[Spoiler] Any volunteers for a human sacrifice? Brennus of the Aztecs, by Krill

[Krill]

Good to see I'm not the only one getting muddled up by the split universe turn reports.

I got here eventually!

Turn 133- Backlog

OK, I'll post this now, so I don't have too much to do tomorrow.

So, azza settled another city, but in a defensible position. still, it will fall to a slow mover stack easily enough, walking across the hills.

If azza had a city 1SE of the pig, and popped borders he would have a decent island to expand to, and get horses which would be critical in defending against catapults.

Stupid barb archer...

More beakers, I think I could get Currency in 2 turns at something like 60% now.

Boring...

Archer for BL, then more HA.

Yeah, I'm thinking settlers for ever...

Still surprised this city isn't a net drain on the economy.

Boring.

Yay for 30h forest chops.

3 turns to go to Parth.

The workers that are hooking the iron will be the workers to remove most of this jungle.

Going to have a good 4 workers run around this city chopping jungle very soon.

Double chop for granary, finish the walls...maybe build a worker?

Chop is almost due...

Paying for that work boat for the clams now.

Yes, the GNP is bloated by the 1.4 tech modifier, but the extra trade routes will keep the number around this level with only a 1.2 tech modifier, so I'm not totally out of the tech race, compared to scooty.

Highest power in the world

[spacemanmf]

I got here eventually!

Heh, except you get to now and find that now has moved on (to a different county, getting married and having kids in the meantime, almost forgetting the fleeting but ever-so-valuable moments you spent together...).

[Krill]

Turn 134 - More backlog than a constipated hippie

Yeah, azza definitely needs to get that city settled...

The army is amassing...

Go away Nakor...

Overflow a bunch of hammers for the market, continue to tech really fast...though FWIW, Bureaucracy would give me another 30 commerce per turn. Currency will give me another 32 from trade routes but is spread over all my cities instead of the Academy and library city. Currency is cheap enough for me to be happy aiming for that first...

More boring.

Note, 1 archer allows a further 4 HA to be built on consecutive turns. I'm probably going to put off growing WTF? with the war with azza so close, but about 10 turns before I get Machinery I'm going to have to get the city growing again, to be able to consistently 1 turns the more expensive medi units. I don't know when that is, though.

Still taking bets on when this city stops building settlers...though I'm going to omit this city along with RVC from now on, I think, except after major changes and for new builds.

I'm considering building a galley and spy to go annoy Nazul, but I doubt that is worth it.

Definitely granary next, followed by a likely court house. The next archer I pump out from WTF? will come here for garrison.

Two turns...note azza took over the needed tile at Saffron.

More boring.

Granary due eot T138...about a turn before Calendar is researched.

I think I need about 65 worker turns worth of improvement to get this city to 10 improved tiles, all hills mined, all three river tiles farmed, so T170. But the city should hit size 10 significantly before then, so I probably need to build a worker here.

More boring...

Unit supply is going to be annoying when I declare on azza, but not difficult to handle.

Keep on swimming...

[Krill]

Turn 135 - Wonders are Fun

OK, the next 3 turns reports should be going up tonight, but there are a lot of pictures to post, but not an awful lot to really say for each of them.

This is a fairly big island, and it's definitely worth settling. I'm surprised that yuris hasn't settled it yet, but I can't see him ignoring it for much longer, he should be finishing settling the main continent in the next 15 turns IMO.

Oh, a worker on the jungle tile and a huge stack of HA. I think you all know what this means...

Looks like Pingo lucked out with the GP and get a shrine though. Maybe I need to change targets...

It seems like I like the number 15.

Another religion spread to a city, but not to one of my cities...whatever, it's 1gpt, I'm not complaining.

Plus minus date on Machinery: eot T153

More boring, going to ignore this city for the next few turn reports, until the build finishes or the situation changes.

