first, the
2470BC save
Preflight check (3300BC): Zoom into Beijing to see whats going on. Right now, we are working 3 FP wheats (2 irrigated) and 1 hill for +7fpt and +2spt. Wow, I wonder if well even need a granary here
But seriously, looks like it will fall as follows:
CC: 2fpt, 1spt
2FPW: 10fpt, 0spt (total)
3 mined hills: 3fpt, 6spt (total)
This will give us +5fpt and +7spt at size 5. At size 6, working another hill, we get +4fpt and +9spt so we will have to micromanage off the hill at turn 4 of the cycle to a food source. At size 6, turn 4 of the cycle, move the citizen off the mined hill and onto a FP Wheat (Not Irrigated) to get +7fpt and +7spt. Shield total per turn will be 7, 16(assumes citizen jumps to mined hill), 25, 32. We could probably get a 2nd town close to Beijing to share the extra FP wheat while its not in use.
MM Beijing: off FP wheat, onto hill, off irrigated FP wheat and onto hill, fire the scientist and put him on another hill for +1fpt and +5spt. Switch build to worker (if a DG AI wants us, another warrior wont help) due in 2T. Right now we are researching alphabet due in 27T. All three of our neighbors have it so its probably not worth researching. ATM, I shut down research to help fill the coffers a little and help with the lux tax. Increase lux tax up to 40% from 30% to let the extra citizen get that shield. Treasury is 23g making +4gpt
Iroquios seem to be right on top of us. Thought this was a large map? Rename warrior in Beijing to Ada and explorer to Jujan (thats bubba and biff to you and me
); Jujan goes NW in search of good land, right next to Grand River;
IBT: Iroquios ask us to leave, sure thing.
T1: 3250BC Jujan N
IBT: get booted out of Iroquois territory; Beijing worker -> worker, MM to get in 3T
T2: 3200BC Lower Lux tax to 30% (+5gpt); Jujan N; worker helps out with mining
T3: 3150BC Worker mines, Jujan to mountain; MM Beijing off hill and onto FP to get growth again and can lower lux tax (grow in 3T, worker still in 2T); Lux tax down to 20% for +7gpt
Inca up Alpha and BW now; Iroquois up Alpha, BW, and CB; Maya up Alpha
T4: 3100BC Jujan N
IBT: worker -> warrior (MM grow in 2T, warrior in 4T)
T5: 3050BC Move new worker NE of Beijing cause the other 2 will be done in 1T; Jujan NE, finds Inca border
T6: 3000BC Meet the Aztecs. They are up BW but wont trade; Jujan E (Inca have nice land); New worker mines and the other 2 road.
T7: 2950BC Jujan E; MM off hill and onto FP wheat to give quick growth boost.
Beijing warrior -> settler
T8: 2900BC Drop lux tax to 10% thanks to our warrior; Workers merge onto the same hill; MM off Irr FP wheat and onto river hill to shave 2T off settler build (settler and growth in 6T); Jujan SE and I now see where city #2 will go. Cant buy any techs right now.
T9: 2850BC Jujan W, workers mine the hill (6T to 2T)
IBT: Aztecs are building the Pyramids
T10: 2800BC Jujan NW
IBT: damit, Inca warrior/settler pair coming south to take our cow and theres nothing I can do about it
T11: 2750BC Workers finish 2nd mine, 2 begin roading and the 3rd moves N to hill
T12: 2710BC Jujan N to mountain (in Inca territory), blahh, lots of marshes. No wonder they are coming south. Worker mines.
T13: 2670BC Both workers move to hill, tempting a Mayan warrior; Jujan goes west
Iroquois now up the Wheel as well; Aztecs up the Wheel, Alpha, and BW; Iro and Inca up Wheel Alpha, BW, and CB; Maya up BW and Alpha; Can buy CB for 90g and 2gpt but no one has any gold to trade.
IBT: Beijing settler -> granery
T14: 2630BC MM lux tax to 0%; Jujan NW; Settler NW, N; workers mine; trading for CB will bankrupt us even though the Maya now know it too. Aztecs do not. However, probably not enough gold for a 2fer atm since the Iro want most of our treasury for CB.
IBT: Inca settle Ollantaytambo in an inane location, missing the lux and the cow but effectively cutting us off from getting both. Guess well settle for the lux.
T15: 2590BC Jujan goes west. Settler NW
T16: 2550BC Settler NW, 2 workers road, 1 worker 1 to dyes; MM Beijing for growth in 2T
T17: 2510BC Jujan N; Found Shanghai W of dyes -> warrior; worker begins to road dyes; gpt jumps to +11gpt.
Trades: Iroquois: 6gpt, 109g for the Wheel; Maya: CB for the Wheel (BW was available but for all our treasury (ie, no lux MMing possible)
T18: 2470BC Meet an American scout and they are up BW, Alpha, and Myst; workers finish road on hill and move to the 4th hill and they see a damn American settler to the south. These clowns are all over us, what the hell kind of arch map is this? MM Beijing to get granary in 6T, MM Shanghai to get warrior in 5T.
Got a little lost with the turn count and took 2 too many, I think.
We should consider switching the Beijing granary to a settler. It could finish another in 2T. The reason to consider it is because we are being pinched from all sides atm. There is hardly any room for expansion with Iro and Maya to our immediate W; Inca to the N, and Americans to the S. Also, there is a horse NW of Shanghai that we should probably go get. However, this may be a short term solution to a long term problem and we'd be better off sticking to the granery. Tough choice.
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