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Stone \ Cold / Fish
And I'm done. Went one turn over, just to get a few things done that I thought needed doing.
Handover
Research:
We just learned Education, and have a monopoly on it (we might actually be tech-leader now!). You can almost certainly get Alchemy + gold from the Ramas for it right now (Bridha wanted about 750g for Alchemy straight up), but it might be worth holding onto it for another couple of turns, to see if anyone comes up with anything else that you might be able to trade for.
Expansion:
I've left you a Pandaren near the ruins of Redemption Isle and Ionkor, at the mouth of the river on the NE coast, on the tile where our next town should be founded (actually where the Pandaren I set to build in Redemption Isle should have been sent in the first place, mumble grumble). You will get another Pandaren from Coldstorm Keep over the next interturn, which I would recommend sending to found a town on the Horses (where there is a Dancer waiting) north of Winterhaven.
Builds/military plans:
I have queued up the next builds in Renoa, Winterhaven and Moonhaven, so you shouldn't need to worry too much about those towns, and I would recommend using a similar build-queue for the 2 new towns as well (i.e. Lunar Well to pop the borders -- rather than sacrificing our maintenance-free Mules! -- ChiefsGuild to reduce corruption, [Water]mill to boost productivity, ScholarsQ for research, Warehouse if needed for Pop8, then Fishery if Coastal -- or Barracks if inland).
Don't bother building mil-units in mid-/north Frostland, just set those town-Governors to "Emphasise Food" and leave them to grow for now. Once Renoa andWinterhaven Moonhaven have finished their Barracks, they can start building vet Spirits to garrison all our northern territories (and free up those Rangers to fight AI-landings, or head south).
You will see I've started building Treants in Dem + Nassu. These are intended as border-garrisons against Amazon sneak-attacks, so should be sent to Kal + Nightglades (+ Ankor). If Kerri remains passive (or if we can 'persuade' her to help fight the Beasts + Lizards + Ramas), we can use those Treants as stack-anchors for our advance into Rama territory instead. It is still really important to keep Kal, Nassu + Dem as large as possible, though: if necessary, consider merging native Stewards into those core-towns, to get them up to Pop13 a bit quicker (and save us some unit-maintenance!). Any new Wheat + Maize supplies should also be sent to these towns.
CapeB is building a Shipyard in preparation for building a small stack of vet Explorers, for bombarding the Rama's mainland coastal towns (this is preferable to having Ballistae slowing down our fast attack-stacks), and then shipping units over to their island-towns. Once CapeB reaches Pop13 as well, we can switch it to building our better ships ("Corsas"?).
Our southern Barracks-towns can pretty much keep building whatever units they're currently building. Maybe just take a look at them each time they grow, to see if they can now build a more advanced unit (Spirit --> Dancer --> Ranger) without too much wastage. But please don't build (or allow the Governator to choose to build!) any pop-costing military units (Banshees, Treants) in any towns which (1) are still under Pop7, and/or (2) don't have a Barracks, and/or (3) don't have the food-supply available to regrow faster than they'll build the unit!
I have not declared on the Beasts yet, because I didn't have enough Rangers in range to be sure of doing sufficient damage to the Gor(s?) before we attack with our Hunters. There are still 3-4 Rangers en route to the stack, but once they arrive, you can probably set off the fireworks. Khyronia just built a Satyr Worker, bringing it down to Pop1, which means that it will autoraze if we capture it before it regrows (or pops its borders) -- but this may not be a problem, because the coastal Hill 1SE is a better site anyway (the Pandaren being built in Ankor can do that; there is already a Steward building a road along the Hills from Ashengral).
Once the Beasts are evicted, you can choose whether to move against Hajipur immediately, or bypass it to go after Tail Town. If you go for the Ramas first, definitely sign up Kerri to help, and give her an RoP to get her units into Rama territory quickly, so she can do some damage (and weaken herself)...
Terrain improvements:
I have started moving Stewards + Mules (back) to Kalimsa, because that town is currently our highest priority for terrain-improvement, to speed up the SotS build. All its still-unimproved-but-workable tiles should get a road + mine, starting with the Grass + Plains, then the Hills, then the Mountain.
Once Khyronia is ours (or gone!), we can set our Stewards to clearing + roading all that southern Marsh, to make more workable tiles (and room for Settlement) in that direction. Jungle can be Settled on directly, so that's a lower priority for clearance -- but we do also need to start building a road south from Jenova towards Tail Town...
Save is below. I wish you good Hunting...
