[BTS] BOTM 282 - Khmer, Immortal - First Spoiler to 1 AD

[kcd_swede]

BOTM 282: Suryavarman, Immortal - First Spoiler - 1AD



How is the forest chopping going for you?
Use this thread to tell us what happened in your game, up to 1AD

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• You have reached at least 1 AD in your game, OR
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[Xcalibrator]

Yes, a bit of a challenge with the slow start. I settled on the plains/river/forest to the SE and at 1 AD have 6 cities and 33 pop. I've just gotten HR this turn to allow growth beyond our meager resource-limited happy cap. I did nab the silver up north, which helped, and only recently got IW to unlock a couple jungle-covered gems. After BW for chopping, I "beelined" (in intent, if not speed) toward Aesthetics, planning to trade for Alphabet, but Isabella was the only one who had it, and she had already discovered Aesth (and Math, which I bulbed) herself, so I had nothing to trade. Ended up researching Alpha myself (400 BC), but it only took about 8 turns at that point because I finally had some decent cottages and was able to run scientists after building libraries (from Writing). I'm running at barely above 0% research, though. Spain is pretty far ahead of everybody else.

Anyway, HR will be a big help, and I have 3 potential Calendar resources (although the dye up north is under heavy cultural pressure). My second city went to the SW to grab the copper so I could fend off that nasty neighbor, Shaka. He did attack me, but other than an initial grab of a couple workers he was entirely ineffective. Gandhi is universally loathed as the only Hindu--everyone else is Buddhist except for deGaulle, who has no religion. I think the only other fighting was when Monte attacked Isabella--she asked me to join and I did for the diplo benefits--Monte had a couple wandering units that ended up lurking along my borders so I had to keep some units up there.

I've just started working on Construction so I can build 'pults, and just hooked up horses way up north. Not sure how long I'll be able to hold those against Catherine's culture--she nabbed a barb city a little before I got to it--would have been nice to have, and also allowed me to settle a nice coastal city with clams and multiple deer, but it was covered by her culture before I could get up there. I'd like to go after Shaka when I have enough forces, but Toku is always a tempting target. There wouldn't be any negative repercussions from attacking Gandhi, but I worry his cities are too far away, and surrounded by others' culture, to be cost effective.

Thanks for the game, kcd.