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Stone \ Cold / Fish
You do realise that this victory started our Golden Age?! That was a real pity, since it was waaaay earlier than would have been preferable: we only had 3 towns founded, and are still in NoSphere!
(Could I suggest that only the Ranger<> be able to start the Moon-Elf GA -- rather than the first usefully offensive unit they can build?!)
It's also a bit of a shame that you used some of the GA shield-boost for a building in Dem, rather than another vet Rangers to help kill the Swarm (and intimidate the rest of our neighbours).
To add insult, in the meantime, 2/3 of our potential watered 1st-ring town-sites got sniped, and the third turned out to have Maize on it
I've done my best to compensate, but it ain't pretty...Spoiler (T)urn (L)og (D)on't (R)ead :
Military:
I think Priority No.1 now is killing the Swarm. They are now building (regular) Androctoni instead of Mantises (twice the price, half the defence!), so I only had to fight one of them during my set (I played 18T to round off to 100AD).
We already have 5 units (2 vHunters, 2 vRangers, 1 vDancer) near their capital -- which I think is still their only town, and it's on Floodplains, so will get no terrain-defensive bonus). We can also send down the cRanger from Renoa right now (garrison that town with the nearby rSpirit instead), another vDancer from Dem in 3T, and the vSpirit + rSpirit from Jenova and near Nassu, respectively. Once everyone is in striking distance, send them all in for the kill in a single turn, and with a bit of luck, that should squish the bugs forever.
Their capital town is in a good site, so we should keep it if possible. Build Stewards(Swarm) out of it to get rid of any excess pop-points, then a Well, then (prebuild?) our Granary.
Towns:
Priority No.1.5 is to found more of them!
So Nassu should build only Pandarens for a while: grow it up fast using the high-food tiles (it can now get 7fpt for growth in 3T!), then switch to shield-rich tiles at Pop6(ish) to finish the build. That will keep our commerce-output as high as possible for fast research, without much risk of riots.
We need to settle aggressively NW and NE before the Amazons and Frostlings pop those borders again. The next Pandaren (currently due in 6T unless you fiddle with Nassu's tile-assignments) should therefore head for the riverside Grass 1NW of Nassu's Horses, and 2NE of Grove: this will close our Cultural borders over the intervening Plains tiles, which can be roaded+mined for more shields to both towns (we can Forest/Chop those tiles later, if/when we want buildings).
The second Pandaren should go to the coastal Plains ENE of Dem, NNW of the Barrens of Rigal (to get the Fish after one border-pop). Once the Swarm is dead, we can start founding towns along the rivers to the south.
As you'll see, I'm building Wells for cheap maintenance-free Culture in the 2 towns I founded. We are 1T from learning Seafaring (don't forget to put SCI% back to max for the next project!), so once CapeB has finished its Well (in 2T), it should start building Explorers to map our southern coastline and then contact the rest of the world. (And the second coastal-town-to-be-founded can do the same thing, but in the opposite direction!).
Dem should keep building military-units: you can tweak it for 6, 7, 8, or 10 spt depending on what you want/need (e.g. vSpirits for defence/MP, vRangers/vDancers for fighting) -- and will need to do that if you care about avoiding overrun on the current Dancer-build.
The Steward near Jenova will finish chopping in 3T. If you decide to keep the Barracks-build going, you can leave the citizens working the current food-tiles. Don't switch to a cheaper build (e.g. a Watermill) unless you can micromanage to finish that build in 1-2T, before the chop happens -- otherwise most of those chop-shields will be wasted. If you finish the Barracks, start building mil-units from there.
Renoa should next begin pre-building our Maize Farm, ready to switch over when the Steward finishes connecting that Maize to our trade-net. After that, it could go on Steward- or Pandaren-building duty. And (if it doesn't flip) it would also be a pretty good site to (pre)build our Spire of the Sunset -- once we've founded enough towns for that (but don't chop any Forests into any SW-prebuilds, or we won't be able to switch!).
If any town looks like it's going to get rowdy after growth at the current LUX%-setting, switch the current build to a Steward (we need more of them anyway!). (I've been oscillating LUX% between 0 and 10% to maintain order)
Science:
We were up Construction on the Amazons and the Ramas a couple of turns ago, but I think Kerri just learnt Premonition, because she and RemG both suddenly know it, and we can't sell Construction to her anymore (suggesting she sold a monopoly-tech in exchange). If we want it, I would suggest waiting until the Ramas learn it/ buy it from one of them, and then sell Construction to the Ramas in exchange for it (if we still can).
We should also think about what Sphere we want to research/use next. Once Seafaring is in, I think we can go straight for Water Sphere(?) -- but this is a Continents map, so the faster boat-movement may not be particularly useful. Would Earth Sphere be a good target/ useful for the Moon Elves? If not, then just go for boring ol' Balance Sphere.
Whichever Sphere you decide on, I think we should now beeline it, then get the respective Node + Tower built ASAP, so that we can get as many units + spells out of them as possible.
The save is below. Just so you know, I won't be able to play again for about a week, because Christmas starts on the 24th in Germany, and our attic (where this computer is) is also our "guest bedroom" -- and my wife's family will be visiting for several days from the 26th. I'll be able to log into CFC on my phone, though, if you have any specific questions.
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), so — if Kerri's happy to leave us similarly undisturbed! — I think a short sharp war with the Beastmen would be in order, to grab that town they've settled near Ankor, signing peace before the first of their shipped units lands on us. Then rinse + repeat vs. the Lizards, to take their chokepoint-town between us and the Ramas.
Their last 2 towns had only a Bison+Sheep and Bison+GWolf respectively, and our Rangers and Hunters made short work of all of them: no losses suffered, and we even acquired a new Mule + Apprentice (no Dragons, but I remain hopeful!). Three turns to finish the campaign, and the first of those was just getting our units into position.
