Ok, played 15t total. This game is rough, man.
- Made some trades. Seems a bit silly when you look at them, but we really can't research anything ATM. I put a few beakers into Currency while waiting on a PH trade, then switched to COL. MM teched MC and is 2t from Currency. He also has Feudalism already. Ham founded Confu, so that ship sailed. Don't really see how we can get COL in time to get any trade value out of it, but that's not why I'm going for it. Basically, we'll need to bulb Philo and turn that into everything else, I think.
- Chokes: both of them are trying to break out a bit. I had to chase some settlers and workers around. Killed 4-5 of Nap's archers, including two that wandered towards Chinook. We have a cover axe sitting NW of the city for protection. They'll both eventually sneak a settler past us, I think. I had a lot of units around, but they can't be everywhere.
- The SW peninsula is reasonably nice, though I guess we can't settle it for a while yet. Had a random barb axe show up at Leptis, which nearly gave me a heart attack, but our chariot won. Moved a 3-promo axe out to fogbust W of there.
- Traded a resource for 2gpt to Pacal.
- We adopted Judaism and went into OR now. Most of our cities have the religion, and we also hooked up ivory, so there's some room to grow in the main ones. Ham founded Confu, as I said, so he might try to go that way. He does have Judaism in all his cities, though.
Cities
Carthage - GLib, then NE. Grew it a bit, still has happy cap. Needs to get us a GS.
Utica - Built a library so we can potentially run scientists, now building a missionary (a bit silly). We should switch it to HE after, I think. Not sure where the HE will ultimately go, however.
Hadru - Nada. Stagnating and slowly putting hammers into Parthenon.
Hippo - took the Hadru corn to grow, so I can run a couple of scientists. Needs to grow further, IMHO.
Ker - needs to whip the LH and Lib soon. Will be an awesome city, but it'll take a bit of time.
Zhou - WB, then grow/whip infra.
Chinook - nice city soon enough. I think we should just grow it asap.
Leptis - still needs some infra. I worked wheat+farm for a while, but switched to gems 2t ago to stop the bleeding a bit (same in Ker). Not really sure what's better. My instinct is to always go food first, but we really need commerce here.
Overview:
Trades:
Tech screen:
And, continuing to bleed cash... I don't have any experience with extended chokes like this, so I'm not gonna dare disband any units or move them back out of Unit Supply zones. We should evaluate this together after my set, though.
Now I don't have access to it until tonight...