That 15 sign really should say 17, and while I've deleted it by T137, I'm not sure exactly when it was I deleted it. This will likely be hte last worker I make from the core until I need to change mines and farms to windmills or watermills.

Yay, final turn for Parth, but afterwards I need to think about actually having a few more units in this city...might need to build an archer instead of finishing the barracks.

Hmm, need to get that banana hooked quickly and that forest chopped to speed up the granary...

Missionary finishes eot T136, moves T137, spreads immediately after city founding on T138. And barracks next, then probably an axe or two...

Both forests definitely go into a granary and the wall can wait a little bit. Then I'll have to focus on getting tiles improved.

Need to get the granary finished with a half full food box at size 4...need to think.

Court houses are starting to look like attractive improvements...especially at 30 hammers off.

Why has scootys GNP dropped so much? I can't see them leaving Bureaucracy, and they aren't saving a huge amount of gold, they aren't cash rushing, so what the hell are they doing with the gold?

I like demoralising other players

[Ichabod]

Last turns have been awesome to follow. Keep up with the good work.

[AutomatedTeller]

unit supply will go up a little when you attack azza, but then, you'll lose units in the attack, so it's kind of self-correcting

[Krill]

Can everyone who is dedlurking me in this game please post here?

[WilliamLP]

I read every update but I'm spoiled on other threads so not a dedlurker.

[Krill]

Turn 136 - Setup

Yay, I got Pathenon and tundra 3 tiles from desert is always humourous IMO.

This army is the highest power in the game. Note, 12HA, 9 chariots, and 4 jags.

10HA, 8 chariots and 2 jags, all ready to go hurt someone. I'm relying on archers everywhere else for defence, and 2 jags over by Nazul, and the units from WTF? are still streaming down and need to be allocated on a turn by turn basis.

The aim is to finish roading the jungle next turn, road the forest 1N of WMW, and then use the workers 3 and 89 of SMS to road under the fastmover stack. Then the stack moves 771 and stops out of site of azzas borders, but able to attack his city from the FoW, after the sentry chariot checks out the defenders. Foolproof? Hell no, 4 spears in that city and I'm declaring on Pingo to bump my units out of his borders then immediately moving in on him.

One way or another, I'm getting ivory.

I wonder what that GS will do...bulb seems the most likely option, but what would I want to bulb? Education, and build OU somewhere? Seems like a plan.

Slow market build. Ideally want to run out of gold immediately after finishing this market, then save gold with the new multipliers in place here and in Crapital.

Like I need another artist if I get music...I was going to consider teching CoL next if I missed the Music GA, revolt to Caste and try to pump out the artist ASAP, but luckily it seems like I don't have to use that plan.

Another settler...

Seems like I'm neglecting granaries a bit, doesn't it? I think I only have 7 in 12 cities, on T136...need to rectify that.

13*3+53=92 culture. Music allows cities to build culture. I think I can build 8 hammers of culture over the next three turns to pop borders one turn sooner, and then onto an acher or 2 for more defensive surety.

Um, yay for trade routes?

So...much...jungle. I need to road SW of SMS for a path for the GA to go bomb azzas city, so Pingo can't snipe it. That likely means I'm going to have to use all 4 workers to do the road, and the worker from DP will chop the forest. Then as the workers are redistributed thy can move 3 tiles and drop chops into the jungle as appropriate.

Third tile to improve is the roaded jungle hill, after that I'm going to position one worker on the jungle hill 2N, jungle hill 1SE and the grass river jungle 2E, road all of them, then use all three workers in the area to improve one at a time, as needed. And quite likely build a fourth worker to delay growth, but it is not set in stone just yet.

This saves food in the long run. I think. Only working the tile for a single turn at size 3, then for 2 turns at size 4.

I wonder how much unit supply is going to increase to...

Best CIV in the world. Maybe.

[darrelljs]

Can everyone who is dedlurking me in this game please post here?

Me.

Darrell