[SPOILERS] Mardoc gets back on the horse

[flugauto]

Or... let the barbarians settle all the cities for you.

[Mardoc]

I think I might move the SW city 1S. Loses the ability to borrow the sheep, but that's less important when henge will get us the fish in five turns. And it would let us trade overlapped tiles for coast - coast that I intend to make decent through wonders.




In other news, one settler out, workboats in both queues. I think next turn Lavoisier starts a worker, whips it the turn after, and then knocks out Oracle with overflow + chops. Need 67 base hammers; whip should give me ~20, which means two chops ought to pretty well accomplish that.

After that, the main focus will have to be REX. Will need to start on Forge + Colossus somewhere, but we should have enough of a lead that it can be a backburner thing.

Henge and Oracle will give us Great Prophets. I think it'll be worth spending one on the Buddhist shrine for both the cash and the increased free spread chance; after that I need to investigate bulb paths. Be nice if we could get something expensive. Well, either that or a simple Golden Age would work.

[flugauto]

An era of a lead is definitely enough. DONT FORGET TO BUILD THE GREAT LIGHTHOUSE!

[Mardoc]

You mean the Colossus? The Great Lighthouse is banned this game.

[Mardoc]

I'm a tad confused on the demographics - we're tied for first in hammers and second in food. I feel like we should be further behind with the way the start's been going. Maybe it's just the phase of the whip cycle. Maybe the others are doing something truly odd.



Ah well, can't complain Got our third city this turn, which promptly stole the sheep from Lavoisier. Oracle is in progress, with the worker built for overflow (and to have a worker) and two workers moved onto relevant forests. Boyle's focus is on regrowing and spitting out another settler, while Bohr is just going to start growing. Forested deer, fish, copper, sometimes sheep - that's going to be a nice strong city and we want to grow up to use it all ASAP.

Soonish, maybe post-Oracle, we should revolt to Buddhism to make use of that happiness. No spreads yet, though, so it's not that big a deal.

[flugauto]

The Great Lighthouse was a joke.
Maybe tech Mono and Monarchy, use the 1st Great Person for a golden age, change civics and convert to Buddism?
Bohr no workboat?

[Mardoc]

The Great Lighthouse was a joke.

Dry, like fine wine.

Maybe tech Mono and Monarchy, use the 1st Great Person for a golden age, change civics and convert to Buddism?

Oooh, I like that idea. At least two turns of anarchy would be saved. Still about 20 turns out (once Oracle's in) so we can probably pick up some other tech first (like Sailing!). A bit early for a GA, but I suppose the saved revolt turns will make up for it.

Need to aim for a lot more population by then for full advantage. Which, hey, is something we should be doing anyway .

Bohr no workboat?

I think I can build one out of Lavoisier after the Oracle, and still have it arrive before Bohr needs the tile. I am camping the deer already and will move onto the copper mine as soon as borders pop. It means we won't have the fish for like 10 more turns, but I think the Granary will be worth more to us.

[Mardoc]

Forgot that math matters for chops, only got 13h each, which means Oracle is still 2 turns out instead of insta-done. I think I'll apply a chop to a workboat in Bohr instead of getting it from Lavoisier; should still get us the WB very soon after the border pop.

Other than that, we keep on keeping on. Still #2 in Food somehow, although we're like 28:36 for first place, so we're definitely behind somebody. Nothing to do about that but keep making settlers.

I assume it's THH, actually, but if there's enough mainland, I'd expect Expansive to let us catch back up (as much as is possible, anyway). Mainland's going to need a lot of granaries and workers. Cre/Org did certainly pay off for him, though, with the seafood positioning.

[Mardoc]

Now, time to get ourselves off this rock, and stop playing around with the shiny stuff

[flugauto]

Ask if they are ready to concede.