The Paladins

[Sirloin]

I agree with Wheel next. Also agree with Prague building a chopped monument next, then archer, Settler.

 

[pigswill]

cripp7 is UP!
Thy Spellcraft is pacing the deck.

 

[cripp7]

got it! just got back in from a short vaca and will have a look better tomorrow

 

[cripp7]

PPP

Aachen whip worker>archer>GW(during chops)
Prague monument(chopped)>archer(pop2)>settler

settle clams

Tech AH>Wheel

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

Will there be a more detailed report?? Or at least the save?

 

[cripp7]

nahh thought I'd keep it like that Yes I'll do a detailed

 

[pigswill]

Sounds good to me.

 

[cripp7]

Pre-Turn
hit enter

Turn 61 - 2475bc
Prague worker>monument
Aachen worker
archer gets attacked to a wolf

Turn 62 - 2450BC
Aachen worker>archer
worker from Aachen goes to the wheat field, while Prague's start chopping its monument

Turn 63 - 2425BC
worker starts farming

Turn 64 - 66 2350BC
AH in > Wheel

ooh whe have HORSE 1W-1NW of rice, AND, AND 1W-1NW of wheat. But Monty has his in BFC

Spoiler :

Turn 67 - 2325BC
Prague monument>archer

Turn 73 - 2175BC
Aagen gets a chop into GW

Turn 76 - 2100BC
ahh Research event taking Wheel from 8t to 9t
GW gets a chop

Turn 78 - 2050BC
Prague 2pop switch to settler

Turn 79 - 2025BC
Aachen archer>(continue)GW



Stop here. turn 80.

Pretty boring, found 2 sets of horse near our area. Sent the second SE towards rice to fogbust.

 

[pigswill]

Had a look at the save.

Prague could do with working better tiles. Borders pop in a couple of turns so worker can start improving the high value tiles. We don't really need another mine in Aachen atm, worker should probably be chopping instead.

Apart from those minor quibbles looking good.

Thy Spellcraft is UP!

 

[cripp7]

The border should pop the same turn the worker gets to the cow, yeah I'll get better at emperor watch you guys play. Going to do an SP game right now.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

OK.. got it. Will take a more detailed view on the save this evening..

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

I'm sorry for needing bit longer..

The aims for this set: Finish GW and settle clam-site as fast as possible while scouting (and hopefully finding out where our rivals are) bit more. Techwise I'd like to go for writing after wheel comes in..
Any other ideas??

 

[cripp7]

Writing sounds good, got enough worker tech atm to keep them busy.

 

[Ad Hoc]

Writing seems good to run some scientists, pottery and iron working afterwards.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

Just finished my set and there's not that much to tell you about..

IT:
Did some micro, but kept building the mine at Aachen as don't think we'll get two more chops into GW, so I decided to rather build and work the mine than "wasting" the lovely hammers due working unimproved grasswoods or FPs..

1925 BC:
Our archer guarding the clams killed a Barb-Warrior.

1900 BC:
The wheel came in and we went on with writing.

1725 BC:
We the settler in Prague. The overflow went into another worker. The following turn I changed to another Archer for some scounting to the east. No scout because we've already met the first barb warriors and I didn't want to waste the hammers into a "useless" scout who won't be able to fend of his own skin..

1675 BC:
Time for the first screenie:

Spoiler :

As we don't have any guarding unit in Aachen it's time for another Archer over there..

1575BC:
The archer in Aachen finished and as Aachen will grow the next turn (time for another worker..) I decided to put a single turn into SH for the extra cash later on.
And here's the secon screenie:

Spoiler :

I started with a monument to get the necessary borderpop as fast as possible.
So the main goals of my set are reached.. *gg*

1550 BC:
Aachen grew and I changed to another worker as I sent the one around Aachen to Vienna to chop the monument and improve whatever title there's to improve!

1525 BC:
The archer in Prague finished and as we'll need another one for guarding the next settler quite soon (hopefully) I started on another one..

BTW: I found Shaka so far.. He's to the south of us.. (forgot to take a screenie.. )

So it's time to decide on th enext location.. I'd vote for the one north west of Aachen (the blue spot) to grab horses as well as another happiness resource.

Roster:
pigswill --> Up now
Meatbuster --> on deck
Ad Hoc
cripp7
Thy Spellcraft --> just played

 

[Sirloin]

Set looks good, glad the GW is up.

Techwise, Iron working will be very important both to find Iron and chop jungles. However we still need Fishing for Vienna, and Pottery.

We need more scouting so we can make good decisions about city placement, to find metal, and start sizing up our opposition.

As for our next site, here are a few dots:

Spoiler Dotmap :

(I just noticed this screenshot misses a couple BFC resources: Blue's BFC contains Silver to the and Cyan contains Banana - sorry for the poor zoom)

I wouldn't go with Blue next. Silver is nice but Blue doesn't advance our borders in any important direction, we have another option for horses, and overall its a weak site, plus it would need Fishing and a border pop to get any food. I would rather backfill this site later.

Cyan is a very nice site, but it really needs Iron Working so we can get Rice and grow. Nonetheless it would hook up Horses without a pop, and we could chop some infrastructure in the mean time. Also very strong border expansion.

Green is a decent option to claim horses and marble, but its lacking food. However, its got 4 grassland riverside tiles and lots of trees to chop so it could be a good slow growing commerce city. Defensively, its on a hill and firms up our Monty borders.

Of those three options, I would choose Cyan next.


Thinking ahead a bit for city specialization:
Prague: Food/Production? It only has two hills, but it does have cows.
Vienna: Commerce with Cottages
Aachen: Food/GP/Production
future:
Blue: Dunno, weak production?
Green: Commerce
Cyan: Probably production, could go either way. Has two hillplains + horses for decent production. With 9 grasslands, there's a lot of flexibility later.

 

[pigswill]

I reckon that we go for northern silver next. Southern cities will be nice once we've got IW but atm we're a long way from IW and we need to improve our economy and research in the short term. I'd put northern city here:

Techwise finish writing then go for fishing.

Aachen goes worker>settler>library.

Prague grows while building a barax.

 

[Thy_Spellcraft]

I'm not sure whether settling the northern city as you purposed pigs would be a good decision.. In cas4e there's another resource up there go for it, otherwise I'd rather settle blue as it would leave us bit more titles to work!

 

[Meatbuster]

If we settle pigs' spot, crab, horse, silver and 2 coast tiles is all it'll ever work. But at least we get silver soon... hmm...

Here's a request though: please don't give me a settler on my turn again.

 

[Sirloin]

Pigswill I noticed the roster you posted left out my place. I assume this is just a copy/paste thing since I was the last one added (unless you're dropping a hint ), so just put me in wherever.