GK1- The Wrath of Khan!!

[Stapel]

Go ahead Gorm! Cyan dot is fien to me. I am not 100% convinced, but I do not know a better alternative!

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Wow, my idea is actually getting discussed

Well if we want to pull this off we don't want to settle cyan. We'll want to head settler #1 off towards that ivory. By the time he gets there we'll have a location

 

[gormdragan]

You are the brainchild of this outfit. :grad:

I follow the same line of thought as well. I think we should move to the distant cities as we have got a long way to trakk.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

gorm if you could post a screen shot with grid lines of both the Paris area and the lux areas, I'll work out a ring profile.

 

[gormdragan]

I'm at work, and hence have no access to my save. Sorry.

I am also "Still waiting on C3C from Amazon "

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Let me see what I can do with past screen shots.

 

[Bede]

Bugsy

gorm

White smoke from the chimney.

Bede

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Brother Bede, does the white smoke mean:
a) we have a new pope
b) the cardboard box is completely gone
c) our brains are completely fried

First, it appears Paris is 14.5 from Berlin.

Ivory is 10.5 from Berlin
The NW Dyes are at 10.5
We can have a coastal city at 10.5

So QED... Paris must burn, sorry Joan.

Here is a potential dot map of our future western cities.

Problems I see, The Dyes-city won't be on a river, but that will be the only one.

Here is a proposal for the New Paris:

This city would be at distance 12.5 from Berlin, but it would grab the all important iron.

 

[Bede]

does the white smoke mean:
a) we have a new pope
b) the cardboard box is completely gone
c) our brains are completely fried

AB or BC depending on how you draw the lines.

Can't wait to see how this works out.

Bugsy, better order another pizza, you are all out of cardboard to put over your head when the candlesticks start flying.

Good luck, gorm.

Bede

 

[gormdragan]

RCP is lost even if 1 city is off target. What abt sacking paris, and build on the BG SW of wine lux. We can use a colony for iron. But this spot has no river access. The other alternative is East of Northern Wheat. This was a spot chosen by you in an earlier discussion. This one needs a wine colony too.

both gets 10.5 from Berlin. Both needs a colony for iron. Both have no river access.

I am not saying we should go for 10.5 RCP. I am just throwing ideas out.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

We're going to be walking a tight rope on this one for about 100 turns. And we're going to be walking that rope regardless of how we place our cities. If you're tighter, we'll need colonies. If we're loose we'll need to block the AI's settler pairs that will try to settle "our" lands. I think some early cultural buildings will be key. Probably need to start doing some leader fishing.

So, I'd say our plan for the next 50 turns or so will need to be:
1. Get our 3 additional settlers built.
2. Get a strong escort service for each one. (At least two spears each)
3. Peal off workers as soon as it is feasible.
4. Build Task Force Paris. (How big?)

 

[Stapel]

Man, I love the discuusion on this! Gorm, do you know where to move the settler now? Ivory first I guess!

The discussion is cool, but it brings up a small personal problem. I was hoping to play my first turns tonight. Tomorrow morning (btw, I am six hours ahead on NY, one on London, and I 9 on California), I will be hospitalised. I will get out saturday or sunday (with a new cruciate ligament).
Feel free to change positions! And don't panic when I won't show up before sunday.
After that I will be home for a month at least, which is pretty much why I signed up for this SG.

 

[gormdragan]

@Stapel

why dun you take the save and play first? I wil post my 3 turns save to you, you can play 10turns and I will complete my 7 after you. I should be home around 1900ET/1800CT. As a matter of fact, you would be doing me a favor as I am up in other SG (Rick1) as well. Appreciate if you wouldn't mind swapping with me.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

Stapel - I hope everything goes well. Having messed up knees isn't fun, but neither is the surgery.

 

[Stapel]

Originally posted by gormdragan
@Stapel

why dun you take the save and play first? I wil post my 3 turns save to you, you can play 10turns and I will complete my 7 after you. I should be home around 1900ET/1800CT. As a matter of fact, you would be doing me a favor as I am up in other SG (Rick1) as well. Appreciate if you wouldn't mind swapping with me.

That would be ok, but, when you get home, I will be asleep already (1 am then). This one is posted a 11:09 pm.

I am not in a hurry! I'll 'claim' my turn saturday or sunday .

Cheers & later,

Stapel

 

[Gengis Khan]

It never fails, by the time I get on all the good strategizing is done.

Excellent dotmap bugsy! I also agree we should go with the Ivory first.

And the long trek across a tightrope begins.

 

[Sir Bugsy]

I still can't believe we're going to do this, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense.

Any wagers that our plans will change again before we have our third city founded?

 

[Gengis Khan]

I think that is virtually guarenteed.

I think we have officially left the box miles behind.

If we pull off this variant with 5 cities that are each 10 tiles from our capitol.....wow.

 

[gormdragan]

I think it's time to bite the bullet, we have to agree on something or this game wouldn't move. Ivory city it is.

@GK

GOTM24-Oda is opening more slots, you can sign up.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67030

 

[Gengis Khan]

Thanks, I posted a reply in the SG A thread.

Go ahead & take your turns; make for the ivory like a drunk chasing happy hour.

Good luck!