First draft, mostly stolen from the prior discussions
dV Draft PPP
Goal: Fast cultural win
Opportunities: GA from music still in play (right?)
Challenges: Could Tgawa, or an unmet beat us to Music? Economy is suffering. Minimal commerce on land, only one TR per city since no currency yet. Where will science come from? Clearly, not the slider.
Per aj: Phases of the game remaining:
1) Tech to Music. Build Sistine Chapel. Still growing cities and building infrastructure.
2) Tech to Philosophy. Switch to Pacifism. Start assigning artists under Caste System. (and scientists in one city for Education). The artists are a significant source of
3) Tech to Liberalism, get there first and take Nationalism. Switch to Free Speech. Start completing Cathedrals.
4) Tech to Drama. Turn down science slider for culture slider. Maximise Culture.
dV Turnset goal: tech to music.
RESEARCH: Lit>Music ASAP
Where to get science? Specialists. Artists generally, maybe scientitsts in Kyoto (academy)?
CITY BUILDS: (see spoil for prior comments)
aj recent recs on city builds:
(are we going for a cheap S Paya? If so where?)
In all cases, if a city is already part building something, assume it will finish it.
Delhi: 1x spear for the garrison in Kyoto. Then get started on Parthenon. Keep working cottages/farms in preference to mines however.
Bombay: Build 1x spear + 1x archer for Kyoto. Then get started on Status of Zeus.
Vijay: Build Settler for western island. Then continue with temple/monastery/library/missionaries.
Patal: Build a galley+archer to ferry/defend settler to western island. Then an archer for itself. Then the usual mix of hindu temples/monastery/missionaries with city walls inserted perhaps.
Varanasi: Archer x1 for Kyoto. Then usual mix of Hindu temple/monastery/missionaries/library.
Osaka: Granary. Consider giving up the Corn farm to Bombay and have the city work mines.
Tokyo: Assign artist specialist when out of revolt. Then... Christian missionary? Library? Courthouse? Spears or Archers?
Kyoto: Same story as Tokyo. Consider inserting City Walls.
With Academy in Kyoto, should we run scientists there for faster research? Maybe city walls while waiting for a Hindu miss? Then H mon, H temple, lib?
FAST WORKER ACTION PLAN
In general, continue building Farms & Mines, maybe pre-chop a few Forests.
I assume we are not cottaging
or maybe in Delhi?
Again, given the Academy, do we cottage Kyoto? Or do we solve cash flow by running merchants somewhere? Delhi gene pool is already whack, so maybe that is a place for non-artist specialists?
THE WAR
Are we done fighting Toku, unless he declares?
Defense plan? How do we want to redistribute the army for defense?
CIVICS CHANGES & OTHER STUFF
Per aj: I think we switch to Caste System + Organised Religion immediately.
Artists everywhere, except maybe scientists in Kyoto?
Diplomacy: Do we have plans to try to manipulate AI religions, OB with us and OB with others?
Espionage: Where do we want to direct the points now?
REASONS TO PAUSE
Hammy or Liz or Hattie offer us a trade, or a trade becomes available that we could offer one of them.
We meet another ****gawa.
Anything out of the ordinary (like a large English stack of units showing up).