RB PBEM #1 - Gandhi [spoilers]

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Apostolic Palace [1]
  
• LQ - Worker [1]
  
• DV - Conf. Temple [3], mace [12] delayed
  
• BH - Forge [9], Mace [5], Courthouse [16] delayed, working all the farms I have so that BH can grow
  
• BS - Granary [6]
  
• AC - Granary [6]
  
• TN - Granary [1]
  
• Thing #1 - road to AC, connecting it to the network
  
• Thing #2 - mine at BH
  
• Thing #3 - plantation on TN's bananas
  
• Thing #4 - plantation on TN's bananas
  
• Thing #5 - farm at DV
  
• Thing #6 - farm at FF
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - heading into Dreylin's land to road some tiles
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - exploring sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - heading into mh's land
  
• Tech - Construction [59], +62g at 0% science
  
• GP [1] - 46% Priest, 45% Spy, 9% Engineer from FF (I hired a scientist for 1 round to bring this down to [1] instead of [2]
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds [5], 49g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [868], 73g
    
  • sooooo - Education [18] at 0% tech, GS in 2, 254g
    

I traded Education to Dreylin and requested Music and Philo from him. We have at least a 3 turn head start on sooooo for Liberalism. Our selected liberalism tech depends on what sooooo does with his GS due in 2 turns. If he burns it on Education, then we will probably just pick up Nationalism. If he doesn't, then there are lots of options.

I finished the AP at the end of my turn. I also have a Great Person coming out of my capital (see percentages above) at the end of this turn. Any guesses what I got?

No, it wasn't an Engineer - thank goodness, no idea what I would have done with that.
No, it wasn't a Priest - obvious play there would have been Christian Shrine (hmm - or, maybe settle as I am going all out Conf)
No, it wasn't the incredibly low chance scientist

YES - I got another Great Spy (Foshaug the Deceiver)! Options ...

1. bomb sooooo
   
2. bomb Dreylin
   
3. bomb mh
   
4. bomb athlete
   
5. golden age
   
6. settle
   
7. other (please specify)
   

So, avid reader - what do you think I should do with him?

[Krill]

Keep it as a spy to check on what you enemies are doing behnd the front lines. That's the nastiest thing you can do...

[Ruff_Hi]

email exchange with Dreylin ...

DReylin,

AP finished!
I got a Great Spy - what should I do with him?

I requested music and philo under different transactions - if we want to take a run at bulbing mil trad, I'll need music and I would like to convert to pacifism to run some scientists.

I'm saving $ at the moment.

Ruff,

Nice, the extra hammers will come in handy ... now to spread the
religion around a bit more!

Sent both techs across to you, per DeTOG. I have started Liberalism;
clock says it's due 7t from now, however based on actual beaker
accumulation I only need to find 2 (two) additional beakers to knock
that down to 6t - i.e. discovery at EOT t89. On the 6t TAT, I'm ~50g
short; however I might be able to pick that up from capturing
Sarmatian - due t87/88.

GSpy; couple of thoughts - 1) wander him around athlete's territory to
find his new city and scout his troop levels. 2) bomb athelte. 3) gift
him to me and I'll bomb athlete. Secondary benefit of 3) is that it
will make it very difficult for any of the others to see my research.
Right now both athlete and sooooo are putting all EPs against me; it
will be a few turns, but they'll get visibility soon enough.

In other news, I will start my Heroic Epic next turn, then gift the
unit, so that you can do the same.

Dreylin II.

Dreylin,

Great news re Liberalism. I'll watch sooooo and see what he does with the GS.

Do you have Drama? I am thinking of picking it up so that I can get my Globe up and running. I think I have the idea draft city in Death Valley (lots of farms) and close to the front line.

Re GSpy - I like your thinking re gifting him to you and you bombing mh or athlete. You have a NAP with Athlete so a mh bomb would prove much more useful in my opinion. Visibility into their cities is huge. And hiding your research will be a very handy if we can pull a Liberalism shuffle. Let me know if you need some $ - I have plenty (and maby 40g more based on the 4th test).

Re HEpic - I'm assuming your HA will hit the magic level 4 by killing that warrior. You'll have to wait until next turn to promote and then you can gift him to me for me to gift straight back.

This is all coming together very nicely.

[Ruff_Hi]

but that gossip fades to nothing compared to this ...

What a crushing day for England! Ugh, so bad!

In other news, I won't be extending our NAP past the minimum of T100 in the PBEM game. Not saying I'm going to attack, but I'd like to take away your sense of security . I still expect both sides to conform to the rest of the NAP clauses, like no spy-bombing and right-of-passage until the date the agreement expires.

Sooooo,

It was a good day to finally get some cricket to watch on tellie.

I note your non extension of the NAP past T100. I've enjoyed the benefits that the NAP has allowed both of our nations and I hope you have too.

Cheers,

I've been running a pretty thin military so far so this is a real shot in the arm to move me away from tech to military. The HE will really help here. As will my stone and fishing village (that will be pure military shortly). I should probably set up my stone city as a military pump too. I'll take a good look at my cities and report back next round.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Conf Missionary [1]
  
• LQ - Cross Bow [3]
  
• DV - Conf. Temple [1] - whipped, mace [12] delayed
  
• BH - Forge [5], Mace [5], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Granary [1], whipped
  
• AC - Granary [5]
  
• TN - Barracks [33]
  
• Thing #1 - road to AC, connecting it to the network
  
• Thing #2 - mine at BH
  
• Thing #3 - quarry at TN
  
• Thing #4 - road on TN's bananas
  
• Thing #5 - farm at DV
  
• Thing #6 - farm at FF
  
• Thing #7 - road at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - heading into Dreylin's land to road some tiles
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - exploring sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - heading into mh's land
  
• Tech - Construction [289], +67g at 0% science
  
• GP [18] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds [4], 33g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [867], 121g
    
  • sooooo - Education [7] at 70% tech, GS in 1, 223g @ -30gpt
    

I've decided to send the Great Spy to Dreylin and he will bomb one of athlete or mostly harmless. I've also swapped to slavery and started to slave some buildings. My capital will build some missionaries to get the conf spread going. I think the first two go to LQ and BH then probably one more to AC (fish city) and it can complete the other missionary spreads.

