Archduke and Emperor K team thread

[Emperor K]

Sweet.

There is not much to report. Just doing the same thing I was (building warriors to 1 turn) and chopping when I can. I bought the two tiles I need for shellfishbram due to my civic swap not happening when I need it two. So the larva there will get a very nice stone harvest straight into lavra #3. With 3 lavra's and a theater coming soon, the second round of greater writers and 1st round of artist and musician should be ours.

10 turns until wonder is complete. I have 2 turns I am putting in for a granary and Holybram should be size 9 or 10 around the time the wonder finishes

[Emperor K]

Well I was 2 off from buying a builder this turn. However it is not that important next turn I will calculate the remaining chops, and I think it is best to put 2-3 turns standard construction and then finish with the chops any ways.

Other than that not much, slowly moving units to the front and southwest.

[Emperor K]

BOught a builder, moved several units around. Got a decent force on the front in case nubia try's some funny buisness.

11 turns on wonder with 3 more chops going in. Need to put a few turns into it then I can chop it out in 5 turns I think.

[Emperor K]

I am thinking my capital (holybram) will be the go to city for us to get food. With lavra, commerce, theater, and entertainment that should net an impressive 4 2 base to all trade routes. So keep that in mind if you need cities to grow.

[TheArchduke]

Yeah, 2nd trade route online thanks to commercial districts. I am starting a massive commercial chopping project in my 6 cities.

Aachen gonna try to squeeze out 2 more settlers somewhere.

With the unstacking of the GGs, our DotF just became a lot stronger.

[Emperor K]

We met china. Is your ui messed up where the rankings screen is very hard to read? I cannot make out how much in front they are, can you?

[TheArchduke]

CQUI is broken atm.

[TheArchduke]

Chopped the first overflow galley.

A look over the scores is disheartening. We are the only one keeping up with Rome and China in Empire score but science and culture we are far behind.

But to be honest, I am not sure why the other teams are still playing, only England can try a bit of a comeback with their RND but this is not a water map.

In any case, with China and Rome to our east, I will dig in and fortify key hills with warriors and retreat my archer.

I could also use a missionary of yours sooner rather then later.

[Emperor K]

Will send one over.

I think in two turns the wonder will be finished, lavra 3 done shirine in the works. Going to get out another settler and many builders. I am worried nubia will be heading for us.

[TheArchduke]

Recovered a bit.

To be honest, Emperor K, we are in terrible place in the long run.

The by far strongest team is our eastern neighbour, our western neighbour nearly succesfully boxed us in.

And our far neighbour which we have yet to meet seems very weak and had war with our western neighbour.

I got out of my motivation black hole for this game, but boy are we in bad situation.

That is not to say that this is hopeless, we are 2nd but by a good margin.

The other teams could concede to China/Rome by now.

I will scrounge together a plan today or tomorrow, but this is not going to be pretty, we can not rely on anyone else reining Rome/China in.

Basically we have to do another eye watering round of expansion to the east and take to the seas, and plan for war.