Pre-turn:
Our current position (ppl that are easily scared should look away now):
Optimize Sirp-orange for food. Switch Osaka from Worker to warrior. Press Enter.
IT: nada
1750BC (turn 1):
Kyoto settler -> warrior. Send settler to dark-blue spot accompanied by warrior, leave spear to guard Kyoto.
Worker near Dark green starts roading wheat. Worker near Osaka completes irrigation, starts roading flood plain. Roaming spear N to hill reveals elite/reg American warrior pair and a cow! That turns out a good spot (prolly where the other civ would have started). Eastern warrior NW to mountain. Western warrior S reveals French settler pair.
No trades available.
IT: Barb comes from under the fog near roaming spear.
1725BC (turn 2):
Everybody now has Map Making. Ok, this could be a good trading turn. I will think about this one for a while.
We can buy it from Joan, after some negotiations, together with her TM for WM + 6 gpt + 116g. I like her to get our money to counterbalance the strength of America so I make the deal. She thinks its highway robbery
but makes the deal. India is broke but will trade his TM for our WM. Before I make the deal I check what our map is worth with Abe. He'll give 4 gold. After I trade with India it's still 4, I make the deal anyway, now he's polite
. Ok so maybe this was
but Abe *is* expansionist so he'll know a good deal about the map already. At least we're on good terms for the time being. Should make deals cheaper. We have 15 gold and 7 gpt left. Indian lands look good and India is indeed starting to get ahead.
Spear moves E, eastern warrior SW, western E trying to get in the way of the French settler pair.
IT: nothing
1700BC (turn 3):
Roaming spear NE. Eartern warrior E, Western warrior N following the French pair. Barb hut near blue disappears at the approach of our settler pair.
IT: Barb horse attacks roaming spear, wins but doesn't promote
. France founds Avignon on the river, how appropriate (sur le pont..).
1675BC (turn 4):
Osaka warrior -> worker (Weed?? We need workers!)
Worker starts irrigating the wheat.
Kyoto warrior -> settler
Worker moves to BG.
Settler pair moves on Dark blue spot,
America has a complete warrior stack 4 regs and an elite. There's another pair of warriors next to them. Try to buy time (peace) by selling our WM + 24g for his TM it turns him from cautious to polite. In an effort to get some back we trade our WM for TM+1g to both France and India.
France now also has Philo (too expensive).
Eastern warrior E, western warrior E (leaves what is now french terf), spear NE finding coast.
Pray and hit return.
IT: Phew, the stack moves away from our settler pair. It worries me that Abe is feeling cramped already...
1650BC (turn 5):
Osaka warrior -> settler (warr. moves NE for fog busting pink spots, should return for escort duty)
Worker starts mine on BG.
Dark Blue founded, starts warrior.
warriors E, spear N
check diplo:
America: CoL, Philo, Lit
France: Philo
India: CoL, Philo, Lit
Can buy Lit from India but France is almost broke but she has Philo and her WM, which prolly would make the fog busting unnecessary, hmmm. Ok, let's try that:
WM+8gpt+12g to Ghandi for Literature
Literature to Joan for Philosophy + TM + 1g
So we again have tech parity but at a price: we have 4gold and 2gpt.
Pray for Dark Blue and press enter:
IT: America establishes embassy,
, that's good for Abe's attitude. He leaves Dark Blue unharmed.
1625BC (turn 6):
Roaming spear NW, finds barb settlement. Fog buster W. East warr. S, West warr. E.
IT: French kill barb village.
1600BC (turn 7):
Roaming spear NW. Fog buster N. East warr. S, West warr. N, leaving what is now Indian terf.
Diplo check:
All know CoL now, but that's the only thing they have up on us, Poly still in 23 (ouch). It's too expensive.
IT: Joan offers TM for TM+1, we say ok
1575BC (turn 8):
Kyoto grows and goes in disorder, Aiaiaiai
, lux to 20%
Whip temple in Sirp-orange.
Worker near Dark Green north to road+irrigate plains.
IT: nada
1550BC (turn 9):
Sirp-orange temple -> barracks
Dark Green worker -> warrior
New worker east to build road for next settler.
Old one starts road north.
Diplo: nothing new.
IT: nada
1525BC (turn 10):
Kyoto settler -> warrior (lux slider back to 10%)
The pair heads to the silk, we need them online asap. We are on -1 gpt. But that'll be fixed with growth of Kyoto next turn. Horses come within reach in 3 turns.
the save
. I don't think it has though, that would be good too. But I seriously think we need to know more of our surrounds to make a good dotmap. Sending out a precious settler 'blind' would not be good.
Infoman where arst thou? Methinks it is time for thine attentions to move towards this SG...
)
. I'll be back saterday night (GMT). Maybe I could swap places with Mad if this speeds up (it might you know...
).
