(December 22nd, 2012, 06:04)novice Wrote: So, thoughts on the snake pick, Shoot?
I guess with us second in the pick we'll have some good options. If Macko don't take Pacal I think we should take him in a heartbeat.
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(December 22nd, 2012, 07:14)novice Wrote: I guess with us second in the pick we'll have some good options. If Macko don't take Pacal I think we should take him in a heartbeat. I thought you didn't "do" Financial so some reason.
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I write RPG adventures, and blog about it, check it out. (December 22nd, 2012, 09:50)Commodore Wrote:(December 22nd, 2012, 07:14)novice Wrote: I guess with us second in the pick we'll have some good options. If Macko don't take Pacal I think we should take him in a heartbeat. Always had an excuse not to, although I did play Huayna Capac in pbem13.
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(December 22nd, 2012, 08:57)novice Wrote: mackoti: India My thoughts as well (that is I agree with picking pacal). This high up the picking order seems pretty obvious what to do.
Okay, so civ pick, Shoot? I think we can probably tech Pottery->Hunting->Bronze Working->AH with this start. I haven't simmed this but maybe farm the rice, cottage the grassland NW of the rice, camp the ivory, whip a settler at size 4 and settle on the bananas? Or along the river if there's food there. Yeah or whatever, many options. Point is, I'm pretty sure Agri/Wheel are the best starting techs here, as always, although Agri/Mining and Agri/Hunting work too.
So yeah, civ pick, I'm all ears. India, Inca and Mali are out, and Seven will pick before us (I'm guessing he'll pick Maya).
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December 23rd, 2012, 15:48
(This post was last modified: December 23rd, 2012, 15:49 by Shoot the Moon.)
Well, the only two Agri/Hunting civs are Persia and Zulu, neither of which are that good obviously so I'd say that is out. Only Agri/mining is obviously China. Agri/wheel civs are Babylon, Egypt, France, Ottomans, and Sumeria. I'd probably rate it something like this:
Egypt Ottomans/China pretty much tied France/Babylon pretty much tied others If we were still on Monarch Sumeria might have been interesting, but alas we're not. If Seven doesn't pick Mali I'd say pick that probably. Otherwise I guess my top pick is Egypt probably although I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that. If we have time might not be terrible to a very quickly sim of BW first as China (chopping out a second worker quickly after farming the rice). I'm busy this afternoon, but I should have time this evening to do a really quick run through of both just to test that. Other than those civs I don't really see anything else I'd want. England would really require AGG to be worth it, and Byz's starting techs are just too painful. Your thoughts. (Also, just to check, your email is still novice.rb correct? Figure I should make sure I still have that correct in case we ever need to chat on this game)
I would agree that Egypt is good, and terribly unoriginal.
 In fact I agree with your ranking.Did you mean Maya? Gaspar already picked Mali. I wouldn't pick Maya without Cre anyway, I'd rather have Ottomans then. Oh and I don't think Zulu are bad when Hunting is good, although they do work better with Agg. Yeah, I'm still novice.rb. And you're using your nick, right?
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(December 23rd, 2012, 15:59)novice Wrote: I would agree that Egypt is good, and terribly unoriginal. I'm shootthemoonrb. Yeah, not sure any of these picks have yet been original In terms of Maya/Mali, simply misread your comment about what Seven was likely to pick. So I guess it should have said Maya, except I don't think we should pick Maya anyway (for the reasons you said). So yeah just ignore that comment.I also agree about Zulu--they're decent, but would be better with AGG and without AGG I don't think they matchup with Egypt (or Ottomans/China). |
