Civac and the Last Pitboss

[civac2]

I was pretty busy last week. But not to the point I couldn't have reported more. Sorry about that.

I asked for opinions about city spots because I was unsure how to settle the middle. Unfortunately, your settling plan has some problems. There are several cities without first ring food resource and I also really wanted the border city with SD to be on a hill.

The situation:



Heliopolis and Elephantine recently whipped their granaries. The older cities are making workers and settlers. Currently, there are 5 active workers.

Last also got a lighthouse and is looking very nice.



Initially, I wanted to settle a city at the backline horses.



But it would be rather weak with only a crab for food (on north coast, not visible here) and the horses in second ring.

Instead, I planned to grab the horses in the middle of the map



and then changed my mind again to settle the border city with SD first because he is getting pretty close already. It should be safe enough. We are essentially tied for top power with our 7 warriors. So nobody else has any units either. For some reason I don't understand we have a trade connection to SD and can see he has copper connected by not his horses. SD also sent Fish/Fish last turn.

So the plan is to settle the border city on the hill, then grab the wheat/horse/stone spot, the island city in the northeast for better internal trade routes and furs and the border city with xist. The latter likely on the tile where his scout is or one tile further west if we are feeling frisky.

Demo:

[civac2]

I don't know why xist is so behind either. He used to be a rather weak player but made a significant jump in ability in the last year or so.

Yes, please choose a Broodwar or SC2 player for the next city name. An introductory post for them is not necessary but would be appreciated. Also tell me if you want a specific city for the name, otherwise I go in order of settling.

[BaII]

Don't feel too bad about not reporting it felt much easier to see the state of the world just by logining and looking around. I think as long as there's nothing u want to discuss it's not a big deal.

I see what you mean about the city sites because I didn't quite realize how quickly they would be going up. For the Sheep+Wheat city I was thinking we could have time for borders to expand from the rice+gold city but this city packing works better.

Yeah judging from the demos it feels like we've you've just out simmed the rest of the field slightly. Especially since before the whips we were much further ahead on hammers.

For the Xist border city what do you think about 1S of the scout? I'm okay with giving up the marble since I think we're going to be able to maintain control over the marble on SD's side since we have 2 cities with the marble in 2nd ring on SD borders vs his 1 city at most in 1st ring. And if he does place a city next to the marble it looks really indefensible. If you don't like 1S I do prefer on the Scout over 1W since we'll lose the rice in the 2nd ring and once again claiming the marble isn't that important and denying it doesn't feel that important as well since he's so far behind.

[BaII]

For our next city I think Soulkey would be a very fitting person.

He has been a very dominant force in the current post Kespa era and arguably reaching Flash level dominance after winning 4 ASL's in a row. Winning first place in ASL Seasons 16-19 and even before this dominant streak he was known for having strong ZvT and ZvP but always falling a bit short thanks to ZvZ.


For the 1 season ASL was rebranded as SSL you can watch him take down Light in the Ro8. I picked this series in particular because I want to highlight game 3 on Kickback because he's a known Crazy Zerg user. This is something I like a lot about Soulkey is his ability to have well thought out strategies suitable for a map.