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[Spoilers] Easy Meat - Dreylin swims with sharks and tries not to drown
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February 24th, 2015, 22:43
(This post was last modified: February 24th, 2015, 22:48 by Dreylin.)
1AD and still (somewhat) competitive!
 Ichabod had been keeping a pair of Axes on this hill staking a claim (despite knowing that I have at least one Chariot in the vicinity):  That went well. Not that I have an objection to him settling this spot per se; for now it's just a bit too far from home for me to grab to. I have started production of the first Settler to start grabbing this area though - along with the military to keep it. Up to 3rd in population and growing!  IW at end of turn:  Nice for Loin & the filler spot to the North, although Strats are concentrated in this area.  Think I'll probably have to go CoL next for Courthouses ... and it turns out that Confucianism is still available.
I think that Yuris is confused by the look of my UU:
 I doubt that I'd put a Spear next to an Axe otherwise! His Spear died, but not without doing quite a bit of damage. I promo-healed the Phalanx and withdrew the Chariot to the plains hill since it's not going to take out a Chariot & Axe.
I finally realised last night why those Markets seemed to go up so quickly ... ToW IMP gets a discount! That was a nice surprise. (Also Banks, which I will bear in mind)
Also, Confucianism fell so I dialed back on CoL research and slipped in a 1t Archery for cheap defensive units. In a settling race with Ichabod in the Southeast for a couple of sites, so troop builds are on the rise, but I did found the NW Pigs city. Pics next turn, I think.
Sure, I will grab those from the current turn (1st turn post-GA) as more representative. I'll also post a picture of the tech tree so you can see how things stand there.
Couple of brief notes: * Christianity founded in Trotters (Copper city), which was nice. Missionary is heading to Loin (Iron city) to start spreading. * I was 3rd to fire my GA; Ichabod & TBS7 synchonised theirs 5-10t before mine & GJ kicked his off a few turns ago. I don't think yuris has started his first yet. * Exited GA in Bureau / Slavery / OrgRel - I nearly kept Caste, but with 3 cities in the SE, 2 in the NW plus a Filler or two still needing infrastructure I reverted to Slavery. However, I set up the GP points such that I should be able to run a second GA in ~10t, after which I (currently) expect to stay in Caste. * I was not careful when I chose Rack for my Moai city; I thought it would be able to build ships and Fort them to the Western Sea, but apparently the puddle on the border with England is not large enough. 
Oh now /this/ ain't good:
 Someone's going to get eaten in pretty short order, I reckon. IMO it's long odds it's me, since we don't share a land border and I have a half-decent fleet (upgrades incoming); GJ is in GA and probably closest in tech to them, Ichabod is on par power-wise with me and is about to get Feud, and Yuris (I think) has just finished Machinery, but is a step behind in power. I don't know how everything about how the borders shape up, but if forced, I'd probably bet on Yuris as target. Oh crap, I realise as I wrote this that I do have a land border in the Southeast with them. Still think I'm low-odds for primary target; anyway, Construction will come in and then it's Cats, Horse Archers and War Elephants at most of the cities, I think.
I may be inadvertently contributing to Yuris' demise:
 Yuris, when you read this later, I just wanted to hook up my Cows; I had no idea that it would weaken you against the Knight horde. Sorry! The knights may be going 2 way at once:  Me, it's Elephants & Cats at the main build cities and along the TBS7 border. Popped an Engineer at EoT, which means I can add Merchants to the GSci pool for the second Great Person and speed up the second GA. |
