GreyFox
Make it so ...
As usual, I had to do some MM'ing on our cities after pholky ... but relax, it's just focus more on commerce/hammer rather than growth, nothing significant that demands a send off to the woodshed.
The Year 640 BC is a busy one ...
I choose ...
Was debating between CoL vs MC, but figured that the variant being cultural, a religion would do us more good than the Colossus:
I never understood what does Confucianism has anything to do with "water" (i.e. for those who don't read Chinese/Kanji, that character is Water) ... maybe because Confucius once said "Water can move a boat, but it can also sink a boat".
Anyhow, I started an obelisk in Thebes. That is our Unique Building, might as well make used of it.
I did not revolt to Confucianism, even when we have the religion spread:
The first was the work of the free missionary, and the second was a gift from the RNG. I delayed revolting for fear of alienating our neighbors (read: crazy izzy) ... but in retrospect, a switch of religion now would increase our culture/happiness a bit ... so up to next player.
Speaking of CrazyIzzy, look at the outrageous capital of hers:
Fortunately she was forced to settle on the cows and lose the extra hammers in order to nab in the all the other five resources.
And speaking of happiness, I started the Confucian Temple ...
This will be prime for whipping the next turn ....
Now on to the more diplomatic side of this game: Brennus came making demands:
I rejected him, and then he returned with this offer:
Huh? Go figure.
I also met one more civ ... none other than mister conquer-the-world-is-so-cool:
Barbs are starting to appear, fortunately I was prepared:
This is one change of warlords I like most .... giving charriots 50% boost against axe ...
Before handing this game back to the real Straussie Boy, some notes on production: Pyramids is about to be completed ...
The Great Wall not too far behind. I have also started the Parthenon in Thebes after whipping out the Temple.
We should, however, start to build some axes for protection. Research wise I went for Alphabet to unlock Literature (Great Library and Philosophy).
Being 3CC, we should obviously swap to Representation when we can start to afford specialists, but meanwhile, it might be better to go for HR first, to give our cities a temporary happiness boost.
>>> The Save (400BC) <<<
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The Year 640 BC is a busy one ...
I choose ...
Was debating between CoL vs MC, but figured that the variant being cultural, a religion would do us more good than the Colossus:
I never understood what does Confucianism has anything to do with "water" (i.e. for those who don't read Chinese/Kanji, that character is Water) ... maybe because Confucius once said "Water can move a boat, but it can also sink a boat".
Anyhow, I started an obelisk in Thebes. That is our Unique Building, might as well make used of it.
I did not revolt to Confucianism, even when we have the religion spread:
The first was the work of the free missionary, and the second was a gift from the RNG. I delayed revolting for fear of alienating our neighbors (read: crazy izzy) ... but in retrospect, a switch of religion now would increase our culture/happiness a bit ... so up to next player.
Speaking of CrazyIzzy, look at the outrageous capital of hers:
Fortunately she was forced to settle on the cows and lose the extra hammers in order to nab in the all the other five resources.
And speaking of happiness, I started the Confucian Temple ...
This will be prime for whipping the next turn ....
Now on to the more diplomatic side of this game: Brennus came making demands:
I rejected him, and then he returned with this offer:
Huh? Go figure.
I also met one more civ ... none other than mister conquer-the-world-is-so-cool:
Barbs are starting to appear, fortunately I was prepared:
This is one change of warlords I like most .... giving charriots 50% boost against axe ...
Before handing this game back to the real Straussie Boy, some notes on production: Pyramids is about to be completed ...
The Great Wall not too far behind. I have also started the Parthenon in Thebes after whipping out the Temple.
We should, however, start to build some axes for protection. Research wise I went for Alphabet to unlock Literature (Great Library and Philosophy).
Being 3CC, we should obviously swap to Representation when we can start to afford specialists, but meanwhile, it might be better to go for HR first, to give our cities a temporary happiness boost.
>>> The Save (400BC) <<<
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