[SPOILERS] Alignment unknown

[plako]

T39

I did cast revelry. Next turn I'll convert to God King+Pacifism or Nstionhood+Slavery+Agrarianism. After Education to Conquest+Apprenticeship+Nationhood. Timing of latter is still not clear.

[plako]

After consideration Pacifism instead of Nationhood is better. I'm still some infra to build i.e. health buildings and Mages guilds before I can start spamming adepts. Also 4th city is something to consider although I'm not sure I can really get it up and running before the Blight hits so I probably had to try to do with these 3.

I'm also getting the needed Scientists way faster than I really can bulb Sorcery and I can probably generate 3 of them very fast, if I can keep Philosophical trait. Maybe I should builf Pagan temple after all and hope that one of the GPs would end up being Prophet so that I can use it to get to Ashen Veil.

[plako]

T40

Kurios got Golden age probably from event.

I'm wondering why did I research Philosophy. It was not nescessary really. I guess I did run too many Infernal Pact + Prophecy of Ragnarok tests that I thought I need also it for Adept/Mage spamming. Well at least it brought slavery and I got immediately 1 slave out of fighting against barb warrior.

[plako]

I was also wrong concerning inspiration. Even if it seems like all 3 are inspired during the turn. The one not having a puppet or Loki inside won't get the benefits at the end of turn.

[Katron]

Ah makes sense. The special buildings spells like inspiration create require a unit able to cast the relevant spell to be in the city. But I always thought the building vanishes at the beginning of a turn.

[plako]

Couple of turns passed and nothing significant is going on. Kurios have a very big GNP/MFG and also we've surpassed Lanun when running our Golden Age in GNP. No sight of Ragnarok. In case Selrach rushed there right after obtaining Philo he should be pretty close finishing it by now. KotE comes in couple of turns and then it is probably Education->Necromancy->Writing. I also got a Great Scientist that is currently spared for bulbing. In case I can keep Philosophical I get next one in ~10T so I've everythign I need to get Sorcery right after Writing. I'm also preparing to generate Artist out of the city where I caged the slave since apparently it also provides 1 Artist point. I'll be adding Carnival to that city too for Artist slot. If this game goes far enough, I can bulb Drama and then later Sanitation with the extra Artist.

[plako]

T44

Waiting for the turn so I re-opened the last save to take couple of screenshots. No sign of Ragnarok so I probably would have had time to finish another settler before the Blight hits. At least there is a barb city that I should try to capture after I get enough adepts ready. I can also soon free Loki from inspiration duty and go for unfogging tiles.



Expansive rules in this map - Selrach has very weak army


I'll start Carneval here next since I'm still Creative

[plako]

One more shot - Philosophical is a very good trait to have at the moment:

[plako]

Ashen Veil was founded and best guess is that it was Bob. That raised the AC immediately to 9. Based on the timing of this, I'm pretty certain that Selrahc's grazy beeline is failing for him. He gets what he is aiming for i.e. AC100 probably within next 30 turns, but it will just guarantee winning poistion to Bob who summons Hyborem about the same time.

[plako]

T47

Ragnarok is ready. Now Selrahc probably needs to build a Warren to get things running so it takes few more turns to get the AC really raising.

I got Education and 1st Mages Guild ready. I decided to switch also Hexam to Mage's Guild since I need all of them spamming Adepts as soon as possible. In ~11T I should have Sorcery and bunch of 5xp adepts that I hope will reach 10 as soon as possible. The timing of the converting to Nationhood+Apprentaceship+Conquest is the tricky part. I would like to have all my Adepts built with 5xp, but I also want to preserve the slaiving option to decrease population before Blight hits and also take most out of my golden age i.e. delay slaving.