shyuhe
Deity
I guess I'm the last one?
Spoiler :
Imperial Trash.
- Thread starter pigswill
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But all of my cities get the OR bonus now, and I will probably build the AP after CS is in (and burn any extra hammers I may get in the meantime while growing under HR into the AP as well).
pigswill
fly (one day)
That's all the games in for this round. I've had one vote pm'ed to me already so I guess I'll collect the votes for team A again.
Could someone from Team A volunteer to collect the votes from A+?
Could someone from Team A volunteer to collect the votes from A+?
50_dollar_bag
Imitation Louis Vuitton
@ TriviAl
Spoiler :
r_rolo1
King of myself
@ TriviAl
Spoiler :
:
but here we don't have that option ... )
shyuhe
Deity
I think HR > Rep in this case. There are very few 
sources on our island so you'll have to adopt HR to grow larger than 10. This is assuming you're going to go more CE than SE/hybrid of course.
My thoughts:
rolo's save: Nice display of the power of the GW. You don't need an army because of no barbs! But if you're going to maximize HR, you'll need military police units so you'll end up burning the hammers - it'll just be later rather than sooner. I like the city placements, but you can take more advantage of the river tiles since you're financial. Also, you'll want more than 2 workers...
Trivial's save: Nice research rate and nice placement of the cities. Hopefully you'll get a GE to burn on the GL.
In defense of my save:
I have monarchy because I wasn't sure if I would win the pyramids race (I was mostly done researching it when I finished the pyramids). Some of my city placements leave a little to be desired (I was trying to cram the most cities in with the smallest space) but now that I'm looking at the other saves, I think I should have gone SE + pyramids early on... OH well, too late now 
Definitely not the strongest save in the group 
Ozbenno's save: Good research rate and CS is almost in. 3 workers seems a little short for the amount of land you have to improve, especially since poor Tarsus has no workers to cottage/farm those floodplains.
50$'s save: Nice city placements and a nice worker/city ratio. It's also reassuring to see I'm not the only nut who built the city on the ice to the south. The capital move seems to have paid off pretty well, as you still have good production in your capital and it also has river access. The FP should give you enough food to work those plain hills but you might end up needing another farm or two to work all the plains river tiles.
sources on our island so you'll have to adopt HR to grow larger than 10. This is assuming you're going to go more CE than SE/hybrid of course.My thoughts:
rolo's save: Nice display of the power of the GW. You don't need an army because of no barbs! But if you're going to maximize HR, you'll need military police units so you'll end up burning the hammers - it'll just be later rather than sooner. I like the city placements, but you can take more advantage of the river tiles since you're financial. Also, you'll want more than 2 workers...
Trivial's save: Nice research rate and nice placement of the cities. Hopefully you'll get a GE to burn on the GL.
In defense of my save:
I have monarchy because I wasn't sure if I would win the pyramids race (I was mostly done researching it when I finished the pyramids). Some of my city placements leave a little to be desired (I was trying to cram the most cities in with the smallest space) but now that I'm looking at the other saves, I think I should have gone SE + pyramids early on... OH well, too late now Definitely not the strongest save in the group Ozbenno's save: Good research rate and CS is almost in. 3 workers seems a little short for the amount of land you have to improve, especially since poor Tarsus has no workers to cottage/farm those floodplains.
50$'s save: Nice city placements and a nice worker/city ratio. It's also reassuring to see I'm not the only nut who built the city on the ice to the south. The capital move seems to have paid off pretty well, as you still have good production in your capital and it also has river access. The FP should give you enough food to work those plain hills but you might end up needing another farm or two to work all the plains river tiles.
I can see the point there. Hadn't really looked at using HR to drive the cottage economy like that - guess with a cheap enough unit it'd be a real winner - archers and warriors all round. Gotta try this soon!
Can see rep is worse with that plan in mind - few specialists to get the beaker bonus and only five happier cities.
Agree about the mids being a big old gamble. If we were on an island with neighbours or didn't have stone, I'd have left them well alone as well. Kinda suprised so many of us got em - although have the feeling the AIs have made them a low priority wonder in BTS?
Can see rep is worse with that plan in mind - few specialists to get the beaker bonus and only five happier cities.
Agree about the mids being a big old gamble. If we were on an island with neighbours or didn't have stone, I'd have left them well alone as well. Kinda suprised so many of us got em - although have the feeling the AIs have made them a low priority wonder in BTS?
remconius
Deity
I think representation is better in the short run, immediate 15 extra happy pop. But once you can start cranking out units, HR has a greater happy potential. Added benefit is that a city with the Great Library and 2 extra scientists generates 12 extra beakers...
I think I'll switch to HR soonish, get one production city cranking cheap units.
I think I'll switch to HR soonish, get one production city cranking cheap units.
Giaur
War Dancer
@Remco:
That's not excatly 15 free pop. It's rather 2*5=10. Remember that every city must have at least one defender. And that one defender generates 1 happiness under HR. If not, your cities will suffer "We fear of our safety".
That's not excatly 15 free pop. It's rather 2*5=10. Remember that every city must have at least one defender. And that one defender generates 1 happiness under HR. If not, your cities will suffer "We fear of our safety".
pigswill
fly (one day)
The votes are in.
TrviAl is the master of round two. It was however a close thing and every game got votes.
TrviAl is the master of round two. It was however a close thing and every game got votes.
shyuhe
Deity
I actually wouldn't have finished the pyramids if we were going for space. I built them because I wanted access to early police state when I prepare to go to war. Of course, I'm going to need lots of theaters and coloseums if I'm going to do that so it may be a little harder now that I think about it (stupid CE).
Congrats again Trivial I will probably play home yet again though, as I think my save is of passable quality for a domination run. Although I need to build more research faster...
What year is the next set till?
Congrats again Trivial
I will probably play home yet again though, as I think my save is of passable quality for a domination run. Although I need to build more research faster...What year is the next set till?
50_dollar_bag
Imitation Louis Vuitton
My thoughts on the choice of HR vs Rep:
Intially I was planning to grow my cities big using HR but looking at other's games rep seems a lot stronger early on for the scientist boost but after a point HR will be more potent because it will allow larger cities.
Are we playing til 1000AD? that's roughly 50 turns
Intially I was planning to grow my cities big using HR but looking at other's games rep seems a lot stronger early on for the scientist boost but after a point HR will be more potent because it will allow larger cities.
Are we playing til 1000AD? that's roughly 50 turns
Well done (again) TriviAl. I'm going to play home still though. Will play once we know when to play until!
pigswill
fly (one day)
Maybe play 45 turns this set up to T160 then 40 turns next set to bring us up to T200.
OK, turn 160 it is. Any ideas when that is?
r_rolo1
King of myself
Spoiler :
( looks that Ill have to self research it )
shyuhe
Deity
I played home as well. Tried my best to recover from my economic hole...
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