Scouting continues in deep Rome:
So his capital is actually all the way down here. I'm kind of impressed by the size of his territory, given how far he was set back and his weak leader pick. But not that impressed by the city placements.
This'll be a lot of land to try and conquer. But if we can pull it off...
Popped another copper at Metamorphosis. This one is actually annoying, preventing me from windmilling the tile to keep it food neutral. I guess I could just keep the pigs on loan to this city forever. Creation has a decent food surplus with the loaned wheat and the lake.
The long term benefit of moving the palace to Atlas Shrugged and moving Republic 1E at the start is that I have just enough food with the lake to stagnate the city on all its land tiles, and found another city to the west to use the fish and the copper. There is more land to settle in the west, but Xist's cottaged stuff is juicer and I have cataphracts that want to be used.
Decision time. We have a few more turns of GA research to go through before finishing Guilds and doing the final civics swap. Do we want to sneak in CoL + Construction, or gun hard for Civil Service? That would mean giving up Vassalage, but the economic benefits would be solid.
Also, would it be worth swapping out of OR into paganism with the rest of the civic changes? We would be pushing hard on units post GA and it would save us a pretty penny on upkeep costs.
So his capital is actually all the way down here. I'm kind of impressed by the size of his territory, given how far he was set back and his weak leader pick. But not that impressed by the city placements.
This'll be a lot of land to try and conquer. But if we can pull it off...
Popped another copper at Metamorphosis. This one is actually annoying, preventing me from windmilling the tile to keep it food neutral. I guess I could just keep the pigs on loan to this city forever. Creation has a decent food surplus with the loaned wheat and the lake.
The long term benefit of moving the palace to Atlas Shrugged and moving Republic 1E at the start is that I have just enough food with the lake to stagnate the city on all its land tiles, and found another city to the west to use the fish and the copper. There is more land to settle in the west, but Xist's cottaged stuff is juicer and I have cataphracts that want to be used.
Decision time. We have a few more turns of GA research to go through before finishing Guilds and doing the final civics swap. Do we want to sneak in CoL + Construction, or gun hard for Civil Service? That would mean giving up Vassalage, but the economic benefits would be solid.
Also, would it be worth swapping out of OR into paganism with the rest of the civic changes? We would be pushing hard on units post GA and it would save us a pretty penny on upkeep costs.