After that, the capital can start building horse archers and my other military cities can build mace, crossbow and catapults.

Maybe I will drop down my Southern copper city and have it build military too.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Stable [2]
  
• LQ - Cross Bow [2]
  
• DV - Barracks [1], mace [12] delayed
  
• BH - Forge [4], Mace [5], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [48]
  
• AC - Barracks [7]
  
• TN - Barracks [32]
  
• Thing #1 - farm at DV
  
• Thing #2 - mine at BH
  
• Thing #3 - mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - quarry at TN
  
• Thing #5 - quarry at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at FF
  
• Thing #7 - cottage at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - exploring sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Construction [1], -47g at 100% science, 70g in the bank
  
• GP [20] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds [3], 20g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [866], 174g
    
  • sooooo - Education [5] at 80% tech, GS born, 143g @ -41gpt
    

sooooo sent me the 40g as per the Ashes bet. Looks like sooooo will have to dial back his tech rate or import some $ to finish Education. England losing couldn't have come at a worse time for him.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Forge [2], Stable [1]
  
• LQ - Cross Bow [1]
  
• DV - mace [4]
  
• BH - Forge [3], Mace [5], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [47]
  
• AC - Barracks [6]
  
• TN - Barracks [31]
  
• Thing #1 - farm at DV
  
• Thing #2 - mine at BH
  
• Thing #3 - mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - quarry at TN
  
• Thing #5 - move to mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at FF
  
• Thing #7 - cottage at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [98], +63g at 0% science, 23g in the bank
  
• GP [19] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds [2], 1g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [865], 225g
    
  • sooooo - Education [4] at 70% tech, GS settled!, 113g @ -33gpt
    

sooooo settled his Great Scientist. He must be giving up on the Liberalism race. I still don't think we have time to pick up anything better than Nationalism. It will take me 14 turns to research it which is too long.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Forge [1], Stable [1]
  
• LQ - Conf Misisonary [2], Cross Bow sent to Block Head
  
• DV - mace [1] (whipped)
  
• BH - Forge [1], Mace [5], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [46]
  
• AC - Barracks [5]
  
• TN - Barracks [30]
  
• Thing #1 - move to chop at BH
  
• Thing #2 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #3 - mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #5 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - Connect BS to network
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [963], +69g at 0% science, 91g in the bank (but 50g to sooooo)
  
• GP [18] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds [163], 56g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [5], 198g
    
  • sooooo - Education [3] at 70% tech, GS settled!, 80g @ -35gpt
    

sooooo has a Great Engineer coming in 4 turns closely followed by a Great Scientist 100% in 9 or a GS/GM (30/70) in 7 (those latest turn turn counts will change after the GE is born).

I've allocated my cities as follows ...

• FF - capital, hammers and commerce
  
• LQ - commerce
  
• DV - commerce and food (going to put The Globe here)
  
• BH - military
  
• BS - commerce
  
• AC - military
  
• TN - military
  

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Stable [1]
  
• LQ - Conf Misisonary [1]
  
• DV - Crossbow [2]
  
• BH - Heroic Epic [7], Mace [4], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [45]
  
• AC - Barracks [1], whipped
  
• TN - Barracks [8]
  
• Thing #1 - moving to chop at BH
  
• Thing #2 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #3 - moving to mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #5 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - Connect BS to network
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North - found 2 workers and a settler
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [962], +67g at 0% science, 110g in the bank
  
• GP [17] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds complete, 21g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [4], 163g
    
  • sooooo - Education [2] at 60% tech, 102g @ -28gpt
    

10 turns until the sooooo NAP expires. I am busy kicking my power rating up. Sooooo has some units hiding in the fog (2 maces, phalanx, cat) near his blocking city - I expect he has done some testing to see how much info is exposed via my passive spying. Unfortunately for him, Dreylin has a unit in the area that passed on the info and I have a spy there too.

[Ruff_Hi]

• FF - Uni [2]
  
• LQ - Uni [4]
  
• DV - Crossbow [1]
  
• BH - Heroic Epic [6], Mace [4], Courthouse [16] delayed
  
• BS - Library [22]
  
• AC - Catapult [6]
  
• TN - Barracks [7]
  
• Thing #1 - chop at BH
  
• Thing #2 - move to chop at BH
  
• Thing #3 - mine at AC
  
• Thing #4 - mine at TN
  
• Thing #5 - move to mine at TN
  
• Thing #6 - farm at BS
  
• Thing #7 - mine at LQ
  
• Dreylin's Lackey (new worker) - roading some tiles for Dreylin
  
• Scout (Dead Man Walking) - scouting sooooo's North
  
• Scout (Live Man Walking) - scouting mh's land
  
• Tech - Gunpowder [97], +70g at 0% science, 177g in the bank
  
• GP [17] - 50% Priest, 25% Spy, 25% Engineer
  
• Opponent Current Tech Research
  • athlete - Guilds complete - traded to sooooo, Banking [618], 87g
    
  • mostly harmless - Engineering [3], 128g
    
  • sooooo - Education [1] at 60% tech, 76g @ -28gpt
    

News: I get Conf spread to AC after I hit 'end of turn'. That saves me some hammers.