[SPOILERS]Novice, Spacemanmf and Athlete4life10 are HUYANA CAPAC OF CHINA

[Krill]

I'm claiming the moral high ground for fastest oracle. To hell with what Cyneheard says.

[spacemanmf]

Straightforward turn. No change in the demographics:



Moved warrior (which we really need to rename if we are to follow our naming policy at all) SE to reveal gold. A city picking up the sheep, cows and gold looks good.

[novice]

Moved warrior (which we really need to rename if we are to follow our naming policy at all) SE to reveal gold. A city picking up the sheep, cows and gold looks good.

That looks great!

Warrior could be named Flop.

[spacemanmf]

Or we can stick with the "clubs" theme for melee units, so maybe Two Of Clubs.

[novice]

Yeah, that's good. But maybe pick a random club so that we don't give away the size of our army.

[novice]

So how far dare we venture with our warrior? Maybe onto the gold and then straight SW to the cows?

[spacemanmf]

Well that will uncover all the tiles for the planned city site. Or we could go S from the gold tile, and then SW two or three times.

[novice]

Cripes, you're up early.

Small children and a one hour time difference will do that for you.

Btw, these sims I'm referring to aren't über-optimized.

Damn right! We're getting sucked in too much as it is...

Not at all.
Latest, optimized sim has us completing Stonehenge eot31, found Shanghai on sheep-cows-gold site on t39, complete Oracle in Shanghai eot48 (for metal casting), and found our third city on t49. Military consists of three workers and three warriors.

[spacemanmf]

Impressive work. We can draft those workers into national service, though, right?

[novice]

That is where the strategy begins. As you point out, we might want more military. The sims are just builder tactics. Strategy-wise we need to balance the tech path and builds with the in-game situation. My eot48 sim skips Animal Husbandry, can we do that if we can't see any copper?

FWIW, tech path in the eot48 sim is BW->Myst->TW->Pottery->Masonry->Poly->PH.