Turn 161 : 460AD

[Cort Haus]

We are now at peace with ND - who only have Spices to offer in the F2 screen.

The F4 screen now shows treaties and trades correctly between GoW and ND, but not between GoW and Lego.

Intend to irrigate around Santa Ana, Diss and Inchoff to allow the mountains to be used.

MM in the South to get Typhoon's cat next turn, then consider building that City up - as NYE says, it has good potential (already has a courthouse).

RP say they have seven units ready to position themselves on their sea wall. GoW have a boat on NW coast so we should withdraw units from the east.

RP also have a boat on the east coast of Bob (Mavdad-6699) that they need protecting. I reckon that instead of trying to protect it round GoW's coast and near Port Isolation, we should tell them to wait for a turn, give them Astro, and let them use the much safer sea route home to Estonia.

RP are offereing us cash for the Gunpowder we sent. They say Banking comes in ~20 turns, and they're running +30gpt with 140g in the till. Do we ask for cash, some gpt, or suggest they push harder on Banking instead?

[Cort Haus]

A thought about Estonia. As long as GoW have galleys shadowing the coast, we can't move our units aside if they're in range of GoW ships. This could boil down to a reason for RP having to make peace. GoW could send several galleys and lock up much of the coastline.

For this reason, we may need to send a worker to irrigate San Diego-77 when the Santa Barbara border expands.

(message from Togas here .)

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Builds

Inchoff builds Courthouse, starts Harbor

Inchon builds cat, starts Harbor

Tempest builds University, starts Temple

Cyclone builds worker, starts worker

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Estonia Moves

Vacated:

El Paso-99
El Paso-9
El Paso-6
El Paso-3

These 4 can be taken over by three workers at El-Paso-8 (one will stay there) and cat from El-Paso

Monterrey-6, which can be taken by the Pike in Monterrey
San Antonio-8, which can be taken over by the Pike in San Antonio

[Cort Haus]

I've had second thoughts about Typhoon. We've got 6 spare units from Estonia which can shuffle all the way down the line to plug any gaps in the south, so no need for the cat. Aqueduct and growth it is. Cheers NYE

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Stormia Moves

Workers on mnt at Inhoff-4 road

Santa Ana-8,7,77 irrigated. Gets Temple next turn, WF adjusted for +4 food

Cat from OG-33 to WW-6

Workers at Whirlwind-6 to monsoon, wait to grow city.

Worker from Cyclone moves 888

Workers at Sandstorm-2 move 888 towards Blizzard

Various coastline shuffling as units come south from Estonia

[Arrian]

How are our universities coming? Ideally, we would want Banking around the time most of those are completed. I think that's sooner than 20 turns, a lot sooner.

I'd ask RP to put the pedal down on Banking, rather than give us cash.

-Arrian

[Cort Haus]

2 Unis are finished (Hurricane, Tempest), EotS is done in 2 turns and Arashi in 10 turns. Yes, we'll want Banking sooner than 20 turns, though we have cheap cathedrals available to build. We could use obsolete wonders for Bank prebuilds.

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Navy

First off - as we have a solid seawall, we can disband most of our navy. We'll keep the Northern galleys for the moment, but can start disbanding in the South and East.

2 galleys from line near San Diego move west to inspect Bob coastline - there's still a mass of Lego units. Don't say Lego are defending GoW from RP!

3 remain by San Diego

4 keep watch around Estonia

2 are watching on the East tip of Bob.

2 are watching the sea and ocean off the South coast of Bob - they start moving towards Stormia.

3 are watching off the east coast of Stormia. The northern one moves towards Estonia. Other two head towards Inchoff.

1 is moving round the South coast of Stormia - was going to join east coast guard, but dives into Typhoon and disbands into the aqua build.

7 in WW, 1 in OG - four of these disband in OG to allow growth and aqua in 10 turns. 3 disband into Whirlwind. Harbour in 5 turns.

[Cort Haus]

Forthcoming attractions

Tempest : Temple in 2 turn
Satna Ana : Temple in 1 turn
EotS : Uni in 2 turns
Arashi : Uni in 10
Bolderburg : Mkt in 2 turns
Tornado : Mkt in 4 turns
Inchoff : Harbor in 14 turns
Whirlwind : Harbor in 5
Sufa : Aqua and growth in 7
Monsoon : Aqua and growth to size 7 in 4
Blizzard : Aqua and growth to size 7 in 7
Diss : Aqua and growth to size 7 in 12
OG : Aqua and growth to size 7 in 10
Typhoon : Aqua in 14
Hurricane : done 36 shields of Copernicus prebuild

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Neuvo Espania

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The Midlands

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Stormia

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The Sea

[asleepathewheel]

wow, good job on the quick turnaround