[Spoilers] Meiz Polishes his game

[T-hawk]

With AIs, the important part is securing the luxury while it's available before they find another customer for it.

And of course swapping resources is worthwhile if it satisfies a WLTKD or city-state request for yourself.

It still may or may not be a good idea here, but just pointing out that there could be more to it than Jowy trying to pull a con job.

[Meiz]

Too bad we banned diplo

[Rowain]

Playing with the AI it doesn't matter. But here it would help Jowy pushing him faster to an GA than Poland. If Jkaen(Rome and neighbour) comes with such a trade I would think it as a way of securing a mutual understanding and to avoid war but not for faraway Austria.

[Meiz]

And I'm back to positive happiness, at least for a short amount of time . Chichen Itza would be finished in 6 turns and I should get it if no GE's are born. One can always hope.

Demos look quite good, except for the GNP part. I prefer it this way around though for the early game . The plan is research towards universities next to get the scientist specialists running asap. That might change if Jkaen's power keeps rising up

[Rowain]

Stats look good Sadly the soldier-count is nearly useless (see here ).

[Meiz]

I managed to clear a barb camp between Antwerp (merchantile) and Kathamandu (religious), which both city states wanted gone. Funnily the worker there didn't belong to either one, so I decided to keep it for myself . Militaristic city state this early is not worth anything to me.

[T-hawk]

Militaristic CS are good anytime, I think. Especially in this way where the influence will get you just friendship not alliance, since just the friendship is good enough to get units. It depends on what exactly they give you, but a militaristic CS is worth very roughly 2 hammers/turn early, in the same ballpark as the value of a worker.

[Meiz]

I'd agree if I wasn't running +0 gold at the moment

[Meiz]

"Slight" break from the game, but we're back

This took long enough, but I finally got my first trade route up and running. Hopefully this is the only caravan I'll build and rest of the trade will go by sea. In this case I couldn't literally afford waiting for Lodz to build the cargo ship.



Chichen Itza is still available, so fingers crossed

I also traded my only copper for Jowy's cotton, since my secondary source will become available in couple of turns. Happiness shouldn't become an issue especially if I get the wonder for additional +4 happiness.

[Rowain]

"Slight" break from the game, but we're back

This took long enough, but I finally got my first trade route up and running.