t64:
I complete the Mausoleum.
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There was a small altercation here last turn and the turn before, as my sentry warrior on the highlighted plains hill was popped by an Egyptian War Chariot, which in turn fell to my spear who was overseeing the lumberjacks. I had the warrior there because I wanted vision on the tiles from which a WC could reach my chopping workers. I needed that because I only had the one spear and 2 chariots handy to guard them.
This turn, AT sent another WC near me for unknown reasons (he just ran into a spear last turn...) but I predict it will be retreating.
Meanwhile we had some seriously interesting unit movements to my southwest. The incan chariot you see below had been sitting on the fort tile as a sentry. (The fort gives no bonus to chariots, but it's a good tile to see across the lake.) I let it be for a couple turns, but then managed to spare a spear to go chase it off. Just as the spear was heading out (reverse of his path is shown in the pic), Mackotisub founded the city you can now see, and its borders appeared in the fog to my great dismay. That city is like 5 tiles closer to my capital than to his! It's very aggressive and I was quite surprised by it.
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Anyway, as you can see I continued to send the spear up. Last turn I moved into his vision. I pondered where I'd move the following turn: 1SW, to both threaten the chariot and get vision of his city tile? Or 1S, to chase away the chariot without risking the life of my spear needlessly? I also thought about where the chariot might move this turn already. If it disappeared from view, it had probably moved to the city, and I had to be even more wary of being ambushed there. (I assumed, since it's such an aggressive plant, that the city had 2 defenders or at least one strong one, plus the sentry chariot.) If it moved 1N, I thought, that was an obvious ploy to distract my spear. (It invites an attack by moving S, rather than a SW advance next to the city.) I decided it wouldn't really make sense as a bluff to trick my spear into moving next to an axe, as I'm fairly likely to move there with the spear anyway, and a chariot is a really high price to pay for maybe killing a spear.
So when I opened the save this turn and saw his chariot had indeed moved 1N, I immediately moved 1SW and this was the result. Hopefully I get to raze it next turn. In anticipation of this possibility, I whipped a settler I'd been slow-building, with the goal of planting my own city in the area before he can re-settle his. I really hope this works out.
It's worth noting that since that city was founded only 3t ago and had no first-ring forests, I knew for sure it wouldn't be producing any defenders itself.
I also produced 3 workers and a settler this turn, and founded a city by the spices. Next turn I will get the great library, guaranteed. It would take a literature bulb and 1t build to beat me, and no one can bulb literature right now.
I complete the Mausoleum.
There was a small altercation here last turn and the turn before, as my sentry warrior on the highlighted plains hill was popped by an Egyptian War Chariot, which in turn fell to my spear who was overseeing the lumberjacks. I had the warrior there because I wanted vision on the tiles from which a WC could reach my chopping workers. I needed that because I only had the one spear and 2 chariots handy to guard them.
This turn, AT sent another WC near me for unknown reasons (he just ran into a spear last turn...) but I predict it will be retreating.
Meanwhile we had some seriously interesting unit movements to my southwest. The incan chariot you see below had been sitting on the fort tile as a sentry. (The fort gives no bonus to chariots, but it's a good tile to see across the lake.) I let it be for a couple turns, but then managed to spare a spear to go chase it off. Just as the spear was heading out (reverse of his path is shown in the pic), Mackotisub founded the city you can now see, and its borders appeared in the fog to my great dismay. That city is like 5 tiles closer to my capital than to his! It's very aggressive and I was quite surprised by it.
Anyway, as you can see I continued to send the spear up. Last turn I moved into his vision. I pondered where I'd move the following turn: 1SW, to both threaten the chariot and get vision of his city tile? Or 1S, to chase away the chariot without risking the life of my spear needlessly? I also thought about where the chariot might move this turn already. If it disappeared from view, it had probably moved to the city, and I had to be even more wary of being ambushed there. (I assumed, since it's such an aggressive plant, that the city had 2 defenders or at least one strong one, plus the sentry chariot.) If it moved 1N, I thought, that was an obvious ploy to distract my spear. (It invites an attack by moving S, rather than a SW advance next to the city.) I decided it wouldn't really make sense as a bluff to trick my spear into moving next to an axe, as I'm fairly likely to move there with the spear anyway, and a chariot is a really high price to pay for maybe killing a spear.
So when I opened the save this turn and saw his chariot had indeed moved 1N, I immediately moved 1SW and this was the result. Hopefully I get to raze it next turn. In anticipation of this possibility, I whipped a settler I'd been slow-building, with the goal of planting my own city in the area before he can re-settle his. I really hope this works out.
It's worth noting that since that city was founded only 3t ago and had no first-ring forests, I knew for sure it wouldn't be producing any defenders itself.
I also produced 3 workers and a settler this turn, and founded a city by the spices. Next turn I will get the great library, guaranteed. It would take a literature bulb and 1t build to beat me, and no one can bulb literature right now.
If only it didn't take so long to build wonders in cities without two rings worth of forests.
