[SPOILERS] AT: Tonight in Vultureland... Louis of Sumeria

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Got a religion spread to BornToVulture, which is nice. So, now I get 2 gold from my shrine

I still think shrining was right, but maybe settling was better... I dunno.

2 turns for my replacement city.

Going meditation/aesthetics instead of the other way around. That way I can get more missionaries out faster.

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Commodore's power continues to go up, so I'm researching HBR, then construction.

6 turns to Shwedegon Paya, maybe 5 or 4 depending on a chop. I'm trying to worry scooter a little, though I doubt he'll bite too hard

Also, going to resettle (with proper garrison) 2 vultures. Though, I'll name it something different. 2 Vultures will be for the first city of scooter's I take

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founded Vulture Me on the ashes of Two Vultures. Costs went up, but still get HBR in 2. Next after that is Masonry, but a few turns of cost first.

Vulture Me got a real garrison - spear, vulture, archer.

Granary, library, forge, ziggurat.

GP in 3 from the cap - most likely an engineer and I have to decide whether to save it for the GLib/some other good wonder or save it for Machinery. I think Machinery, but I'm not sure. XBows are tempting, as they (finally) make phalanxes irrelevant.

That's assuming I get an engineer. Merchant gets saved for Civil Service. Scientist probably makes an academy. GP gets settled.

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Need another settler - I need to settle the gems hill. Now, I don't particularly WANT to settle on a gems hill... but it the most defensible position in that part of the world and it gets me gems, which is 2 more happy.

Getting HBR - Commodore's power is pretty high and I'm putting all my EP on him, so should get his research soon, at least.

Going monarchy first, to get wine and HR, which will be helpful. Hopefully, will only have 1 turn of anarchy for both OR and HR.

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Commodore has construction - I can see an Odeon in his capitol. So, catapults.

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Fortunately, I don't think he's had it long. Construction means a big score increase (12 points) and a 4 point increase in soldier points.

I think he got it 4 or 5 turns ago, so he doesn't have a huge stack, cause he hasn't been pop rushing, either.

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So, my current tech plan:

HBR->Monarchy->Masonry->Construction. cats and vultures are enough to defend against cats, though I do want HA.

then Lit.

Short term build plan:

Vulture Road builds a stable and some HA.
VultureLand builds vultures and another couple of settlers (marble, gems, sheep/iron)
Born To Vulture - finishes shwedegon, a couple of missionaries, parthenon. Maybe a spear.
Vulture me - granary, lib, then see.

[AutomatedTeller]

so, interesting things:

I got research on Commodore and he is getting music in 13.

I got an engineer.

Which makes me think I should go lit->music and try to snake the artist and use the engineer on the Glib, instead of on bulbing machinery.

OR, I could bulb machinery, build Xbows and take the pyramids the GLib from his cold, dead fingers.

IW->Lit->Music looks like 14 turns or so.

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alright - current plan is this:

Lit->Music. handbuild GLib, if I can (if I can't, well, fail gold is ok) Rush the Sistine Chapel, which is a very useful wonder on this map

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ok - checking Commodore, no way to build the GLib. He's building something at 40 hpt and he's up 158 hammers invested. That has to be something doubled and the Glib is the best bet. Though, it could be parthenon or something, if he just got to Lit.