Keeping up with the rejects... Lewwyn plays India for the first time!

[Lewwyn]

I went ahead and played your turn. I didn't do much, just moved units to the jungle hill (I think you should settle there next turn) and whipped a library in the wonder city, which will give good overflow for the UoS.

In the larger picture, we may be in trouble. Speaker/Sulla/Sunrise just got education, and they've already gotten guilds and philosophy. That means they'll probably be able to tech banking, and then take economics from liberalism, at which point they're uncomfortably close to rifling. We may need to plan on teching steel, if we're going to have to defend against Redcoats.

I believe I mentioned that possibility/likelihood in chat a few weeks ago, no?

Thanks for playing the turn.

[antisocialmunky]

Yeah, I'm going to keep founding fishing villages I guess.

I think one thing we should do is to give you a very scary power graph, Lewwyn so Spullla go left and right instead of north.

[luddite]

I'm thinking that the best tech path from here is to pick up philosophy next. It's cheap, it unlocks pacifism and another 10 culture wonder (angkor wat), and it'll prevent Team 1 from getting anything too good from liberalism. Then we should do gunpowder, steel to start making cannons.

Unless maybe we want to go for feudalism and guilds before gunpowder? That way we get another discount, and grocers would actually be pretty helpful on this health-starved map.

[luddite]

I wish we had chosen Spain as a civ, instead of the Ottomans. Barrage 3 cannons would be brutal...

[antisocialmunky]

Instead of China.

[luddite]

We should have done a Spain-Japan combo, so that we can have battles that look like this:

First strikes are brutal against units that are weakened by collateral damage.

[Lewwyn]

So thought I'd give an update. We are going for culture. Doesn't mean I can't engage in head stomping:



Thoth will lose his city. I roaded the corner and moved a mace and cat in there this turn. I have plenty of other maces as well. Speaker is joining the party with 2 maces and a settler. I was going to settle with the pig and gems in first ring but thoths city prevented that so I had to settle 1 NE . Now I've pseudo blocked Spear as well. If the map was a bit smaller this would have been happening earlier. Though because its big it gives us a chance at the culture win. Otherwise we'd be dead. We're still possibly dead. But at least now we have a shot.

Spulla go attack Team 3!

[Lewwyn]

In case it wasn't clear to the lurkers... this game blows.

I can't log in anymore, Luddite can't log in. And actually I'm really not that upset that I can't log into it. Reeeeaallly wasn't looking forward to playing luddite's turn as well as my own.

ASM, if you get the chance, I think I need Christianity spread to Milkshake, the missionary is on his way there. Also need more Jewwy spread and some temples built to ready the big cathedral things. Shouldn't be too much else to do.