[Spoiler] sunrise089 - Suleiman of Inca (Vets)

[sunrise089]

Thanks scotter, sorry my thread became too inactive

[sunrise089]

Krill has horse archers now, and what's worse (or in a clever gambit) he's showing me he does. I'm researching Aesthetics (due in 3t) and then Lit so if he rolls in with HAs and Cats I'm probably dead. If he only attacks with HA my 1-city front and decent sentry net, along with the spears I've built probably means I'm OK.

I still have five cities, but 2 more settlers finish over the next two turns. I don't think I'll plant those new cities until Lit is in at least...7 cities without Fin or Org before Currency is risky.

[Rowain]

How far off from cats are you yourself?

[Speaker]

Any chance we could get a picture slightly more often than once a month?

[sunrise089]

How far off from cats are you yourself?

Depends. So right now Aesthetics is 3t, Lit is 5-6t behind that, and then I can go Construction, Monarchy (don't need that badly with two happy resources), Horseback, or Currency. Of course I'd LIKE to go Currency next, but probably can't. Krill may have much higher tech than I do, but probably not. I'm working mostly cottages now, I don't recall him being Fin (I'll check in game when the save gets back to me, I don't reload old saves), and he normally likes to build cities. Five cities pretty early isn't helping my tech, but he's probably only a couple turns ahead of me (I have math and most of another tech, he has HBR and maybe math now, or something else).

If Krill is going Construction and going to make a big 1-move stack then yes, I want Construction right away. But him researching HBR suggests he isn't going that route, and may just try to kill someone (alternately he just may intend to use HAs defensively, the way I'd use them now). Now it could be me, or it could be his other neighbor. If that neighbor is Cyneheard...well that's tricky since he's a smart target, but Krill is internet friends with him. If it's Kylearan or Whosit Krill should hit them over me, but then again if Krill has a flaw it's overconfidence.

[sunrise089]

My cities:



The capital is workingt the copper, sheep, and three grassland river cottages. Marble city is working the corn, unirrigated rice, grass forest firs, and grass river cottage. Front city is working pigs, horse, and four grass river cottages. Silver city is working only the silver while the two food resources are improved. Wheat city is working the wheat, grass river cottage, and two unimproved floodplains. Only two tiles total unimproved.

The three spots with slightly different color borders will probably be planted once Lit is in and I can build research in my other cities. The only remaining core spots after that are a slow-growth city in the southeast to grab that copper, and risky cities towards Krill, the northern one getting pigs. If I settle either of those cities (city elim is off, and I am Imp, so it isn't terrible to loose cities) I'd probably build only a walls+granary so the hammer cost of loosing the city isn't too terrible. I'd need to calculate the total number of turns of wealth production the city would need to return to pay off the settler.

Speaking of city builds, every city has a terrace, and every city either has a barracks or has one under construction. The only other building is a library in the cap. Since I'm Phi I may want to consider running Scientists everywhere, but for now I'm holding off. Instead I plan to make the Parthenon in my cap, units in my front two cities until Lit comes in, slow build the barracks in Silver city, and in wheat+floodplains....maybe a library and scientists there, need to decide soon.

Also, I checked the victory conditions, which are not broken. I'm top land, by like 1 tile over Krill.
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I plan to make both Parthenon and Nat Epic in my cap, alongside GLibrary. I'm actually hoping for two GArtists, and one potential bomb spot (assuming Krill keeps his second ring) looks like this:



This isn't the world's best bomb (and oh how I wish Krill hadn't beaten me to the pigs+copper city by 1t) but it does provide some good protection against units coming in along the edges. Another bomb target is the horse, rice, and cow city on the other front. Considering map spacing though, the REAL bolb bomb is something like this:



You can see the Banana which matches up with the previous pic. I could plant even further north, but I'd rather not send darrell into vendetta mode.

Solo bomb cities like this are strong because not only can you not sneak up on them, but there is only one target. Bombing the Krill front doesn't automatically protect the marble city, but bombing darrell and then settling a city for the dyes pretty much makes darrell kill my hill+60% culture bomb city if he wants the territory back.

[Ilios]

Can't see the screenies, what site are you using Sunrise?

[MWIN]

It does not work for me when I am connected to work. Otherwise it works. I guess office firewall is blocking it....

Can't see the screenies, what site are you using Sunrise?

[Ilios]

Ah ofcourse...

[sunrise089]

I'm using Dropbox, guess work is blocking it because I could host anything.

Bts, dropbox isn't a site...it's something far more amazing

And, I'd give you guys another update, but apparently we've slowed down so much the 17-team pitboss game is moving faster