we could have Tintagel on a geek/taxman on t29 and t30, lux to 10%, and move on MP out for exploration.
Execute your plan Ulrich with scouting correction.
Templar, we do not have MP in Tintagel, yet...
However, I think I found an elegant solution to our scouting problem: I noticed that at 10% lux, 10% tax, 80% science (which we need to run anyway at the moment, because Camelot is size 5 and our bank account empty...) Camelot puts 1 commerce into the bank and 2 commerce into luxuries. (When I change it to 10% lux, 90% science, only one coin goes into luxuries.) No idea, why this is this way, but this subtle difference means that one MP is enough to keep Camelot happy, and I can move one out for scouting. For the next turn I will keep it at 10/10/80 (saving one gold in the bank), then Camelot will be at size 3, where the one MP keeps it happy with 0% lux. When the scout returns home, I can increase science to 100% and get the extra gold back from the bank. That way we won't loose any gold while scouting! (Or perhaps at most 1g, but we have a "buffer" of 1g anyway.)
Need to play through the details in the Sandkasten, but I think we reach Philo the same turn without having to use another geek.
So anyway, here's our intelligence information:
Looks like there are two floodplains. Does this change our plan? Warrior will go into the forest next turn, then we can see more.
- what tile is the 2nd worker roading in your t36-37.
The tile exactly E of Tintagel. It can be used by Camelot and Tintagel and it can also serve as part of the road to the GH.
But better, if Camelot operates at 5-6 SF mode, rather then 3-5, as now.
In my test games I had also been playing with the idea of switching Tintagel to a warrior now and then doing the curragh in Camelot. It has some benefits:
- Tintagel has shield overrun on the curragh anyway (shields from forest at growth are wasted)
- The curragh in Camelot will finish the same turn as that in Tintagel would. And meanwhile the capital could grow some more to operate at 4-6 instead of 3-5.
- With our MP out scouting, this warrior from Tintagel might be just in time to prevent loosing gold for lux?!
But I was not completely sure, whether Camelot at size 6 would be desirable because the high lux would also waste coins in Tintagel. Can someone test this sequence in the latest 2590BC Sandkasten?
Cheers, Lanzelot