[Spoilers] BaII listens to Kpop while playing

[BaII]

Demo's GA with 100% science. I can get Mercantilism in 4 turns, and it will be a net benfit over running nothing. After that it's going to be Gunpowder so I have access to musketmen. I'm not going to be getting rifles anytime soon as right after I grab Military tradition. I'll be heading over to astronomy since just about all my cities are coastal right now. So the Grendiar line will probably be what I head towards. Also if I can manage to successfully conquer Gawd that means I'll have access to representation with mids so Mercantilism will be a huge payoff after that. Though that's only going to happen in about 40 Turns. Another problem is Zanth, I don't think he would let me conquer Gawd without some kind of strike. So that's why I want some kind of Naval power so I can protect myself if he comes at me.



Also no one minds me using the culture bug right?

[Boldly Going Nowhere]

I'm pretty sure if you have to ask the question that you already know the answer...

[spacetyrantxenu]

Also no one minds me using the culture bug right?

To my knowledge that's one of the hard NOs we have around here. Exploiting the culture bug (or the automated production bug, or any of the other really nasty ones) is explicitly banned in this game, if I need to say it as your GM.

[BaII]

Their are 4 GA's going on right now, catwalk with his MoM built Taj Majhal which is a very bad sign. Mardoc is what I believe tops in food right now as he has the most cities in the game currently. Though last time I checked Zanth actually had the most land area/pop so I think Mardoc would be able to catch up and slingshot ahead if Zanth can't conquer someone for some more land. Also I'm going to be needing more land as well once the 2 GA's finish up to keep up with the top dogs. Honestly it's a 3 way race between Zanth, Catwalk, and Mardoc. Their the ones most likely to win this game right now.

[BaII]

Stretched a bit thinly right now on military. 7 units will be completed in the next 3 turns so that problem will be finished sooner rather than later. Next tech will be construction as I will be building up a few cat for against an attack for Zanth. He's currently putting down a lot of EP into me right now. I currently have no Zigs completed but that will soon change. Once I get my religion spread around a bit more so I can get the OR bonus on it.

[BaII]

Zanth's GA ended so that means I currently have the highest GNP right now due to being in a GA, Merc only slighly increased my GNP but allowed me to go to 2nd in terms of MFG thanks to running like 3 or so engi's to allow me to get the extra hammer from the forge bonus.

[BaII]

So I have currently lost 2 50%+ coin flips for a scientist resulting in no 2nd GA. Well this is quite frustrating. Now i'm stuck in caste system for 11 turns and I would have to burn an Anarchy turn to go into slavery in case I were to be attacked. If Zanth attacks, now's his best chance before I get gunpowder and fielding muskets. Especially since he can get MT. Need more pikes. If he gets like MT in 4 turns and spends 7 turns whipping his cities for cuir, I don't think I have a way to answer that.

[BaII]

I have graphs now Zanth, my power is spiking but it's still pretty low compared to the leaders. Still ranked 10th in soldiers so my plan to invade Azza is still a long ways off. I'm going to need about 20 or so knights, 5 cats, and 20 or so defensive units to guard the cities I capture, and I will need more defensive units on top of that to make sure Zanth and Mardoc don't get any funny ideas.

[BaII]

Turned up science by 1 tick to turn Gunpowder into a 2t tech. Was short about 20 gold so I went and asked Catwalk for 20 gold in exchange for stone and clams. Somebody is outputting 850 GNP, no way I can currently put up with that. I have too much coast right now and not even cottage land, while it was nice for the early game it's pretty obvious I'm falling behind. Moai is 1 turn from completion, hopefully my NE epic city spits out a GM so that I can use that for another GA and use that GA to start my collection of guys for the 3rd GA.

[BaII]

Well since it looks like it's going to be a little bit before the next turn rolls around so I will be giving some reflections on this game so far. Currently, while I'm joyful of making improvements over my pitboss 12 game, and perhaps PBEM 53 as well. That is what I've been currently so happy about is making more forward strides in improvement. Especially in pitboss 12 where I just played god awfully. I so I definitely made some improvement there. PBEM 53 though I'm not completely sure I made some strides over there. I think I improved only slightly from PBEM 53. I feel like the most reoccuring problem with me is the lack of expansion. I missed a couple cities I definite should have gotten and caused me to miss several strong cities that I could have easily used to put myself more even with the frontrunners. Currently I'm just middle of the pack and while I probably have the best to chance to catch up with the frontrunners. I most certainly need a mistake from them to actually have a chance to win the game.