News: GOTM86 Pre-Game Discussion

[civ_steve]

GOTM 86 Pre-Game Discussion

Level gets bumped up to Monarch as we play Spain! You also get another archipelago map - prepare to sail the seven seas! This is getting posted late on Sunday, so the start date will delay 1 day to Dec. 16th, and the game will end on Jan. 16th.


Civilization: Spain
Rivals: 7 preset
Barbarians: Roaming
Difficulty: Monarch
Land Form: Archipelago, 70% ocean, Standard map.
Geology: 5 billion years old, Normal, Temperate

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. Free Pottery
2. Extra 100 Gold
3. 2 Free Spears

Open-Class Bonuses:

1. None

Predator-Class Challenges:

1. No CB
2. The AI get a bonus 1 Unit support per city
3. Each AI gets 2 Pikes and 2 Bonus Unit Support

A reminder: do not post any game information to this thread after you have downloaded the save file. Absolutely no spoiler information for this or any GOTM is to be posted in this thread!

 

[eldar]

Wow, that's a generous starting spot for Monarch! Well apart from the rest of the tiles being plains, that's not so nice, no 4-turner 'til out of Despotism, and some thinking to do w.r.t. the best combo factory to run. 4-6 warrior/settler is maybe the best to try, still a bit of shield overrun on the warrior.

Turns 1 & 2: +3f, 8s (2 cows, 1 irr. plain, 1 mined plain, center) = warrior (eugh, 6 shield overrun)
Turn 3: +4f, 9s (2 cows, 2 irr. plain, mined plain on growth, center)
Turns 4 & 5: +3f, 9s (2 cows, 2 irr. plains, 1 mined plain, center)
Turn 6: +4f, 10s (2 cows, 3 irr. plains, mined plain on growth, center) = settler (7 shield overrun)

There must be a better option but I ain't seeing it right now.

 

[Più Freddo]

Turns 1 & 2: +3f, 8s (2 cows, 1 irr. plain, 1 mined plain, center) = warrior (eugh, 6 shield overrun)
Turn 3: +4f, 9s (2 cows, 2 irr. plain, mined plain on growth, center)
Turns 4 & 5: +3f, 9s (2 cows, 2 irr. plains, 1 mined plain, center)
Turn 6: +4f, 10s (2 cows, 3 irr. plains, mined plain on growth, center) = settler (7 shield overrun)

There must be a better option but I ain't seeing it right now.

Well, first don't care to mine for growth. Second work Coast at 3fpt. Third find some kind of bonus in the fog.

 

[DWetzel]

Gah. The other option is to do a 5-turn settler + a turn of wealth (eeew).

Probably the better option is to move inland and find a BG or sugar or something.

 

[eldar]

You won't find any sugar in PTW. Fog-gazing tells me that there are plains all around. I see no benefit in moving.

In any form of govt, there'll be no benefit to working a coast tile over working a river tile with a road, both will give 2 (despo) or 3 (non-despo) commerce. So I would rather have a mined river plains tile to work and pick up on growth than not.

 

[stvnjsph]

For technologies, research literature, map making and then build the Great Lighthouse with Madrid on the coast?

 

[eldar]

Spain are Rel/Com in PtW, so we start with CB+Alpha (or just Alpha for Predator players).

On an Archi map, going Pottery->Writing->MM and having a pre-build for TGL is probably going to be a good move. Monarch level so it should be easy to pull off. Hopefully there will be a neighbor to supply us with BW or Masonry to give us a better pre-build than a Granary.

 

[stvnjsph]

Thanks, I misspoke. Research pottery->writing->map making to build the Great Lighthouse in Madrid. And if it is a possibility at monarch level to research literature before map making, use the GL as a pre-build and then switch to the GL in a different city.

 

[Più Freddo]

In any form of govt, there'll be no benefit to working a coast tile over working a river tile with a road

Give that to thy neighbour and let the Settler factory work the Coast, if it can't make use of more shields anyway.

 

[dbarandiaran]

there DOES appear to be something 2NW, can anyone figure out what it is? moving worker N will expose that tile...