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A bit larger update with more pictures:

Settling plans:

Current Cities:

7th city with the furs not shown. I think I just whipped it for a worker, and it's going to grow back a bit while building some infra. Then, it'll be on worker duty for many many turns.
Culture is starting to become a problem for many cities, so libraries are the preferred choice here, since with the 35% off, they're basically like barracks, but more immediately useful and give 2x the culture. Cow city, after the library, which it will 2-pop whip, will become much better with a mine and riverside farm. It'll be building galleys for exploration afterwards.

Capital is going to be somewhat of a settler pump.

Tlaxcala is a poor settler pump, but it'll build this one with a chop and then another one before switching to a few exploratory galleys/triremes.


Tlateloco is around 8 turns for a settler, and it'll be pumping settlers for the south.

Calixawhatever looks like it has OK production. Need to get an altar there to preempt rising maintenance costs and then a lighthouse. It will not be building settlers. Maybe 1-2 workers, but we need some military cities, even without opponents showing faces.

Hochicalco needs a granary+lighthouse, and then it can pump island settlers.

Demos:

Population is rising and this is very good. CY is still in the drain, but it can and will catch up as new cities emerge.

The two techs i am sure need to be done asap. The rest is still in flux. I am tempted to do optics and start exploration in earnest, but going for bureaucracy is probably the right choice.

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Basically, got a city burned by Pindi being pesky. Krill is being expansionistic and forced me to do some really untimely whips. I think due to both of their aggression, real or implied, I've lost 15 pop. Hopign to expand north to a small continent I found. Trying to keep the peace with Adler, but the goal now is to beeline paper and make myself look prickly.

Techwise, I have a bunch, 1 turn away from machinery, GNP is more or less solid, even if I am #10 in CY and MFG.

Goal is to pump out a great person sooner rather than later. Wonders are a foregone conclusion, but perhaps I can land sistene and absolutely limp my way to a culture victory by locking out opponents seeing demos on me and not fully realizing what is going on till it is too late.

Biggest question is what to do about a superior opponent like Krill. TBW is totally behind in every parameter, so I have no clue what to do in this regard.

Please give requests for pictures that you want. I'll try to do those this week, possibly Wednesday.

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300 hammers lost to pind at this point.
This has just not been my game.

Biggest takeaways -
find someone to do the early pick phase for me lol. Maybe go for something more noob-friendly
dont be afraid to settle far - getting crappy cities fast and close is worse than getting good cities but taking a bit of time.
realpolitik - don't assume any sort of pacts are going to hold whatsoever.

Things out of my control -
I still think my starting area was a bit subpar, especially compared to nearby options that I settled later
Horribly weak TBW. This is like pb44 all over again with a crippled chumchu.

Things still in my favor
op promoted crossbows and a few pieks can stop kirll

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I'd love to take over for krill lmao.

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pindi is sending an invasion fleet. Will pop-rush triremes. Made the right move by not settling on the island, would've lost to those pesky horse archers.

However, with Krill out and TBW in, could I pull a sacrificial altar driven invasion? My GNP is still one of the leading ones, and I can afford to take a hit. Maybe peace with pindi is an out.

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I don't think TBW knows what's going on yet. His cities are totally unprotected, and I am militarizing rapidly (last wave of infra). With caravels, I can land along all major coastal cities, burning maybe 6-7 on the first turn? Maybe it would even make sense to keep some, have them come out of anarchy and whip them into oblivion.


I am afraid an action like this might permanently swing the game in the favor of OH/Rusten, but also, I want my fun. Given my exceedingly low maintenance costs, I can afford to build up an army as big as I want, constrained only by the shit that is my land and my CY.

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screenies? unheard of

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Something I'm thinking about (age old question really): what can I "allow" myself to do from a meta-game perspective? Invading TBW/Krill would mean an obvious benefit to whoever's pummeling old TBW/nauf's second sub civ. I think unless I can prove to myself that I am genuinely going to increase my security and miniscule chance of winning, I should just turtle.

Speaking of turtling, I don't think anyone has my graphs. This could be prime territory for going for culture somehow, but I do not have the religion or GPP to back that up.

Hopefully, a new PB starts up soon as well.

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Harbors have become pretty much essential. Need to start producing nav 2 caravels to be able to take on TBW. TBW has a few knights in waiting behind his city, he's probably picked up the scent of my attack.

Still, a few more islands to settle to my south and southeast.

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Waiting on a great prophet to pop a golden age and convert religions + go into bureaucracy/hereditary rule