[SPOILERS] By the Rivers of Babylon, FIN has no effect (on krovice)

[Krill]

Also set auto promote.

[novice]

The spear build in DS has 2/35 hammers in it.



This is how you turn on auto-promote, right? So the game options chosen by the last person to log in are always used, is that how it works?



I'm inclined to move both bowmen between FP and RC up towards DS. If Whosit moves in next turn that would be unfortunate, FP and TtL would have 1 bowman each and could both 1-whip a spear. But what are the odds of that happening?

*taunts fate*

[Krill]

Yeah, I agree with both. I was thinking we might be forced to whip the spear, but 3 bowman and the upgraded spear mean should kill at least 6 chariots and maybe as many as 10 on defence. dtay has had an increase in his power but since he has hooked horses he has spammed a bunch of cities, probably including an island city and gotten Sailing I think? So a good chunk of that power is taken up with other objectives IMO.

I think if we move the bowman up we shouldn't even have to whip the spear in DS. Which is good because in hindsight a 2 whip would be painful without a granary.

I think he just wants the sugar hooked without IW.

[Krill]

novice said he'd rather whip the spear in DS despite the lack of granary than upgrade (whiping would not affect Mids eta, upgrading would). Unless dtay turns up with 7 chariots we don't have to whip; an unpromoted bowman with no fort has 92% odds on defence against C1 chariot attacking DS, and the lay of hte land means we can get enough spears from other cities to kill the chariots before they do too much damage. Pillaging a few resources would be annoying but not cost that much, compared to losing a chariot stack.

[Krill]

So...look at those odds in the second picture

[novice]

We haven't had much luck this game. Should make our victory even sweeter.

[Krill]

How many battles against barbs have we won?

[Krill]

Looking at old pictures.

novice, we might have a minor long term problem. Look at to the SW of TtL, I think that's a barb city:

[novice]

You're right, very nicely spotted.




I usually do a sweep for new borders with the culture overlay, but black borders in the fog don't show up there...

Turn 79 played.

[Krill]

Notes from T79

1. Need to work grass forest next turn so that wb finishes T82 and can build settler at size 4 T83 when city is unhappy.
   
2. Is OT overflowing into another settler?
   
3. We need to get a few spears IMO, power is lagging a bit (down to 21 in power after loss of bowman and warrior to barbs).
   
4. Do we actually need more workers in the next 25 turns? We have 9 and it looks like tile improvements are well in hand.
   
5. Plako has GLH...so is he researching Alphabet? And if he is, do we want to offer him OB? He currently has 6 cities.