or a settler at size 2.

[Krill]

T29: Pin still has not met anyone else and so is delaying me getting graphs on anyone else, I get Commodores next turn (T30). However, as I've kept Pindicators graphs with an expenditure of 1ept, I saw that he got BW last turn and he is roading towards his north east. He has a size 2 capital and a river grass hill pig.





Yuris has two plains hill golds and archery.





And it turns out I border everyone, or at least all but one player (still need to find out who is to my west). Fun.

[Krill]

I am grateful that someone (Commodore) has finished Meditation and taken Toaism, which removes a temptation from me. I believe this was either Commodore, Yuris or SD (as it was founded on T30 but after I played so it has to be one of those three), but Commodore was the only one of those three players to get score increase. This is also confirmed by F7 which says Toaism as 15% world pop following it, which is 3 pop (two size 4 cities, one size 3, four size 2 and no none capital cities ruining hte easy demographics read), as Commodore has the only size 3 city. This also reaffirms that it was Bing that took Polytheism. It makes tech path a bit more straight forward I suppose.

This turn the world map centred itself due to scouting, so I am probably a few turns from circumnavigation. Thoth has a settler to the west of Yuris so must be over that way which means Bing/Civac are the civ to my west. I need to get a chariot out over there.

[Krill]

I'll make a promise, next turn on T33, I'll post a world map (with copper locations).

[Krill]

[Krill]

I'm just going to say it: this map script needs more food resources. Not many, but it needs to not leave huge areas so dry you can't even get a size 4 city there. This is probably going to lead to many players collapsing before knights. I don't even see how players afford they way to the Ren era techs.

[Tarkeel]

Where are you planning to settle next?

[Krill]

There is no reason to look beyond settling for copper and horse on this map, for this start, and I will have settlers out eot39 and eot45 and workers eot34, 35 and 46 to hook everything up.

[Krill]

Declared on Thoth on T34 and offered Peace on T35 when I moved out of his culture.




Pin met Thoth on T34 I think (screenshot is T35).

I border so many players I think I'm going to make an early run at HBR and try and slow down the tech pace for everyone, but probably get Writing first for the obvious library/Ziggarut potential builds.

I'm trying to get what information I can on what each player is trying to do, to see how they think they can win (although I doubt they are thinking like this right now). Looking at the world map I posted, I don't see obvious conflicts apart from yuris and Thoth.