Goal would be to capture Babylon asap. Would stop as soon as this is accomplished.
Need DK too, at least.
After that, we have a small dilemma. To get any techs out of hammy, we have to make peace, however if we grant him a 10turn treaty at any point of the game, he'll probably get rifles and we're screwed. But lets think about that when we have to
What is the evidence that he has Gunpowder?
In a perfect world we would get babylon, tech calendar with the capture gold (costs ~250 gold) , get a scientist at slightly low odds, partial bulb astro
[Don't think we should immediately use up the scientist with a partial bulb until we're sure we need the partial bulb to get Astro.], continue the war with hammy until he gets rifles and get astro, and one of the island cities for peace atleast. Right now we would get, 140g, Map, music and monarchy.
On the military front, i'm not sure what's the best course of action. Our 1st stack is pretty well prepared for the knights if we would move on the forest, but the trebs are scary.
If we move onto the forest, then Ham's stack could go around us and attack our weaker second stack if we advanced it as well, and we want to advance; or, Ham could just move his stack to the hill 2NW of Borsippa and put us in a difficult position. We also wouldn't be able to destroy the survivors of the encounter on the next turn and we would likely meet them in babylon as garrison. Letting hammy on the forest isn't very appealing either, but joining our forces would help us.
Yes, suggest we do that. Ham has few units that will benefit from the forest defence and we have lots of siege weapons. It would be good if he just moves onto the forest in front of our combined stacks.Either way, i'll move the fast worker to get a sneak peak into D-K.
Suggest moving the supermedic up as well and advance all the trailing units. They are safe for the next IBT on the tile our second stack is on now.
In the east i'd start to move the small stack out of giza towards satsuma and support it with the units out of thebes and Pi-R to hit egypt in the near future.
Not sure we want to move to many too far too fast. Can't afford war weariness until we have peace with Ham, and the Mongols could attack. They don't like us very much. I'll also will redirect the troops between osaka and kyoto back towards the east.
Workers continue to build workshops and farms
[What about waterwheels and windmills?] where necessary to prepare the empire to start running caste and finally starting our GA in the near future.
Agree with z3 that we'll have to get hinduism into kago, so I'll finish a missionary in bombay (2T) to get out of OR.
We'll get the next GPerson in 2 turns. I think we'll all agree that we want a scientist and if we get him, we're going to use him for astro as mentioned above. What do we want to do with an engineer? We could settle him in Pat, or hold on to him for later. Regardless, bulbing monarchy is the worst choice i think.
Suggest we hold either one in hand for the moment.
Cities (build after the current finishes)
Dehli: Wealth
Should be building NE somewhere every turn. Delhi would be a good place this turn, then back to wealth next turn.
Bombay: Missionary -> wealth
Vija: Treb
Like putting the overflow from the temple into the NE next turn.
Pat: WE
Vara: CB
Osaka: Wealth
Kyoto: Wealth
Tokyo: Wealth
Memphis: Treb
Pi-R: WE
Thebes: CB
What about a Hindu missionary next?
Helio: Granary
Eleph: Temple
Alex: Wealth
Giza: Wealth or Rax
Illi: Lib
Going to whip the CH? If so, might want to wait until a missioanry converts the city, so that there is good overflow into the library.
Opis: Wealth
Bor: granary
I'm planning on playing in 24h, but can adjust if the discussion needs time. Will incorporate the changes before green light phase. So fire away with suggestions, ideas, opinions and so on