> Looks good. One nit: Charishaka the Micromanager left Ulundi
> working +2 food instead of +3.
Inexcusable!
Actually, the Great Elephant was switching tiles in every city, every round, oh Great Hawk. Either it needs exactly 2 food to grow, or I didn't get around to switching it back.
> One other nit: the worker chopping forest at Hlobane should be
> chopping one tile south of where it is; that would let irrigation
> go through the horses tile and get to the wheats sooner.
Roger.
> OK, one more nit: chopping jungle at Isandhlwana? Better, I
> think, to just build the road through, and get the workers busy
> irrigating plains there and eventually hooking up the iron.
This was considered, but in cases where I know I want both jungle gone AND a road, and both fairly soon, I tend to chop first. That city is hurting for food, and I wanted to get it a grass asap. But it's a close call, and if someone else chose to road first rather than chop I wouldn't disagree. Tnx for pointing these out.
> I'd also like to point out that despite starting in the jungle,
> we're STILL out-expanding our rivals.
Actually, that *is* impressive.
> I was holding off on producing Impis because of (amongst
> others) early Golden Age issues : what's our take on that GA ?
> I believe we should trigger it as we start war vs France (I
> agree with CB that early GAs are way under rated...).
I knew this was the main reason you had not, and a good reason. I too agree that early GA's are under-rated, and in this game in particular, we'll want to see our 20K city get as big a boost as early as possible. Besides, for purely RPG reasons, the Great Elephant is in love with his Impi and disdains archers.
> What do you think about Lyons instead of Paris for our next
> new cultural capital ?
I don't think there is a huge difference, as (by my reasoning) we'll be capturing both those cities (and most/all others of France as well.) The distance is similar from our capital, and the tiles are somewhat similar. Doh... I was just doing to say that I favor Paris just because we would have the Pyramids, but since I just said we'll capture both cities, it doesn't matter. (If Egypt gets Pyramids instead of Paris, they'll be the game superpower for sure, and we may end needing to hit Thebes in the heart of their territory to prevent early launch). If Paris doesn't expand first, we have a one-step move from neutral territory to right next to Paris (unless Marseilles took that neutral land away), while Lyons is deeper. From the perspective of 'showing them' who has the greater culture, Paris is more appropriate. But really, I wouldn't mind it either way.
Besides the Pyramids issue, as far as timing, we'll want to get our city captured in sufficient time to have it prebuild for, and get, the Great Library, or we'll have a *monstrous* task in front of us. Here's where the final rule about one offensive war hurts us - it would be better for that city by far to have *already* taken it in a lightning war with very limited objectives, then come back later and claim a 'ring' of cities around it in a subsequent war. Unless I'm misreading our restriction, we can't do that. This makes things harder, but more interesting as well. Given our slow capture (perhaps very slow), there may be a greater need than expected for a few leader-farming defensive wars. (And without the luxury of a Heroic Epic, since any great leader should be used to rush a wonder in our 20k city, not form an army)
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