[SPOILERS] Bacchus and Archduke serve a mouthful of Pecorino Romano

[Bacchus]

Yeah, we are definitely in a south-western corner. Unless it's a weird Pangea in two parts connected by a landbridge to our south-west. I assume there is one other player on the other side of Jerusalem in any case. Warrior will return to Hatch to heal up, I'll do some scouting of the blank area in the centre of the map with a slinger. Archery sandbagged a turn away from completion, research set to Writing. Capital completes Builder next turn, sets to growth, and we spend some culture on Mysticism. Start Settler at Size 4, work the 5-0, 2-3, 1-3, 1-3 tiles for 13 base cogs, 15 with trade route (or is it 16?) The Settler should fly out like a cannon ball. Then set to Urban Planning and Agoge, pre-complete two units, switch to Ilkum, get builder, chop into units, taking overflow into... maybe even a Commercial Hub.

[TheArchduke]

Mysticism? Why not Mil Tradition, in case of a rush the support boni are invaluable. Wars are won with it.

Or is it infrastructure city?

Might make more sense, do infrastructure, prebuild legions and then do the nasty.

[Bacchus]

Don't yet have Craftsmanship for MilTrad.

Actually, to think about it, a true rush (where you sacrifice economy for timing) would be to grab Craftsmanship without Inspiration and MilTrad, ignoring the Foreign Trade part of the tree completely at first. And Rome has just the bonuses for this approach. Still, more of a duel maneuver, probably not worth it in FFA.

I am also leaning towards a more traditional Legion push at the moment. I don't think our land is subpar, so we don't yet fall behind by developing it. But then we do need to push and do earn an advantage to stand up against Lavras/Discount Districts. Might even switch from Writing to BW, for which we have a eureka already, take the Agoge overflow hammers into a camp. The biggest problem with this pushis that it's broadcast publicly well in advance.

[TheArchduke]

Well, to be honest, how exactly can he deal with a GG powered legion attack?

The answer is, badly. Even broadcasted, there is only so much you can do on the defensive.



I concur though a risky rush with the science Natural Wonder and Rome culture boost ist not necessary.

[Bacchus]

Met Rowain of Germany in an unknown location. He is making two faith per turn from Jerusalem though, so not that unknown. He offered DOF, which I accepted. It's turn 30 for reference, so until T60. Accepted because we have a very clear target for the next 30 turns and it's NOT Rowain.

Bought a trader. Moved builder to second farm, will hit 6 pop in 2 turns and 7 in three. Need to find more city states for the Mysticism envoy. Units clearing a camp.

[TheArchduke]

Screenies or it did not happen.:D

I will be a bit more pushy about that, especially if I am on call to play for you.

Do not need passages of texts, no worries, though.

[Bacchus]

Yeah, I should have screenshotted, sorry. Currently travelling back, should be more in order soon.

[Bacchus]

The latter is Krill, presumably armed with the Divine Spark pantheon. Emperor K still hasn't founded the second city. We are quite close to founding the third.

[TheArchduke]

Strange that noone has made a play for Hypatia yet.

[Bacchus]

Not at all, there's been no chance to build a campus yet, unless you skipped on the initial settler. In fact, I'm not sure even if someone beelined Writing whether they'd have the time to build a fully priced district. Given Emperor K's lack of a city, however, I do expect a Campus to come online soon. Then probably a German one. For us, we have two +3 adjacency spots if we settle the jungle city in the west, so my tentative plan is to build 2 Encampments, then two discounted Campuses, then discounted commercial hubs.