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How is 2W of the beaver a better city?

The White City will be pretty weak until techs like Communism, Replaceable Parts, Chemistry, and Biology. We could farm the two grasslands, build a windmill, a couple watermills, and let it grow in anticipation of the techs that will make it more productive. If Gandhi is the first AI we take...

Knock down the culture defenses with cats and the odds swing towards CR1. But your point is true that CR and other specialty promotions get weaker (while attacking) the more defensive bonuses the defender has. If a defender is getting 100% defensive bonus, CR1 only weakens the defender by 10%...

You can sell it and still get diplo benefit if the price is less than the AI would be willing to pay. But I think maximizing diplo benefit is more important than getting a bit more gold, so I would gift.

iggy One reason I chose Lizzy was for the warrior. I tried Darius a few times and didn't like having to rely on luck to pop a warrior. Taking out AI quickly means more huts for me. Also, the Organized trait is not as useful on low difficulties where maintenance is low. Philo really shines with...

If the next two cities we settle are the red and blue cities on the dotmap, we can end the war with Gandhi soon. St. Pete's next (and final) settler can grab the northwest site before Gandhi gets there, especially if we build a road. And Gandhi will never beat us to ice island.

Moscow can whip another settler soon (could grow to Pop8 next turn). It would be good to adopt religion with two settlers in route.

I don't think Gandhi will attack with the war elephant AND protect it with a LB from Delhi. That would leave one LB in Delhi. The AI doesn't usually do that when a city is threatened. If G's elephant is within range of both of ours next turn, I think it's ok to attack it. If it beelines for St...

Good work CP! Let's see the save. I guess Gandhi's GA was settled in Bombay? You probably would have seen it if it had moved to Delhi? Mao having enough on his hands probably means he's going to war with someone on his continent. If Delhi builds another ship, you will have one turn warning...

Play on.

I'll take the land, as long as I can tech/trade/Oracle Code of Laws and Currency in a reasonable amount of time. Research Pottery early and whip granaries. Cottage spam. Be sure to build/whip enough workers to avoid working tiles without resources/cottages. With knowledge of Currency, build...

You might be right. Maybe we should keep that trump card.

A separate landmass is a separate continent for the purposes of the Great Wall and other wonders that apply only to the continent on which they are built.

Free Religion gives a 10% increase to your raw beakers. So it wont increase your current science output by 10% when you already have a lot of libraries, universities, academies, etc. If you're making 1000 beakers per turn, your raw beakers might only be 500. So Free Religion would increase your...

There are only 6 tiles left for circumnavigation. So if we buy G's map again on T29, we will probably complete the circuit. I think that since we've come this far, we should delay the war on Gandhi and take what looks like certain circumnavigation. We might be able to steal 2-3 workers in 2...

Sorry. Didn't mean to take it from you at the last minute. I didn't have time to play this one until last night and today. There's always the next one. :)

My thoughts exactly.

The first thing.

Low. Gandhi will probably start on an elephant immediately after or soon after hooking ivory. I wouldn't delay the war if you can capture a worker. Be sure to buy G's map before declaring. Play when you're ready.

I haven't seen any evidence in my test games that we could trade for PP easily. I'd say T27.