Where to will Singaboy steer the Teutonic power?

[Singaboy]

not forgetting GPP points

[Singaboy]

Look at what I am greeted by when opening the save. Mind you, this is turn 3. A barbarian on turn 3 has to be a first for me. This is prince not deity, correct?

Now, what to do. If I move the warrior back, I wouldn't be able to catch the scout anyway, if the barb camp would be north or east. The camp can't be far away as this is merely turn 3. After thinking for a while, I decide to let the warrior move onto the hill as planned and then move across the river and back to start defending the city once the barbarians arrive. Done this routine before. I don't want my exploration and city states envoys be wasted and really need the scout.

I can't believe it, the warrior moves NW and what do we spot:


The barb camp is right there. I will move my warrior across the river onto the hill to be in a better position to fight the spears next turn. I do hope that they attack me as the defensive position is a lot better on the hill. I have to emerge victorious from this fight and take the camp for 50gold quickly or I will have a huge dent in this game already. My hope is that no other barbarians spawn as there are horses right next to it and if horses spawn, I can kiss the game goodbye.

As for the strategic situation. Kilimanjaro is right NW to the barb camp and I might have to shift the city2 spot onto the stones to grab all those 4f hills. Well, more tiles need to get unveiled to verify where the best spot might be.

As for my capital's expansion, right now it wants to grab one of the stones in the south next. I'd rather it would grab the 4f wheat tile north, but what do you do when you have no say over the AI?

[Dreylin]

Well <gulp> that's not great.

On the bright side, that city is going to be a production powerhouse with all those hills and the Killimanjaro bonus food to feed it.

Also, is that Coast I spy W, W, NW of the Warrior?

[Singaboy]

Maybe moving the second city spot to the stone is really the best move, it gives more leeway to found another city 4 tiles along the river SW (potentially the tile 2W of the coffee).

Question is whether I can found a city on top of the stone. Need to find that out. I think, a patch got rid of the possibilities to harvest resources outside your city borders, didn't it?

[Dreylin]

Internet says no restriction on settling on resources, but in this case you won't see any benefit of it because the tile yields are at minimum for city. I wonder if you can Harvest it out from under the city at a later date...?

[Singaboy]

Yup, the stone is an ordinary 2-1 tile and hence, would simply vanish and give no bonus.

I have done a quick test fighting a spear barb with a warrior.
The spear strength was 25 + 6 (for being fortified)
My warrior had 20 + 10 (against anti-cavalry)

So, it was a tie, more or less. I am hoping that the spear would either attack me (on a hill) or not have a +6 bonus for being fortified. by the time, I attack, it is only round 5. I am estimating that the spear popped at turn 2. I will see how high that bonus is. Anyway, I would need to rest one round, then attack again. In my test three attacks were enough to gain a promotion. Let's hope this works here as well and no horseman spawns.

Exciting times

[Singaboy]

Seriously though, with this game winding down, I need you and whoever else is interested to start another Civ6 PBEM game so I have one to lurk during the boring early game of PBEM2

This is from teh's thread over at PBEM1. 
Gave me a chuckle. I think, the other's would not want to swap with my situation

[Singaboy]

Turn 4:

I am greeted by a much welcome picture. The scout has disappeared and I hope he did not run off to yet another camp, that would simply be insane. I am hoping that he will only return too late when I am about to take out the camp without horse spawns.


I cross the river and discover Kilimanjaro as known by now. The warrior is in position to attack next turn even though the spear has a +6 fortification bonus. I need to weaken that unit and heal in between.


The beach turns out to be an inland lake in fact. Settling the stone would give access to lots of 4f tiles and once all the grass hills are mined, I have a lot of extra food for specialists. Or, of course for a settler production. Question here is, would that 4f grassland next to Kilimanjaro give a boost for a campus?

I also had a look at the Great People page to see what would be available. The Great Engineer might be of interest, though the battle for the Great General will be in full swing, I assume.

[Dreylin]

In Sullla's PBEM1 thread I remember he said that Everest didn't count as a mountain for Aqueducts/Baths, so I don't see why it would be different for Campuses - or for Kilimanjaro, unfortunately. There's always the hill NE of the Camp - or maybe the space NW of that next to the regular mountain ... although either of those would probably cost $$ to buy. (or there's that rather pants GM...)

Does the GSci look worth chasing?

[rho21]

In Sullla's PBEM1 thread I remember he said that Everest didn't count as a mountain for Aqueducts/Baths, so I don't see why it would be different for Campuses - or for Kilimanjaro, unfortunately.

Sulla indicated in a recent post that Everest is working for baths now. I wonder if Firaxis fixed it in the most recent patch. Probably worth testing.