Turnchat 10 report & orders for turnthread 11

[GodKing]

To be edited in in the next hour or so....

[GodKing]

Due to the effects of war and the fact that it was (is) early morning, we only got through 5 turns. We didn’t loose a single unit (although I again moved a couple of them wrong). There were only two significant events in the chat.

1) We made peace with the Ottomans and got the two primary cities we were looking for. Our emphasis changed from the tech (philosophy IIRC) because it was whored around and was completely devalued.

2) We purchased a couple of territory maps, Persian and Korean (IIRC) giving us a much better view of our land mass. It appears quite large, although our understanding is of course incomplete still. We appear to have some excellent land.

3) Of minor note, we renamed many units (spearman to spearman 7) so as to be able to keep better track of them. If you would like a unit named after you, please contact our Supreme Military Commander, General Dijon and ask.

Now that we are no longer at war, the next turns to be played will be during the upcoming week. It will be via Turnthread. All ministers are to post orders for as far into the future as possible. I, or one of our VP’s, shall play the turns and repost the save. I hope to hold a chat next weekend (time to be determined).

I hope to be 10-20 turns into the future (via several sets of orders) by next weekend, but we shall see. Each minister will have the right to play their moves for with a request. The FAM shall play the end of the current turn, as he is currently working on several trades. There are a couple of worker actions that the FAM may also do to finish up the turn, hit end turn, and post the new save.

All ministers, please post in this thread. If you intend on playing a partial turn, please request it first and I will authorize it in this thread (that way, we will not have anybody doing conflicting partial turns, which will need to be redone).

Several things that need to be decided:

Monarchy. We are approximately 26 turns from discovery. With the fact that we are not religious, it will be 30+/- turns prior to being in a new government. How does this fit with our war plans.

War with the Iroq. What is our objective(s). What are we looking for from them, and how. We should have a semi detailed plan of attack. This should include expected counterattacks, a possible two war front and how to defend that second front (the Ottomans hate us, and the Zulu are itching for a fight).

GL – we have a good chance of generating a GL in the war of Iroq aggression. Any thoughts on what to use him on (I would like to see us use him on the great library so we are not so reliant on tech trading, but that isn’t an option yet – no literacy. Keeping him around is not an option that I find palatable. So let’s come up with some ideas).

That is all I can think of for now. I am sure more will appear. It was a good chat. Thanks for all who showed up.

[GodKing]

Screen shot (I had to use the upload service, and the last time I did that it only appeared as red X's when I wasn't logged on, so if that is the case, someone please let me know).

[Octavian X]

I would've shown up, but I had the misfortune of oversleeping.

Also, if needed, I'm free to play the game any time during the week.

[Moonbars]

Great Leader

Should we get a GL, I would favour using him on an army, and hence increasing the probability of generating more leaders we can use on wonders - I suspect the Great Library will be built by the time we could hope to have a leader, and it will be obsolete fairly soon anyway.

[BigFurryMonster]

Godking - that download link does not work for me. Can you attach it to a post in this thread?

[UnOrthOdOx]

Question?

Being that we are NOT religious, would it not be better to go straight to Republic?

Yeah, yeah, war weariness...hell, Ill deal with WW any day in Republic and still warmonger my way through a game...

Re: the leader. If we have lit, go for the library. I say go for an army if not. After that army wins one battle, disband it in a city as a prebuild for a wonder...

[GodKing]

I would gladly show the images. However, they are huge (which is why I had to use the upload service) and I am clueless in how to make the file size smaller. I have no graphics programs on my machine so I cannot just click a button and make the resolution worse (which is what I used to do). So, I can trim the hell out of it and then put it in a thread unless someone else can help me out.

[Panag]

Originally posted by UnOrthOdOx
Question?

Being that we are NOT religious, would it not be better to go straight to Republic?

Yeah, yeah, war weariness...hell, Ill deal with WW any day in Republic and still warmonger my way through a game...

Re: the leader. If we have lit, go for the library. I say go for an army if not. After that army wins one battle, disband it in a city as a prebuild for a wonder...

hi ,

that indeed would be a beter option

is a debate needed on this , ...

have a nice day

[OPD]

sorry I havn't done this sooner.

[GodKing]

True, but we get Monarchy in 26 turns, and who knows how long til we get republic, nor how much we will have to pay for it. So far as we know, all other teams are in despotism and we will be the first to get Monarchy (or any advanced gov't) and be able to whore it around. Probably one of the last times we will be able to do so for quite a while. So ya, I think this does need debate.

[OPD]

Alot of map trading went on so it's time to increase the opd post count.

Persian land, lots of coastal cities.

[OPD]

Celtic land not so many cities by the sea and the rest of the zulus. Zulus territory looking very 1 dimentional it reaches from our land right to the end of the celt's land.

[OPD]

Finally the Koreans. Not exactly the best land you could hope for. That desert looks extremely harsh.

[OPD]

These maps are very interesting looks like we are in quite a good position. If we can secure our continent we'll have a decent advantage over all the civs close to us.

I guess we have Togas and BFM to thank for giving us a good map to work with. Even on deity this is definately doable.