[Spoilers] Honest Cyneheard inherits the purple.

[Ilios]

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[Cyneheard]

Need help logging in on time?

I might. I'll PM you my password; not sure how late I'll be awake, and the turn is scheduled to roll 1AM or later. Orders are simple:
Move the warrior into the capital.
Leave the worker be; I'll wait for Commodore to move before acting with him.
Don't end turn.

[Cyneheard]

Oh. Right. The forums are working now.

So, what happened?

Commodore moved his 94HP Shock Warrior onto the roaded tile. With 2 warriors, I took the shot.



Hey, look at that! First one won! 5XP for 2 promo (wait a second...5XP. And I'm Cha. I'm STILL not benefiting from my traits at all. Not that I'm complaining, this turn was good)



Civstats later showed Krill popping a tech. Oh well.

[AutomatedTeller]

That works out very well for you!!

[Cyneheard]

It does. I'll take a little luck with a side order of overconfidence from my foe. But rule of thumb with Civ4 combat: 2 > 1 in almost all circumstances.

[Cyneheard]

Settler should finish soon enough. US Grant is Woody II, and is going to go a'wandering to see what's out there.




Demographics. Could be better, but considering what could've been, nothing too troubling:

[Ilios]

Looking at the screenshot, I really don't get why Commodore moved his Warrior on the only flatland tile next to your capital...

That second city will be very nice.

[AutomatedTeller]

I assume he thought a shock warrior wouldn't be attacked by an unpromoted one?

It was a little dangerous - if the initial attack didn't work well, he could have been facing an attack on his cap at 40-50% odds.

it worked spectacularly, of course.

[Cyneheard]

I assume he thought a shock warrior wouldn't be attacked by an unpromoted one?

It was a little dangerous - if the initial attack didn't work well, he could have been facing an attack on his cap at 40-50% odds.

it worked spectacularly, of course.

Even an undamaged shock warrior doesn't get odds against a new warrior in a city. He probably forgot about the +25% city defense that warriors have. If my first warrior did no damage (very unlikely) then he'd have a 30% shot or so. His best hope would be that I took an 80% shot with warrior #2 and lost. Then I'd be dead.

[Ilios]

I contemplated staying put, as the chance of losing to the Panther would be close to zero, but I figured healing up would lose us valuable scouting time, so I moved away as shown. Grant discovered a hut.

Other Warriors have been set to garrison your cities.

I'm not sure why you'd want to farm that floodplain, wouldn't a trade connection be better, 2 extra commerce at the cost of two worker turns?