Study
1.Replaceable parts – finish in 2 more turns
2.Use existing GE to bulb Chemistry, then study the remaining turns required to get Chem
3. Get Education and as much cash as possible in return for PP+Chem
Question: Do I just get as much cash as I can or is there a particular AI I should hope to trade with? PP+Chem for Education will probably get some diplo bonus, so is there a particular AI we want that bonus with?
Churchill, De Gaulle and Roosevelt are not the worst enemy of any AI so they are in general the best trading partners
4.Use existing GS to bulb Astronomy, continue studying Astronomy
Cities
Moscow
Continue building wealth. Currently an engineer on. The only benefit with this is that we’re getting engineer points, but since we’re going to stack scientists in St. Pete, is this worth anything? At the moment the two hammers the engineer is getting us is worth 2 gpt while we’re building wealth. I suggest changing to a merchant so we get 3 gpt instead. Alternatively I could put a scientist on for 3 beakers per turn. I will aim to grow the city for the moment.
I had the exact same thought, but oddly enough the engineer hammers count as base hammers so with the Bureaucracy bonus we get 3 hammers from the engineer. Further, we sometimes get an extra hammer from the forge. For this reason the engineer is preferable in Moscow
St. Pete
Currently has five scientists on and we want more. We want the city to grow FAST. It is doing that. Only one question: when it grows next turn, is it worth more to use the iron tile so as to build 4 more gpt or is it better to put another scientist on instead? From here we want scientists and more scientists because our route after Chem is Astronomy, Sci Meth, Biology (all bulbed by scientists), and then after that the route to Fission is Physics, Electricity, Fission, also all bulbed by scientists. Scientists, scientists, scientists!!
It may be worth using the iron tile and the ivory tile before hiring the maximum number of scientists because the 3rd GS should come out of Fish City anyway so the speed to Bio is mainly dependent on the time it takes this city to produce a GS
Horse City
Currently has a merchant on. We need that cash! Will probably let it grow onto the workshops when it grows which is as good for cash when building wealth and gets us a food as well. The merchant GPP’s we’d miss out on don’t mean anything. We don’t want them anyway.
Yes, the merchant is the free specialist so we don't have the choice of working a tile instead
Orange City
Currently has an artist on. Fred – were we losing ground on that fur tile? We certainly need to keep it. If we weren’t losing ground there we’re better off with something other than the artist, but the artist is good if we need it in order to keep the fur tile…
As long as it's only the free specialist we use for the artist it may be in order to do so
Novgorod
Currently has an engineer on. Would we be better with a merchant…? Or even a scientist?
Right now the engineer is worth 3 hammers but in general a merchant would be better
Rostov
Will leave the two artists on for five turns until the next culture expansion. How badly do we want that iron tile in our territory? Do I keep artists on until we get it? We don’t want any Great Artists really. If we get the iron tile are we happy to have iron, or do I need to give it away or trade it for something? How many more warriors will we want to build? Note that once we get astronomy, we’ll be able to build privateers (We’ll already have chemistry) but we’ll need copper or iron hooked up for that. Privateers may be very useful for dealing with barbs, and for catching a bit extra gold from plundering fishing nets on all coasts.
Fish City
Has an engineer on. I think this is good for now while building work boats. How many should I build? That Marble city spot could do with three. Should I build all three straight away? One will finish next turn. If the Marble city is going to pay for itself in terms of beakers, then it would be good to get the sea resources developed fast so we can put scientists on earlier. I suggest repeating the Work Boat build. Once they are finished we could switch from engineer(s) to something else. Merchant or scientist?
Hire a scientist instead to minimize the chance of getting a GE from here. Build the following work boats in Moscow, it has many more hammers. When the WB is done micro for food by working coast instead of work shop. We want to grow the city to size 7 ASAP and then hire a total of 6 scientists. Do some MM'ing to optimize growth and the number of scientists e.g. if the city grows to size 7 with more than 1 scientists hired
Yaroslavl’
I feel nervous with it having no defense. We cannot do it at this time though and the fog busting warrior is better used right where it is. How about a warrior build after the library is finished or is a warrior no use as defense with the possibility of barb Maces? The chops west of the furs will help here. I’ll leave the engineer on until after the defender is finished.
There is an empty galley on the west coast you can sail there and use to ferry the WE across.
Sea units
The galley west of Delhi will load the settler in Indian territory next turn and sail for the island the explorer is watching – that’s about a seven or eight turn journey. Where exactly should it settle? Three possibilities: NE of the copper gets two sugar and the copper in the fat cross. South of the mountain gets the fish and a sugar, or thirdly we could leave room for a second city on this island, settling on the west coast north of the copper so that another city could be put on the east coast. What is everyone’s opinion on this? For Leif’s benefit, here is a screenie of that island:
NE of copper or on the plains hill in the SE corner of the island. Actually we may want to settle both spots after we adopt State Property
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It won’t be defended at first either expect for the explorer. Perhaps another warrior build somewhere to take care of that…?
The galley near New York has a longbow and a settler on the way to the Marble island. That’s about a ten turn journey. Don’t start holding your breath yet!
Marble city goes directly on top of the marble to collect all 3 sea food resources
The Caravel east of Barb island will head towards the galley carrying the settler to Marble island to reduce chances of an unfortunate barbarian experience.
I could use the galley west of Novgorod to ferry another worker or two to Sugar island. Other suggestions? Or it could wait for a warrior and bring him with a worker later…? Another possibility is fog busting a little further west…
I think you should move it to the west coast so that we can move the worker away from the ice island and bring the WE over there for protection.
The Trireme near Yaroslavl’ is critical for the defense of that city. I’d like to know what that barb galley to the east is going to do. If it comes west (with or without units in cargo) I’ll use the trireme to block its path and sink it. I’ll hope to get the galley to attack the trireme in coastal waters. On the other hand what if the barb galley disappears this coming turn? It could go north and threaten the nets near Moscow. I think if it disappears, I will move the trireme north to cover this possibility, watching carefully for its reappearance so I can turn the trireme around if necessary. Any comments?
Your plans sounds good. Note that we can block access west by occupying the coastal tile 1S of the whale.
I’d like the caravel near Orange city to heal for now. Other barb visitors are possible in that area.
Consider if it has time to provide some cover for the galley heading towards the sugar island
Workers
We seem to have plenty. Not sure what to do with them all. Possibilities include the plains hill near Novgorod and the copper near Orange City. There’s a grassland forested hill SE of Fish city and for distant future use a fort SW of St. Pete, but this is not needed for some time yet! I think getting more than one worker to Sugar island is a good idea, and getting one to Marble island won’t hurt either.
Agree. Send some workers to the new cities. In the old cities build wind mills on hills and work shops on grass land. If time allows convert mines to wind mills - they are considerably stronger now that we get Rep. Parts
Other land units
We seem to have plenty of warriors in Moscow. One of them, or the elephant in Horse city, could be used to defend Yaroslvl’ if we just had a galley handy to transport it. Any suggestions? Maybe we should just wait for Yaroslavl' to build its own defender.
Use the western galley
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