Nobles' Club 368: Suryavarman II of the Khmer

[sampsa]

@Build2Much

Spoiler :

In isolation cities are obviously smaller due to no /-res trades, no religion spread etc. I'm sure you can get a big capital here as well, with HR warriors. @soundjata will share the screenshot soon.

You made the decision on T0 with the available information and that is what matters.

 

[Build2Much]

@Build2Much

Spoiler :

In isolation cities are obviously smaller due to no /-res trades, no religion spread etc. I'm sure you can get a big capital here as well, with HR warriors. @soundjata will share the screenshot soon.

You made the decision on T0 with the available information and that is what matters.

That wasn’t meant to be a criticism of your note, just the reality of the situation as the game played out.

Spoiler :

part of me wanting to go 1E was to “grab more land” which was unnecessary as it turns out. I did want to open up the plains hill near the FPs for a potential city spot and that did work out, but as we know happiness was a bit of a problem for a while. Cant go Mids/Rep and HR so I was effectively stuck quickly

 

[soundjata]

1AD

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Can't resist settling more
Cities 7, 8 and 9 cost 10 gold / turn... A bargain

Won't be the earliest optics date but caravels will rush out in the fastest way possible

 

[sampsa]

@soundjata

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Academy yes/no? GS production, planning to double bulb astro I presume?

 

[Henrik75]

Henrik POV, up to t80 / 875bc

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Fairly smooth opening settling 2nd city on stone and chopping exp workers and a settler out while building mids in cap.
Finished pyramids pretty safely at 1400bc and just about to settle my 5th city. Just did double swap into slavery and rep. Feeling p good about this one. second city ended up being super useful, 2 workers, a settler, a boat, horses and stone within 30 turns.
I love creative. Couldn't do this without it. I'll have my videos of this up in a couple weeks.

 

[soundjata]

@soundjata

Spoiler :

Academy yes/no? GS production, planning to double bulb astro I presume?

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Yes Academy in the cap before IW and MC.
Could be a single or double bulb I don't know yet. (We'll be doing >400 /turn with AI money as fuel by then)
GS production:

 

[soundjata]

T155 (900AD)

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It took longer than expected to reach astronomy, due to a lack of 2nd GS on time.
I didn't want to switch into caste (went into bureau only) because I figured I'll want to whip galleons, having heard of "islands in the north"

10th city just settled

There's a settler/chariot party ready to embark on a journey to silver.
Silver island could be either 2 cities of ours or 3 cities forming a colony. Suggestions?
I'd like to research steel next. There's nothing else to build but army at this point (barrays and forges already everywhere).
Sweet trades with AIs who where backward on the compass line. Vikings and Persians went out of their way to give me literature and music.
Ragnar is pretty advanced. He just libbed steel this turn

Bag of snakes:

@Henrik75

Spoiler :

no stone yet