The Tribal Elders of Delphi

[NKVD]

I'm guessing via email? I say power to the people. Please post all comments on how you see the next moves. I promise swift updates and technological advance.

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[Dostayer]

Now that we have a new king I think we need to start racing toward writing (if we don't have it already) mathematics (siege towers!) and drama and poetry ( for GWW for the Royal Library XP bonus).


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[NKVD]

I agree. What do you guys beelining to Siege towers, get rid of barbarians and start producing a road between our two cities which would serve in war too...Each citizen should submit their plan by 8:00 pm Eastern time based upon that:

Outgoing Advisor Council (is this still good ?)
Rasputin- Emperor
pm4001- Engineer and Land Unit commander
Dostayer- economics and trade
mrkingkong- Science and Naval commander
landlubber- Religion and culture

 

[cpm4001]

I am quite fine with following the plans laid by our new leader NKVD; we should focus on swift conquest of our pesky neighbor.
However, I'm not going to be able to do any sort of actual ground commanding, so someone else should get that position.

 

[NKVD]

What do you guys think we should construct in our capital after the warrior. Our choice:
Granary
Royal Library (my choice)
Walls
Great Library (my 2nd choice)
Pyramids
Stone Hedge

Usually dont play this level so im not sure of the chance to finish a Wonder. Also harder to predict since you lose track because of the hotseat play

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[CaesarKyros]

Can I be the land unit commander? Also, we should build a granary and then a library.

 

[NKVD]

I played a couple of turns. Scout is going east. Barbarians were killed with our courageous city defense. There is a spare warrior and spearman both regaining health awaiting your orders near our 2nd city.

Remember we have a special building instead of library. Id prefer do that instead of granary

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[cpm4001]

Yeah, let's go for the Royal Library...probably should also go for Drama and Poetry sooner rather than later, so we can get a Great Writer faster.

 

[CaesarKyros]

Hmm... we are 3rd in both crop yield and literacy (last I saw). I guess library?

 

[mrkingkong]

We almost certainly wont get the Great Library wonder as we didn't 'beeline' for it, however I second the idea of going for the Royal Library.

In terms of science, please continue towards our UU.

we should build our military power gradually, I wonder if you could remind us of the tech situation (pic?) and what is available to us in terms of units (are we anywhere near swordsmen? do we have archers and spearmen?).

Also, we still need a name for that second city...

 

[mrkingkong]

What is our production like in the capital- how many turns until great library if we manually optimise production? would be a great help for science, and being good in science is key at the harder difficulties...

ps. long live the king

 

[NKVD]

I'll post all that around 9h00 pm Eastern time

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[NKVD]

Shots are coming. I also think we need to reform the ministers.

 

[NKVD]

This is where we are with Technology. We are going after mathematics right after fishing to construct our siege towers

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This how our capital stands. Our armies were very far from our capital. Two barbarians hordes were defeated by our civil defence after they devastated farmlands. Royal Library would be 13 turns

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The north of our continent

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The West-Island

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The East Island where our capital is. I"m planing to send the scout this way.
Note the 2 armies resting to recover near Asur and our second city.

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[mrkingkong]

Okay, not sure why we were researching Sailing at this point, but that's by the by now.

Our options in terms of science IMO are:

1) Wheel (7) - maths (14) - bronze working (8)

or we could go for bronze working first

2) Bronze (8) - wheel (7) - maths (14).

The second option is an additional 8 turns until we get siege catapult, but the advantage is that it allows us to know where iron is on the map a full 21 turns sooner.

We can then go for swordsman, especially if we have been lucky with second city placement and get some iron (/can ally with a city state such as Milan, which IIRC is a military cs and would gift us units).

For this reason I think I favour option 2, as my advice from role as sage and wiseman

Also, can I request that we purchase the hill tile northwest of our second city? This would block off the path through the mountain wall, and would hopefully secure our third city near Mt Kailash.

In terms of our war, capture and razing the first Siamese city, and then capture & puppeting of the capital would be my preferred strategy.

 

[NKVD]

I also favor second option as it also avoid early war. I should be rename NKVD the pacific. Instead of buying the tile i'd buy a settler.

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[Dostayer]

Don't forget our economy!
We need trade routs!


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[NKVD]

I'll play the turn tonight. Maybe we can do the vote for the next Emperor.

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[NKVD]

Rumors are the Emperor will supress the political opposition...

If no votes coming in I should play 5 more turns. I think We dont want to finish that game near 2018

 

[mrkingkong]

You need to play another five anyway, right? Votes every ten turns (its just nice to get updates every five)