[Spoilers] I have enough games already. Oh look, a PBEM !

[AdrienIer]

Yeah kill the warrior if it goes east. Be careful about settling after the worker finishes the road to get trade routes on the first turn. Phalanx next is good, that way we keep Grimace away. Maintenance will go crazy once we settle, the city being far away and all. Not sure about growing to size 6 vs building a settler, I'd need to have the game in front of me to make a decision so I leave it to you.

[Miguelito]

I underestimated our research power. Meditation comes next turn, Priesthood the turn after
Need more workers (working on that)! More settlers (Pyth can start one after current worker, though maybe Phalanx first would be smart to reach the new gold powered research cap?)!

Sian already has four cities... but whatever, we're awesome
Grimace behaved and pulled back. Sian got his Impi in a place where he could be able to create problems or I might catch him in a Phalanx trap. Most probably he just keeps scouting.

[AdrienIer]

Will a city be ready to start the oracle on the turn we get the tech ?

[Miguelito]

I'll have Thales ready. It's doing another Phalanx to grow the turn we get the gold online

[AdrienIer]

Good. Thales will get the holy city I suppose.

[Miguelito]

We need to talk.

Good news first:



Priesthood next turn.

now the bad:

Grimace settled just before us ! We can move in with one Phalanx this turn, the other one the next, and one trailing from Thales starting next turn. That river sucks. What we gonna do?

also:

He's menacing our gold warrior. The road still has to be built (2t). we can move the Phalanx onto the gold, but if he moves onto the desert hill we would have to finish the road and then
- either move the Phalanx back into the city, leaving the worker with just the warrior
- attack with the Phalanx, onto a hill and across water
- dump one turn of production into a Phalanx and whip if need be

[AdrienIer]

First things first, does Grimace have copper connected ? If not then attack if yes I'm still tempted to attack. Are you available to chat ? I just received your hangout messages from 3 months ago and it's definitely the right time to finally use it.

[AdrienIer]

I can't get you on chat so for the gold put the Phalanx on the hill with the warrior and next turn you'll look at what Sian did. He can't see the city is empty right ?

[Miguelito]

we managed to chat after all and the consensus was hammer

[AdrienIer]

Ok so short version of our chat : Grimace has copper since t44 (according to old saves) so he doesn't have more than one vulture coming over (and vultures are worse than phalanxes) so the city is definitely conquerable. We're going in, Grimace has no good counter to phalanxes until crossbows and we'll have a 1-city front with our original city site if the attack succeeds and we burn him. In the east the phalanx goes to the gold hill and he can go back to the city next turn if Sian threatens it. The city itself will put 3h into a phalanx in case we need an emergency whip (the city is size 2 right ?)

I think that's it, now I'm heading for a visit of the empire state building by night