Yes, it's probably time to start making updates a regular thing.
Demos and cities for context (updated the naming scheme slightly since the last update):
Bigger overview:
So what's happened since last update. Well, between being swarmed by player warriors, Bob threatening us with holkans and Serdoa sending his first axe towards us I had to emergency whip some units I didn't want to, which has set us back a little. We would've easily had a 6th city by now if not for that. We've been comfortably first in power for a long time, which is not ideal for the expansion phase, but at least it has enabled us to reach our goals. We were limping to fishing, but after hooking up gold this turn and silver very soon we should be completely fine. Sacrificing some tech for production means getting full KTB bonuses on fishing, pottery and AH too.
One of my main targets for this early game was to secure a city by the corn and silver and it took some effort sending units (safely) all the way over there, but Inpulsa is now up and running and supplying commerce and luxuries for the Aztecs (silver improved in 1-2 turns). There's a Russian city in very close proximity, but this was expected. We settled the area first and intentionally put our city out of range of the cows to let Serdoa settle a border city of his own to claim cow and his own source of silver. Hopefully he can respect this arrangement, at least from our side we are happy to be prosperous friends for a long time. Settling Inpulsa 1 tile south of its current location would've been a better city long term, but also very likely to make Serdoa an enemy. We are breathing down each others necks right now, but this is also as close as we'll ever get, we can both backfill from here.
Now going forwards the idea is to quickly get (chop) granaries in all our cities and then launch another expansion wave. Perhaps start working on some river cottages and grow our two starting cities, taking advantage of the happy cap we've established for ourselves. We've got religion, gold, silver and ivory, resulting in +4 or +5 (depending on whether you want to count the temple), so we can grow a very large CoC. 6th city goes between Inpulsa and the capital.
Also worthy of note; Bob is looking more and more appetizing, now also sporting a completely safe western border (sea).
If we successfully conquer him at some point we'll only have Lewwyn to the north of him (which is already the case for our current NW empire). Great position to be in strategically -- nothing personal Bob! This is also why we don't want to make an enemy of Serdoa, we have no eastern ambitions right now. Claiming the corn is a big enough victory.
Demos and cities for context (updated the naming scheme slightly since the last update):
Bigger overview:
So what's happened since last update. Well, between being swarmed by player warriors, Bob threatening us with holkans and Serdoa sending his first axe towards us I had to emergency whip some units I didn't want to, which has set us back a little. We would've easily had a 6th city by now if not for that. We've been comfortably first in power for a long time, which is not ideal for the expansion phase, but at least it has enabled us to reach our goals. We were limping to fishing, but after hooking up gold this turn and silver very soon we should be completely fine. Sacrificing some tech for production means getting full KTB bonuses on fishing, pottery and AH too.
One of my main targets for this early game was to secure a city by the corn and silver and it took some effort sending units (safely) all the way over there, but Inpulsa is now up and running and supplying commerce and luxuries for the Aztecs (silver improved in 1-2 turns). There's a Russian city in very close proximity, but this was expected. We settled the area first and intentionally put our city out of range of the cows to let Serdoa settle a border city of his own to claim cow and his own source of silver. Hopefully he can respect this arrangement, at least from our side we are happy to be prosperous friends for a long time. Settling Inpulsa 1 tile south of its current location would've been a better city long term, but also very likely to make Serdoa an enemy. We are breathing down each others necks right now, but this is also as close as we'll ever get, we can both backfill from here.
Now going forwards the idea is to quickly get (chop) granaries in all our cities and then launch another expansion wave. Perhaps start working on some river cottages and grow our two starting cities, taking advantage of the happy cap we've established for ourselves. We've got religion, gold, silver and ivory, resulting in +4 or +5 (depending on whether you want to count the temple), so we can grow a very large CoC. 6th city goes between Inpulsa and the capital.
Also worthy of note; Bob is looking more and more appetizing, now also sporting a completely safe western border (sea).
If we successfully conquer him at some point we'll only have Lewwyn to the north of him (which is already the case for our current NW empire). Great position to be in strategically -- nothing personal Bob! This is also why we don't want to make an enemy of Serdoa, we have no eastern ambitions right now. Claiming the corn is a big enough victory.