Brainfart edited (March 2nd)
Spoiler (T)urn(L)og(D)on't(R)ead :
Research:
We just learned Education, and have a monopoly on it (we might actually be tech-leader now!). You can almost certainly get Alchemy + gold from the Ramas for it right now (Bridha wanted about 750g for Alchemy straight up), but it might be worth holding onto it for another couple of turns, to see if anyone comes up with anything else that you might be able to trade for.
Expansion:
I've left you a Pandaren near the ruins of Redemption Isle and Ionkor, at the mouth of the river on the NE coast, on the tile where our next town should be founded (actually where the Pandaren I set to build in Redemption Isle should have been sent in the first place, mumble grumble). You will get another Pandaren from Coldstorm Keep over the next interturn, which I would recommend sending to found a town on the Horses (where there is a Dancer waiting) north of Winterhaven.
Builds/military plans:
I have queued up the next builds in Renoa, Winterhaven and Moonhaven, so you shouldn't need to worry too much about those towns, and I would recommend using a similar build-queue for the 2 new towns as well (i.e. Lunar Well to pop the borders -- rather than sacrificing our maintenance-free Mules! -- ChiefsGuild to reduce corruption, [Water]mill to boost productivity, ScholarsQ for research, Warehouse if needed for Pop8, then Fishery if Coastal -- or Barracks if inland).
Don't bother building mil-units in mid-/north Frostland, just set those town-Governors to "Emphasise Food" and leave them to grow for now. Once Renoa and
You will see I've started building Treants in Dem + Nassu. These are intended as border-garrisons against Amazon sneak-attacks, so should be sent to Kal + Nightglades (+ Ankor). If Kerri remains passive (or if we can 'persuade' her to help fight the Beasts + Lizards + Ramas), we can use those Treants as stack-anchors for our advance into Rama territory instead. It is still really important to keep Kal, Nassu + Dem as large as possible, though: if necessary, consider merging native Stewards into those core-towns, to get them up to Pop13 a bit quicker (and save us some unit-maintenance!). Any new Wheat + Maize supplies should also be sent to these towns.
CapeB is building a Shipyard in preparation for building a small stack of vet Explorers, for bombarding the Rama's mainland coastal towns (this is preferable to having Ballistae slowing down our fast attack-stacks), and then shipping units over to their island-towns. Once CapeB reaches Pop13 as well, we can switch it to building our better ships ("Corsas"?).
Our southern Barracks-towns can pretty much keep building whatever units they're currently building. Maybe just take a look at them each time they grow, to see if they can now build a more advanced unit (Spirit --> Dancer --> Ranger) without too much wastage. But please don't build (or allow the Governator to choose to build!) any pop-costing military units (Banshees, Treants) in any towns which (1) are still under Pop7, and/or (2) don't have a Barracks, and/or (3) don't have the food-supply available to regrow faster than they'll build the unit!
I have not declared on the Beasts yet, because I didn't have enough Rangers in range to be sure of doing sufficient damage to the Gor(s?) before we attack with our Hunters. There are still 3-4 Rangers en route to the stack, but once they arrive, you can probably set off the fireworks. Khyronia just built a Satyr Worker, bringing it down to Pop1, which means that it will autoraze if we capture it before it regrows (or pops its borders) -- but this may not be a problem, because the coastal Hill 1SE is a better site anyway (the Pandaren being built in Ankor can do that; there is already a Steward building a road along the Hills from Ashengral).
Once the Beasts are evicted, you can choose whether to move against Hajipur immediately, or bypass it to go after Tail Town. If you go for the Ramas first, definitely sign up Kerri to help, and give her an RoP to get her units into Rama territory quickly, so she can do some damage (and weaken herself)...
Terrain improvements:
I have started moving Stewards + Mules (back) to Kalimsa, because that town is currently our highest priority for terrain-improvement, to speed up the SotS build. All its still-unimproved-but-workable tiles should get a road + mine, starting with the Grass + Plains, then the Hills, then the Mountain.
Once Khyronia is ours (or gone!), we can set our Stewards to clearing + roading all that southern Marsh, to make more workable tiles (and room for Settlement) in that direction. Jungle can be Settled on directly, so that's a lower priority for clearance -- but we do also need to start building a road south from Jenova towards Tail Town...
Save is below. I wish you good Hunting...
Brainfart edited (March 2nd)
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. Nice to have some half drahoms to play with now too, I feel invincible. 
(I mean, it's been a while, but) didn't we already finish them off!?
