Observation: Playing late in the evening after writing a long and exhausting essay isn't the optimal move.
When I was one click of enter away from assaulting Saladin's last city, he came begging for peace.
I turned him down and attacked. A Keshik withdrew from its attack, leaving the single archer wounded, then:
Saladin was no more. Then I realised what an idiot I was. He wouldn't have gone anywhere in ten turns, he might not even have got another archer out. This was like building the Oracle and not taking the free tech.
And this will bite me later, you'll see.
After this the round went quietly. Building troops, some infrastructure and a city.
Now here comes weedy moment #2, brought to you by Brain Fart Inc.
I set Old Sarai to build a monument. Then, while it was still being built, I let calendar finish.
Now, I honestly don't know what would be the quickest way to get the 15 culture points there. I set the city to build a library, but it'll take ages before we can whip it. IF I had taken alphabet from Saladin, we could've researched drama and then whipped a theatre. Now I just don't know. Whatever we do, the invasion will be set back by a turnset.
Some merrier notes:
- We're researching construction.
- Karakorum will finish a workboat in three turns. It will also grow in three turns. Then it should build a settler for the northern bridge.
- Our happiness situation is getting better, with the wine online and dyes soon coming.
- I just whipped both Turfan and Ning-Hsia for two pop.
- Mecca is shaping up as a nice production center.
Here's the
save. Where's the :kickmyself: smiley?
is sitting on 20%. The culture bridge towards the mainland is a long way away still, although we've now got the two Mines and the Grassland Farm up around Old Sarai. The other point of note is that there is the possibility to build the bridge to China now if this was considered desirable sooner rather than later.
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now more so than spending copious turns trying to grow Cottages on these tiles. I continue with Stuge's plan to build the culture bridge to the north east, and get out the Work Boat and move on to the Settler after Karakorum's population growth. Mecca produces a Galley and a couple of Archers - the Workers, Axe, and Keshik are ferried back to the mainland after its tiles have been optimised. Miscellaneous unit builds elsewhere - Ning Hsia goes into 'war weariness' unhappiness on the same turn that it grows, so a Keshik is whipped there. A few Archers are included in the builds - they're fairly cheap and good for Hereditary Rule.
. I guess the strategy in this game is pretty clear for us at the moment from going through the thread.
. I think that our finances will start to look much healthier once we start getting our teeth into the main continent and razing a few cities while getting our Catapults up and running. We should keep working those Cottages at home though!
