Turn 48

[DaveShack]

Turn 48 has arrived, please post your suggestions etc.

Shelbyville can make a scientist instead of an entertainer and we can get wheel in 1 turn at 0%, +22g. I think completing the worker kept it from completing this turn as planned.
The TNT warrior disappeared. No, just realized that tile is now in fog.
We can change the settler in Springfield to a temple, pop the hut, and then change back.
Do we want to hook up iron right away? The most efficient way is to road the forest W of the iron, then the iron itself. The worker N of Springfield and the new one from Shelbyville can work as a team if we want.

 

[zyxy]

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Hello, and thanks for the goodies. Hang in there! We wish you well.

The Kissers


I'll play this evening.
- Our explorers survived! They are still at risk though.
- The wheel still had 2 turns going last turn, we have 27+27+32 = 86 beakers invested at the start of this turn, and we can get it for 3 beakers. So someone must have discovered/popped/traded it. The clown is the auto-governors decision, we had 2 scientists last turn.
- Greece now has Writing, but not CoL or Philo. No other trade changes that we can see.
- We cannot see the hill atm, TNT could still be there. We can move a warrior up to look, if you want.
- Agree with the temple trick.
- I would rather chop the forest and then road (4+3 = 7 turns), instead of road the forest (6 turns). The chop could go into a barracks.
- I like the worker team, one worker could chop, the other could road, and finish at the same time, 5 turns from now (will check if this works, I think it does). Then 4 turns to road the iron, gives us sword ability in 9. Unfortunately, the rax will not be finished by then, it will have around 5 more turns to go. Alternatively we could have one worker improve around Shelby first, and one to the forest.
- What's next to build in Shelby? warrior, worker, archer?
- Switch Cruller to archer or stay at warrior?

Found list of city names, Chocolate is next:
Springfield
Shelbyville
Cruller
Chocolate
Sugar
Crunch
Coffee
Cinnamon
Glazed
Powdered
Dunkin
Strawberry
Munckin
Krispy Kreme
Maple Frosted
Chocolate Glazed
Glazed Gingerbread
Apple Crumb
Jelly Filled
Frosted Lemon
Chocolate Frosted
Bavarian Kreme
Blueberry Crumb
Boston Kreme
Chocolate Filled
Marble Frosted

 

[vikingruler]

IMO we should send a unit or two to spy on TNT but make sure they are concealed or we at least have a cover up story.

 

[zyxy]

Playing turn 48, 1880BC.

Shelby worker -> worker.
Chocolate founded, starts rax. Worker team to forest as per DS.
Our explorers find another landbridge, and ivory on our continent.
Do the temple trick, the goodie hut gives barbs unfortunately.
sci 0%, lone scientist gives wheel in 1, making 25 gpt.
take a peek and the persian guy is still on the hill .

turn sent.

Decisions for next turn:
- what to research after wheel?
- where does the next settler go?
- let shelby build worker, cruller warrior, or switch one to archer maybe?

 

[DaveShack]

Looks like we used the hut to give the Greeks a gift of a barb warrior on the extreme tip of their continent.

Chop and road sounds good, however I don't know if chopping a forest while it is being roaded reduces roading time, maybe ought to gang both the chop and road? Or would it be faster overall to have one chop+road and the other go to the hill? Anyway, whichever is best, we trust you to optimize it, and it will be a long time before the whole operation is done.

Looks like Rik made accessing the other teams straightforward, at least for any team which bothered to produce boats. It's hard to say whether KISS or MIA have met TNT though.

On build queues, we'll want a spear to escort the settler, but it won't be ready in time. Once horses are available, chariots to upgrade to MW's? The rest is pretty open for now.

 

[Robi D]

The road doesn't build quicker until the forest is cleared so they should both chop, then both road.

As for who has met who, its all fairly open to interpretation from discussions we have had with everyone, but i would say we are the only ones to have met all our rivals. TNT didn't have alphabet when we met them, so they would not have had any boat until now, and nothing MIA or KISS have said has made me think they encountered TNT.

All in all things are progressing well, it will be good to see where the horses actually are (prey its not on the hill TNT have their warrior)

 

[Kuningas]

nothing