Cosmichail
Dark Lord of The Sith
Getting Stonehenge is a big help towards GP and a religion/ or COL --> CS slingshot. Personally I like Oracle but would rather see us get the TGL for science. We then could pop GS's for Philosophy/paper/education. That's the only wonder I would want and feel we should invest the remaining hammers in infrastructure and axes for Izzy. Getting to here early is good if we intend on attacking since once that cultural defense builds up, it makes that much harder to take her cities.
Right this moment I think though that our prime concern is getting the copper hooked up and dealing with the Barbarians. It won't be long before axes start to show however a CD2-3 archer will hold out fine but we should keep at least 2 in Osaka for defense.
I am with NamliaM on the getting HR soon for happiness. Getting writing though will boost our culture once lib is built and if we don't do the religion thing will need it. With the two gems and once borders pop gold too Osaka should be a good science city. We might need a farm or two to get a scientist there for an additional boost. I just realized that since we have SH we will have some culture now in Osaka so what in 15 turns the borders will pop.
We might get a religion spread from Izzy anyways and having the same as hers always makes things easier. As to specialist for now I think Kyoto should have priests and Osaka scientist. The GP can do a number of things for us right now. (if all religious tech meditation/polytheism are out of the way) and no masonry he will give CS. (but will need COL though)
Or if we do research Masonry and mono/med/poly/priesthood are out the way he will give us theology which is a big boost for our military. Some don't feel that extra 2 points matters much but I found it make a big difference once you take out the prime defender. (usually there is one or two good defenders which need to be taken out once they are gone good promoted axes will take the rest out no problem)
It is likely that the GP will pop soon enough to make it possible to get Christianity. Just have a state religion add +1 happiness and +1 happiness for each temple. With HR we could grow big +1 for each military unit garrisoned. Our cap is 5 in Osaka (gems) and once we can work gold will go up to 6 with HR +2 increases cap to 8. If we do found a religion we can get that up to 10. With some fast growth we would have ourselves a great city in Osaka and the "copper city" would have room to grow as well.
COL is good to have for the maintenance so maybe we should think about that too.
Looking forward to your report Pigswill
Right this moment I think though that our prime concern is getting the copper hooked up and dealing with the Barbarians. It won't be long before axes start to show however a CD2-3 archer will hold out fine but we should keep at least 2 in Osaka for defense.
I am with NamliaM on the getting HR soon for happiness. Getting writing though will boost our culture once lib is built and if we don't do the religion thing will need it. With the two gems and once borders pop gold too Osaka should be a good science city. We might need a farm or two to get a scientist there for an additional boost. I just realized that since we have SH we will have some culture now in Osaka so what in 15 turns the borders will pop.
We might get a religion spread from Izzy anyways and having the same as hers always makes things easier. As to specialist for now I think Kyoto should have priests and Osaka scientist. The GP can do a number of things for us right now. (if all religious tech meditation/polytheism are out of the way) and no masonry he will give CS. (but will need COL though)
Or if we do research Masonry and mono/med/poly/priesthood are out the way he will give us theology which is a big boost for our military. Some don't feel that extra 2 points matters much but I found it make a big difference once you take out the prime defender. (usually there is one or two good defenders which need to be taken out once they are gone good promoted axes will take the rest out no problem)
It is likely that the GP will pop soon enough to make it possible to get Christianity. Just have a state religion add +1 happiness and +1 happiness for each temple. With HR we could grow big +1 for each military unit garrisoned. Our cap is 5 in Osaka (gems) and once we can work gold will go up to 6 with HR +2 increases cap to 8. If we do found a religion we can get that up to 10. With some fast growth we would have ourselves a great city in Osaka and the "copper city" would have room to grow as well.
COL is good to have for the maintenance so maybe we should think about that too.
Looking forward to your report Pigswill
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We need to rush now I think to the Copper do or die time I think...
for keeping research high. Our archer at the Alamo (defend here sign) fends off the barb archer. Our new archer annihilates the barb warrior without a scratch. The western barb archer continues his approach. Our archer and worker arrive back in Osaka. The worker has one move left so I send him to the southern gems. I fortify the archer in the woods southeast of Osaka to help protect the gems.
Yes, Izzy of course. She adopts Caste System. We get 43
so I crank up the slider to 100% and try to knock 3 turns off of Writing. Kyoto grew to size 4 a turn or so ago and I must have missed it. It will grow to size 5 and exceed the current happiness cap of 5 within 3 turns. I set a settler to produce there to keep us below the cap. I figure I can switch to a Library when the whipping unhappiness clears. The barb archer from the west continues to approach and threaten our pasture and northern gem mine. I move the archer that was protecting the worker earlier to the plains hill and deny the enemy the high ground. I had intended to build a road on the gems but now I move the worker to the gold. I pull the archer in the forested plains SE back to Osaka in an effort to protect the pasture and northern gems. Too dang many targets for him to go for and not enough manpower to protect everything. Attacking would be suicide so we have to hope he will attack us in defensible terrain. Our galley from Kyoto confirms the cows are on a two tile island. The stone is on a one tile island.
I think we might be able to get The Great Library if we go for Lit before the AI and can get it whipped. Otherwise, we can probably forget that one too. Back to the isles, we are still isolated across the ocean. They were just teasing us apparently. We might be able to sail to that other civ when borders pop but right now our galley is stuck with going in circles. A second barb archer pops out down south. I guess I shouldn't have built the gem mine. Dang, that reminds me. I forgot to switch to the gem mine from the oasis after it completed. Sorry about that. That knocked a turn off of Meditation.
On the up side, if we can live long enough we might have some really juicy Spanish cities for the taking later. Come on Samurai!
I really gotta stop hanging around Cosmic. Oh, the gold mine is complete and defended. I switch our southern gem miners to the gold mine. Looks like it's better than I thought. 7
there instead of the 6
for building archers. I debate about whipping Osaka for the archer. Still 3 turns away. We can grow to 6 in Osaka now though and it only has a pop of 4. I'm thinking I don't need the archer that bad yet. He should complete just about the time the eastern barb warrior nears the city and tries to take out the gem mine.
LTB and the team, I am beeing a bit over competative?! I try and tone it down a nodge...
. I agree it will probably be rather isolated for a while... but...
