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

[Lewwyn]

Both island cities are settled now.



You can see boilermaker in the north has ruined the possible north dotmap.

Azza converted to Confu, yay!

Someone built the colossus and it wasn't plako so that's good. Was it Blacksword/jowy? I didn't take a screenie the last two turns so I can't match up properly. My bad.

I converted to OR. It cost us 4gpt the second island city gave us 6gpt so almost a wash.

I will turn tech on in 2 turns once the Lib in Bacon! completes.

I have it set to IW, but I had a thought. Shouldn't I tech CS and get to burea for our burea academy ASAP? I could tech that instead of IW.

Azza is still teching HBR slowly and he'll likely tech construction after that for Cats, but I think he'll be slow. We're teching much faster. Having beaur cap will be amazing because it gives us a hammer source too. We are so set up for economy with cottages that I don't know where the hammers for war will come from yet.

We need IW badly though and it is only 2t tech at this point. Going IW>CS is probably best. I'd love to throw in monarchy (3t tech) and swap to HHR and CS at the same time too, but I think Monarchy will have to come after CS.

I am saddened by our lack of wonders. I know its a big game and lots of people, but not getting stone or marble was just such a huge downer.

[Bigger]

I think IW > CS will have to be a necessity, won't we badly need to chop jungle soon, if nothing else?
after that its a good idea. its a little weird that we won't be able to build cho-ku's before we can build macemen, but oh well.. you're right that buro will be very good for us.

[Ceiliazul]

What does your F1 screen look like?

[Bigger]

What does your F1 screen look like?

like this:




I expected that to happen, although not this quickly. Short of capturing that city, I don't think we'll ever control either fish.
Their island is actually less than half the size of ours, so if we want the whole island we need to rush settling north - I don't know why they wouldnt try to grab the northern part of it. Of course we also need to rush to settle the jungle.

we made contact w/ commodore:


he's leveraging IMP better than Azza is. we're still ahead of the other 3 civs we've made contact w/ in city count.


this is due west of the Scooter/Nakor border. thats jowy/black sword in purple, dtay in grey. not sure exactly what to make about the weird culture overlay on new Xerxes


this is probably what prompted Lewwyn to be sad about no wonders. Scooter is Fin\org though, not sure pyramids will be that beneficial to them, beyond the easy happy from REP.


we're a healthy #1 in GNP if I turn the research on, this is at max tax. food and land look real nice. I guess Commodore is the only one ahead of us in land area?

We need more soldiers, though :/ and settlers and probably workers too, lol.

[Bigger]

btw, commodore is running out of land to peacefully settle.. maybe 3-4 more? I would expect conflict between him and pindiscooter at some point.

[Qgqqqqq]

We only need one city to stake our claim to the north (now) and that should probably be the next one.

[Lewwyn]

We've played a truly hard expansive/economic game in part due to the lack of marble and stone. I don't see anyway to play except to continue to leverage that by getting to burea and monarchy and then teching ahead militarily. I want to get another GS and use it to help bulb education too.

About our military score, remember we haven't gotten IW yet. That is a huge military point boost. Additionally we're about on par with scoopin and much higher than Azza in power so the only military we need to build is military to defend our expansion.

As for our next cities, planting north by the sheep would allow backfill on the desert incense site and fish/gems site. Overreaching however and planting them before we had sufficient worker force and military up there would be extremely risky and likely be a large drain on our economy. I'm not sure I favor going sheep before desert. Either way we have time because we're not getting another settler immediately.

The two north jungle sites are basically safe backfill, the only jungle site to rush is the dyes. I think Nakor will plant a city claiming the jungled gems, the sugar and maybe 1 dye. We will likely have to move our dye city 1N onto one of the dyes but we'll still have all the rest. The city is actually a terrible city from a production standpoint. It has no food, only 1 or two hills and is entirely jungle. I really do not relish settling that. It will be a drain and take forever to build up. Even with IW we're looking at farming some of those dyes until we get calendar. I mean its so ridiculous I feel like we have to get it. But I don't know if it will actually help or not.

