[pb74 spoilers] Miguelito and Ginger bring about the end of the world

[Miguelito]

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Not sold on an idea for a theme yet.


Possible, but I'm not too happy with them:

• Miguelito and Ginger bring about the end of the world - explore apocalypsis myths from different cultures? We'd hopefully run out of names though
  
• Miguelito and Ginger at the end of the world - a Chile theme, because I have personal attachments, and I like cities having names of actual places
  

But I'm taking suggestions.


Game wise I'm planning to roll Asoka of Vikings, finally. Should work well enough on B&S?

Gavagai is Huayana Capac of England
Superdeath is Louis XIV of Babylon
Commodore is Darius of Maya
Hubabl is Joao II of Korea
Greenline is Justinian of Aztecs
Plemo is Victoria of Scandinavia
Bing is Napoleon of Khmer
Amicalola is Ragnar of the Ottomans
Magic Science is Willem van Oranje of Mali
Dreylin is Mehmed II of Portugal
Scooter is Elizabeth of Japan
Piccadilly is Tokugawa of India
Miguelito is Roosevelt of Egypt
Tarkeel is Julius Caesar of Germany
General Kill Cavalry is Nebuchadnezzar (PHI/IND) of France
GT is Kublai Khan of Zululand
Pindicator is Zara Yaqob of Sumeria
Xist10 is Wang Kon of Rome
Donovan Zoi is Suryvarman II of Inca

[Miguelito]

Miguelito is Hatsheput OR Darius OR Roosevelt of Egypt

discussion is all happening on Discord. How do I get the fancy color coded Discord logs that people post? Or is that just manual work that I shy away from? Anyway the following sums up our current stances I think:

MiguelitoRB
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so I think it's quite hard for us to reroll egypt, don't know if we would if it's deer/fish.
Rosy sounds like the most fun to me atm,
Hatty has my heart because Spi but we might not land mids and then it isn't as fun,
Darius might be an objective necessity. We also appear to play on Monarch so Fin gains relative to Org
Hatty is just so silly, because Cre is all about ignoring the religious line isn't it?
at least the obelisks come cheap

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Ginger
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I just think my condition is still valid in picking Hattie when we see crappy dry land that wants serfdom


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Ginger
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Without seeing the map my heart says FDR


MiguelitoRB
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yup

[Qgqqqqq]

[Miguelito]

I should wait for Ginger to give his input, but I can't see us not taking Roosevelt of Egypt here.

[Miguelito]

Now of course Amica surely will pick Gandhi of Arabia - nah, they are not us, but I fully expect Peter. So we're looking at a monk race.

Sadly monk and GLH are incompatible with the latter expiring at Paper, so we'll likely not do what everybody expects us to

[Miguelito]

surprisingly, Ginger is trying to sell me on Darius:

5 forests in BFC is not a lot
I’m actually genuinely interested in playing a no-frills cottage-to currency kind of game
Where we fit in the Theo bulb at the end of a normal 3 C’s beeline
Problem is low happy without religious line or MC forges
fin vs Ind
Hmm
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I don’t think Darius per se has any problem enabling a monk economy
Yeah FDR has faster AP build
But it will probably be f/H or tech snowballing that’s decisive
To generate the prophet
And tech to monotheism

I don't really think I agree that monk after Currency with Darius is a realistic option, but of course we can just not monk.
-- FDR is more or less the game that 66 was supposed to be and that was denied by the horrendous map.
-- Darius no nonsense straight top of the tree is somewhat interesting yes... I think I did something of that style in 59 (but detoured for Colossus first).

The capital loves Fin no doubt. I still lean towards FDR, but I'll still think it over a bit.

[Miguelito]

I went back and forth over this a lot,  but lock in FDR of Egypt

[Miguelito]

So this is the point where I should start simming right? Probably makes little sense though before we pop those 2 huts. Which I suppose we do with the scout, because if we wait for culture we'd have to select a tech and might waste precious beakers.

[Qgqqqqq]

It'll take you four turns to do both.

[Miguelito]

but I needto select tech on t4 right, one turn before borders pop? Or can I wait until t5? Would need to read up on PB13...?