nice turns ~ hopefully we can whip that settler first thing next set. I would say we should go Iron Working rather than sailing at this point. Once that Settler is in, can we shift the overflow into the Oracle and work on that? I can't remember if we have Priesthood and am too lazy at the moment to check further up in the thread. Yeah, THAT lazy . . .
Well, we don't have priesthood yet, so I'm not sure why we're researching sailing, sure trade on rivers is nice, but we've not got any cities on rivers yet....
I think we need to move the research onto priesthood, whip the settler, and put the overflow into the archer.
hopefully we'll get another archer before priesthood is in in 8 turns. Then focus on the Oracle, maybe with a chop now we've got those trees on the northern shore of the lake.
The Oracle is going to cost us 225 hammers. Forests could give us 40. By the time we start on it, we'll be back up to 3, giving us a grand total of 3 hammers/turn. at size4 we get 2 more hammers, but it's going to be a whole long time until we get it, and we're up against not one but two industrious leaders. I think it's a real long shot to get it here.
Do we really want to invest the beakers for priesthood and hammers for the oracle ?
I plaid a couple of starts with the same settings and the oracle went around 1300 BC.
I think I'd prefer to see our hammers go into archers axemen and jags rather than just give us some gold. What does everyone else think ?
I'd also like to get an archer scouting round france to see if there's any workers to nab and to camp out near to copper to disconnect it as soon as hostilities break out. If we keep the archer (and later an axeman) in the French territory it will really slow down their expansion (but he will spam archers in his city). Is it worth that?