[SPOILERS] Novice starts improvising

[novice]

Maybe move the worker 1S and mine that hill, then potentially road it. Compatible with settling in any direction.

[novice]

Or maybe settling towards the corn makes little sense when we could just settle 1S of silver... Maybe move the scout SE next turn before moving the worker.

[plako]

Moved the scout. Nothing worth mentioning came up. Should I take risk and reveal more tiles next tun in this neighborhood? What do you want to do with the worker this turn?

[novice]

It looks like we can chop the forest 1N of corn and have TW in time for our next worker action. So let's do that. How many hammers and how much food do we have in the box?

[plako]

Warrior is 14/15 - food box is 4/26. So we could grow in 3, if we work Grassland forest instead of Silk forest for 1T. 2nd warrior wouldn't be finished in same time frame. Warrior is probably best kept close by although small peeks e.g. in south and NW could be done quite safely.

Moved to forest 1N from Corn and ended turn.

[novice]

Okay, work the silks, especially this turn 25, so we get 3h overflow from the warrior. Start a settler next turn, t26, and start chopping. With 11 fhpt, 3h overflow and 20 chop hammers the settler should be a 7-turn build. After the chop, the worker can road the tile it's on now, then road and chop the forest NW of it, for a work boat in fish/copper city. Will we have fishing by turn 34, when the city is settled?

We can also sneak in another warrior build but it delays the settler by three or four turns, so I think settler immediately and divert the chop to a warrior in case of trouble. At any rate Mercator needs to be building a settler on t26 and t28, to pick up the overflow and the chop.

[plako]

T26

Scout healing in place - worker started choppping - Settler.

[plako]

T27

[plako]

What about roading the forested tile after chop and then moving to chop the forest from 2nd city position. Not sure, if the timings are right.

[novice]

You mean chopping the forest on the plains hill where we'll settle? Yeah, that could work. Let's move the warrior up there regardless.