[spoilers] Commodore: Worse than Toku, it's Giggles of Siam!

[SadGit]

Oh dear it seems the strain of running a large empire is getting to you. Might want to have a lie down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEcsgbwBFRs

[Thoth]

*cackles madly*


BTW: Commodore....next turn we can two pop whip the settler in Ivory Craphole. Given the level of tile development around Sheep/Copper, I think saving 6t on the city is worth not working a couple of crappy non-river cotts for a few turns.

[Commodore]

:| :D and all.

Serdoa did keep Angle, if anyone wondered. We're going to be sniping this if at all possible.


Turned on tech, which made GNP bump nicely...but um, we're still 4th? Yikes. Well, clutch tightly to crop yield, whimper about how Plako and Slowcheetah are in golden ages, and keep on depressing GNP through expansion.


GS born at the end of next turn.

[Thoth]

282 GNP to 332 max is nothing to whinge about when there are two furrin GA's going on.

Keep on truckin'

[Thoth]

Soldier boy count is a mite worriesome....last time I checked our army was a paper tiger of Ancient era crap.

[Commodore]

Soldier boy count is a mite worriesome....last time I checked our army was a paper tiger of Ancient era crap.

Eh, enough cats in the mix that I'm not too worried about a land invasion right now, although HA/mammoths/more cats definitely needed. Mostly I'm worried about naval vectors...I'm going to plan for 4-5 triremes in the puddles, I think.

[Commodore]

Celebrate! We can get our mammoths back the second we feel like building them. Which is probably next turn, honestly. Adhoc is awesome, we're definitely saving him for dessert.


Brick is awesome too. Not only did he DoW on Serdoa, I see from civstats he's taken a city. Nice, man! Now watch his wife go into labor tomorrow and he leaves Yuri a hot war.


Meanwhile, we've got incoming ourselves! Lovely, fresh off killing my fleet, this barb galley is sailing in just in time to avoid triremes. My galley whip there in Amazon, though, should be able to beat the 60hp galley off. Still, darned annoying, triremes needed yesterday.


Metal Casing coming in, we'll need to decide when to hit up Aesthetics for the Parthenon. Whips will be how we get the extra 50 base hammers, so no massive rush. Sorry Sandhurst, you'll probably be awaiting Civil Service first.


Turn: 139
Current Status:

[Commodore]

In the end of the year 575 AD, Isaac Newton was born within the newly Hindu city of Verdant Acres. He joined the Library at a very young age, a by the end of his twenty-fourth year he was accorded the rank of Scientist. His prickly attitude and unconventional beliefs, however, saw him at odds with the staff and his philosophical discussions tended to make the Hindu priests in the city nervous. In 604, he was fired from his position after challenging the head priest to a debate, where he not only dragged the man over the coals for his theology but also mocked the entire city's worth of Hindus as fools and possible traitors.


Newton left in a huff, moving north to the city of The Greenways, where the people officially worshiped no formal religion. Newton settled in a hamlet a little southeast of the city and thought to retire to his writing. However, he brought scores of young, bright men with him in his wake, and they would publish every essay he wrote. Newton invented a systematic Philosophy for the first time in the world, while his disciples founded a new religion upon his teachings. Taoism, they called it, where they worshiped a god unknown and unknowable, and sought to define the Path to Him, or Them, or It, as the highest goal of man. This religion would sweep the entire Greater Kingdom like a fire.


...so that's obviously the biggest news of the turn. The other score bump was far milder, but founding North's Corner and chopping out its granary primes the place for a rocket start. This will be a very high-hammer city.


First of many triremes has been started in Amazon, but barring terrible luck we ought not need it. Oledavy, bless this ship.


Turn: 140
Status:

[flugauto]

How many workers do you have?

[Commodore]

How many workers do you have?

...and more being built.