NCSG2-Team 1-Lincoln!

[S.ilver]

Ok... 200BC now... When do the mids usually fall? We're about halfway done, and going solely from chops... We might have a handful of cash coming in instead. I've personally never seen them not done till the ADs...

GLH will indeed keep us going with the tech, we just need more cities. I feel that needs to be the priority or we're screwed, since we're getting minimal effect from GLH right now. Mehmed seems to now have 5 cities, and Justinian is probably similarly set up, since he's Imperialistic (I think).

Alpha is done in 3, so try to shop techs. We need to head for Construction immediately while stocking Axes, because Mehmed is REALLY pushing our borders and needs to die.

EDIT: The Stone site on Justy's continent appears to have iron as well. That's good... How do we want to adjust the cities down south now that we have iron there?

 

[grandad1982]

Yer early ADs for the mids usually. Around 100-200AD??? Not many forests to chop near Washington any more so staight build is in order.

I moved the second to bottom C to include the iron. Still gets the food and loses some sea tiles so a nice city for production.

Lets get a spy or two a keep pillaging Mehmeds iron before we attack.

Axes, axes, axes..... Also whip a barracks in NY.

Mehmed teched HBR in my round. Don't know if that means he has horses but I doubt it. Maybe he just wants ours. The fool.

After Alpha> construction. I'd also suggest we consider Engeneering instead of waiting for a trade later (Justins UU is a double hard knight so lets get pikes at the same time he hits guilds).

 

[Bleys]

200 AD is fairly regular, past 300 AD is rare, as is before 1 AD, so we are in range, but it could fall anytime now, hard to say.

I 100% agree its time to REX as well, once they are up. Settlers and Axes (plus Cats when we get Construction, and a few Swords maybe, if we hook up Iron soonish). I am one of those players who usually skips Swordsman altogether, because I generally build the Oracle, take MC, bee-line CS, and if I get a GE, bulb Machinery. Either that or I self-tech it fast enough to make building Swordsman kind of unnecessary. In this game, though, we dont even have MC yet, so Swords + Cats will be strong. Great idea on the spy thing too, take out that Iron, he wont even have Spearmen for our Chariots.

 

[S.ilver]

Ok, what's going on here with this? Gigi hasn't reported in. Skip?

 

[grandad1982]

Gigi hasn't posted since the 14th.

I hate to do this but....

New roster

1. Krick19 - up now
2. S.ilver - on deck
3. Bleys
4. grandad1982
5. gigi_muschi - skipped

 

[grandad1982]

Hello? Krick?

I guess if Krick doesn't pick this up soon we might need to skip again. I guess we should wait a bit as lots of us are busy right now.

So Krick if your out there..... If not then S.ilver get ready.

Of course if some one wants to just play.... I can today if needs be but I'd rather someone else got a turn.

 

[Krick19]

Whoops sorry checked a bit too early yesterday, didn't catch your post. I got it, and will wait for advice.

 

[grandad1982]

Nice one Krick. I think a lot of what can be said has been said in the last few posts.

Look at the save and get some ideas and we'll bounce them around.

I think basically finish mids. Get an army going and continue to settle the south. Some workers for new cities might be good if you get that far.

 

[S.ilver]

Yeah, I think everything has been said, we just need to play out some turns.

As an aside, we're hitting the ADs, probably with the next turnset. So we dial down to 10 turns per set right?

 

[grandad1982]

Yer 10 turns in the ADs.

Still no sign of gigi. Should we just wait till his next set or look for a new player now?

 

[Krick19]

Guys, I have some bad news. Like really bad.

Turn 1
Nothing much

Turn 2

I didn't play further, since this makes a huge game change. What's the plan? And the fact I'm near Constantinople means nothing. Just moving the WB. Lastly, if we still want the stone city, we should move it 1S to minimize ocean UNLESS we want Moai.

 

[grandad1982]

Moai in stone city seems ok I guess. A good production centre to attack Justinian from.

As for the Mids..... balls. Ummm could be my bad. I should have straight built them maybe.

Thats a big research hit losing the early rep bonous. One way around this is maybe great people and golden ages. We should aim for the MoM to max our GAs.

Should we consider breaking no cottages? After all this is a game for fun. Also the others may have the mids so it would be a good comparison of different economies. If we chose to break the rule we should consult team 2 first.

Espionage is another way to maintain a tech parity.

Lets not worry about losing the mids as it won't make us play better. Lets consentrate on nailing Mehmed for now and then think a bit more about what to do.

Get some settlers out also. We need those trade routes more than ever now.

Lets not let this set back ruin this for us! We're good enough to still win here.

 

[S.ilver]

Hmm... Go to the top 5 cities and wonders page, and see if it was built by anyone we know. If Justy or Mehmed built it... we want construction.

 

[grandad1982]

Ahhh the wonder military construction method. A fine idea.

 

[S.ilver]

Ahhh the wonder military construction method. A fine idea.

lol. Why build what you can take? Wonders are the only the thing that is guaranteed to survive city seizure, so I'd rather build military units and help out my infrastructure.

At any rate, we'll have a nice bundle of cash coming our way next turn, which should let us deficit research for a while and/or support REXing if necessary.

 

[Krick19]

Okay, I can't play for today, but tomorrow morn I can definitely play.

 

[Bleys]

I think we are going to have to break the no-cottage thing, but we can look to take the city with the Mids and farm over them later. Lets plan at least to cottage those floods ASAP, with every intention to watermill them over later.

No worries, I kinda thought we were going to lose them. Games like this tend toward isolated AIs, and isolated AIs dont go to war, hence dont build up their military, etc etc.

Its not a total disaster though, we have some cash for research, lets get to REXing, and take out Mehmed, that will make us feel better, heh.

 

[S.ilver]

Is our tech rate still decent? We shouldn't break variant unless we absolutely have to, and that means we lose to the other team .

Construction is the next tech IIRC, so if we get more cities online, we can go after Mehmed.

 

[S.ilver]

Not that I like double posting, but is this game still going on?

 

[Bleys]

I am still here. No Mids just means it will be a challenge instead of a blow-out to me. I havent gone for the Mids in any of my games recently, strictly GLH-TRE's. This map is awesome for it, so lets roll!