RBPBEM FfH V [SPOILERS] Sareln of the Amurites

[uberfish]

[Sareln]

Awesome, I'll take it!

[Sareln]

Turn 1:

I'm tempted to move, but end up settling in place. Realistic move-to locations won't be better than the rice/cow/silk/silk setup I have here. I could move onto a plains hill south-east of where the settler is, but that would lose me the silk/cow. Not worth it.

I push one warrior out towards the hut and the lizard-den I can see in the fog. If I can get my warrior onto the ruins before the Lizard spawns, I can suppress it (it won't spawn). If I then dig the warrior in, it'll save me a ton of grief in the future.

I micro the capital for production and begin work on a worker. Worker and Agriculture will finish on the same turn (10) and then I'll warrior spam for a while as I grow the cap and push towards calendar for plantations.

After calendar; crafting --> mining --> mysticism --> knowledge of the Ether.

I need to slot in education somewhere in here. I'll have to think on it.

[Sareln]

You can't see it in the screenshot that Uberfish provided, but there are two wines in the two tiles north of the Tomb of Sucellus. Shame about that gobbo fort, I'll have to worldbuilder how many warriors I would need to clear it out.

[Sareln]

Iskender did not settle in place / within range of the super settler. He must have seen something he really liked.

I see the title of the Mirror of Heaven poking out of the fog to my north. I'm feeling pretty good about an Empyrean gamble now

[Nyktorion]

Another early tech possibility: what do you think about fitting in code of laws into your tech path (and if so, where), considering all those future farm tiles around Cevedes?

[Sareln]

Another early tech possibility: what do you think about fitting in code of laws into your tech path (and if so, where), considering all those future farm tiles around Cevedes?

I'm planning on running God King/Agrarianism. I can hit Education right after Calendar and just cottage to my heart's content around the capital. Unorthodox, but it saves me the time researching CoL to pursue Way of the Wise and Honor, and Writing. I could run the actual numbers on it, but kind of lazy...

[Sareln]

Turn 2:

I popped 21 gp from the hut. Not much to do but hit end-turn.

View of the land with signs and resource pointers turned on:

Demographics:

[Sareln]

Turn 3:

Another turn come and gone, warrior finds more silks. Pushing him north now towards the Lizardman lair. I'm going to look up the tables on the ruin pop and see if I'm willing to take that trait. On raging barbs, not having to face that extra lizardman spawn (which will almost certainly come for me) would go a long way.

I also need to build myself a world-builder simulation and play out if CoL is worth grabbing with the number of farms grabbed. I also need to finish absorbing PB's critique of my early game diplomacy. His commentary on early AH is well taken here, and the cows will probably be farmed or cottaged rather than pastured for the early game. I made some blunders that I didn't even notice when I did that cost me quite a bit in the long run. It's nice that I can read those threads now.

[Sareln]

First results from simulation:

1. Don't camp the warrior on the lizardman lair, more likely than not, a bear comes along and eats him.
   
2. The Goblin Fort is going to spam a ton of poison goblins at you, making the worker build less useful if you don't change something
   

Results: Warrior will start a return trip to the capital *right now* and my build order is switched to Worker->Scout->Scout->Warriors, keeping the warriors at home and sending the scouts out.