Apocalpyse Redux - Os-Gabella of the Sheaim

[Tasunke]

What tech is Tower of Mastery at? (for it to arrive so quickly all the time)

iirc its SoW, but in simul turns we don't usuallly go for ToM so I didn't pay close attention.

Also, can you build elegy of Sheaim in more than one city at a time?

[uberfish]

It's strength of will yeah.

The trouble with ToM is that it's prevented the endgame level units from seeing much play in these PBEMs.

I don't think elegy can be built in multiple cities at the same time, should check that when I get philosophy. As yet I'm not committed to apocalypse or any other strategy. Although, there don't seem to be unique features on this map (No Unique Features was turned on and I haven't scouted any manually placed ones) so Seven Pines might not actually be the problem I assumed it would be.

[uberfish]

scouting report



All 3 of my exploring warriors got into fights recently including one with a spider and are wounded, but won thanks to the power of bronze.

I haven't seen any animal types except lions, although the presence of deer and ivory will trigger Hunting research eventually anyway. It's possibly unfortunate that I killed the spider, as Animal Handling is cheap in EitB and I haven't found a source of silk yet. Eventually capturing the spider and using it to make a silk pen would have been useful.

The jungle turned out to be relatively small instead of an extensive belt, and the extensive river system to the west and northwest will support at least 6 more cities.

Gems are up which puts me at #1 GNP. Food/hammer count isn''t doing so well. Sanitation is definitely priority now as part of the Aristoscumming farm economy, maybe via Drama if I feel like taking a bet on my high GNP.

[uberfish]

I should probably use my high GNP to full deficit race to drama, it'll save 30h on every city from #4 onwards by not having to build a monument and the Sanitation bulb will offset Aristo increased food consumption. Essentially, the idea is to use my commerce to get back into the food/production race.

I found another giant blocking a mountain pass to the NE and more water to the N. Looks like this continent is a ring divided into 5 segments with a chokepoint between each segment.

[Selrahc]

All 3 of my exploring warriors got into fights recently including one with a spider and are wounded, but won thanks to the power of bronze.

Good job you ran that Bronze Orientation Day.

[uberfish]

The NE boundary. Exploration is proceeding well with another spider attacking a warrior and dying on the computer's turn, and barbarian interference with my workers has been stopped. One more round of warriors in training now, to allow city growth, and then I'm done with those for a while.

[uberfish]

CoL/Aristocracy in @ +72/turn research breakeven with more farms coming in, food/production stats are junk as expected

A quick check showed that Lanun adaptive switched traits from expansive (bonus settler production) to organized (less city maintenance), the ability to do this is obviously broken... let's just say that although I like the unit/building changes Sareln made, I'm not convinced EitB has improved inter-civilization balance at this stage in its evolution

23/26 xp warrior whacks a goblin for another point of xp

[uberfish]

And to make Falamar even more ridiculous he can build command posts in Org retaining that permanent benefit when switching to some war trait

+3xp command post +5 from apprenticeship/conquest = 8/8 xp for level 4 (charismatic) = instant mages for negligible opportunity costs

Yeah, we have a broken leader here.

[uberfish]

let's make this exciting

A goblin showed up from the fog at my 4th city next to a pair of workers, I moved the warrior garrison out to guard them and it will be defending at over 99% odds. In the event it loses, both workers die and the city will be undefendable next turn.

Should this happen I rate my chances of winning the game at 0%, so I'll just randomly all-in attack someone for laughs.

[uberfish]

The goblin didn't actually try to attack my warrior

city #5 was founded last turn

I'll probably delay deruptus a bit in Academy city and use it to spam more settlers/workers at the population cap for overall empire efficiency reasons

Marble, Silk, Gold, Fur still nowhere to be seen.

Elves still haven't founded FoL, Darrell is slacking.

Really need to negotiate an alliance to deal with the OP pirates but it's an AI diplo game, what to do... (btw no one should even think for a second about giving Lanun open borders)