Thought I would post the first five turns.
I will play the next five tomorrow night.
0 0550 BC
Rename:
- Konigsberg -> Königsberg
- Munich -> München
- Frankfurt -> Eisenstadt (= "Iron City")
Work irrigated plain for Eisenstadt.
München: catapult in 17 -> barracks in 17.
Kolossusstadt: catapult in 3 -> palace in 59 (market prebuild).
Wake irrigating worker at München and start roading instead.
Five Turn Settler Pump (Post #124)
T1 (5f): 3 floodplains, 1 mined oasis, 1 irrigated plain, city center: 4s
T2 (5f): same as T1 plus forest on growth: 6s
T3 (3f): 1 floodplain, 1 mined oasis, 4 irrigated plains, city center: 7s
T4 (3f): same as T3: 7s
T5 (4f): 2 floodplains, 1 mined oasis, 3 irrigated plains, city center plus forest on growth: 8s
4 + 6 + 7 + 7 + 8 = 32
[IBT]
Oasenstadt: settler -> settler in 8.
1 0530 BC
England learned Polytheism.
Workers
1S of Eisenstadt, begins to road that hill.
2S of Eisenstadt, moves to 1S of Ossenstadt towards City Site #7.
1W of Eisenstadt, irrigates.
Settler for 8 1SE and 1S, crossing a river.
[IBT]
Königsberg: worker -> worker in 5.
Hamburg: vHorse -> vSpear in 4.
2 0510 BC
New Horse moves to 1NW of Königsberg.
Our Curragh finds Japan.
Japan has 9 cities and 19 gold. They lack Masonry, Philosphy, Code of Laws, Map Making and Polytheism. Having just met us they are already annoyed, so we must presume that they have an abudance of bad attitude, bad breath and body odor.
We offer them Philosophy, but all they have is 19 gold, no gold per turn.
Workers
New worker heads to City Site #7.
Settler for 8 moves 1S onto jungle.
First worker arrives at City Site #7.
[IBT]
3 00490 BC
Viking rSword moves adjancent to München but is on their side of the border.
Send lastest vHorse to München.
Exploring Curragh tresspasses Japan's water borders.
We gain back our 9 gpt we sent to Scandanavia.
Workers
1W-1NW of München heads to City Site #7.
Second worker arrives at City Site #7.
First arrival at City Site #7 starts draining the marsh, 16 turns.
Settler for 8 moves 1SW, jungle -> jungle, and is now at home, 3SW of Königsberg.
With the rSword across the border at München and the grass 1S of München now roaded, moving the worker to the other grass tile seems risky. Move that worker 1N, into the city and 1E, across a river onto a roaded hill.
In Oasenstadt Work 2 irrigated plains, 2 flood plains, 1 mined oasis and the forest for 7 shields, +3 food and 8 commerce. These stats are the same as the recommended plan of 4 irrigated plains, 1 flood plain and 1 mined oasis and easier to micro-manage.
[IBT]
Pre-boot from Japan (expected).
4 0470 BC
Viking rsword moves on and vanishes from sight.
Horse in München moves west across the river, so it can move more freely on laster turns, if needed.
Workers
Move our worker back across the river into München. Two turns wasted.
Third worker arrives at City Site #7.
Second worker helps drain the marsh, now 8 turns.
New city is built. Thought about naming it Die Achte Stadt or Stadt Nummer Acht but finally decide on Die Siedler von Catan.
Die Siedler von Catan starts a barracks.
[IBT]
5 0450 BC
Spacebar the vHorse in the hills.
Workers
Worker moves onto grass 1S of München.
Worker 1W of Eisenstadt begins to road the now irrigated plains.
Third worker joins the fun in draining the swamp for City Site #7, 5 turns.
In Oasenstadt, work 3rd irrgated plains instead of the forest, 6 shields produced and 4 extra food. Settler builds in 1, grows in 1.
[IBT]
And the save is attached.
and thinking only in terms of connecting Goldbergstadt, then it would actually take fewer (1+6+1+3=11) worker-turns to road the Hill 1E-1SE of K'berg, then go 1S across the river and road the Grass (bearing in mind that once we get Engineering, the river-movement penalty disappears). Downside to that plan is that this road would (for now) only serve Goldbergstadt, rather than 3 cities as described above.
These shields are better invested into additional horsemen. Better risk the occasional loss of a horseman once in a while, than to have a huge amount of shields wasted on slow and useless catapults.
