The Quarterdeck - Turn Discussion Thread

[kp]

I guess that was a bit of a weed statement on my part...guess there is no hurry to lock down our borders with such good terrain closer to the capital...

I respectfully retract my earlier comment...

[luddite]

So I've been thinking. Since we went with Mansa, we might as well make use of the spiritual trait. What about going for monotheism and switching to OR? Without spritual that costs 2 turns of anarchy (counting the switch to a religion), but for spiritual leaders it's a great deal. And we're the only spiritual leader here, so it's unlikely anyone else will be chasing Judaism (although I guess team Troll might, assuming they go for the pyramids they'll have masonry).

If we did get Judaism/OR, we could try to arrange it so the holy city is in a strategic location that claims a bunch of territory for us. we could follow it up by bulbing philosophy and switching to pacifism for a burst of early great people.

[Nakor]

Sounds like a good plan, Luddite!

[pindicator]

I'm in favor of that. Right after worker techs, i guess? Or do we try to do this pre-BW or pre-pottery

[oledavy]

Turn 6:



Luddite, what exactly is the tech path you're suggesting? I really like the idea, but am a little reluctant to skip Pottery/BW for so long if you mean a direct beeline.

[kp]

I think Luddites plan is a good one, but I think we should atleast get bw first even if we don't get pottery. Given the high food tiles we have around the capital I am assuming we would want to whip fairly early. I also think all other teams will avoid the religious paths given they wouldn't want to waste a turn converting.

[luddite]

Oh, definitely not a direct beeline. I didn't have any specific tech path in mind, but I guess it would be something like AH->mining->BW->wheel->pottery-> polytheism->masonry-> monotheism. Throw in fishing and hunting if and when we need them, depending on what the map looks like. That should still be fast enough to get us Judaism, since I doubt any other team will beeline it.

[luddite]

Also, with masonry and OR, we could generate some massive early gold by hooking up that stone and building stone wonders for fail gold.

[thestick]

With Organized Religion and Stone, is actually building those wonders out of the question?

Sounds good, hopefully OR will offset delaying Writing.

[luddite]

Well we don't really need stonehenge or the pyramids, unless we just wanted to screw up the other teams. I guess we could build the great wall, although its not all that useful.