In the new w-w-granary-settler ss (with forest cut) the forest chop does not do any good. It would finish the granary 1 turn earlier with nothing won but 1 turn of upkeep.
that´s why i chose to ROAD that forest in my sequence. it is 1 turn faster (4t instead of 5t) for that tile and allows to proceed to the ivory faster. but maybe we should skip working the forest completely?*
skipping the 2nd warrior and chopping gains us nearly nothing, either, because it does not matter whether we finish the gran on turn 19 instead of 21 with only 2 turns into the box. it then only costs 2gp for upkeep. at least here we could finish a warrior in between (or set the cap to wealth
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other points:
+ in the latest ss, the warriors were put down one turn after they are built. (like, in the first turn where they have an effect.) the gran and settler, however are put down where they are built.
whatever way we want to write it, it should be coherent. the way it is now seems confusing.
+ as Lanzelot says, writing does not finish. it exactly finished with 200 beakers in my sequence (the one where i roaded the forest). but then again, we have to double check commerce in both sequences.
finishing writing 1 turn earlier does not necessarily be any better. only if we can muster the money and beakers to go on researching the next tech full speed.
* skipping to work the forest altogether, and simply moving on to the plains 1e of the capital, road, move to ivory, i+r,
gives the ivory tile a few tiles earlier and does all the difference for Writing on t27: we can work it from t13 on and get the happy face from t15 on! it wastes one worker turn though.
i think we should either road the forest (for later faster movement south of the river) or skip working the forest altogether. if we choose the 2nd, we could use the chop from t27 on for something we then might want, eg a curragh.
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