TBS gathers his thoughts

[hzhp800]

Very nice overview. Much appreciated. I do wonder if you underestimate the audience's appreciation for micro.

Good luck! 

I hope the turn pace won't wear you down.

[Jabah]

Thanks a lot.
Could you explain/detail how your capital is making more than 50gpt (not owning the game and just trying to look at what is on your pictures)

[The Black Sword]

It's the Cree's trade route abilities. The yields on the trade summary screen are only those given to the city the trade route is sent from. The target city, my capital, gets 1gpt per route per Camp/Pasture at the city. So in addition to normal tiles and multipliers that's 5 trade routes x 4gpt each =20gpt.

[The Black Sword]

In today's episode of 'The worst documented improvement in civ 6' - mekewaps can't be put on volcanic soil either.



But you can mine volcanic soil, even if it's flatland. So I had to redo plans for Talenel, housing will be tight for a bit afterall. I will probably harvest the marsh to jump from size 2 to 4, then a pair of mekewaps will tide me over until the Lighthouse with +3 housing comes in.

You can see my science jumped by over 30bpt due to the golden age and an envoy in Hattusa. 



I also spent my gold reserves, and a fleet is ready to sail. Pike and Shots will be an expensive 200g to upgrade from spearmen. So I'll get out a round of 4-5 of them, then research Military Tradition and switch to Pikes to get a better hammer/gold balance.

Also, if Kaiser could research Civil Service, we could get a military alliance...


I did not know that was such a big bonus. Makes dogpiling a leader a lot more viable too. Maybe not the best thing when I'm the leader.

[The Black Sword]

The World Congress was a close run thing:


Me and Kaiser weren't co-ordinated, he voted to buff anti-cavs, while I voted to nerf Cossacks. I'm not sure if I made a mistake here or not.

If we both vote the same way we always beat Archduke. If our vote is split and Kaiser is on nerfing cossacks then Archduke outvotes me and he gets a buff. On the other hand if Kaiser votes to buff anti-cavs while the vote is split, which he did, he still has a 50-50 to beat Archduke. So maybe I should have realised that and voted with him?

My thinking was that if you nerf cossacks you get +5S in every fight with them, while buffing anti-cav only helps in the anti-cav fights. So I thought that was slightly better for us and therefore we'd both vote that way, and as long as we vote the same way we win.

In any case, we were bailed out by the coinflip.

Interesting that Cornflakes was voting for me over Russia too. I thought my science rate would make me look scarier right now. On the other hand, he didn't put any extra votes into it, so he probably didn't really care either way and tried to weaken a potential Russian surge vs Greece.

Australia got themselves a nice free trade route out of the 2nd resolution.

I think I like this World Congress idea. It seems like a nice catchup mechanic and allows smaller civs to work together vs stronger ones without something drastic like war. Previously the only tool they had in this sense was a trade embargo. It also allows you to play around the outcome (eg. diversifying your army) and once every 30t isn't going to dominate the game.

Also, I was reading the new PBEM setup thread and saw Archduke has the Cree in his OP category.   Pretty curious to see if that was his stance before the game. I'm not 100% sure where I stand on the topic. I don't know much about the current state of other civs not in the PBEM tbh, but I haven't felt like I was playing with a handicap vs the others for sure.

[Rowain]

Also, I was reading the new PBEM setup thread and saw Archduke has the Cree in his OP category.   Pretty curious to see if that was his stance before the game.

He was against banning Australia before the game too and has them now in the OP-list. But he also has Russia in the ridiculous list and in fact 5 out of 7 civs in this game are on his ban-list so all is balanced here .

[Ichabod]

My take is that we should ban TBS to have a fair game. 

[Woden]

I think a lot of civilizations are OP once you figure how to play them and this is a great example of find their power and exploiting it.

[MJW (ya that one)]

If you win, TBS, this is an example of victory conditions not mattering and getting as strong as possible is.

[The Black Sword]

This is really an example of how to garner lurker comments - talk about some meta point, not the game.  Thanks for the kind words guys. 

I honestly have no idea how the victory conditions work in civ 6 btw. I won a culture game way back when it was first released but I assume it's changed a fair bit since then. I've never played another game to completion. They all just seem too far away to matter.