[Spoiler] Sailing Seventy-Seven Seas

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Wimp!

Going for Oracle delays Sailing and settling island cities but being IMP should compensate some.

Yuri has invested on Henge, Alhazard beat me to city #3, Comm is whipping hard, and I can't tell what Adrien is doing.

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T37:

Hinduism fell. I complete Pottery eot and Oracle, taking MC next turn.

Cheap forges and trireme pillaging fun are now available, but I need to also get granaries up to catch up on growth, and galleys for my first island cities.

I'll probably run an engineer spec too at some point.

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T39:

I tie for highest pop and don't have Hunting, but someone has 16k more power than me.

Assuming someone is trying for piracy, I don't see yuris, Alhazard or Adrien as the culprit. That just leaves one person.

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No piracy so far.

Settled first island city belatedly. Am trying to expand while getting cheap forges up, and not doing so very efficiently. Bumping against happy limit, settling for furs and gems next.

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Economy is declining, but cheap Forges with gems and Colossus will save it.

I'm wondering if I should beeline Machinery and rely on capture gold to keep my naval assault going, or be more measured and go for Currency first. Probably the latter: I haven't met any players after all.

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T55:

Alhazard greets us with an OB offer:



The only other IMP, he has 7 cities to our 5, but we have two wonders. His economy must be bad by now, so I decline to help him out.




He's not that far away. Alhazard is certainly a competent player, but he's not aggressive so I don't expect a naval invasion from him in the short to medium-term.

Edit: He has no copper or horse hooked up? I think I'll send a galley.

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T59:


Alhazard to the north, Adrien to the south. Chengdu was a barb city.


I'm greedily reaching to settle this site.


My core four cities. I belatedly convert to Buddhism since they all have it.

-After Temple, Beijing will build Lighthouse and Library and grow steadily to size 10, maybe adding Monastery as well. Science will be on after library for Math->Currency.

-Shanghai and Guangzhou (both on the home island) will take the lion's share of expansion work- Settlers, Workers, military, Galleys, workboats.

- Moai to be built in Nanjing, it has lots of food and hammers to quickly put the Moai to good use.

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After Currency, most of the useful islands in the vicinity should have been settled. So a bit more settling while pushing for CKNs, teching Archery, IW, and Machinery.

Then my arrows will blot out the sky.

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Alhazard is already at Currency.

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Got currency myself. Alhazard has circumnavigation, which I thought to be off. Oh well.

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I'm falling behind in city count to Alhazard.

Ah well. The plan is to get IW and Machinery in the next 15 turns followed by mass CKN, galley and trireme building.