[spoilers] Commodore is strategic in Pitboss 74

[Commodore]

This is my notional plan, circumstances will doubtlessly change...

...like Tarkeel being up the jungle isthmus northwest.

Updated the micro. Still settling in the same sequence, but being a little more aggressive: 3 gets settled only three turns after 2.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

We getting an axe out for that pink dot?

[Commodore]

We getting an axe out for that pink dot?

Axe follows shortly after; looks like the scout can just hang out around there until the settlement, so that's some screening.

Of course, the longer Bing takes to settle, the more I worry about his own pink dotting (note the 3 is actually at the precise midpoint between our capitals).

After 4 gets settled need to toss down the southern dot for gold/ivory working, we want the luxuries badly.

[Commodore]

Pindicator double-moved me to declare war, cheating.

It's fine, just a note for future mannar.

Bing, meanwhile, is perplexing me with his settling plan here, but it does mean we have a shot at that Sheepy Border Spot.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

I mean 1NE of where the settler is currently is a pretty solid city. I definitely think he will be mad about Sheepy Border as it cuts off his marble/access to the Floodplains in that corner. Starting to agree with your assessment of Bing as a horse archer snack...

[Commodore]

So, we land Pottery next turn and then we're not pressed for tech until settling that ivory city in ~15t. Hunting is only 4t, so we have time to take a swing at Polytheism (9t) if we want. Pindicator landed Meditation and was tricky; he picked Hinduism, which might mean one or two people not paying attention might be ignoring the available religion there. What do you think, Oxy?

[Oxyphenbutazone]

I like it, the idea is already to beeline monarchy so it's far from wasted research. Would be especially good if timing lined up with settling city 2: love a good culture bomb in contested lands.

[Commodore]

I like it, the idea is already to beeline monarchy so it's far from wasted research. Would be especially good if timing lined up with settling city 2: love a good culture bomb in contested lands.

Might be wasted beakers short-term, but long term it's fine either way, point.

[Commodore]

Turn 40 Stonehenge for Gavagai (Fin/Ind of England). That's not a record, but it's definitely extremely early.

Six turns on our own quixotic risk gambit.

[Commodore]

Lost the religion, not particularly upset about it.

I'm much more concerned with the timing on this reach of a midway city. Which, now that I think about it, has to be named Midway, right?