[Spoilers] Diving into shark infested waters

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Also based on how the duel is going. I would not be surprised to see a dog soon.

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T46






Looks like TWB founded Hindu last turn. I am guessing ipecac researched TW and REM pot this turn. Definitely not the best city site but it can share tiles with the capital. I guess the ice city is low priority.

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looks like ipecac planted his 3rd city this turn. Did I misread the situation because he just made a dog to clear a path to a distant far 3rd city? Kind of regret settling on copper now

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Well he is still behind because he has 0 granaries. Guess time to start cracking settlers from cap and 2nd city.

T47








Notice that OT4E settled his 4th city the same turn Greywolf settled his 2nd city. The latter still doesn't have BW. I wonder what is going on with all these players whipping their cities hard. slaving out armies?

T48

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T49









T50






I will likely grow the 2nd city to 5 first then 2 slave a settler since I really don't want to whip off the improved tiles. This delays hooking up horses by about 1t but that city is not likely grow fast, and even if Ipecac dog rushes (not likely) I can start 2 whipping a vulture into an archer.

Overview
Timski: 2 cities (4,2). 0 slaved. Henge. Agri, TW, Mine, BW, Myst, Masonry, Pottery. I highly suspect that he got the henge by settling on stone. A threat to also get mids.
Ipecac: 3 cities (3,1,1). 3 slaved. Agri, Fish, AH, Mine, BW, Myst?, TW. Has 1 dog out. Really wonder why he went Myst before TW.
Greywolf: 2 cities (5,1). 0 slaved. Fish, Myst, Agri, AH, TW?, Mine, Buddah. Still doesn't have BW.
Gavagai: 3 cities (3,2,1). 0 slaved. Agri, Fish, Mine, BW, AH, TW. Maybe researched Pottery that I missed as land points.
OH: 2 cities (3,2). 4 slaved. Agri, TW, AH, Mine, BW, Pottery, Fish?, Myst?. Likely rushing someone with WCs?
Alh: 3 cities (4,4,1). 2 slaved. Agri, TW, Fish, Mine, BW, AH, Pottery, Hunt.
Molach: 3 cities (3,2,1). 0 slaved. Hunt, TW, AH, Mine, Agri, BW, Pottery.
OT4E: 4 cities (3,2,1,1). 4 slaved. Hunt, Fish, Mine, AH, BW, TW, Agri.
TWB: 2 cities (2,1). 6 slaved. TW, Myst, Fish, Agri, Mining, BW, Pottery, Hindu, Hunting. Likely getting WC rushed?
REM: 2 cities (2,1). 5 slaved. Hunt, Mine, Fish, BW, TW, Agri, Myst, Pottery, Myst. Warring against?

There is about 41K in unaccounted power that likely includes one rax so some people are really bloodthirsty. Since ipecac and I are spending EPs on each other I think the map setup is 2 players on 1 landmass and the "winner" of the mini duel can conquer other civs by galleys?

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After my SS on T50, I saw a micro error and fixed it by working a 2/1/0 instead of a 1/2/0 to complete the granary with 0 overflow and get 2 more food. I will actually grow Eridu to size 6 then triple whip the settler to avoid hammer decay on the vulture and it won't affect the settler build time. The CY looks good but I am likely going to have to share out the corn for sure and likely the cow as well so it is not going to increase higher then expected when future cities get planted.

I wonder who has the high power. Gav or OH.

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T54






OH sure likes those 1 whips. Maybe this is the way to build workers and settlers now?

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looks like OT4E took OH's capital...

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is there any point in playing this game further? serious question. Seems just like PB16. I simmed so far and looks like I could get 11 cities by T90 but how can anyone compete against a team that already has access to the land of 2 civs this early in the game. Although his economy likely is crashed for a while because maintenance in this map is no joke.

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Well i probably wont get to build in peace since my neighbor might want to decide to get into an ancient age war to "catch up."