SGOTM 14 - Kakumeika

shulec said:

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shulec said:

Tachy, what do you think of 50 gold for research vision from Elizabeth. I am leaning toward no. Kaitzilla is hesitant too.

Elizabeth was 5 turns from engineering on turn 137. I am on T 139 now.

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Humm...err.

If I could find those damn formulae for tech stealing and other stuff, then I would be slightly less hesitant. For now, I would prefer to wait before investing EP coming from the slider.

mabraham will come with a strong justification for any yes or no.

shulec said:

Question:
Eastern witches are pushing their EP points up. Most of our points are going to them to stay ahead of their research.
After stealing from Elizabeth, we are far from being able to see her research.

I suggest we wait for the infiltration, which is probably 10 turns away.

I don't want to touch the slider, but...

Should I put the slider up for one turn all on Elizabeth? It will cost 50 gold at 50% reasearch to put us at 160 when she is at 153.

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shulec said:

Asoka is going to block off our route to Cimmeran, he has a settler en route:

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I am poised to switch to CS/Pacifism. I don't see much value to trying to block him. Am I wrong?

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mabraham said:

I don't see it matters. I suggest we leave a single elephant to defend, expect to lose this city to Ragnar after the DOW, and use that single elephant to escort our worker home after the DOW.

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shulec said:

T 142
Steal Optics. Spy lives.
Monty will have CS in 5 turns. I galleyed in a spy to Trojan Horse right after spy gone. He can already run missions. Five turns until CS steal.

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mabraham said:

Make sure you unload the spy. Stationary bonuses no longer accrue to spies on boats, though once upon a time they did.

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shulec said:

Already done.

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shulec said:

T 143
Spy in Trojan Horse detected; dead.

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shulec said:

Turn set finished. I will comment on it tomorrow.

I also have a new sneaky, legal, plan to find the wizard!

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• Workboat over on the west heads towards the barb island city near Monty, hopefully to sync with Astro to let us scout
• PPr (2496) is next to bulb. Bulb is worth 1740 right now. We put out 375 base beakers at 100%. Oxford is due in 3 turns. We won't have excess Gscientists to spend, so we must maximize bulbing efficiency. So I suggest we wait for Oxford, bulb and plan to put one turn of 100% on PPr to approximately finish it, then juggle slider to finish it. Then go back to temporising on Lib until we have the next GSci to bulb about half of Astro, which we finish manually.
• Are we sure we don't want an academy?
• Liz has a settler at the base of her spoke, heading somewhere.
• See screenshots for a possible UN site that we will need to organize settling this turn set. We want a bunch of forests to chop to go with our GEng, assuming that there's enough forests there to finish the UN... should do some maths some time.
• Asoka is spamming cities heavily
• Monty has roaded across the hub, which will help our missionary spread
• Next resolution in 4 turns. Only one member each of North and West is an AP member - but I think that is enough for holy war. Spreading to south by T158 or T168 and us DOWing the East could work for inciting holy war.
• We probably have enough votes to incite holy war all on our own - should we do it fast to buy ourselves a smoke screen? After spreading to South? Cimmerian will just die, but Isengard should be fine to spam longbows as required
• GPfarm is at full working size
• East and South are WE of two AIs each
• A border pop in Cimmerian will see some useful tiles
• A caravel can scout the seas heading clockwise without needing open borders
• Various trades can be renegotiated for more cash, Liz particularly
• EPs on West are half used up
• It will take 6+ turns to get tech vision on north with natural EPs
• Our espionage spending bonus is -28% (irrespective of the AI we spent against), so almost as good as the religion bonus!
• The mountains between Gandhi and Genghis cannot hide a unit. If we infiltrate the North, it will be known whether the mountains between Genghis and Eliz could have the wizard. (See screenshots.) Other mountain regions are unknowable at this stage.

mabraham said:

Tease...

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shulec said:

I will call it "closed border teleportation".

When a unit is in foreign territory when borders are closed, they are "teleported" to the nearest neutral land territory. Once the land by Ning-hsia in Genghis' land is claimed as his territory, we can put a unit on the peninsula in Elizabeths land. We close the borders, and if there is an unoccupied land tile in the mountain island, the unit will be "teleported" there.

I started an archer up that direction to consider trying that. We can also send our wandering chariot into Mansa's lands and try to teleport him to the island east of his lands.

This requires the AI to own all territory nearby. Potentially a stack can be teleported in if need be.

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