Turn 86, 875 BC

[nbarclay]

Team scores:

172 (+3) Gathering Storm
181 (+4) Demogyptica
150 (+3) Glory of War
183 (+3) Role Play
126 (+2) Vox Controli
184 (+2) Legoland

[Aeson]

Is anyone in Anarchy right now?

[nbarclay]

No one's in Anarchy, but RolePlay is in Monarchy! I guess they're being true to their role, but they've pretty well guaranteed that they won't be in contention for the tech lead.

[nbarclay]

Pyramids would finish in 13 turns at our current rate. I'm thinking probably spend two turns (one with two workers and one with three) after this turn roading the iron mountain and then add the three workers to Hurricane and bump the luxury slider up to 20%.

[Aeson]

That's nice of them to go to Monarchy, nice of Lego and Vox to lay off going to Republic too.

[nbarclay]

Just so long as Lego's waiting doesn't help them beat us to the Pyramids.

Shots sent.

[DeepO]

Monarchy / research: it may depend... because of the free units, monarchy isn't that bad if you have lots of troops, lots of cities, but no high-pop cities. But of course, it can't last if they want to grow bigger...

DeepO

[Shiber]

Originally posted by nbarclay
Just so long as Lego's waiting doesn't help them beat us to the Pyramids.

IIRC Lego said in the latest chat that the Pyramids is a prebuild for another wonder. Since they seem so concerned about happiness, perhaps they are prebuilding the Sistine or JS Bach's?
Alternatively, they could have lied to us and they are in fact building the Pyramids and are so close to completion that they are delaying the switch to Republic to after the Pyramids are done, fearing that we might be close enough to snatch the Pyramids while Lego is still in anarchy.