RBP3 [Spoilers] Capac of Mali

[Swiss Pauli]

They were the units I expected to be at KB before Inca evacuated, and we took without loss.

The units are on the grass forest tile (having previously been in KB). If we go for Kiwi, we should use one curry to cut the road to stop Inca from sending those units to Kiwi Town.

[dsplaisted]

Well hooray for taking the city!

It seems like it was probably a bad idea for them to retreat, don't you think? Unless there are a bunch of reinforcements coming from other CUDDLE teams.

I think the plan to advance on Kiwi Town and cut the road is good. However, 3 workers should be able to road the desert tile SW of their mini-stack, so if they think of it they should still be able to reinforce Kiwi Town in 1 turn. Of course if they do that their workers would be vulnerable to attack.

I agree that we don't need to use the artist on Kalin's Burgers. I assume you meant you wanted to settle 2E of Bill's position, not Rooster's. I'm not sure about the exact location, the site 2S1E of Bill seems better to me. Also, for the great Artist bomb, you don't need to actually spend a turn at 100% culture, you just need to make sure that you're at 100% culture when you use the artist for the bomb. So it's kind of stupid it works that way but it's free so we should do it.

I noticed that Blake's whip unhappiness expires next turn. Should we whip something there soon? Also, Sirian has a Scientist hired. Don't we want to try to keep a pure pool of Engineer points there?

[Swiss Pauli]

I'm assuming they have re-inforcements from CUDDLE, especially given what Ilios said in the IT thread about not shortening the timer just yet.

Moved the units as agreed and ended turn (Artist is in PiB). Revealed Kiwi Town's defenders:



We have 10 units in KB this turn, with more to follow next turn. We should also rename the city. How about Gimme Shelter?

Blake's whipping penalty may expire, but it still has a double-draft penalty. With Rifling on the way, we're probably best holding off til it's due (T149).

Also, Egypt delivered another Hindu missionary. Where do you think it should head? Pro and cons to most cities and I'm too hungover to decide right now

[dsplaisted]

Did you cut the road to Kiwi town? In the screenshot it's still there.

[Swiss Pauli]

Yes road pillaged. I took the screenshot straight after moving the first unit. Should have waited til I'd moved everything.

[Swiss Pauli]

Inca has whipped some cities, but the units haven't been moved from their positions in the above screenshot. Inca hasn't ended turn, so they could still move the units.

We have Chemsitry so research set to Steel due in 11t (T155).

[Swiss Pauli]

Been puzzling over dotmapping the floodplains area. Food yields assume Biology-farms (due in 20t or so). We could make any of these Globe draft camps (optimum surplus is 15 at size 5). The one factor to watch out for would be that Cyan Dot and the central city can be forked by two-movers (from the desert hill by the peak).

Defensive set up (all cities on hills):



Culture bomb Red Dot. Green Dot filler could also be squeezed in here as well (on the Southern Desert tile).


Push Rome a bit more with the culture bomb:



Bomb Brown dot. Makes Green Dot less of a filler, but Blue Dot more of a filler.


Final attempt and my personal preference:




Less aggressive with the culture bomb, but it would still secure the FP area.

[Swiss Pauli]

Forgot to mention it ealier, but switched the engineer to a scientist since we got the academy for the beakers. Sirian isn't going to produce a GP for a good while, so I thought it best to maximize beakers.

If we do get a GE (which could even be Uberfish's next GP) then I think the wonders worth spending it on are Kremlin, Statue of Liberty, and maybe Cristo Redentor.

[dsplaisted]

Your preferred dotmap looks good to me. If it looks like everyone in CUDDLE is going to be attacking us we might want to switch to the defensive setup.

I assume we'd bomb red dot first then settle blue dot?

[Swiss Pauli]

Yeah, bomb Red then found Blue once the dust settles.

EDIT: Also, Rome has been steadily whipping cities for the past few turns with a frequency that suggests units rather than buildings. We'll see what they're up to soon enough...