[SPOILERS] 3 Players, 1 Civ, No Clues - Tatan, Nakor, and Serdoa are Darius of Rome

[kalin]

I like your dot map.
Kalin

[Tatan]

Played the turn. It was uneventful.

We need to decide on where to settle on the island:

I went for the SE spot. It's the only location with a 1st ring resource that we can actually improve. I also moved a worker in position to sail to the island next turn.

Beside the fact that your remote access put a pretty trippy halo around the archer, what did you find interesting about it?

Why tech Archery and build archers when you can use axes? That copper next to the city must be his only source.

[Nakor]

Great job, Tatan.
I think we can sail over as much as 3 workers.
And build a new Settler/MP in Nero soon as well to get more cities on that island. They should really help our research with TGL traderoutes.

[Serdoa]

Hey guys, I agree with everything done so far (not that I would have the right to veto anything, with me being mostly not around). Tatan, if there is any day this week you'll need input or I should play the turn, let me know. Otherwise I'll let you handle it and only chime in to tell you that you did something wrong, after you did it

[Nakor]

Take care, guys! I'll keep checking the forum once a day. Maybe more if they make me patrol the halls at night to keep them quiet...

[Tatan]

Hey guys, I agree with everything done so far (not that I would have the right to veto anything, with me being mostly not around). Tatan, if there is any day this week you'll need input or I should play the turn, let me know. Otherwise I'll let you handle it and only chime in to tell you that you did something wrong, after you did it

Thanks! I *think* I can cover every day this week, but if it looks dicey or the turn rolls at an awkward spot I'll post something. And obviously if you suddenly get the urge to play a turn I won't stand in your way.

I think we can sail over as much as 3 workers.
And build a new Settler/MP in Nero soon as well to get more cities on that island. They should really help our research with TGL traderoutes.

I loaded two workers onto the galley, so they can land next turn.


Things that happened this turn
Settler is in position to found the city next turn. Augustus completed a lighthouse, I set it building an axe (possibly for escorting the next settler). Our scouting warrior continued wandering east blithely. Sunrise started researching Polytheism at 0% research; no idea what that means.


Things that need to be decided
What do we do with our workers?


The main land is pretty much entirely improved until we expand Caesar's borders or research Calender. We could send all four workers to the island, but that seems unnecessary, and I would feel weird having no workers at home. Thoughts?


City micro
Caesar will come out of whip unhappiness next turn, so I started working the pigs for a growth in 3 turns. Augustus would need to swap away from that copper tile onto a coast or the plains farm in order to grow in an reasonable time frame, but I'm loathe to give up so much production, so for now I leave as is. Nero will lose whip unhappy in 4 turns, I'll have to juggle the tiles a bit to sync growth.


Aaaaaaaand that's all that happened!

[Tatan]

A new turn rolled, so I went ahead and played that one, too.


Finally found something interesting with Ascanius the warrior:


A barb axeman!


Not all news is bad, though:



Our fourth city, named in memory of the man who tried to defeat the sea! I started it on a workboat, since we really need that fish online and Nero won't have any room in the build queue for the foreseeable future.


EDIT: Oh, and I almost forgot:



The effect of new trade routes.

[Tatan]

Our military is so pitiful, I decided to make another pass at pacifing Sunrise in the diplo thread. We definitely shouldn't be wasting any more hammers trying to scout him anyway, and obviously an attack is right out, so I think we have nothing to lose from promising non-aggression. I also slipped in some good old fashion misdirection by telling him we're expanding to our west and north when it's actually just to the west. That'll show him!

[Rowain]

Nice jump from 35 to 50 bpt

[Serdoa]

Fuck, we should have settled that differently :/ I should have taken a closer look earlier. Settling on the plains tile 1S of the peak and on the grassland 1SW of the fish would have made two cities able to share the fish for growth (without the need of a border pop). The third city could have gone 1N of where it actually is, again being able to pick up the fish if necessary. A 4th 3W of that spot and a 5th probably 1N of the tile in north marked for a city. Oh well, I am sorry.

Nonetheless, why are we researching Maths? Would Metal Casting not be morth worthwhile? For one to defend our coasts against plako. Yes we do not have much seafood but I don't know if blockades are banned or not (I think they are not). Also Colossus would be a great help on those water tiles we are certainly going to work. And lastly having Forges available might actually be the only way to get some kind of production going (at least for the cap and Caesar).