Turn 47 - 1910 BC

[FortyJ]

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Summary
War seems to have been averted... for the moment. The Gamecatcher Warrior (interestingly enough named "CFCatcher") moved due north, away from our warrior/worker team and off of the critical mountain rage through which we intend to build our roadway.

Nothing much else to report.

Points of Interest/Instructions for next turn

• Shen Ling will grow next turn along and will complete its warrior next turn as well. This will allow our city to grow once more (to size 5) as long as this new warrior remains in the city. At size 5, we should be able to produce 11spt if needed which can produce one vet warrior every turn if we so desire.
• The worker north of Shen Ling will complete his task of cutting down the trees in 2 turns, which will add 10s to the production box in Shen Ling. We can either switch to Spearman immediately after completion of the next warrior so that the spear is completed in 1 turn, or we can begin a prebuild for a Temple in the city and allow these shields to be added to that project.
• Our military advisor (in game) is warning us of a barbarian tribe near Shen Ling.
• Zhi Gang's granary could not be rushed this turn. I moved the laborer from the fur-laden grassland to the forest in the far northern reaches of the city. This has resulted in Shen Ling growing in 11 turns and our granary being completed in 10 turns.

 

[amirsan]

Ok, pretty good, lets leave the Barbarian while it eats of BoP.

 

[Zukatah]

They're little jokers, CFC Catcher.... well they already have one BarbCatcher and I think, like amirsan, that we should leave the barbarians to them, unless of course you want to gamble to have a possible elite unit...

 

[Hygro]

Things are NOT looking good. Our shield production, population, land area, and commerce is rather low.

We NEED a third city NOW on that gold near Zhi Gang. It will provide (ingoring corruption, which will take 1 or 2 gpt away) 6 commerce imiidiately, AND pay for our 3 surplus soldiers.

Right now we have lowered science to avoid a deficeit that shouldn't even be an issue.

We are falling behind in almost every aspect much faster than we should. The big saving grace is that our empire has a huge military and our granary helps us proportionally better than anyone else (life expectancy), though that could also mean other civs have better used their granaries as they have more cities.

 

[amirsan]

No, I think we need to put our science down if it is not down already to pay for our excess warriors and get that iron. Or you know what... this may seem drastic but it may work and we will recover. We should put the worker near Zhi Gang and populate Zhi Gang to 3 and change granary to settler so we can have two settlers to go to the iron and the gold. We can always build another worker and we have most of the tiles there done. This can allow us to start building reinforcements.

 

[FortyJ]

That wouldn't be my first choice of actions at this point. Settling the locations is extremely important, but equally so will be the need to build roads to those locations. We may wish to consider building another worker in the midst of a couple of settlers to speed along the construction of our roadways to the east.

 

[Hygro]

FortyJ, you DO understand my concerns and realise why my assessment was important, right?

 

[amirsan]

Yes, Forty, we can do that, after we build the two settlers. After we do that the populations should be 1 and 2 so then we build all the workers we need.

For the GC forces, lets gather all of our warriors exploring and fortify them on the mountains ajacent to the grasslands betweenthem and us. When the move thier forces we can counter or at least damage them to buy us time.

 

[Goonie]

I understand your concerns Hygro, and in the Term 2 provincial thread I posted a queue that should get us a settler very quickly.

 

[Hygro]

Just remember, our northern warrior blocked by CDG should just keep hitting spacebar (as to not die of disease) and wait for CDG's warrior to die of such causes, and then head on through.

 

[Noldodan]

Originally posted by Hygro
Just remember, our northern warrior blocked by CDG should just keep hitting spacebar (as to not die of disease) and wait for CDG's warrior to die of such causes, and then head on through.