ChrisShaffer
Board gamer
Tech path: Math for 7 turns at 0% (check for math trades every turn). Pause when GP is born in Paris
If a GS: Bulb Machinery, and Math > Calendar at 100%, move slider to 0% for Optics until we have enough gold accumulated to research at 100%
If a GPro: Pause for more team discussion.
No need to pause if it is a scientist. Strike the line "Pause when GP is born in Paris" from the above.
(How do we respond if Brennus asks us to join the war? I would agree to the demand, but run a "phony" war. That is, send no troops)
Agreed.
GP Farm - Whip Forge in 2 turns, overflow into NE > then Harbor
Change to: Assign deer to scientist, slow grow and slow build the Forge in 3 turns -> partial NE -> Harbor turn GP will be born -> whip Harbor -> NE
Production - Whip settler for Iron Wheat > Parthenon > Caravel
Why whip the settler? Every citizen is working power tiles, and the happy cap will be 11 happy / 9 citizens in 3 turns. I prefer building two settlers and two workboats, whipping into the Parthenon only when we have 2+ population working non-power-tiles. This also gets us our second settler and two workboats for the two-fish-tundra site.
Commerce - Finish Market (12 turns) > Buddhist missionary, due in ~18 turns > Buddhist Monastery?
Build the missionary somewhere else, where there are hammers. This city should Finish Market -> Buddhist Monastery.
East Fish - Whip Forge next turn start Harbor > Lighthouse > Library > Temple
This is the only city that can build Confucian missionaries. Should we go ahead and spread Confucianism to our eventual cathedral cities now, while we are in Organized Religion and it doesn't require a monastery?
Sugar Clams - Change to WB and WHIP at pop 2 > Granary > Forge > Harbor
Is this workboat for Orleans?
Zhou - Granary > Forge > Moai
Not convinced Moai is best here, but it could be nice. I'd rather have it in two-fish-tundra.
workers on Barb island cottage Zhou (no chops until Math), improve iron, mine hillls pre-mine PHF worker is already standing on, make sure workers always road/cancel while moving.
East Fish is working a non-cottaged flood plain. I think cottaging this tile (2N of East Fish) should be high priority.
What to do with spies if we are not stealing tech? Send one to Tolosa for possible Treasury steal, and scout with the other? One could be stationed in one of our cities for counter-espionage after Ramesses is eliminated.
Pull them both back and keep them both in our cities for counter-espionage.
Pause points:
Great Person born in Paris
No need to pause if the GP is a scientist.