[spoilers] novice & moon shoot the world

[Shoot the Moon]

Have you played yet? If not give me an hour or so and I'll load up the game to give some suggestions.

[novice]

Have you played yet? If not give me an hour or so and I'll load up the game to give some suggestions.

Yeah, that screenshot was after ending turn 43, which I played last night. I didn't want to hold it since we could get another turn played if I didn't. Turn 44 should be with us shortly.

[Shoot the Moon]

Have you played yet? If not give me an hour or so and I'll load up the game to give some suggestions.

Yeah, that screenshot was after ending turn 43, which I played last night. I didn't want to hold it since we could get another turn played if I didn't. Turn 44 should be with us shortly.

Alright I should be around most of the day intermittently so I'll try to look at t44 when it comes in.

[Shoot the Moon]

News for the new turn is that mackoti moved the chariot out of his city and the city now has a spear in it instead.

My thoughts for the turn: I'd like to try to get our cow pasture done while it is still safe to do so. I think I would say move one more warrior onto that tile and move the second worker on as well. We'd have 2 WCs and one warrior on the tile. Even if he roads, I doubt he'd have three units that could attack and enough to defend his city aftwerward. We'd then be able to leave 2WCs and a warrior in Lucky Luke.

I'd say after getting the ivory hooked up switch William Tell off the rice and onto the grassland cottage and then give the rice to cupid.

I assume you are planning to turn on research this turn?

[novice]

I played turn 44, following the suggestions above.



I put one turn into a war chariot in Legolas so we have an emergency whip available there. The plan is to switch back to the granary and chop it to completion.

I want Robin Hood to grow to 19/40 on the monastery and whip it into a missionary. Legolas should grow on a library and 2-whip it.

Where should we send the settler that's completing in Robin Hood?

I found another assymetry in the map - the river to our northwest has a different course from the one to our northeast.



Oh, and our southwest is a dead end, it seems. Should we aim for a city grabbing silver/furs/marble ASAP? Say, 1E of the marble. It can build ships, we just need forts to let them out into the oceans.

[novice]

Sandbox: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...dSwordSave

[novice]

Shoot, what do you think about putting the overflow in Cupid into a library, to be whipped at size 4? Then switch techs from Mathematics to Iron Working, and get the gems mined and bananas farmed. Then we can have Cupid run scientists and Lucky Luke run priests. Or Cupid could run a mix of both.

Mathematics feels like it can wait a bit longer, we don't really need to chop much, our workers have enough to do as it is.

[Shoot the Moon]

Shoot, what do you think about putting the overflow in Cupid into a library, to be whipped at size 4? Then switch techs from Mathematics to Iron Working, and get the gems mined and bananas farmed. Then we can have Cupid run scientists and Lucky Luke run priests. Or Cupid could run a mix of both.

Mathematics feels like it can wait a bit longer, we don't really need to chop much, our workers have enough to do as it is.

I agree with all of that, although it might be worth considering worker/settler whip cycles while regrowing on the library instead of whipping the library itself.

In terms of Robin Hood's settler, remind me what we settled on as a dotmap of the SW. I'd say obviously somewhere there.

[novice]

I agree with all of that, although it might be worth considering worker/settler whip cycles while regrowing on the library instead of whipping the library itself.

In terms of Robin Hood's settler, remind me what we settled on as a dotmap of the SW. I'd say obviously somewhere there.

Well, if we're getting IW now we need the Library now too to expand the borders.

As for our dotmap, it probably needs to be reworked. Here are the spots we've discussed, plus a few I added just now:



I think we had agreed on spots A and B, in that order. I've recently suggested settling C instead, to get copper online ASAP and to share some of RH's tiles, since RH isn't able to work all of them. D could then grab the wheat, and gain cultural control of the canal hill towards Gaspar. The downside with C is that it kind of leaves our silks hanging, to be claimed by Gaspar's holy city. Then again, there isn't really any food for a silks city. E is probably our long term target, settle that and possibly chop out MoM in William Tell, B, or a city between E and B.

The offshore platform is there to remind me that we haven't defogged that tile in-game, so it could have a resource. We haven't defogged the north coast of the tundra peninsula either.

If you want to take your own stab at a dotmap, here's a background image:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...ground.jpg
Or just move the existing dots around in the Paint.Net version:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...dotmap.pdn

[novice]

Here's another take on a dotmap:


Just settle G and E at first, to grab the goodies, and settle the rest in due time. G has 10 forests and 11 riverside tiles.