[spoilers] novice & moon shoot the world

[novice]

If that's his capital, we're CLOSE. Very glad we have war chariots more or less already hooked up

Yeah. It should be his capital - it's 12 tiles east of ours, and the map is 60 tiles wide - 5x12.

[novice]

Also, we have contested land in the northeast and northwest. Our southwest is uncontested.

[novice]

Updated sandbox:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...dSwordSave

The mirroring of the five bands is not perfect - there's missing a small river to Mackoti's southwest. So either there are some intentional variations, or the copying was done by hand.

Commodore, my map tool has a function for repeating a map n number of times vertically or horizontally.

[Shoot the Moon]

Updated sandbox:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...dSwordSave

The mirroring of the five bands is not perfect - there's missing a small river to Mackoti's southwest. So either there are some intentional variations, or the copying was done by hand.

Commodore, my map tool has a function for repeating a map n number of times vertically or horizontally.

Or late edits were made after using your tool originally

[Commodore]

I'll quote the request: Balanced but not purely mirrored.

[novice]

Turn 34 is in and I just moved the northeast warrior and then paused to plan.



I think our next city should go northwest of the rice, there. I'm going to do some simming before continuing the turn.

Somebody non-Mackotian finished the Oracle. I happened in 2020 BC so it wasn't Serdoa. Seven or Gaspar in other words, most likely Gaspar. I guess we skip Priesthood then? It won't save us many beakers on Writing so it's probably not worth delaying Mathematics.

[novice]

Okay, we can settle the cows/rice city in the northeast on t40, roaded to and supported by two workers. And the equivalent site in the northwest on t41, also supported by two workers. I think we should go for it.

[kjn]

Some possible names for more cities:

Per Stigman
Arjuna
Odysseus (ok, maybe not mainly known for archery)

[novice]

Okay, so I finished turn 34 and rearranged our worker actions to prepare for settling north instead of south. We're not improving the sheep at Robin Hood yet, since it has enough tiles to work already, and the worker turns are better spent elsewhere. The worker hooking the horses can do the sheep pasture afterwards. The rest is pretty straightforward, worker E coming out of William Tell at end of turn will road the tile 2S of the city next turn to speed up the transit of our settler from Robin Hood to the northeastern site. This worker will then road across the ivory and to the northwestern site, along with the worker currently improving William Tell's sheep. The two workers by Cupid will take care of a road through the jungle there.



Robin Hood put enough hammers into a settler to make it 2-whippable this turn, so now it just needs to regrow to size 4 and then whip the settler. William Tell will use its worker whip overflow to make a 2-whippable settler next turn, and then pull the same grow to 4 and whip routine for a settler for the northwestern city.



Since we're not settling south yet, I figured our scout there should just go deep.

We got Mackoti's graphs at end of turn, nothing surprising there. He doesn't have a larger army than us.

[novice]

I just realized Hinduism is unfounded. So we probably beat Gaspar to Meditation by a turn or two, since he didn't go through Polytheism to Priesthood instead. Makes me feel good about delaying AH until after Meditation.