[Spoilers] AT Ponders the number 52

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Now that I've connected my cities, i"m up to 2nd in GNP Pickup going to size 2 raises my crop yield to 5th!! 8th in hammers, last in score.

Still, things are coming along - I get AH next turn and I'll pasture the cow - and I'm farming the corn. Pottery next. Rice is next settlement, unless exploration finds something.

Unfortunately, the age of animals is over - my scout ended up next to a barb warrior. Might survive (forest, WI) Should survive, to balance out my bad luck from before, but since that's not the way probability works, he's a dead scout.

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wow

Charriu: 3
Mjmd: 2
Pindicator: 2
AT: 2
Superdeath: 2
Mr Cairo: 2
Jowwy: 2
Gira: 1

City #3, and Charriu isn't even imperialistic.   Did I miss a settlement by Gira? 

Horse is somewhat awkwardly placed



I had been planning on settling the hill, but I guess I'll go 1 tile east and work the oasis.   I guess I don't really need a worker for awhile, at least.

One nice thing about cheap monuments is that I get an MP for the overflow.

I lose my scout to the barb, of course.

Pottery in 9, btw. 2 turn at 0, 7 at 100%.

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Both cities grow next turn.   Pickup gets the cow and Weeks gets it's corn.  Weeks will whip the monument->warrior->warrior->granary.  Pickup finishes holkan->barracks for a turn or two if necessary->granary.  

The holkan will move north of the city, scout will go west, warriors into the jungle.


Charriu: 3
Mjmd: 2
Pindicator: 2
AT: 2
Superdeath: 2
Mr Cairo: 2
Jowwy: 2
Gira: 2

Gira settled.

also, only had to spend 1 turn building wealth. 5 to pottery.

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Charriu: 3
Mjmd: 3
Pindicator: 2
AT: 2
Superdeath: 2
Mr Cairo: 2
Jowwy: 2
Gira: 2

Mjmd has his 3rd city.  I met Mr Cairo, who has sent a warrior my way.

My holkan finished and... I'm 5th in power, which is interesting.  I might be able to sneak up on people.

Will grow to size 4 in the cap and chop/whip another settler for the oasis/rice/horse area.    I don't much like it,  but it's the best spot given the amount of open land and the probability of barbs.  No wait - next is a granary, not a settler. that will build 1 turn, then 2 pop whip. I'll build either a monument or a rax as I grow - both are cheap and give more happy for more whipping.

Holkan is moving N to find my copper and cover the settler.  

Got a warrior in Weeks with the overflow from the monument.  Also, I have 8 turns at 100% research - probably get fishing. 



Demos are meh.    Will probably stay meh until I finish expanding.



MrCairo's warrior is right under my scout.    I'll probably take out the warrior with the holkan if I can.  Always good to piss off the neighbors

Wait, AT - I don't see the scout!! It's on the tile with the red circle, of course.

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As of turn 46, SD and Jowwy join the 3 city club.

Charriu: 3
Mjmd: 3
Superdeath: 3
Jowwy: 3
Pindicator: 2
AT: 2
Mr Cairo: 2
Gira: 2

found my copper, NW of the capitol.  Still going to oasis/rice/horse spot, though.

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mr cairo settles and in the 3 city club.  I think barbs can enter cities now, btw.  

Charriu: 3
Mjmd: 3
Superdeath: 3
Jowwy: 3
Mr Cairo: 3
Pindicator: 2
AT: 2
Gira: 2

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I start to make progress vs the barbs

Warrior holds of a barb  warrior in teh jungle

Holkan kills a warrior in the north and finds my 3rd city site



Sheep, copper, stone.  That's a lot better than oasis and 2 resources I need to pop borders for.

Does leave me a question of what to do about a worker for the cap, though.  I guess I can grow to size 4 and whip a granary, then cycle and whip a worker.  It's not ideal, but I want the worker in Weeks to be able to mine the gold because it's a great tile.  I suppose I could bring the worker back from weeks and grow the cap.  Have to look into that.

Also, have to be careful of barbs.  Holkan can handle the North east, but there aren't lots up there.  I have a barb warrior heading at the cap and I cannot lose my cap to a barb

interesting thing:

I think that if I place cities on the green circles and forts on the red squares, I can move naval units from the outside sea to the inner one. I'm not going to do that, mind you, but I could.

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Demo's are brutal. Last in everything but power.

Gira settled #3. I settle it in 2 more turns (1 more to move the hill, 1 to settle)

City #3 (Deck, I think) will go granary->WB for exploring->monument->warrior. I'll need masonry for the stone - that will be after fishing, I guess.

I think city #4 has to be on the hill, next to the rice. It's not a great city, but with wet rice, 2 oasis and an FP, it can be a slaving food pump, i guess. Eventually, probably commerce.

screw the horses for now, I need the food - and holkans can cover me. If I need axes, I can road the copper. I can pick up the horses with a late filler city that has horses and cottages and does nothing interesting, when settlers are relatively cheap.

City #5 looks to be on the inner sea, with fish and marble. Maybe. Problem with that is that I can't prebuild a WB. More to think about.

I have a barb warrior approaching my cities, but I have 3 warriors around and he's hurt. Hopefully, he'll suicide on a warrior on a forest hill.

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Haven't been updating.

High level - barbs are a nuisance - I have a spear coming at Weeks, so I whipped a holkan, which meant I lost my gold. Researching IronWorking, to clear jungle and see where the iron is (hint: it will be in the desert where I'm founding city #4) Have 3 cities - Deck is taking a while to come up to speed, cause I placed it without food in the first ring to get both sheep and fish. I have no idea if that was the right thing to do or not - I worry that I'm going to miss a city, but then, big cities is my key, not many many cities.

Mjmd DOW's charriu, they made peace and he DOW'd again the next turn. I sort of assume he's got a unit trapped and it didn't get freed the way he thought it would. I doubt this is a serious war.

Though, Pindicator seems to have been in a turn split for 5 or 6 turns now, so there's action. for me, the action has been barbs.

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I continue to be the lowest scoring civ in the game - I am still on 3 cities, but i have 2 granaries, so I hope that will change.

Barbs are a pain, but I have 2 holkans and some extra warriors for busting, building a 3rd in the cap, and I have a couple of barracks to make better holkans.

I expect to get a few more cities out pretty soon, I hope.

That said, this is not surprising - this is a field of fast expanding civs. The question is, can I expand fast enough to hit someone with age appropriate units that I have the advantage with?