Igor1, Team I.A.A.

[M60A3TTS]

Mainly because of the food situation, I don't know that long term is such a good thing. Since there are so few food bonuses, we really need to get out of despotism at the earliest oportunity so we can start irrigating grass and seriously growing. And with 4 lux, that will be a big help in keeping everyone happy.

It will be a bit before we can warmonger, as we don't even have horse #1. If we are going to go Republic, we need to get alpha and writing before we get concessions in a peace deal. Only then will that open up CoL and philo.

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Don't we have a horse under a city somewhere?

 

[soul_warrior]

well, loaded up the save and did some nice arrows.
there is room in the east for about 3-4 nice cities (rivers, no ice)
the north is just a barren wasteland. i expect cathy to come aknockin' soon.
there is iron due south on the persian border, but a desert wasteland otherwise.
to the west are the Aztecs followed by Shaka.

i suggest we expand east for the next bit, while pointing Persia in the right way.

 

[M60A3TTS]

Don't we have a horse under a city somewhere?

Yes, Idiot Academy is building our first one now.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Alpha will still take a while though, and writing ... anyways, I saw some pretty cool workers off the Iroquois capital, they want 108 for them and I would take it.

Dyes should be easy to claim after incense, since russia already has some. Russia has crap for land so they will be easier to conquer, but all they have is tech, no good lands to exploit. I think this has to be taken into consideration.

Settling in place for spices seems natural. I'll take whatever comments you guys can cleverly point out to my ignorant self before playing this afternoon.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Pre-Turns: For the sake of not spending 40% lux tax, I move the garrisson from ShinyHill to the Polis.
The way I see it, we have 1 food bonus in our grasp until we get a chop done, but that means more workers and we need more towns first to claim those luxes.
Since there's 4 dyes to be claimed around, I'll focus on incense with the upcoming settler dude boy man.

My god, FireCracker archer really has fire up his arse when running around, he's almost got in south america by foot.
Unless there's more that we haven't uncovered, I believe it'll take all hell before Xman gets his hands on that iron SSW, and I suggest we force our hand onto his lands first, when we get there. Oh, and 40$ on salt at Calix-lost-in-the-desert.

One iroquois worker for sale, so by all means I spend the 108 gold. He goes on irrigation duties near the polis.

T1: Found Sniffin Sniffin on the spot, by those smelly herbs. Starts on worker.


T3: Spot a barb camp in the mid-south of Sahara, Firecracker goes that way.

T4: 1150BC Gems connected, lux to 0, Igoropolis to warrior, we can use the extra pop and gold once there's enough tiles irrigated; send a pair south to the incense.


T6: Academy Horse->worker.

T7: Igoropolis War->Settler.

IT7-8: Xman demands 23 gold, not gonna try a bluff on him.

IT: Xman moves 2 warriors right where the incense is

T9: Academy worker-Horse

I cut my game 1 turn short because now we make some serious income off the population and road gains, and we have some opportunities:

Cheapest Alpha: India, 60+1gpt
Cheapest CB: India, 73g
2nd Iro Worker: 72+2gpt
English worker: 76+2gpt

With +20gpt we can buy it all, but do we need to ? Do we want to finish off alpha before ?


Here's a pic of the lands east, the iron up north and the persians blocking our city near the incense.

The Save at turn 9

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

If anyone has a clue about what causes the redness please tell me.
I save using windows 2000 paint, use the cmd dosbox to open the school ftp and literally "put" it on the server.

 

[soul_warrior]

why arent you using ScreenShotAssist?
marvelous tool.
you can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/screenassist

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

I guess a jpg is a jpg, wouldn't see why it'd change anything

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

Soul is up.
Romeo, on deck?

My thought of the day is to buy Alpha from X for gpt. Do we have enough? This gets him out of our hair for 20 turns and gets us the tech we need. I'm not so concerned with cheapest, but what deal will also keep the demanding AI at bay?

