[Spoilers] Dreylin of the Khazad fumbles around in the earth (EitB PBEM39)

[Aurorarcher]

Aww, that's unfortunate. Hopefully the Titan will survive!

That was good idea to put the scout on the forest. Barbs should attack the weakest opponent, right?

[Dreylin]

Of course the suspense will kill me in the meantime as Northstar will send the save at 1:30am on Tuesday and it'll sit in my inbox taunting me for the whole work day....

Not sure whether it counts as my having been optimistic or pessimistic, but either way, the turn hasn't arrived yet. I'm beginning to wonder if we need to find Northstar a dedlurker who can take over if/when he disappears for good.

[Aurorarcher]

Yah... he seems to take quite a long time passing the saves in duel as well. I'm afraid there's none unspoiled left anymore at this point who could take North's turn when he's unable to pass it in a reasonable time. So all we have to do is wait.

[Dreylin]

t61 -





Poor, brave Scout! We knew not thy name, but it will be remembered forever for the brave sacrifice made this day.

Titan avenged him and them promoted Mobility and moved back SE to heal. I think I'll send him home to live in comfortable retirement ... at least until the Statue has been built.

Rest of the turn was spent reducing our Production:


Cheddar doesn't need a border pop, so can start on the Workboat straight away; worker pair here will connect the Pigs next turn. Camembert is going for the pop and then will build the WB for the Fish (NNE). Stilton's borers pop at EoT, at which point the 2 Workers will move to the Marble and spend 2t connecting - this matches exactly with the Settler coming from Wensleydale (for Parmesan). Thane therefore will go into Gorgonzola, which has all its current infra needs and if we need a second Hunter we can promote the Scout moving through. *Note that it won't actually 1t the Warrior because of the reduction from +25% to +10%.

Cheddar also got us this:


So what does this tell us about his settling pattern:

Marble connected, but not Corn - interesting.
3x Clams - there are 2 down at the Southern choke point (a city there also gets the Furs); another one at Cheddar, but he doesn't have the Pigs connected. Maybe the 3rd at his island city?
Only 1 Cow - could be the same as us, or could be the NW; likely not one of the Eastern ones since he doesn't have Copper online (or does that only show up to trade after you have Bronze?)
Incense is not connected - that may indicate he hasn't settled NW, since the Road can easily be taken through it. (also no Fish implies no Camembert site)
Pearls is nice, and we should see that soon with Sailing next after Warfare.
Ale = Deruptus; looking at the recent spike in his GNP, I'm going to go out on a limb and say he finished that in the last couple of turns.

He's in City States, so popping borders is even more of an issue, so I expect his cities are closer together than mine. Of course we also know he's got the Island city and has settled South more than I have.

[Aurorarcher]

Haha! Awesome!

I'll comment on the other things later!

Also, nice findings with the trade screen. I wonder if we'll see a race towards Bone Palace as the Clan obviously wanted Marble over Corn - or so it seems. You should have the edge here though with GK and vaults.

[Dreylin]

t62 -

Mostly uneventful turn; nothing much happened that wasn't detailed above.

I did spend 27g to upgrade the Scout to Hunter as it passed through Gorgonzola. I also ran a slight negative gpt to reduce the Warfare research time to 4t. That has meant that coffers have gone slightly under the 700g I will need once Parmesan is settled, but I can make that up in the next 4t.

Rough calculations say that the Bone Palace will be a 9t build, but I'll do a more detailed mirco analysis next turn when the Marble is connected. I may also need to stop a chop/Farm that would make a base 20hpt difficult to maintain.

[Aurorarcher]

9t should be pretty hard to beat unless Clan has been building Bone Palace for a while already.

Are you planning to build FoT in your capital after Bonce Palace (let's assume you can finish it)?

[Dreylin]

9t should be pretty hard to beat unless Clan has been building Bone Palace for a while already.

Yeah, particularly since they're no longer in God King. Not even sure they have Philosophy; would their Incense show up for trade if they don't?

Are you planning to build FoT in your capital after Bonce Palace (let's assume you can finish it)?

I do think that's the best plan, yes. The only other City that could make a decent attempt would be Gorgonzola, but it's going to tied up spreading Kilmorph for a while - at least until I can get the Temple built in Brie. (I'd forgotten that a Temple was required for building Thanes). And besides it'll probably take me ~9t to get the Copper online for the production boost.

Hmmm, so there's no need to rush to complete Warfare. I might need to look again at the opportunity cost of getting that 350g in hand before the GA.

[Aurorarcher]

Yeah, particularly since they're no longer in God King. Not even sure they have Philosophy; would their Incense show up for trade if they don't?

That's a good question. I could test it and find out.

I do think that's the best plan, yes. The only other City that could make a decent attempt would be Gorgonzola, but it's going to tied up spreading Kilmorph for a while - at least until I can get the Temple built in Brie. (I'd forgotten that a Temple was required for building Thanes). And besides it'll probably take me ~9t to get the Copper online for the production boost.


Hmmm, so there's no need to rush to complete Warfare. I might need to look again at the opportunity cost of getting that 350g in hand before the GA.

Yeah. Might make sense to save gold instead for a while.

Have you had any GP born yet? Could use the GA to get out a quick sage with the +100% GPP/turn.

[Aurorarcher]

It seems that Incense won't show in trade screen unless you have Philosophy as well.