[SPOILER] The Steak, Beer, and Cigar Saloon

[haphazard1]

What were you planning to build in Vacuuming after the granary? The granary finishes just before the city grows, so you could build a worker (or even a settler) for a turn to delay growth until a unit can arrive. Or just live with a turn of unhappiness, if you don't want to use avoid growth.

[Catwalk]

Turn 51
I lucked into a buddhism spread in Washing Dishes! Makes semi-early monastery and state conversion a more appealing option.
I think I'll just let the city grow and then start on a worker, since unhappy citizens don't eat food while producing a settler or worker.
Here are some disappointing demographics:

The good news is that I'm planting a city next turn, increasing food by 5 and hammers by 3. I think I'm still hanging on to the economy race okay.

And here's my scouting warrior on its way home to defend the realm. Nothing much up there, more islands and probably just the land connection to Nakor's lands. Remind me to send units exploring before too long if I keep forgetting, say in 10-15 turns.

[Catwalk]

Turn 52
Groceries has been founded, and Washing Dishes has been renamed to Dishes to keep things simple. Another demo shot after founding:

[haphazard1]

Free spread, very nice. Now we need another free spread to the newest city.

The demos are a mixed bag. You are at the average for food even though shown as 9th, and are solidly above the averages for hammers and GNP. Land area is also looking decent. Population is a bit of a concern, but the new city growing should help some with that.

What are you building in the capital after the settler, and in the new city? Vacuuming is finishing its granary, what is next there?

[Catwalk]

Capital is finishing a granary in a few turns, then it will start on another settler. Vacuuming will build a worker, then an axeman.

[Catwalk]

Turn 53
Approaching Nakor's capital, found its location through border expansion:

With a little luck it's coastal, which means easy trade routes with him. Will I have a coastal trade connection with him without Sailing? Do I need vision on his capital? I will try simming this out, but I recall trade routes being a pain to figure out. I decided to 1-whip Dishes to complete the granary, it will then be 2 food shy of growing and get full benefit of the granary. I will sink the overflow into a settler and grow to size 4 on an axeman. Vaccuming is building a worker.

[Catwalk]

In other news, it looks like the WCC has been doing dastardly things to my empire while I was at work:

[haphazard1]

You will definitely need Sailing to get trade routes with Nakor. (You would also need Open Borders from Writing, although you can get a resource trading connection without OB.) You then also need a clear coastal/river/road/combination path to his territory, which it looks like you are pretty close to having. I am not certain about needing to have visibility on his capital -- I know I have gotten trade routes to cities I can not see, but I am not sure if you need to be able to see one city of that civ first.

[Catwalk]

Turn 54
I see horses:

And more horses:

The eastern horses are good news, they're in Jowy's capital borders so he probably won't feel the need to expand west. At least not beyond the filler I've plotted in.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Turn 54
I see horses:

And more horses:

The eastern horses are good news, they're in Jowy's capital borders so he probably won't feel the need to expand west. At least not beyond the filler I've plotted in.

You posted the same picture twice. Try again!

Any new plans to discuss? Congrats on Buddhism. The trade routes thing is always a headache to figure out because I don't think I have all the requirements nailed down. But I think settling your deer city and putting a road north of it to connect it to your river (which connects to your capital) will be enough, once you get Sailing to get the trade network extended to Nakor's territory...assuming he has a road/river/coastal connection to one of his cities. Or something.

Paging Noble....