Index & Summary Thread

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This thread is intended to be a series of relatively brief & on-point posts summarising plans we make and overviews of domestic & foreign affairs every 10 turns or so, with links back to where the discussion happened.

It doesn't matter who posts stuff - I'll start the ball rolling with a summary of what our initial plan was, and I'd quite like to do the Turn 10 report, just to give an idea of what is inside my head, but other than those two posts please feel free to jump in & write them yourselves

I'd rather keep the discussion out of this thread, so if I (or anyone writing these) gets something wrong/misrepresents something can you put it in some other appropriate thread & then I can edit the post here to put things right.

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We chose Pacal (Fin/Exp) of Egypt (War Chariot, Obelisk, Agriculture/Wheel).

The other teams are:

• We Play Civ: Ragnar (Fin/Agg) of Native Americans (Dog Soldier, Totem Pole, Agriculture/Fishing)
  
• Civforum.de: Isabella (Exp/Spi) of Inca (Quechua, Terrace, Agriculture/Mysticism)
  
• Apolyton: Elizabeth (Fin/Phi) of Ottomans (Jannisary, Hamman, Agriculture/Wheel)
  
• Spanish Apolyton: Boudica (Agg/Cha) of Zulus (Impi, Ikhanda, Agriculture/Hunting)
  
• CivFanatics: Mansa Musa (Fin/Spi) of India (Fast Worker, Mausoleum, Mining/Mysticism)
  
• CivPlayers: Darius (Fin/Org) of Aztecs (Jaguar, Sacrificial Altar, Hunting/Mysticism)
  
• UniversCivilization: Mehmed (Exp/Org) of Holy Roman Empire (Landsknecht, Rathus, Hunting/Mysticism)
  
• CivFr: Willem (Fin/Cre) of Mayans (Holkan, Ball Court, Mining/Mysticism)

Discussion here and here.

Our start:



Initial plan:

Settle on Banana for extra food on city tile and access to the Deer resource.

Tech: Hunting -> Pottery

Build: Worker -> Warrior until size 2 -> Worker

Tile Worked: Forest PH

Warrior to explore area around capital.

Discussion here and between posts 1 and 149 of the micromanagement thread.

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Domestic Affairs

Exploration



Dotted yellow line shows the path the warrior took. Black dots are barb animals seen, we're currently waiting to see if the warrior survives his close encounter with a lion.

Hunting was researched on T9, with one turn of researching Mining in order to create confusion for other C&D departments about which of the two techs we'd actually researched. Research target is now Pottery.

Yellow dot marks the site for our next city, placed to have the gold resource first ring and to share the deer with the capital after extensive sims showed that this was strongest (see next post).

City



Included for completeness, nothing much interesting yet. Worked Forested Plains Hill to the south of the city tile initially, and on T10 switched to working the Deer. (Apart from one turn in the middle where the Deer was erroneously worked).

Turn reports between posts 3 and 13 of the turn report thread. Discussion between posts 2 and 320 of the turn discussion thread.

Foreign Affairs

No contact with any other teams so far, all the following information gleaned from C&D.

Map has 318 tiles per team (see here) and starts are thought to be similar although maybe not precisely identical. 6 teams have a single water tile first ring, of other two (CivFanatics and Spanish Apolyton) one has a single water tile 2nd ring, the other has no water tiles.

• We Play Civ: Settled T1. Built a Warrior T8, researched Hunting finishing T9, capital grew T9.
  
• Spanish Apolyton: Settled T0. Researched Mining finishing T9. Worker built first. Probably researching BW now.
  
• Apolyton: Settled T1. Researched Hunting finishing T9. Worker first. Probably researching AH now.
  
• Civforum.de: Settled T1. Researched Hunting finishing T9. Worker first.
  
• CivFr: Settled T0, probably on a food resource like us. No tech yet. Worker first.
  
• CivPlayers: Settled T1. No tech yet. Worker first.
  
• CivFanatics: Settled T0, probably in place. Researched Agriculture finishing T10. Worker first. Probably researching BW now.
  
• UniversCiv: Settled T1, possibly on PH. No tech yet, Warrior built T6, capital grew T9.

Discussion between posts 67 and 131 of the C&D thread.

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Discovery of a Gold resource to the NE prompted another micro plan focusing on second city placement.

Plan copied from this post by SevenSpirits.

Video of Sullla playing through the plan, with commentary

Picture of sim at T40:





Tech: Hunting (T8) -> Pottery (T20) -> Mining (T28) -> Bronze Working (T39) -> Animal Husbandry
(Note: Run 0% tech on T33 and T39)

Adventure One (T0): Worker (T10) -> Warrior (T18) -> Worker (T23) -> Settler (T31) -> Warrior to 14h eoT34 -> T35 Granary to 12h eoT38 -> Warrior to 17h T39 -> Settler

Mansa's Muse (T33): Granary to 12h eoT36 -> T37 Worker

Worker 1 (T10): Move NW and Farm Corn (T10-T14), Move NE and road (T15), Move E-SE onto deer (T16), camp deer (T17-20), Move S and cottage grass (T21), Move SW and road (T22), move SW and cottage floodplains (T23-25), Move E and cottage floodplains (T26-27), Move N and cottage (T28-29), Move NE and cottage grassland river (T30-31), Move NE and road (T32), Move NE-E and farm corn (T33-34), Move N (T35), Mine gold (T36-37), Move W (T38), Chop (T39-41)

Worker 2 (T23): Move SE and road (T23), Move SW and cottage floodplains (T24-25), Move E and cottage floodplains (T26-28), Move N and cottage (T29-30), Move NE and cottage grassland river (T31), Move NE and road (T32), Move NE-E and farm corn (T33-35), Move N (T36), Mine gold (T37-38), Move SW-SW and cottage (T40), Move SW and road (T40)

Settler (T31): Move E-E (T31), Move NE-NE (T32), settle (T33)

Adventure One (T0)
Citizen 1 (T0): plains-forest-hill (T0-T9) -> deer (T10-13) -> Corn farm (T14-)
Citizen 2 (T15): deer (T15-19) -> Deer camp (T20-T32), floodplains cottage (T33-)
Citizen 3 (T18): plains forest hill (T18-21), floodplains (T22-24), floodplains cottage (T25-)
Citizen 4 (T34): grassland cottage (T34), Deer camp (T35-36), grassland cottage (T37), Deer camp (T38- )
Citizen 5 (T37): plains cottage (T37- )
Citizen 6 (T39): grassland cottage (T39-)

Mansa's Muse (T33)
Citizen 1 (T33): Deer camp (T33-34), Corn farm (T35- )
Citizen 2 (T37): Deer camp (T37), Gold mine (T38- )

Discussion between posts 150 and 216 of the micromanagement thread, and also between posts 143 and 207 of the turn discussion thread.