[SPOILERS] Tatan, CFCJester and Nakor try their hand at Mansu of India...

[CFCJesterFool]

The map trade is interesting. Space has the same number of cities we do but we delayed our expansion by building GLH. What has he been doing? Exploring? Building troops due to a frisky neighbor? Not sure what gain we would get by trading maps. He would definitely get good scouting from our map. If Space had ill intentions, a map showing the route to our warrior defended empire might make us a tempting target. My instincts say trading maps right now too risky.

[Nakor]

I agree. Let's not trade maps untill we have Iron connected.

Space went for very early IW, so my guess is that he has an aggressive neighbour and no copper OR wants to go for an early attack.

[UnforcedError]

I first wasn't even sure that map trading was allowed with CTON. I vote no for now as well.

[CFCJesterFool]

Had a look at the save before ending turn. The layout of the known empires...

Hmm, Dora's exploration might be cut short unless we can find a way around either Serdoa or Space. Yeah, I see your WB Serdoa...are you running out of places to explore? My guess is that yes, that is the case.

[UnforcedError]

Well Space is closer to him than us...

[CFCJesterFool]

Since SM has Hinduism, I think an adjustment to the city micro needs to be made. The goal was to have a hindu mish arrive at FoF the turn we whip a settler from FoF for the silver site (mission accomplished). Also wanted to speed up the granary in CG and finally get a city defender in place. Even if we find out that we have iron and decide to settle that next, we'll still want a Hindu mish and SM is the best place to get it from right now. The micro...

T73 FoF - warrior comp.; build WB; cottage comp.; wkr 2 moves 1 SW and finishes road (1t)
>> CG @ sz 3 - add mine
>> SM - switch build to chariot
T74 FoF @ sz 6 - add cottage; growth to happy cap in 2t; wkr 1 moves 1W and cottages (4t); wkr 2 moves 1 SE and chops forest (3t)
>> CG - 1 pop whip granary (lose mine)
>> CC founded - build granary
T75 CG - granary comp.; build warrior (7t); growth to sz 3 in 2t
T76 FoF @ sz 7 - work PH mine+3 lake+fish+crab+cottage (speed up IW by 1t); chop comp. (finishes chariot)
T77 IW comp.; tech Writing next; FoF - WB improves crab; work fish+2 crab+corn+mine+cottage+PH mine; build worker (3t); cottage comp.; wkr 2 moves to CC
>> CG @ sz 3 - add mine
>> SM - chariot comp.; build Hindu mish (9t)
T78 wkr 1 moves 1 SW and mines (4t); SM @ sz 2 - add lake
T79 CG - warrior comp.; build LH
T80 FoF - worker comp.; build settler (5t)
>> CG @ sz 4 - add cottage; switch build to settler (10t)
...
T82 SM - 1 pop whip mish
T83 FoF - 2 pop whip settler
T85 CG - 2 pop whip settler
T87 SM - galley comp. (option to load settler for clam island if we want)

The updated sandbox...
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[CFCJesterFool]

T73..We have a trade route with Serdoa now and he has stone as well as copper. I'm guessing he'll get quite a few wonders..highly unlikely he's planning an invasion right now. The Colossus should get built in a somewhat close land pretty soon.

Looks like Serdoa has met Space and is splitting his points on us and Space (the ratio was 12/24 last turn). Pretty sure Space (2/0 ratio with us) has his points on Serdoa.

The demos...


Nakor, any idea on where we should send Dora? I haven't ended the turn yet.

[UnforcedError]

Uncover the rest of the island chain between us and Space, I'd say. There isn't too much more that WB could do right now. Or call Dora home to net a fish in a new city.

[Nakor]

Uncover the rest of the island chain between us and Space, I'd say. There isn't too much more that WB could do right now. Or call Dora home to net a fish in a new city.

Agreed! Let's send Dora south to Horse Island and let her sail east from there.
Micro looks good. Let's hope for another spread of Religion to our northern city.

Ended turn.

[Nakor]

Moved Dora again, but did nothing else, since I don't want to mess up Jester's plans.

Feel free to end turn![/i]