[Spoilers - AT PB56] Whipping unhappy faces until El Grillo's morale improves

[El Grillo]

I like the response, and settling on horse for a quick Chariot sounds good as well. SoLong puts Amicalola/Tarkeel in a pretty tight situation since their Scout saw the BFC stone earlier and they know Stonehenge is incoming. Unless they have a strategic in their capital BFC they're going to need to wait until T50 for the 3rd-ring copper or whip another Settler, both of which will leave them pretty vulnerable.

EDIT: I also renamed the thread to give you credit for substituting

[AutomatedTeller]

Thanks They could, conceivably, archer rush us - a warrior and an archer should win the city. I don't think they have archery, though.




Their power is not much higher than ours, so I think they have 1 warrior in their cap as well as the one in the city next to us. In other words, i think we are safe.

Hopefully, they don't try to bother the worker, who is chopping a forest on the border.

cap is building a quecha - will switch a settler to catch the next chop. I think the settler finishes before the quecha - I might just 2 pop whip the settler, too, I dunno.

[AutomatedTeller]

Well, this is exciting:



If he DOWs and moves in, I'll have to move back to the city and move the worker away, which is annoying and will delay stonehenge for some turns. (I think 4). I may need to send another quecha out there.

btw - you can't see it, but the worker is chopping the forest the quecha is on. I don't know what to do if the warrior just sits there. I hope he's just paying me back for my moving next to his worker, but who knows?

[AutomatedTeller]

No new pic - Amicalola just planted his warrior there, which is annoying as hell. The quecha is C1 and it will have a fort bonus, so if he attacks after clearing the forest, he won't have good odds, but it's risky.

I think I should have gone to improve the cow first, then gotten a 2nd quecha up before chopping the 2nd forest. I'm currently thinking I should move the worker back next turn.

In Farewell, the chop came and and will finish the quecha. I'll 2 pop whip the settler next turn, which will overflow into a 3rd quecha and then into a chariot.

The quecha just finishing will go to SoLong to help defend it.

[AutomatedTeller]

Amicalola pulled back his warrior, so I finished the chop. Stonehenge in 4, baby!! Industrial is pretty good.

Got wheel. 2 pop whipped the settler - that should overflow about 30 hammers into a quecha and then 15 into a chariot, which isn't bad at all.

Researching pottery. Not sure what to do after - polytheism for a religion? We are going to get a priest (assuming we dont get beat to stonehenge) in a relatively short order. We could go priesthood for oracle, metal casting for collosus, or just masonry for Pyramids.

[AutomatedTeller]

this is a conundrum:



If I plant, then that warrior can raze the city before I get over there.

I'm thinking I wait hold off until I see where he moves his warrior?

[AutomatedTeller]

So, I chose to take a chance. But I hedged my bets a little.



I founded - pretty sure NH/Serdoa can't see the city in any case. Their power isn't so much higher than ours that I think they have an extra warrior in the area, so I moved my quecha from SoLong to where it could threaten his new city if his warrior moved away. My guess is that his warrior moves back to the fur - in any case, I doubt it moves south.

And I moved my quecha down towards my new city (called OuttaHere). OuttaHere took the corn from the cap - grows in 4. I might whip in a chariot from both it and Farewell for some stomping. Guys want to settle up on me, they gonna have to defend themselves.

[AutomatedTeller]

I really should never take chances. They blow up in my face, usually with a warrior being 1 turn away from being able to save a city. NH moved his warrior 1 tile closer (he had one in his new city), which means that next turn he can DOW and the turn after, burn the apparently appropriately named OuttaHere.

Which means I have to whip the chariot next turn and (hopefully) take revenge on his city. I mean, I can try to kill his warrior, but it will be across a river and in the woods, so 2.2 vs 3.5, which is terrible odds.

[superdeath]

pics?

[AutomatedTeller]

He DOW'd last turn, so has the 2nd half.

My guess is that he goes to the woods. Then, I'll have about a 10% chance or so (I'm guessing) to kill him - if so, his invasion is a disaster.

My guess is that he's hoping to choke me out, so he can get his copper online and kill me. But I got a chariot, so that will be difficult. I might be able to kill his city (I might not, too)

Stonehenge finishes next turn.