RBP7 [SPOILERS] - The Chronicles of Nyania

[Lord Parkin]

Another teaser:



Leaving a city undefended for even one turn while your neighbour has visibility directly into it - let alone seven consecutive turns - generally invites danger.

[Lord Parkin]

So, to update...



Razed a border city which was left visibly undefended for 7 turns. Sunk two Galleys and a Work Boat in the area too.

Then...



Captured a city defended by a single Archer, and destroyed a Galley which had been sitting in the city for many turns. Lost one Axe in the process. Still not sure that was a better decision than razing... though we can easily reinforce it or abandon and retake it later with stacks of Maces and Catapults. Also captured that Worker on the shoreline.

Finally, the tech we researched was...



Yep, Education. Time for some Universities around the place.

[Lord Parkin]

Hmm, apparently Mackseven's Pyramids is really working out for them - they just finished Guilds in 5 turns. That's several turns faster than we could have researched it. And they're only one tech from Mercentalism now, which will give them even more beakers per turn.

[Lord Parkin]

Another new city - really just a backfilling location. Will put a Worker on a Galley to mine that Silver once the borders expand there.



Demographics are looking alright, though our Stele/wonder culture is rather inflating our GNP. Mackseven and possibly some of the others are pretty hot on our heels in terms of beakers per turn. Need to work on that.



Forbidden Palace will be done next turn, so that should provide some minor relief from maintenance costs.

[Lord Parkin]

Mackseven are in Mercentalism already... must have bulbed Banking last turn. Gah.

We're temporarily #1 in the first three demographics categories - first time that's happened this game.

[Lord Parkin]

Things are getting mildly interesting over in the west. Azza's decided to advance a small stack on us, apparently.



Will be interesting to see his next move. Advance, hold, or retreat?

[nabaxo]

What's in our stack?

[Lord Parkin]

We had 6 Axes, 1 Chariot, and 3 Spearmen there. Apparently enough to make him retreat this turn.

[Lord Parkin]

Got a Great Spy this turn at low odds this turn... interesting. Think we'll just wander him around for a while. Will probably use him for a Golden Age at some point, but in the meantime we may as well make use of the free snooping while he's available.

[Lord Parkin]

Ichabod, Sunrise, there is no good land in Rome. But if you want to fight over it, feel free! Nero does have a nice tower in the water...

Ok Ichabod, you got your wish, Nero is razed.

Code:

5/28/12 5:25 am     sunrise089     Score decreased to 721
5/28/12 5:21 am     mackseven     Finished turn
5/28/12 5:14 am     Nakor     Score decreased to 318
5/28/12 5:14 am     sunrise089     Score increased to 755

Ouch man, did you just razed the best city in game...Phu hu.

....it wasn't THAT big of a loss. Aside from the cost of a (IMP) settler and the juicy (though nerfed via AW) wonder the city only had two buildings.

Did Sunrise seriously just raze the Great Lighthouse city? Even if it didn't contain the Great Lighthouse, that city still had to be large... 34 points lost between Sunrise's score increase and decrease! And he apparently isn't assigning value to all those lost pop points, when in reality they're far from worthless. There is no way that can have been a good move, surely.