OK while doing my pre-flight checks I've noticed another bug (possibly to do with the mac port) and that is taht the game quits whenever I hit F4, or click on the foregin advisors icon in the advisors list.
Neway onto my pre-flight check
Cities look good (although at this stage its hard for them to be bad
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Defensively things look alright, I must admit I've never played a DAW so I wouldnt know what the front should really look like. An encouraging point is that Microsoft for all their super traits, and for all of their advantages, have only 2 cities inc. their capital! They must have really dodgy lands!
'ere we go, 'ere we go, 'ere we go, dunno where till we get there!
IBT - Mindless minions move toward Googleplex, Googleplex completes a spear, really wish we had some archers...
Turn 1 - and so on that note I start buy purchasing warrior code for 90gold. Menlo park has grown to size 4 so I up the lux tax to 20% to prevent a riot. Our worker starts mining the BG by Mountain View and a spear from Googleplex moves to cover our 2 exposed workers. Switch Menlo Park to archer due in 1.
IBT - Mindless minions head toward Mountain View.
Turn 2 - move our worker covering spear toward Mountain view (will get there just before the MM's arrive. Move our warrior on the irrigated cow to Googleplex, move the warrior already in googleplex to the two workers who have moved to work a bg in Mountain View's range.
IBT - MM move to the forest by Mountain View.
Turn 3 - move our spear into Mountain View. Have an archer headed toward the MM's.
IBT - 1 MM moves 1 tile off the forest, the other moves onto our road (no mine tho) and pillages. Still it was better than losing a city.
Turn 4 - 2 archers into attacking positions next turn so this turn I just fortify a few dudes and hunker down for the interturn.
IBT - MM pillage one of our mined and roaded BG's
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Turn 5 - Googleplex: Archer --> rax, Menlo Park: Worker --> Rax, Mountain View: Warrior --> Worker. A reg archer kills a MM and is yellowlined, and then despite attacking across a river our other archer has exactly the same result (was also a reg archer, we have no raxs I should note). And we are rid of Microsoft's evil influence in our land!
IBT - nothing.
Turn 6 - just some moving around nothing of any interest.
IBT - the 'softies call us up and ask for peace. Pfft yeh right! I'm an apple man through and through! Also interesting to note that MS still only have 2 cities inc. capital. Perhaps they had an early war with AOL? A MS scout moves within range of our con warrior returning from the south.
Turn 7 - Capture the MS scout. zzzz
IBT - barb horses show up. Dang.
Turn 8 - zzzz
IBT - barb horse suicides againstour spear at Menlo Park. AOL establish and embassy with us
jump: woohoo! Freebie!).
Turn 9 - Everything we have cant buy a MA with AOL against MS. Dang. Our scout spots a MS settle pair. Switch Menlo park to settler. Due in 6.
IBT - another Barb horse shows up.
Turn 10 - meh, nothing of any interest.
Ok there we are. Couldnt' find whether I was meant to play 10 turns or 20 so I've stopped here. if I'm meant to play 20 I'll just do the other 10 if not then the save is already passed on
Some thoughts.
Mountain view is working a roaded and mined bg (switched it this turn so no it hasnt been sitting on a worker build waiting for growth). We can change the worker build there if we want as the worker to the north will finish roading that mined bg and as Mountain View grows in the interturn with the road finishing it could be working 2 roaded and mined bg's if we want it to giving it 5 shields (i think losing 1 to corruption), OTOH I love workers so the extra worker would ceratinly not do us any harm. We need to try and mine the cows around Menlo Park soon to up its production to match its growth. rax in Googleplex finishes in 2, suggest either spear --> settler, or settler --> spear. The spear first could be used to cover the settler coming out of Menlo (if you dont change the build that is) and have it settle the dot 1tile S of the unclaimed cow.
MS so far has been very quiet for a deity AI, don't expect it to last. We need more archers as ATM we have 2 reg archers (regs because I wanted to get rid of those MM and didn't have the time for raxs, luckily they both won their fights). Bit dissapointed not to have got to settle any new towns but my settling order would be the dot south of the cow, the dot on the hill 3SW, 1 W of Googleplex then the fur townm but thats just me. I'd rather get 2 settlers out of Googleplex before we get a granary too, normally I'd go for the granary after the first settler but in this case, with so much jungle, I think if we pop the settlers quickly we are better off so we can use the non-jungle tiles as quickly as we can. Like I said though, thats just me.
Good luck Andronicus!
The save
Although if there was a civ out in that direction, they probably ought to have found us by now...
and if we don't have iron (chances are slim, since only 2 hills are within our borders) it would be useless anyway.
). meh, nothing.
. Decide to have our con warrior do a little pillaging round Redmond. Settler heads for the SW-of-cow site.
