Pre-Turn:
No reason to build a second spear in Corihuayrachina (that's a mouthful) when there isn't even a barracks. Change to Barracks. Shouldn't Ollantaytmbo be building a barracks? Switch to that. We have many unworked tiles, I'll see if its a problem. Change Pelargir to Curragh, since we really should try and make contact with others. Shouldn't all moves have been completed, or was it a begining of the turn? Anyway, move units and hit enter.
IBT: Tiwanaku riots (doh)
Ollantaytambo-Barracks-->Worker (was going to do Archer, but we really need workers).
1) 1125BC: Lux slider is still at 20, but I move some mp into Tiwanaku, Philosophy in 5. Should have checked diplomacy last turn. Byzantines have Philosophy and Mysticism, Zulu have IW and HBR. I can't see a fair deal atm, although I could trade for Philosophy and Mysticism by giving away our techs, but it probably isn't a fair price. It would give us the ability to research something new, so delaying making a decision won't help us. I'm hopeful something will turn up.
IBT: Cuzco - Archer-->Worker
Pelargir - Curragh --> Worker
I'm sorry I'm wasting so many of my turns building, but we need more workers.
2) 1100BC: Hire taxman in Tiwanaku, since it grew. Have to keep mp in Tiwanaku.
3) 1075BC: Play around with deals from the Byzantines. We need a worker, and I could get Mysticism, a worker, and 8 gold for mathematics. I'm really bad at knowing what a good deal is, so I'm not going to try this trade. Zulu still want Maths and Pottery for IW. Once again, I'm not going to do anything.
IBT: Cuzco-Worker-->Archer
4) 1050BC: Not much, some worker moves
IBT: Tiwanaku - Settler --> Archer
Pelargir - Worker --> Catapult
5) 1025BC: Our army is now strong to the Zulu! I think we need more archers, as well as some cats, but this is great news. Move workers
IBT: Olly - Worker --> Cat
6) 1000BC: I don't like the tip of the continent for a city at all. Move the city to 1 S of BG. I can work every single tile except one with radius, plus it acts as a canal city to shorten the curragh journey. Disband scout to speed up cat (there's no point anymore of having him around anyway).
7) 975BC: I can get IW + 20g for Maths. This is the best deal I've gotten so far, so I take it. There is iron right outside our city borders! I don't care what was said about Temples, I want our borders to expand to get the iron. Cori is changed from racks to temple. Build Vilcas.
IBT: Cuzco - Archer --> Archer
8) 950BC: I would hate to waste a worker on a colony, but I'll consider it (roading iron). If you look carefully, you can see blue borders, but not close enough to make contact.
IBT: Machu Pichu (something I can spell
) - Barracks --> Archer
9) 925BC: zzz
IBT: Tiwanaku - Archer-->Cat (seems more important now)
10) Move workers and road
That's the end of my turns. The invasion should be ready very soon. If you want Swordsman, a colony would speed up the process, but I think we can win without them. Either way, more Cats are needed.
. good thing i've fixed the problem and am back up running, i'm sorry for any problems i've caused but im back and rdy to play when you want me to.![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
! Shaka has no iron. You can see a light blue border to the east, someone's on that landmass the curragh's going to. More workers, as Louis XXIV said, we have less than 1 per city (some players say 2 per city... I'm not sure I'm one of them, but you still need a lot.) I'd build more units before invading as the GA could get hard and those Impis are tough (plus they're swords, they're stronger.) Shortly after defeating Shaka, I'd attack the Byzantines, they still only have 2 cities. MapStat and CivAssist are good utilities, you can go to the Utility Programs section of the Creation & Customization forum to get those. If you want to read stuff... the War Academy is good, GK2-The Training Day Experiment, is a classic (long thread, 140 pages or something) and I learned a lot from Clive1- Monarch (training) game, so that's also a good place to take a look at. GK2 is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=81351 and Clive1 is here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=93503 .
