[spoilers] Commodore is strategic in Pitboss 74

[Commodore]

I'll take some pictures of the explored areas for long-term planning help this afternoon.

This is pressing Pin not at all, but it's a great snowball spot.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Yeah we’re going to war

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Also, where are the cottages?

[Commodore]

Turn 50: First Place In Cities

Welcome to the fiftieth turn of Pitboss 74, a view from the Hill of Avalon. We're in the landgrab stage, entirely focused on slamming down claims for this ridiculously good land. We've just whipped Civilization for a granary and axe overflow:

We're about to whip our third worker...

...and ignore the granary, next turn we're whipping our first monument here:

Gettysburg founded for a bit of a claim, it'll get an axe so that we don't have to worry about all these barb warriors around.

High power in this neighborhood, but out there in the fog someone is playing Real Wars.

I'm ignoring GNP right now, we just need to land Fishing, Sailing, and then HBR. So...

Also, where are the cottages?

Really Soon™

[Commodore]

This is mildly concerning. Tarkeel eliminated Dreylin, which has of course a huge number of geostrategic implications, but it also means a 3-city civ plus a 1-city civ became a single 4-city civ. I think that pushes average #cities up enough for barbarians to begin invading.

[Commodore]

Not a ton different on the home front, just dealing with a big barbarian invasion.


...and also Plemo is up to 6 cities by my count.

[Oxyphenbutazone]

Looking pretty good for Darius here. Let's expand out to 8 cities and whip up a storm of Horchers and Cats Cmon, you know you want to

[Commodore]

Looking pretty good for Darius here. Let's expand out to 8 cities and whip up a storm of Horchers and Cats Cmon, you know you want to

Ten cities, but then YES. 

[Thoth]

[Commodore]

But meanwhile, I have to whip more axes because the barbarians have Bronze Working...

...getting horses with the next city was the right call. Need chariots for when their own axes start swarming.