[Spoiler] Kaiser has a plan

[Kaiser]

late update due to a weekend in the Netherlands



Woden built a Settler



Overview shot of our Capital



The Warrior is healing and ready to defend our Settler if there is any danger nearby

[Kaiser]

I fly a bit blind this weekend as I do not have the time to fully rework the spreadsheet, but I also found the reason for the Settler timing, I was counting the production 1 turn to early.

I will rework the spreadsheet on Monday and then we should have the new timings, I think everything will be delayed by at least 3 turns

The convertible has the better resolution but basically no performance, for that reason I play my turns in strategic view



Irrigation came in, this lead to 


 
the Craftsmanship boost. We finish it next turn to switch to Agoge shortly for the Builder production. Foreign Trade will then be timed to finish so we can get back to Urban Planning and Agoge for finally building some military



This is a shot I mostly did for myself to have a reference of our capitals status



It looks like everybody has a source of by now, probably God King is a part of this



Some Movement here as well:
Suboptimal finished a tech
Ichabod got 1 era score (probably Woden found two natural wonderst 1st and Ichabod the same two 2nd? Could also be that he found the one Suboptimal found 2nd)
CMF finished a tech

[Ioan76]

My impression is that situation is really promising!

TBH I'd still prefer to settle on Stone our second city in order to push a little the border with Bologna. Also Amenities doesn't look so important right now - but maybe I'm wrong.

Overall - great job!!

[Kaiser]

I played one turn at 00:30 this morning, here is the quick report



Craftsmanship in



Warrior in Position to protect the Settler healing up



Some flooding going on down here



Suboptimal is first to 2nd city




We are either 1 or two tiles away from our 2nd city (that means 2 or 3 turns)

[Kaiser]

I also think it is promising. I dislike the Stone spot due to the following reasons:
- it blocks the 3rd city site
- adding one amenity increases the happiness level in our cap resulting in 20% food surplus, 10 % all other surpluses (instead of 10% / 5% respectively)
- we can easier share tiles with the capital as we are soon going to pasture the horses and then can give the PHSheep to the truffles city
- it has a closer Government Plaza location which can share 3rd border tiles (this part is suboptimal) with the capital
- I am not to worried about the tile close to Bologna as I think the SE direction of that city offers better tiles and we can always integrate Bologna into our empire later.
- we found the city 1 turn earlier
- we can make good use of the Masonry Eureka (I currently see no other tiles giving it to us)

We have to decide next turn, I play this turn right now and will bring the Settler on the truffles tile

[Kaiser]

Woden got another Era Score
Suboptimal build his city last turn



CMF got one era point (I need to check later if that was this or last turn)



I do not understand why CMF is leading this category as I have finished 1 Civic more than him for the moment. He might have more culture than us but this is the first tie breaker, I believe.



Our Settler is on the PHJTruffles, ready to settle next turn here or continue onto the stone as Ioan suggested. We really need to decide right now, so I check this later with my wife to get her input.
Stone would definelty invalidated the marked "3rd or 4th?" site.
I switched back to Foreign Trade so we can exchange Ilkum as soon as the Builder is finished. Its current plan is:
- camp horses (2nd city can then work PHSheep)
- chop campus forest into campus
- either mason the stone or chop the GP forest into the GP

We have roughly 8 turns for the Writing Eureka, so after the Builder we will get some units out of our capital to Scout the NW, our Warrior will check the city site E and then turn South were CMF should be somewhere

[Cornflakes]

I think the culture rankings are sorted first by number of domestic tourists (not number of civics completed, unlike techs).

[Kaiser]

@Cornflakes, thanks I did not consider this so far, this makes reading the culture score a lot harder



Woden and Ichabod settled their next cities, Woden got yet another era score so maybe he settled in a disaster zone?
Suboptimal grew a population



Wow, I failed the screenshots badly this turn. Here is an overview of our capital and its now ecstatic bonus
We have 3 amenities in the capital due to settling on the Truffles (see below left corner), we currently build a Monument there. I promise to take better screenshots next turn

In the end my wife and me discussed the Stone vs Truffles locations again and the main drawback of the stone is that it takes 1 turn longer and blocks the spot near Vilnius. With two other players settling this turn (I actually need to check if this is delayed and they already settled last turn) I decided to settle as well.



At least I remembered this overview shot.
Next turn we finish the Builder, which can improve the Horses the turn after. This allows us to hand over the PHSheep to the 2nd city
We also finish Foreign Trade next turn to switch to Agoge / Urban Planning increasing the of our new city further.

We should be able to buy a Trader in roughly 7 turns and I am currently undecided between sending it from the capital to the 2nd city or vice versa, what do you think?

[Ioan76]

Yeah - good that you settled there, on Truffles. The blocking of third city was indeed the most serious consideration against setting on Stone.

We should be able to buy a Trader in roughly 7 turns and I am currently undecided between sending it from the capital to the 2nd city or vice versa, what do you think?

How much a third builder will cost at this moment? Just for my curiosity...

[Kaiser]

A third builder should be 58 rodution: so 240

The 2nd Builder will already execute at least 1 chop as we have no population to work further tiles, If we follow the current plan we will have 2 more settlers out by turn 50 and then will build builders with the help Agoge