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[PB60] Amicalola and Vanrober: Gone' Fishing!
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(June 14th, 2021, 18:16)Amicalola Wrote: T56 T60-64 A few civilian whips later, and our demos (and egos) have come crashing back to earth. This looks more like what I expected.   
Fun thread, even if demos and/or egos have taken a bit of a hit. As for future workers/fishers, I'd like to nominate Huckleberry Finn, Simple Simon, and Thor.
T65-68
 We founded our 5th city, Mackerel. It will whip a monument (probably), but we're working on a granary for now just in case Judaism pops there. We're falling a bit behind the curve on cities - we were nearly last to 5, and 6+7 will be settled over the next ten turns. That probably is just the price we pay for the pick; Jowy also appears to be falling behind. However, 4 granaries feels pretty good, so it might not be that bad yet. As the research says, we'll get Monotheism in 4 turns for Judaism. No one had Polytheism last turn, so hopefully we'll be the first there. We're the last team with no convenient way to pop borders, so this is really important. Someone else (Mjmd?) already has Metal Casting!  (June 18th, 2021, 14:47)RefSteel Wrote: Fun thread, even if demos and/or egos have taken a bit of a hit. As for future workers/fishers, I'd like to nominate Huckleberry Finn, Simple Simon, and Thor. Thanks! Always appreciate more workers names. - - - Mackerel
Ohhhh now the little lighthouse has a parent to look up to.
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Pitboss: PB39, PB40, PB52, PB59 Useful Collections: Pickmethods, Mapmaking, Curious Civplayer Buy me a coffee (June 21st, 2021, 03:02)Charriu Wrote: Ohhhh now the little lighthouse has a parent to look up to. It's sweet, really. Although the citizens of Tuna seem to have decided to build GLH in the middle of the channel, which I think is the opposite of how lighthouses are supposed to work.  All jokes aside, this is probably the worst spot for Judaism to land, but it's still not terrible. It's amazing long-term, but right now it's a little rough because a) a temple here will compete with great merchant points, and b) Tuna has ~600 things to build already, so missionaries are tricky. Sardines would also have been 'meh' as well, but doesn't have to build Moai. Mackerel would have been great for a foothold in the north, but even slower to get going. So neither of those would have been too much better than Tuna. Only Flathead would have been the nuts, which I was really hoping for, but it wasn't very likely so can't really complain. Overall, very good news to get Judaism at all!  Edit: Maybe we should consider Moai in Sardine instead. It's worse, but MUCH faster. Also, we need to decide whether to risk an uber-fast prophet (with the high risk of merchant), or go the (very) slow way from another city. I'm leaning risky right now. (June 21st, 2021, 04:47)Amicalola Wrote:(June 21st, 2021, 03:02)Charriu Wrote: Ohhhh now the little lighthouse has a parent to look up to. I see no problem. Any approaching ship will be warned by the lighthouse about the dangerous objects in the middle of the channel. 
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Pitboss: PB39, PB40, PB52, PB59 Useful Collections: Pickmethods, Mapmaking, Curious Civplayer Buy me a coffee
Hey the strategy went really well! Im really glad, also we are in a decent possition, same amount of cities than SD and GKC and more than Jowy, having own religion and TGLH. Now we can expand fast claiming land without lose money being PRO plus that.
It seems we screwed Jowy, since he had sailing really early and still 4 cities, i guess he was trying to get it.
T73
Here's an up-to-date overview of the Maritime Empire. Cod, our sixth city, was founded this turn, as a cheap filler spot that requires little worker labour (except the silver, which we would have mined anyway). One nice thing about the Jewish Holy-Tuna is that it's central to the empire - I think that slightly increases the chance of natural spreads?  I think of the initial four cities (Salmon, Tuna, Flathead, Sardine) as the 'core,' each with a primary responsibility. Sardine will probably get the first (and possibly only?) missionary spread from Tuna, and will then take responsibility for pumping out missionaries. Salmon will grow onto cottages before returning to settler duty, while Flathead is now on worker duty. Tuna will build a missionary and temple for Shrine reasons, and then start Moai as the stone connects. Other cities will take a long time to be set up, so it will be these four carrying the empire for a long time. Our power is getting worryingly low, as you can see from the scoreboard ratios. We will build an axe and a spear in 4 turns, but even then we need to keep a close eye out for spikes. (June 21st, 2021, 07:26)vanrober Wrote: Hey the strategy went really well! Im really glad, also we are in a decent possition, same amount of cities than SD and GKC and more than Jowy, having own religion and TGLH. Now we can expand fast claiming land without lose money being PRO plus that.I'm also quite pleased with how our game is going. Expanding fast after a slow early-game is something I'm decent at, so I feel that we're in a position that plays to our strengths. I also wonder if we screwed Jowy, for the exact reasons Vanrober says. It'll be interesting to see after the game. As the turns get more involved, I'm going to start reporting them more frequently. Hopefully some of our discussion will be interesting to lurkers as well. Some interesting observations from the Info Dump: - Salmon has thus far produced every settler for the empire, currently at 5. - It also produced the first 4 workers, but Flathead produced numbers 5-6. - Tuna has produced 0 of either, despite being our second city. What a resource-hog! - We haven't slowed down in technology yet, despite our poor GNP. The longest gap between techs so far was between Animal Husbandry and Bronze Working (T19-32; 14 turns). I wonder if that will change now as we begin our Classical push. Cod |
