"Don't move or the bunny gets it" - German Joey plays Cyrus the Virus of Khmer

[GermanJoey]

I was a very bad man and forgot to hit end-turn this morning. HAK just played his turn 2 minutes before I did though (I just got home from work) so I don't think I held the game up by too much overall!

No new seafood found, although a city at this spot could help cottages at the capital and eventually turn into a sick Moai spot.

[Dp101]

Wait, I thought you were going to re-name the capitol?

[GermanJoey]

I did, although I can't start using my real city naming scheme until I have at least 2 cities. This is just a placeholder for now.

[aki]

My pal aki was complaining to me that I'm not updating as much lately, and so here's a full, real-time narrative (i.e. explaining all of my thoughts as they happen) recording of me as I play turn 13 of this pitboss, from the moment I loaded the save until I hit end turn:

http://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.ga...val_37.mp3

[GermanJoey]

I'm debating where to move my scout next... I could check around more out west, near the cow and sheep, or to the southeast, to search for food near those other horses. While the first priority is scouting out early city locations, I eventually need to prioritize making contact with other players, and since the map is ~3x as wide as it is tall, its very unlikely there's another player above/below Haram, and thus I want to start moving West or East. I suppose West is better for now, to help me make a better decision on the location of my second city.

On another note - now that I think about it, that desert there looks real suspicious... I wonder if it has copper...

[GermanJoey]

I wanna kill that lion... Cyrus is Cha, which means I only gotta murder 3 more cats n' dogs to get a Woody 2 super scout... Cyrus the Petsemetarian...

[GermanJoey]

I moved my scout onto some trees, diagonally adjacent from that lion... and another lion appears 2 tiles away... purrrrrhaps we can get a cat-killin' chain combo goin here? or purrrhaps our hero will be pushin' up kitty litter..? stay tuned to find out...

[GermanJoey]

Joey destroys yet another vicious beast in his typical manner.

[GermanJoey]

I've been following my micro plan for growing to size 4 to work all 4 of my strong tiles, then settling to steal one while improving one of my capital's bare hills to replace it. (I'm crossing my fingers that one of these guys has copper... but it'll still be fine without that, as even regular ole' mines are extremely strong tiles for Imp leaders). The plan is pretty straightforward, except that on the turn the worker popped, I worked the forest mine while building a worker because the extra food would not help me grow faster to size 2, 3, or 4, and last turn I worked a grassland forest instead of the cow because the extra food wouldn't help me grow to size 4 faster while the extra hammer will overflow into the worker and let me finish it at exactly 60/60 on turn 27.

My warrior will finish next turn, but I'll have to keep him close in case Haram tries to choke me or something. Maybe send him down to that southern chokepoint forest to slow down any potential aggression? I still have no idea if he can build chariots from horses in the fog, but why worry about it any more? If my t0 move has left me without copper too and I just straight-up die before I can get it connected, then so be it.

[GermanJoey]

sigh why do i get the feeling that everybody started with copper in BFC. like the horses, the tile is positioned so that it is impossible to settle a city to share either share a food tile or to even get a different food tile 1st ring. in a duel setup. what a fucking joke.



edit: just moved my scout to see if there was any chance of food. there's not. scout's probably going to die; its on a bare hill vs a lion. what is wrong with me...