[SPOILERS] Team Orgynized: Parkin/Arki/Magno embark on a kinky adventure

[WilliamLP]

Or a double woodsman porn. (we only lack a grandma and a little girl in red now)

"But grandma, why is your ... so big?"

[Arkipeller]

Next move with the Scout: 1NE-1E? Looks like we'll get good vision from that hill.

Thats a nice river for dutch

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 12

Demographics

Bowsling and Aivoturso got a tech. Soldiers went up by 4000 in-between turns, so assuming that was just them that implies they researched The Wheel. Rather an odd choice, so I wonder if someone built a Warrior and they actually got a 2000 soldier tech - Mining or Animal Husbandry. Team Dinosaur grew their capital to size 2, so perhaps it was them. I can't understand that, by the way - they were a Fishing civ, so should have gone Work Boat first... but apparently they either didn't go Work Boat first, didn't work a 3 hammer tile as they should have, or didn't build a Worker immediately afterwards. Regardless they can't possibly have built a Worker yet. I thought perhaps given the completely unknown nature of both players that there was a chance they might be some sort of Locke and Cervantes, but this apparently dubious play seems to indicate otherwise.

Exploration

Finally we spotted another food resource - Sheep - though rather a long way away. Apparently the south-east is similarly barren to the west. Also spotted a Lion... will update on his movement in the next post.

[Lord Parkin]

Turn 13

Demographics

The Margarine team finished a tech. No soldier increase, so it can't have been Animal Husbandry, Mining, or Hunting. They started with Agriculture so it wasn't that. Pretty much leaves Fishing, Pottery, and Mysticism. I guess maybe Fishing? But then they'd have to be messing around with their research to avoid finishing the tech at the expected turn. Perhaps it was Pottery after all? Will look into it more later, if someone else doesn't get to it first.

Barbarians

The Lion moved in the most awkward way possible - onto the forest. We can either move north or west and take our chances on flatland (do we get 2+ free wins vs barbs on Monarch?), stay in place so we'll defend on the hill and get an extra turn of healing if we're damaged, or move 1S to be followed by 1SE-1S the following turn (looks like a hill). Thoughts?

[Scout not moved yet]

[WilliamLP]

I think a scout can lose its first animal combat in a Monarch PB game. I think I'd go 1S here with a heavy heart. Defending in place is likely to require a few healing turns, slowing him down more than looping around the lake would.

[Lord Parkin]

I think a scout can lose its first animal combat in a Monarch PB game. I think I'd go 1S here with a heavy heart. Defending in place is likely to require a few healing turns, slowing him down more than looping around the lake would.

Just checked the XML (Sid Meier's Civilization 4\Beyond the Sword\Assets\XML\GameInfo\CIV4HandicapInfo.xml), no free wins vs barbs on Monarch and above. Oh well.

The healing could potentially take quite a while, and there's also the potential of him getting a really unlucky roll and dying. I think 1S is probably the best move we can make under the circumstances.

[Arkipeller]

Go 1S. Nothing else is logical

[Lord Parkin]

Moved 1S. Nothing new revealed, and I was wrong about the hill in the fog. Looks like we'll have to end our movement on flatland next turn if we're heading south or east.

Perhaps 1SE-1E next turn, to be followed by 1N-1NE?

[Lord Parkin]

Alternatively, the Lion should have moved off the forest, so we could try 1NW-1N? Would ensure a battle the following turn, though with good odds.

[WilliamLP]

If you're going to go SE-E, maybe consider SE-pass instead to not risk a bear and if the next move is a forest anyway?