[Bigger]

ok, I have thoughts on that. But first, more pictures:


incoming chop next turn, market finishes in 4. unfortunately we don't have fur, whale, or silk so its only worth 1 happy. we will have sugar, spices and dyes as soon as we get calender, though.


we need the market here too.. but we need workers as well. market has about 25 hammers into it already.


until we can get calender and more workers over here the lighthouse will be needed, we're likely going to have to work the coast


LOVELY! can't wait for the shrine! we need a market here right after the library, to have it ready once the shrine comes online. there's a chop coming in here next turn as well to help w/ the library.


flood plains villages.. yummy


more farms needed.. growth is tough here, not much opportunity for whipping


lots of potential if we can steal those crabs. maybe a monastery after library would help?


more potential. flatland gems are so yummy, we need iron working stat.


baby #1, island colony


baby #2, island colony

thats 10 cities, which puts us 2 behind commodore but ahead of everyone else we are aware of in the world (scooter and azza 9, I think, nakor 8. its a safe bet dtay and jowy have less too, although we haven't made contact yet).

Give we are #2 in land area its possible commodore is the only one in the world with more cities than us. we haven't crashed our economy yet though so we can build more . we're breakeven about 45%, but that will spike soon w/ markets and shrine and Buro capitals.


this is why we are getting excited about the shrine. I just knew a religion would spread well in this part of the world and pay off


azza has 3 confu cities and has converted. Nakor has 1 and scoopin has 2. a couple more spreads and we might get them to embrace the one true faith when its time for them to convert . No confu spreads to commodore yet, but im hoping that changes. he only has 1 hindu spread in all 12 of his cities, from what I can tell.

Jowy got his great prophet from the oracle a couple of turns ago, so im hoping the head start he has on the shrine doesnt help the hindu spread too much.

[Lewwyn]

Nice overview.

I whipped the worker in Bacon. I felt that it was necessary to get that worker out, and it only whipped off 1 cottage since it was in unhappy. But now I want that city to grow no more whips.

Bacon! finishes the Lib EOT and we'll turn tech on next turn to 2t IW. I haven't even considered the possibility of not having iron, but we should cross our fingers I suppose. I just hope it isn't under a developed village or town.

BACON will finish the Market in 3t which is prefect timing given we'll be turning tech back to 0% when it is ready.

I want to mine a ton of hills. We're behind on that. We've done so much with cottages we've left the hills alone. But now that we're building infrastructure and we're entering a period where we don't want to whip our cities as much we want mines.

BACON grows next turn, Bacon! in 2 turns and then we have 4 cities that will grow in 3ts.

2 workers are on the galley being shipped to the island. This is leaving us very thin back home. I'm planning 3 more workers before settlers in Bacon!, BACON and BaconBacon. BaconBacon will grow to 6, put one turn into a worker and 2 pop whip. Bacon! and BACON are looking like slowbuilds. I also want to get a missionary into BAcon because it needs the OR bonus for the Market which I want to chop but am going to delay until I get confu in the city. Actually I should chop one forest into BAcon and use it to build a 4t worker. Good plan me.

Foreign news:
BlackSword got his shrine
Another GProphet was born
Commodore planted another city to get to 12 cities and built Hanging Garden. Really, really nice move. It's propelled him in score just below us. However I assume his economy is suffering. At least I hope so. I also hope this encourages a bit of tension between him and Scoopin.

[Lewwyn]

Nothing new really. Dtay got Statue of Zeus which is nice. Also means he's up on the Aesthetics tech line. I wonder if he'll head to GLib? I'm pretty sure at this point that if we went for Glib instead of Confu we would have gotten GLib no sweat. In the end though Confu is probably the right call.

I started IW. At 100% we're -70gpt so not great. We are feeling the effects of our island colonization. However I'm only seeing 4gpt maintenance in cities so courthouses at this point are not going to give spectacular results. We do need some though for the EPs though. We need to get graphs on Comm and keep tech vision on Azza. Azza is putting all EPs into us and our EP advantage is eroding. I need to get confu spread more in order to get more OR bonus on all these buildings. I haven't seen anymore spreads since Azza converted. Currently, my next planned missionary is 10 turns out.