GeneralKilCavalry and thestick talk it out

[GeneralKilCavalry]

I think we're doing pretty well right now. I'm happy.



Rask has a huge GNP, but Rask has stonehenge AND Judaism, so I am not worried at all. We are doing well with tech right now, and keeping up in crop yield and MFG, although SD is very high on MFG.

I f'ed up the micro a bit with the capital, but whatever, 1 turn into praet, then switch to settler. The new worker in Arcole will chop, while Dumas will build a mine between Toulon and Arcole. Another forest will be chopped for Arcole's future settler. (Yes, it will happen!)

Lodi will go granary -> barracks -> settler.

Note that we are very much ahead in soldiers. We shouldn't be producing more military unless we are planning to invade, otherwise we will get a pre-emptive counter-reaction, and we don't want that, do we.

[thestick]

Alright re: military, assuming nothing wanders out of the fog near Green. Any plans to get the offshore island? Who are we going to send to road to/prepare for Green City? And hopefully we can take our scout off of fogbusting and begin scouting for more spots/keeping an eye on SD. That Green spot to the west by Crabs could be an okay seventh city...

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Demographics looking ok now.


barbs keeping coming, but that's just more free exp for our axeman. I wonder how the rest are doing with barbs with their low power graphs?

[thestick]

T64 Pre-Report

Cairo founded his fifth city, confusingly named Eye In The Sky, in contrast to his third city, Eye in the Sky.

SD is much closer than I thought:

   

City dump:

   

   

   

Graph dump:

   

   

   

SD is going absolutely nuts on food/MFG, as expected and feared. Power is good for him, but I'm wondering how much is real. We're wandering around with Axes and bronze units, while the only units we've seen out of him are quechuas. Of course, he has copper and horses, so our wandering Axe can only keep him honest, not invade.

If we didn't still have decent expansion prospects, especially in the jungle, I'd be so tempted to praet rush him...

Where are you hoping to put Lodi's Settler? On the island? Ideas on next tech? Only reasonable options seem to be Monotheism (OR and prep for Monarchy) and Writing (stagnate Arcole at Size 5 Corn/Iron/Horses/2 scientists to get an Academy, and prepare for the tech trade with Gavagai/TBW).

[thestick]

Do we have any diplo relations with SD? If we settle 1E of the Corn and can work out how to divvy up area by Peach Dot, we would have a decent border with him. Good borders make good neighbors, after all.

[thestick]

T65 Report

SD settled his seventh city. Cairo has 5, everyone else (including us) has 4. 

A Barb Axe is wandering out of the fog near Lodi, and we only have 1 4.2/5 Shock Axe in the area.

Gavagai has Alphabet, and we're heading on to Writing. Hopefully we can still flip IW for Alphabet with him. Also, for some reason he doesn't have Mysticism? Though he probably doesn't need it to build Totem Poles in this version of the mod.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

Gavagai proposed myst for alphabet, he doesn't want IW so that he can bulb calendar.

[thestick]

Hot dog, that's an amazing deal.

And ugh, Philosophical bulbs. At least Alphabet opens the road to Currency.

[GeneralKilCavalry]

What shitty RNG, losing those odds. This is going to set us back 4-5 turns on this front.

Settler finishing in Toulon next turn, granary in Abukir.
Abukir:
Barracks -> Settler
Toulon
praet -> galley
Lodi:
currently building a praet, then another, then a settler?

Getting to 7 cities would be nice...

[thestick]

Do you think we'll have enough Workers? Will have to reassess the Worker/money situation after Green city is settled.

I assume 6th city is the island? That'll pay for itself in trade routes, at least. Seventh city would be... on the Green by SD? Shares Corn, can hook up Crabs immediately.

Any crazy ideas for chopping out the Hanging Gardens out under TBW's nose?

Currency, or Monotheism/Monarchy next?