i'm quite honored to be an official lurker, thank you for that
No problem. Looking forward to your input.
1) I really was tempted to think about signing up. I however decided one culturally themed SG was enough at the time, plus Kodii has had to put up with me in two games, and that's probably enough.
You're welcome to join in, as either a player or a lurker.
2) Outstanding early capital....mediocre late capital
We can always jump the capitol later. I typically don't, but this game we might want to.
4) I would say you 100% need to go for the religions - it's on the Oracle path, and you do NOT want a nearby holy city if you can help it. I know it isn't guaranteed, but I would definitely still be trying.
I see both of your alls points and I'm inclined to agree with you. Originally I had thought of shooting for Writing (OB) and CoL (Confused), the problem is that could take too long. Hinduism then? I believe we have the best chance at it.
5) ....are you sure this is winnable? The more I think about the fact that you can't attack tiles, plus the fact that you are on Monarch....seems rough. I'm just not sure how to handle an AI putting a large garrison in a border city.
The game wouldn't be worth playing if it was going to be easy. Plus, it wouldn't be worthy of carrying the title 'RB'. BTW sunrise, I hope you stick around and take part in the discussion.
Of course we would be running a SE system for the reasons u said earlier , its very hard to discover an early religion but i guess we can get Judism.
If we miss out on Hinduism (or Buddhism, whichever one we go for), Judaism will hopefully be our plan B.
Checking in. Let's look around the neighborhood a bit before committing to a plan.
Remember, due to the variant rules the starting warrior has to stick with the settler. Once our capitol is founded he can't leave our cultural borders. If we wish to scout the surrounding land, we'll need scouts to do it.
I like where the settler sits right now, as it gives a nice mix of land and water tiles and unless my grid eyeballs are out of sync with the terrain those are nice coastal flounder and not ocean cod hiding in Georges Bank.
Seems like everyone is okay with settling in place, or at least I haven't heard anyone speak against it.
This game is definitely going to be a tough one (if not impossible). If I'm not mistaken, it is impossible to flip a city with a certain number of troops in it.
Again, what fun is it to play a game that your fairly positive your going to win? I admit, this is going to be tough and I've added to it to make it even harder, but it's sure going to be fun IMO. Hopefully we're all up to the challenge (and that includes are lurkers).
from the specialist (SE/Representation) would help keep us up research wise. I can't see using cottages much, unless its in our capitol. All the artist specialist will help generate great artist, which we can use to culture bomb certain locations to help push our borders.
. So I'm unsure if we'll be able to compete with any AI's that start with Mysticism. I realize we need religion(s) to win this game. I'm just unsure it would be wise to go for the early ones at such a disadvantage.
