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Are you, in fact, a pregnant lady who lives in the apartment next door to Superdeath's parents? - Commodore |
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Nicolae Carpathia sees you! Run! RUN!
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January 19th, 2013, 22:40
(This post was last modified: March 2nd, 2013, 06:41 by Nicolae Carpathia.)
 ![[Image: ITfhGhT.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/ITfhGhT.jpg) Come closer, Insect. Turn order: 1) AutomatedTeller GMT -5 (Mehmed of HRE) (AutomatedTellerRB) 2) Commodore GMT -6 (Isabella of Sumeria) (commodore.rb) 3) Dazedroyalty GMT -6 (Darius of Egypt) (johnmark1107 ) 4) Nicolae Carpathia GMT+14 (Mansa Musa of France) 5) Mostly Harmless GMT +1 (Bismark of Ottomans) (mostly.harmless.rb)
January 21st, 2013, 01:55
(This post was last modified: January 21st, 2013, 05:53 by Nicolae Carpathia.)
I certainly ballsed T0 up.
 Moved warrior 1SE to get vision over the lake, saw no interesting resources.  Made a gamble and moved my settler 1NW in hopes of picking up something useful.  My hopes were dashed by gentle waves lapping the coast. If I settled 1NW, I'd be one off-coast.  But then I decided, I have no early game traits. I need every edge I can get. And there's no point spending another turn moving back home, just to avoid a pair of junky 1/3 tiles. So bam, I ended up settling 1NW. And it wasn't too bad. I picked up vision of a ton of resources. Except for that stupid dry grass wheat just outside my radius. Anyways, at Prince difficulty, and no visible pre-calendar happy, Infinite City Sprawl is the name of the game. And this map really supported packing in the early cities to work as many FIN cottages as possible. In summary, first turn was suboptimal, but salvageable.
What else about the map? From chats with Gaspar, he hates Commodore maps that have no good food in the first ring around the initial city. There's certainly no problem there, I see a ton of nice food resources. Still not sure which tech path to take, Hunting-AH first for these foods, then what? I want a couple of early cities. How about Fishing-Pottery, to get that 5/0/3 lake clam into play, then Mining-BW? I'm gonna have to sim this out later this week. Not for a while, I'm busy as shit the next couple of days.
For the record, the map is 40x40 (pretty damn big) with ~1100 tiles. So this is absolutely a builder game. Of course, if I could rush someone, I will 
Hi Dazed!
 The 5/1 pigs will probably make me alter my dotmap, my tech path and the turn I put out a settler. In any case, if I go settler at size 2, it appears T20. If at size 3, it appears T22.  As expected, Dazed didn't declare. What I do expect is he settles up against me (as horses are to the east), and defends it with War Chariots.  A revised dotmap for the north.
A late update.
 Some nice land between me and Dazed. I'd like to control it, but no guarantees.  Horse city in 2 turns. Worker will be pasturing pig the turn it gets settled.  BW came in, it makes that city south of the capital an awesome hammer city. Likely heroic epic. Can get up to a handy 22hpt at a mere size 7.  Current dotmap. These days I'm too lazy to change the colours.
Hurrah game's starting to get interesting.
 Met Commodore last turn.  Midway through the turn, I started wondering why Dazed suddenly had such a high score. Ah, he built the 'henge. Fair enough, that's decent play to get Obelisks everywhere. It also means I won't need to worry about him committing to war chariots, but still, I need a sentry to cover my northwest (which is the likely direction of Dazed). As punishment for Dazed pillaging my forest hill cottage, I pillaged his riverside forest hamlet and flat grass mine a couple of turns ago.  Capital. Just about filled my food box halfway, next turn every bit of food will go into the granary. Oh and when I switch from the plains forest to cottage next turn, I will have exactly enough to grow to size 6. The turn after that, I whip a settler and overflow into a worker, which will get finished by a chop. The turn after that, I'll finish a chariot. I intend to settle the lake crabs to my southwest. I also intend to have a chop complete a workboat the turn after settling, as well as a couple more chops to get a granary out. And if I'm lucky, I'll land a religion in this city and get the copper connected early. If no easy access to culture, then I'll settle 3S of my capital (which by the way is where Commodore settled his first city). Farmer's gambitting away, except this time I'm not going to be savvy enough to get away with it if someone applies pressure early. Ah, the joy of casual games. |