Cathy is always my personal nightmare. Seems whenever I start a game close to her, 20 horses rid out of the fog and do a RoP abuse.

OT - whomp is at the Sox/Cubs game.

 

[romeothemonk]

I am not on deck. Sorry to report.
My thesis work is in high gear, and I am spending 12+ hours in the lab today, and I do not see this diminishing for at least 1 week. I can lurk a lot, just not play.
Besides, my speciality is bringing the big stick to the party, not the founding of cities. My second best trait is optomizing what we already have with workers, and you guys are still in the land grab phase.
Talk about ducking the duty.
The first rule of idiots is not to get caught, especially at stuff you are not good at.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

We definitely have enough to buy with gpt. We make +20gpt, and the total of seen techs+workers to be bought is under 280g + 5gpt, which is about 13gpt, 15gpt at tops if we buy it with no upfront cash.

Figures were incorrect: india sells alpha 60+1gpt, not 76+2. Other deals were just as good, I just tried it with india first, then tried the "1 less gold" deal with everyone and got no luck. Xman would probably sell for a bit more since he is annoyed, but not too much.

 

[soul_warrior]

got it
will do the deals.
play tomorrow

 

[Admiral Kutzov]

burn an embassy with X before doing the deal?

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Can WE put an embassy if HE knows how to write?

 

[romeothemonk]

Can WE put an embassy if HE knows how to write?

No, you must know writing to form an embassy.
We will have more than enough cash and time later to plant embassies. Due to the nature of the variant, we will build lots of cash, and they won't build lots of troops till the middle ages at this level, unless someone goads them to war.

 

[soul_warrior]

Igor's Idiots, corporal Soul warrior's logs 1025bc-750bc

pre turn - take Alpha from Xman for 55g + 2 gpt. he is now cautious. Gandhi wants 20g + 3 gpt. will wait a couple of turns.

1- find a sleeper on a mountain? fire cracker whips a barb.
studing writing at a slow pace..

IBT - FireCracker is no more

2- Sniffin worker > rax,
i build Lake Shore Drive by the Incense. > worker,
Meet Greece in Turkey. still 60g+1gpt for CB. wait.
Lux up due to generic idiot problems.

3- Shiny Hill granary > rax,
spot a GH near turkey. hope for a tech.

4- we get CB form the GH. just saved 100g
we can get MYST for 95+1gpt. shop around.

5- Igoropolis settler > settler, the Academy horse > horse,
and lizzie knows us???? get MYST from her for 100g+1gpt (5 more, but she is nice to us, and oh, so far away...)
the going rate for POLY now is 13gpt + 43g (from India) wait.
the settler runs east for the dyes.

6- Tabriz rax > horse,

7- Shiny Hill rax > horse,
move some. mao has one of his lads trespassing. i ignore it for now.

8- build Color! Me Bad! next to the eastern DYES. > temple (change to ???)

IBT - almost scaredto death as a pop up appears. breath in. beutiful lizzie and elderly Ghandi sign an alliance to kill ugly mao

9- Igorpolis spear > settler,

missed a turn (actually 2) but no matter.
rounded up the turns though.

deals on the table: get POLY (india? england?) then trade it to IROQUIS for WRITING. (only they DONT have POLY!!)
120g+9gpt to england for POLY. then straight up POLY - WRITING deal with featherhead.

also you might notice that MONARCHY is out there.

no pix
but we have a few chinese chased about by an english warrior, a roman bow and a persian warrior.
cant help it as we are not up to snuff right now.

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Sleeper on the mountain was cover for Firecracker when there was another barb off the camp. Must have forgotten him

Trade myst from lizzie? I'd like to know why But most of all, to beautiful lizzie ??

 

[Daghdha]

Private Dagh back in training

 

[Beorn-eL-Feared]

Glad to have you back, Cap'n

To sum it up quick: we have horses, a bunch of luxes (1/4 connected), no close iron, no immediate ennemy. Eng + India allied vs China. We're still expanding, with only 2 towns having food bonuses.