The-Hawk
Old Original Geezer
Well done folks 
! That landing could have been dicey, we seem to have come out of it fine. Haitha was a goner the moment he landed, at least we didn't lose El Do.
I took a look at the save... some thoughts:
Big, big picture:
good news: Ghandi is currently teching ahead of all known civs. Some day, when we turn over a nice set of well-developed commerce cities, he is gonna zoom.
bad news: All the other civs don't like Ghandi, and they like each other. I was hoping we could find some tension points between some of the other civs and get them warring with each other (to slow down their tech focus). Also, I am worried that a block will become best buddies and vote someone into a diplo win.
Big picture:
Long term plan is migration. Once we've migrated, our single goal will be survival. I have to think we will fall way behind on techs during the migration process. I believe world events will be beyond our ability to influence (we will be too small and too far behind on techs). A perfect situation would be to find some out of the way continent that we don't need to fight for.
Since we won't be able to influence world events, then we must make sure Ghandi is well situated to win on his own.
Medium picture:
Before we migrate, we need to settle our continent out and get the cities developed as commerce cities before we hand them over. I think we are in a race... with Hannibal and Kahn both established on the continent, they will want to quickly expand. Hannibal may be building a settler in Thapsus as we speak. If we don't grab the land first, we will have less to give to Ghandi. This means he will have less advantage in his race to space. An alternative may be to let Hannibal settle more, then take his cities, but it seems simpler to beat him to settling.
Tactical Picture:
I think we are done warring for a while. Only decision left is do we take Old Sarai from Kahn. I am leaning towards no, I seem to recall it was pretty heavily defended. Once we make peace with Kahn, we won't declare again until our migration. Given that, we only need units to defend... and we may have enough now. Long way of saying I think we can turn off unit building and focus on settlers and infrastucture. Our workers should be building cottages o're the land.
My priority for settlers:
1) Resettle gems city, same spot. Ghandi seems to be inclined to land there, so we need to keep a decent stack to repell all boarders.
1) (yes... 1) We need to quickly settle "pile-of-rubble-formerly-known-as-Karakorum". Because of the proximity of Hannibal, I could be convinced this is higher priority for our first settler than the gem city.
3) Settle the pile of rubble 3 tiles SE of Haitha.
I think this may be it for cities. (I am very happy we decided to take and keep Ning-hsai and Phrygian
. These will be outstanding cities in Ghandi's quest for space.)
Micro Picture:
Some MM suggestions:
- El Do: switch from zerk to settler. Need to expand, prolly have enough military for a little while.
- Iron Sheep: work the cottages instead of the mines. It will slow the cat build, but we don't need the cat as desperately as we need to advance our commerce/science.
- Yayoi: switch from forge to something else (courthouse or market). This isn't much of a prod city, not sure it needs a forge. We should set it up to squeeze out commerce.
- New Sarai: switch a citizen from the farm to one of the developed cottages. It will slow pop growth by 2 turns, but provide a pile of gold.
Last Thought:
Cottages, cottages, cottages.
! That landing could have been dicey, we seem to have come out of it fine. Haitha was a goner the moment he landed, at least we didn't lose El Do.I took a look at the save... some thoughts:
Big, big picture:
good news: Ghandi is currently teching ahead of all known civs. Some day, when we turn over a nice set of well-developed commerce cities, he is gonna zoom.
bad news: All the other civs don't like Ghandi, and they like each other. I was hoping we could find some tension points between some of the other civs and get them warring with each other (to slow down their tech focus). Also, I am worried that a block will become best buddies and vote someone into a diplo win.
Big picture:
Long term plan is migration. Once we've migrated, our single goal will be survival. I have to think we will fall way behind on techs during the migration process. I believe world events will be beyond our ability to influence (we will be too small and too far behind on techs). A perfect situation would be to find some out of the way continent that we don't need to fight for.
Since we won't be able to influence world events, then we must make sure Ghandi is well situated to win on his own.
Medium picture:
Before we migrate, we need to settle our continent out and get the cities developed as commerce cities before we hand them over. I think we are in a race... with Hannibal and Kahn both established on the continent, they will want to quickly expand. Hannibal may be building a settler in Thapsus as we speak. If we don't grab the land first, we will have less to give to Ghandi. This means he will have less advantage in his race to space. An alternative may be to let Hannibal settle more, then take his cities, but it seems simpler to beat him to settling.
Tactical Picture:
I think we are done warring for a while. Only decision left is do we take Old Sarai from Kahn. I am leaning towards no, I seem to recall it was pretty heavily defended. Once we make peace with Kahn, we won't declare again until our migration. Given that, we only need units to defend... and we may have enough now. Long way of saying I think we can turn off unit building and focus on settlers and infrastucture. Our workers should be building cottages o're the land.
My priority for settlers:
1) Resettle gems city, same spot. Ghandi seems to be inclined to land there, so we need to keep a decent stack to repell all boarders.
1) (yes... 1) We need to quickly settle "pile-of-rubble-formerly-known-as-Karakorum". Because of the proximity of Hannibal, I could be convinced this is higher priority for our first settler than the gem city.
3) Settle the pile of rubble 3 tiles SE of Haitha.
I think this may be it for cities. (I am very happy we decided to take and keep Ning-hsai and Phrygian
. These will be outstanding cities in Ghandi's quest for space.)Micro Picture:
Some MM suggestions:
- El Do: switch from zerk to settler. Need to expand, prolly have enough military for a little while.
- Iron Sheep: work the cottages instead of the mines. It will slow the cat build, but we don't need the cat as desperately as we need to advance our commerce/science.
- Yayoi: switch from forge to something else (courthouse or market). This isn't much of a prod city, not sure it needs a forge. We should set it up to squeeze out commerce.
- New Sarai: switch a citizen from the farm to one of the developed cottages. It will slow pop growth by 2 turns, but provide a pile of gold.
Last Thought:
Cottages, cottages, cottages.
Chariot is 3 turns away. Only swordsman and spearman defending Ning-Hsia. Mental note: do more fog busting. Settle New Karakorum. Start library for culture pressure on Thapsus. 
No loss of town, but now we have an extra Chariot and Courthouse is back to being 89 turns away. University of Sankore built in far away land. Barbarian Warrior shows up near Phrygian.
Mind you I'm not sure how many civs have guilds either so that might help for trades.
