SGOTM 08 - Chokonuts

[cubbiesin08]

I would agree with your thoughts Oz.

 

[Ozbenno]

Can't play for a day or two actually but will get it done.

 

[mc-red]

I agree too.

 

[Ozbenno]

Researched to Replaceable Parts (free GM was gone which is not good for our corporation intents). Rifling is 8 turns away.

Started building banbks, universities and theatres which we need for national wonders.

Built galleons for our army. Assembled said army in CoCOMo.

Built a new city for fish/fur/sheep/marble.

Astronomy is no longer a monoploy tech, so I trade it for Constitution.

Our trireme gets killed by a barb galley so there is a galleon being built but the fish might get pillaged.

So upgrade all the troops in 8 turns, build more galleons and start the war.

 

[McArine]

I can play tonight.

Thoughts:
Continue building the army.
Research: Head for Chemistry -> Steel after Rifling.

I'm ok with attacking Ghandi, my only concern is that Joao, Pericles and Ceasar are pleased with him. Fortunately for us, Gandhi has gone over to free religion.

Civics: As we're heading into building more units, should we switch civics to Theocracy and Vassalage, for the extra 4 xp?

 

[McArine]

I wont be able to play tonight afterall, during the day something happened to my labtops graphic card that makes it unable to startup. So I can't play before the 29th.
Anyone else able to take their turns?

 

[cubbiesin08]

I should be able to play.

Any more thoughts about switching civics from anyone else?

 

[Ozbenno]

We have tonnes of units already, so we're going to be upgrading more than building more troops, so I think OR is still best. BTW, we need a missionary to our new city as well.

 

[Mighty Dwaarf]

If we go after Gandhi it maybe useful to suck upto Charlie to try and get him to redeclare on Gandhi from the west to occupy some of his troops there whilst we take Gandhi's three main cities. The change to Vassalage should get us civic diplo bonus as IRC that is Charlies fave. Changing to Free Religion would also boost diplo and gain us sci boost so if we move from OR that would get my vote. We should look to settle our General in our troop building city ie where HE was built. We will soon gain another so no need to save him. We should maybe do some scouting of target area first. Are we planning to go straight in at Delhi or get foothold elsewhere and work inwards.

 

[Ozbenno]

If we go Free Religion Joao will drop from Friendly to Pleased. Is he one of the Ai that will declare at Pleased? I'd rather keep a stable border with him.

 

[cubbiesin08]

Got it and will report shortly.

 

[cubbiesin08]

10 more done - we should be ready for war now.

- spread religion to our last city
- finished rifling and started chemistry
- I turned research down to build money in order to upgrade troops to riflemen
- all troops are being assembled in city by galleons (forgot name of city) or in galleons
- we just got a Great Merchant...thoughts on him? Found corporation?

 

[Ozbenno]

Keep the Great Merchant for Sid Sushi.

Remember in the war we only want cities that have wonders or are holy cities.

Tech wise we should head for corporations and Tanks I suppose for more war.

 

[Mighty Dwaarf]

We still can settle the Great General in our main troop building city I think this is worthwhile to get 5xp units straight out of production. We should also think about promotions before upgrading troops if we want some CR promoted rifles we will need to promote melee units before upgrading to rifles.
Tech wise we are going to need to get Democracy from somewhere sooner or later as we are starting to experience emancipation unhappiness.
We should keep an eye on the Pericles Charlie war. Looking at the power grpah Charlie is miles ahead of Pericles but at least he has rifles against charlies mace\pike things. What I feel we dont want is a vassal to appear here which will make getting our hands on Pericles wonders a lot harder.

 

[cubbiesin08]

Thanks Mighty - forgot to mention about giving the CR to the maces before upgrading them to rifles. I did do that with the 5 rifles I upgraded, but I wasn't sure if we were going to do that with all of them.

 

[mc-red]

Good rounds everyone. Hope you are all having a merry christmas/holiday.
Am I up next?

 

[Ozbenno]

I think that whoever of mc-red, McArine or Mighty Dwaarf can play should do so

 

[Mighty Dwaarf]

I'd say it was MacArine then myself. That is if Mac has solved his tech issues.

 

[mc-red]

Do we know where all the wonders are or do we need to send someone to look?

 

[Mighty Dwaarf]

Used to be able to see where they were built on top 5 cities screen but can now only see what the top 5 have. If you look closely at each city you can pick them out if you now what to look for. Other than that will need spies.