The Order of the Knights Templar

[astre]

next tech: road to oracle ?
clean warrior from constantiloppe go E toward barb warrior
next city go grab gold? the spot tachy gave previously will be taken by HRE otherwise...

we need more workers

 

[Sengir]

Sorry, RL happened, so I won't be able to play until next week (maybe sunday, but I'm not sure about that and I don't want to keep you hanging), so I'm going to need a skip.

 

[nocho]

Too bad, I hope it's nothing too serious.

Iagoc is up and ready to post a PPP!
astre is on deck!

 

[Sengir]

Too bad, I hope it's nothing too serious.

Iagoc is up and ready to post a PPP!
astre is on deck!

I'm fine personally, but half my colleagues are down with the flu, so I have to work extra coming weekend. And I had a busy weekend planned even without that

 

[astre]

Nocho
wrong roster

I'm UP, will think of a PPP before week end.

 

[astre]

PPP:
contantinople: whip settler, warior, worker
tessalonica : warior, worker (whip it), granary/warior
adrianopole: granary/ warrior?

new settler: go for gold tachy site (1E of warrior)

science: road to oracle via meditation. I expect the fourth city will kill our economy and we can't be able to get writting then oracle in time...

try to fogburst

 

[lymond]

I think Oracle is out. Might be different if we had forests. I guess Writing is best path for now unless we want to fight early and it is probably too late to set that up. Not sure though - we do have Tachy

I think rice/ivory is best for next city. Keep it compact for now. Gold is a bit far away. We could look to lock up the Northern section from these 2 clowns and then fill it in as we are able.

 

[nocho]

Sorry about the mix up! Posting quickly from the phone is not always that wise.

 

[astre]

I think Oracle is out. Might be different if we had forests. I guess Writing is best path for now unless we want to fight early and it is probably too late to set that up. Not sure though - we do have Tachy

I think rice/ivory is best for next city. Keep it compact for now. Gold is a bit far away. We could look to lock up the Northern section from these 2 clowns and then fill it in as we are able.

already turn 64
did not noticed we were that late. And we only have the basic stuff :/

ok for writting.

for rice ivory it is a crap city until we get IW. and at this point it will not be great either.
other propositions?

 

[lymond]

already turn 64
did not noticed we were that late.

You know, I was surprised by the date as well. Seems we've done very little so far for it being so late. Not sure why. We are still fine, but not sure we've been focused.

for rice ivory it is a crap city until we get IW.

I don't think it is crap at all. It has rice. workable mines. can share cows as needed. close to cap (another helper city) and gets us a happy resource which is sorely needed. It also pushes us out a bit to the west.

When you hit IMM, astre, you have to think about settling decent cities as close to the cap as possible to reduce the costs as opposed to running settlers thousands of miles away to grab some shiny....that's not even that shiny.

 

[pigswill]

Ivorice and a floodplain city to the north )maybe on desert hill) should block off the north east nicely.

The downside of having lots of potential land is lots of barbs to deal with first, which certainly slowed down my set.

Leaving the south should allow Chuck and GK to meet up, if we're careful they could end up best enemies which would suit us fine.

 

[lymond]

Ivorice and a floodplain city to the north )maybe on desert hill) should block off the north east nicely.
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I concur (too bad we did not settle cow/marble where we intended)


Yeah, I think the south is better for Chuck and Chengus to fight over. Lock up the North and we can settle it freely.

 

[pigswill]

I settled marblecow 1E with deserthill in mind.

 

[lymond]

In my view, that is not keeping the deserthill city "in mind" . Settling 1W allows cities to share tiles and keep cottages growing. That's advanced play.

 

[Cam_H]

I'm not utterly opposed to a late shot at The Oracle. I assume once the Marble's hooked up, we can chop the two forests to the west of Adrianopole for a hurried build there. Marble-fuelled fail gold at worst, and we can slingshot Metal Casting. No doubt it's a gamble, but I'm not against it.

I lean toward expanding north and west as well, and like both of the suggested sites. I'm surprised that Christianity hasn't auto-spread between our cities; Thessalonica's nearby Horses would be most welcome.

I'd regrow Constantinople to a decent population before starting the Worker. A Granary or more Warriors could work.

 

[vranasm]

I settled marblecow 1E with deserthill in mind.

would be better to communicate different spots for crucial cities before making decision imo.

I kinda was thinking we are all in agreement where to settle city 3 and am really surprised that we didn't settle the way it was agreed.

 

[pigswill]

Could argue that this way we get marble without waiting for a border pop at the expense of a flood plain but then we get a riverside grassland instead of a riverside plain etc etc. We could argue pros and cons for ages but I'm not convinced its game breaking either way and not worth getting into a flame war for sure.

 

[lymond]

Marble was already in our borders

 

[Sengir]

I'm without a computer with civ for the next 2 or 3 weeks (mine needs to be repaired), so can I be put on autoskip until further notice?

 

[astre]

well we are not very mutch advancing
I call a vote of each participant for a clear overview.

first question where to settle new city?
option A city with rice and 2 phant
option B 4 flood plain city + sugar + silk
option C 3 flood plain + 2 gold
I've edited the save for exact pleacement of each city.

second question: do we try oracle or not?