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Gillette Turn Discussion

#191
August 7th, 2012, 20:46
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Scout NE-SE sounds good to me as well.
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#192
August 9th, 2012, 13:38
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Found Trolls' borders

[Image: Civ4ScreenShot0681.JPG]

Options I see for the next move are E-NE, SE-S, or maybe NW-NW if we want to scout closer to our land

Also, we need to start thinking where we want the 2nd city to be. The Worker will have a few turns downtime to build roads, and they should go in direction of the 2nd city
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#193
August 9th, 2012, 14:53
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I vote E-NE.

I'd like to hear what the better players think about our second city location before I weigh in. I know some suggestions were made earlier, but a lot of new land has been uncovered since then, so maybe things have changed.
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#194
August 9th, 2012, 17:16
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Post 12 of the screenshots thread seems to show the immediate area around the capital. Is it possible to get one with all the unfogged land for city location discussion purposes?
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#195
August 10th, 2012, 03:55
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I like E-E for the scout, to use that hill to see as much of the Troll's capital BFC as possible. It could be useful info in the future.

For city sites, do we want to settle close to our capital? Or make a longer push to grab one of the golds? They definitely seem to be placed between teams to spark competition and conflict.
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#196
August 10th, 2012, 09:10
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That's a really good point. I change my vote to E-E for the potential of seeing the city tile.
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#197
August 10th, 2012, 09:27
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Yeah I'm in favor of E-E. I'd like to get visibility on their capital.
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#198
August 11th, 2012, 10:02
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I need to leave in 5 minutes, so just reposting the screenshots I posted in the Latest Screenshots thread - can't think of anything clever to say lol

Scout:
[Image: Civ4ScreenShot0683.JPG]

Our capital and surrounding area for dotmapping:
[Image: Civ4ScreenShot0684.JPG]

Worker should finish the camp next turn, so we need to decide where to road in 2 turns
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#199
August 11th, 2012, 11:26
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Are we going to have a way to expand borders any time soon?

If not, what about settling on the spot north of the cow? (south of the gold)
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#200
August 11th, 2012, 11:41
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ATrain Wrote:Are we going to have a way to expand borders any time soon?

If not, what about settling on the spot north of the cow? (south of the gold)

Why not 1W of there if we have no easy access to borderpops, since it picks up a 3/3/0 forested deer in the first ring?
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