[SPOILER] Catherine of Maya - Greens - Kyan

[Kyan]

I'll see if I can get time to look this over later today. I'm going out of town for 2 days, so if I'm not exhausted from the drive, tonite at the hotel seems good to me.

It's cool matey. I'll do an update this evening complete with pictures.

I pinky promise!

[Kyan]

Ok, so pinky promise was a bit far. Here's a 24hrs late report though

[Kyan]

We're going to found our fourth city next turn. Cull and Strike- the only two guys we've met are both on 2 cities each currently.

Orennaí has just grown and Marshall Mines will shortly. I advise we grow them both out. Marshall whilst building granary/chariots and Orennaí will be building oracle.

Two chops are about to go into oracle from workers on seperate riverside grass hills. I will then mine both these hills and grow into them in short order. This isn't going to be the quickest oracle build in the world but it's the best for the city and i think we have some time.

Capital just finished worker number 6. How's that comparing against our rivals lurkers? This will allow us to get all these cities up to speed asap. I advise using this worker to improve our capital somemore. Either a cottage or grassland mine. I'm personally in favour of the cottage.

Worker is in place to improve Twinkletopolis' cows the turn it is settled. We need to, obviously, get the food connected asap. Hunting is going to be teched soon anyhow and then we can grab the happy from the furs.

The overall plan seems to be going well and im happy that the expansion is going as i hoped. I don't think we'll be far behind in tech either (we are second on GNP although we are creative). Certainly nothing that oracle won't solve. We'll be getting metal casting as a reminder.

Tehre is a big splotch of black SE of our capital that we need to defog and we also need to build a chariot soonish and send towards Strike so i advise we scout that region as we send him east.

[Twinkletoes89]

What happened to Kydonia :-( ?

[Kyan]

What happened to Kydonia :-( ?

clearly im in a forgetful mood because i forgot the name you had suggested so made up a new one. I'm sticking with it now out of sheer stubborness. :neenernee

I played my opening in a private PBEM i have with TT and Whosit very similarly to how im playing here and it's working rather damned well.

If you have no objections TT, can i post a screenie of my demos for that game, here as an example? It wont affect me or whosit at all but it'll let you distinguish which order me and Whosit are in each relevant category (which i don't care about at all).

The screenie would evidence to how much an initial farmers gambit can pay off if left unhindered.

[Twinkletoes89]

Fine by me - i'm not watching demos in our game much anyway so go ahead!

[Kyan]

Ok, for lurkers:

I'm playing a 3 way PBEM with TT and Whosit. We each start with one big island and there are many small islands dotted about. Barbarians are off.

It's CTON so i can't negotiate NAP's. Therefore my military is slightly stronger here than it might be in this game as i had to worry about border cities etc.

I have average land. I have built no wonders nor have i even tried to. I have focused EVERYTHING on expansion and growth.



This is turn 81 and is on a higher difficulty setting WITH toroidal world wrap. Therefore maintenance in this example will be higher than in this game.

[Kyan]

TLDR: More workers and settlers will be built. Oh yes.

[pocketbeetle]

TLDR: More workers and settlers will be built. Oh yes.

Particularly with no barbs, REXing could work well.

[Kyan]

Particularly with no barbs, REXing could work well.

It's no barbarians, noble difficulty, no world wrap and im imperialistic/creative...

Yeah, i can't see any other way of playing this to be honest. After i founded city 4 i can still tech at 70% in profit if i wanted. I only hope the other players haven't picked up on this fact and i can make claim to a huge chunk of land.

Fuller report in next post.