[SPOILERS] The Rise of Lewger: A BacoN of Bacon Revenge (bacOn bAcoNbAcon) Bacon

[Bigger]

sigh, oh well. lets hope they put up a better fight this time than they did last time.
you'd think after their sudden exit last time, Jester would invest more in military.

hopefully we can at least use the war as a distraction to fully settle the gems/dye area

[Lewwyn]

Yeah who knows. Given the power graphs though I really doubt that Jestacore has much they can defend with. However both their strat resources are in the south so Scoopin might not be able to take over the entire empire. They might only be able to take the gold city. Really depends on what Nakor already has in that city and if they figure out how to chop and whip units...

After Ivory I want to settle C then depending on where we are in tech and what Azza is doing settle towards the dyes. There's one city to settle that shares the rice before we settle the huge commerce dyes city. We need IW before that, btu we can settle the rice sharing city without IW and be fine.

[Bigger]

well I expect them to lose cities, just hope they can stay alive and be a thorn for scoopin as long as possible, while we build lots of settlers and workers

Good news, we will have currency and courthouses very soon, so we don't have to worry about crashing our economy. lets get big and bloated <G>

long term, it looks like we will be sandwiched between scoopin and azza.. but if we can get a big enough tech and land advantage on one or both of them, thats ok

[Lewwyn]

There's not much to say from last turn. I'm basically doing my worker moves, queuing up worker paths for highest efficiency and preparing build orders. Settler out of BACON will be settled t82. Settler out of Bacon should settle site C t87. Am I being silly sending settlers in opposite directions so that they travel far? Maybe. But I want to settle ivory before I settle C because that extra happy is more important.

Tech talking: Calendar could be huge for us. IW is a higher priority though. We will need cats if Azza comes at us with cats or HAs though. That requires Masonry and we'll want Myst for the pre-req. If we land confu we'll want a temple so we can pump out a Priest. Good think we're SPI. Either that or the Temple of Artemis. We'll have to consider carefully that. A lot of this depends on Azza though.

Let's check out the graphs so you guys see what I'm seeing:

Demos:



Topping Pop makes me a little leery because I like having room to grow. Better get that whip out. Power 4th? whoops didn't mean to scare you azza. Good thing I didn't build that other axe yet. Crop and GNP are awesome. You know what's scary? our GSci pops EOT and we'll have an academy next turn. Our GNP is going to jump at least 14 points. 4 for academy culture and 10 base beakers, 15 if I decide to rehire a scientist, though I am about to whip that city the turn after that.

You want to see how we're doing compared to our opponents?:
Power:



Keeping up with the ones going to war. They might have tech bolstering that so maybe they don't have a huge army. Nakor though, SMH where's the defense? How were you not expecting an attack? Have you not been watching this graph? You can see it coming a mile away!


MFG:



Obviously not our focus right now. We get enough hammers from chopping (yay maths), foodhammers and whipping. Trust me this graph is deceptive. Azza has a really high MFG and since he's IMP/EXP I think he might be slowbuilding workers/settlers while working mines. We are more efficient. The whip is nerfed, but even so we're killing it.

FOOD!:



Yeah this is more important and we're beating our competition. Jestacore has less MFG, less Food, lees pop and less power. I don't see them being able to get a substantial force together. Sads.

I think it's interesting how our opening left us lowest for a long time and then we shot back up and have mostly been on top since. I felt like the early plan would be the most efficient and I'm glad to see its worked out. Getting the pigs online after BW and the worker chop accelerated our cities. Sometimes you have to sacrifice to get.


The Money shot:



No disguising this load. Not of our neighbors are even close. Nakor seems to be spiking but thta was just the wrong time to be putting energy into tech... If I were any of my opponents and I saw this graph I'd be a little worried. I'd be even more worried when I saw a GS pop and this graph jump even more. And then even more worried when I saw it jump even higher once my opponent got currency and extra TRs. (Currency is in 7 turns without the academy, maybe 6 with).

Joy.


C'mon Jestacore, make Scoopin pay.

[Lewwyn]

For those playing along at home. This:



looks bad. Nakor's first turn at war and only 5 minutes? SMH. Ragequiting? Rolling over? Depression? Nothing good.

[Lewwyn]

Nakor's city stands! I don't what happened, but if Nakor's city was going to fall, it would most likely happen in the first turn of the war given the ability of Scoopin to move right next to the city on the first turn. But it stands! I poked Scooter on gchat about it since we're teammates in pb15 and he muttered something about "brutal combat luck". This calls for a dance party.

[Lewwyn]

Lots of cool things this turn. First:



Aww yeah. Great Scientist.



Sweet, sweet academy. Shaves 1 turn off currency (though we'll see if that holds after I whip off the scientists).
Our GNP rose 23 points this turn from last turn.

Wants some more great news?



Peace! for Nakor! That is awesome. Scoopin must have taken a true licking. Also note the GG. Somewhere someone is fighting. Sweet.

You may note our vision on Nakor's land. We got maps from scoopin:



Azza's city did not get the gold, but instead grabbed the ivory. Azza and Nakor might have touching borders soon. Awesome.

Commodore:



Wow reminds me of my PB7 start. He's basically alone to do whatever. He's got 4 gold around him and silver on a nice island. He can settle great tracts of land south of him and can apparently settle East pretty much uncontested. This does mean less pressure on Scoopin. Which is not great.


We are the first civ with a GP, and I think we're putting it to great use.

[Lewwyn]

You know given commodore's location and proximity to noone... why is his thread so highly viewed?

[spacetyrantxenu]

You know given commodore's location and proximity to noone... why is his thread so highly viewed?

He tells interesting stories and puts effort into the reporting, lurkers reward him with page views. The fact that he's an unreformed warmonger has probably helped him build a following over time, too.

[Lewwyn]

You know given commodore's location and proximity to noone... why is his thread so highly viewed?

He tells interesting stories and puts effort into the reporting, lurkers reward him with page views. The fact that he's an unreformed warmonger has probably helped him build a following over time, too.

That was mostly a rhetorical question.