Trade: 1836 AD

[Bloody Monk]

Anyone who will use the techniques (blackclicking and "Find City" for WOW cities) that are available to them WILL know to a certainty that:
A) there is a water passage to the West, and
B) the Celt homeland lies to the West

I have described these techniques elsewhere, but if more explanation is needed, please ask. It is very easy.

The trip West to Celtland looks to be about 12-13 turns. While this is longer than the trip to Egypt, a Celt delivery has a great potential to be much more lucrative. They have two cities size 12-13 in Top 5 Cities, and those are just the ones with Wonders. The Celts are Neutral and may be willing to ally with us. This would make them a great trading partner as our camels could wander around finding new cities/trade opportunities for us.

Monk

[MrWhereItsAt]

Well... as long as we are going to build another Caravel in the intervening 25+ turns then going West sounds fine. Remember that with 12-13 turns to get to the Celts, it will be a long time (25+ turns) before that Caravel will be able to do anything else useful. In that time we will have more settlers to settle, need to explore more, and have more Caravans to transport at the same time. It would have to be a very large payoff indeed to cut our transport fleet down for that amount of time.

[Bloody Monk]

Yes, that is the downside. But, think of this...

--the caravel will be exploring, in both directions, btw

--one of the colony cities, at least, needs to build a boat anyway

--there is no need for Apolytonia to make more settlers. As of next turn there will be 3 settlers in the colony--3 new cities. The colony can build its own settler/cities now. The Cap can build camels where suppy slots are open and then we can think about a Bank there or if we want to accumulate vans for a WOW, Ike's College for instance.

I just think it is time to start openning up the map for future settlement, trade, and eventual conquest.

Monk

[Ben Kenobi]

making settlers a much better prospect, at this stage of the game, than sending out vans from tiny colony cities.

An angle I did not anticipate.

[Bloody Monk]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi




An angle I did not anticipate.

Hey!! An arrow is an arrow is an arrow. [shurgs]

Monk