Not another elf chick? HidingKneel beats a dead horse. (Spoilers!)

[HidingKneel]

A very warm welcome to the pet lizards You seem to have remarkable luck with lairs and dungeons. I always pop barb heroes or cages, at best.

The luck is not unambiguously good:



This may have been one of the few occasions in which it would have been a better move to take the dwarves. At least they'd have had no problem getting back to Evermore. As it is, I'm predicting we lose a lizardman between turns. (I moved them NE: I lose some of the defensive bonus but at least I can only get hit by the three dwarves, and not the rest of the menagerie.) Volantis should make it home safely, though.

And, as luck would have it, our other scout survived (for the moment). So we'll have another chance to see how good my dungeon luck is.

Evermore grew (back) to size 2 at EOT. Plan is to grow to size 4 (7 more turns) and then build a settler while working
wines + 3 plains forest tiles (one of which will have a silk plantation before we're finished). Settler out EOT 37, second city planted T39 (assuming nothing goes wrong).

[UnforcedError]

Shame that they were standing on a hill. It might have been better to try and attack the bear otherwise. Damn those stupid dwarves. NE was a good move in this case.

[flugauto]

HK, why did you move your units NW on the hill, couldnt you move them NE?

[Merovech]

HK, why did you move your units NW on the hill, couldnt you move them NE?

He did move them NE.

[HidingKneel]

I think Flugauto is asking why I didn't move NE on the previous turn. The answer is that jungled hill SEE of where my
lizards are standing in that screenshot; the dwarves could have used it to double-move and hit my lizards.
The hill with the dyes was my only option to avoid getting hit by the dwarves last turn. I may have just delayed the inevitable, but I find it's a mistake to overestimate the AI's tactical acumen.

[HidingKneel]

Then again, maybe my luck is pretty good after all:

[HidingKneel]

Another lair result:



That scout is in a spot of trouble, now. I moved to the jungle hill SE. That should give me better-than-even odds of surviving against the spectre.

In other news, two civs are still languishing at size 1. One of them is Selrahc, not sure about the other (haven't been doing my C&D homework).

[UnforcedError]

Good job by the lizardmen We might have some mobile defenders after all

[HidingKneel]

Two more turns played.

Volantis is in position to pop another graveyard next turn:



Finished Calendar and grew to size 3 at EOT:



The Sidar are still at size 1. Building a settler? Trouble with barbarians? Unclear. Anyway, it looks like the Sidar and Illians are logging behind, the Balseraphs and Calabim are shooting ahead, and we're somewhere in the middle.

So, minor micro decision to make next turn. Do I revolt to agrarianism next turn, or the turn after completing my settler?

My only farm is the rice farm, and I'm only going to work that tile for three more turns before growing to size 4, at which point I swap to working plains forest while building my settler. The extra food won't get me to size 4 any earlier, so the swap means getting the settler out a turn later.

OTOH, it will be better to eat that turn of anarchy now, when I'm size 3 working unimproved tiles, rather than later when I'm size 4 with a silk plantation.

Altogether I guess it breaks down to this: swapping now nets me 2 food, 1 hammer, and 4 commerce. Is that worth a 1-turn settler delay?

[UnforcedError]

I'd finish the settler and revolt afterwards while it's on the move.