Moves - Volume 4

[Rhothaerill]

Okay I have some better numbers on the sizes our cities will grow to. Also the numbers of raw shields and commerce before corruption and the boosters (libraries etc.) are accounted for.

New Voice - size 8, 21 shields, 21 commerce
Irony - size 10, 6 shields, 29 commerce
Resurrection - size 8, 9 shields, 24 commerce
Memory - size 11, 10 shields, 37 commerce
Renewal - size 12, 13 shields, 34 commerce
Phoenix - size 11, 17 shields, 28 commerce
Hope - size 12, 25 shields, 35 commerce
Panama Vox - size 12, 13 shields, 35 commerce
Eternity - size 12, 13 shields, 35 commerce
Seabiscuit - size 10, 15 shields, 28 commerce

This assumes that every grassland, plains and desert tile we have are irrigated and railed. We'll be using every single bit of irrigation we have except for one or two of the desert tiles depending on shield corruption.

Obviously Hope will eventually become our best city. Unfortunately it is the only reason why our other cities will become powerful as well so it will have to wait a while before that happens. Our southern desert cities will also become powerful down the road, but that will take a while as they can't grow too well on their own right now.

Depending on corruption (which I have not calculated into the above numbers) by the end of this we'll have two 20-shield cities, five 10+ shield cities, and three not-quite-10-shield cities. Not too bad.

If I have some time today I'm going to fire up my old computer (which still has the PTW editor) and create a sim of having our whole island completely improved the way I want it and see what the numbers after corruption and the boosters will be.

[Jon Miller]

cool

20 shield cities (base) is not bad

Jon Miller

[Beta]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
cool

indeed!

[Rhothaerill]

800ad Turn Played

Per (short) orders. GS offered electricity to which I responded with nationalism. ND offered 50 gold.


Electricity
Voxtavia

[Rhothaerill]

810ad Turn Orders

- Hope grows to size 4, produces worker and drops to size 3. Start catapult
- VW#1 moves 8 and rails
- VW#10 moves 4-1 and irrigates
- New worker in Hope renamed VW#11 and moves 3 and irrigates
- V.C.S. Discovery 6-6-6
- V.C.S. Exploration 1-1-1
- Hope WF to fish, mined hill,and mined grassland.

The reason for the catapult is that to make the 2-turn worker pump I need a starting point of size 4. We can rush the cat quickly before it grows and in that time the workers will irrigate and rail the grass tile. When Hope grows to size 4 then it will have +5fpt, +5spt, and empty boxes....perfect for a 2-turn worker pump without continuous micromanaging.

[Jon Miller]

catapults are good to have anyway

Jon Miller

[Rhothaerill]

The turn is here and I'm playing it.

[Rhothaerill]

810ad Turn Played

Per orders. No changes. ND sent the third 50 gold payment.

[Rhothaerill]

820ad Turn Orders

- VW#3 moves 2 and rails mountain tile
- VW#4 moves 2-2-2-2 and rails mountain tile
- VW#7 moves 8 and rails mountain tile
- VW#9 moves 1 to irrigated grass and rails
- VW#10 rails grass tile
- VW#11 rails grass tile
- V.C.S. Discovery moves 1-1-1
- V.C.S. Exploration moves 2-2 and fortifies
- Send nationalism-accepted to Lego
- Send world map-accepted to Lego


We now have two teams of 3 workers each. Since railing grass/plains/desert takes 3 worker turns, hills take 6 and mountains take 9....you do the math. I won't be able to sync up another 3-worker team for a few more turns though.

[Beta]

Time for a rush build maybe?

[Rhothaerill]

The save is in and I'm about to play it. Yes I was thinking of rush building an aqueduct so we can start getting some boats in the water next.

[Rhothaerill]

820ad Turn Played

Per orders. I rushed the aqueduct in Seabiscuit as that one has the slowest shield production at the moment.

Lego sent us industrialization. And ND sent their payment. Oh and someone must have gifted Roleplay into the industrial age. I'll check with Togas sometime soon to see about a nationalism deal.

No screenshot.

[Beta]

Originally posted by Rhothaerill
The save is in and I'm about to play it. Yes I was thinking of rush building an aqueduct so we can start getting some boats in the water next.

Yes - a navy! I think the first thing we will need to do is transfer the existing caravel names to the new warships.

Rhoth - aren't you glad I am so helpful with the important things.

[Jon Miller]

I am all about a navy

in PtW Navies can be upgraded, right?

Jon Miller

[Rhothaerill]

No they can't, but we can build ironclads at least. The upper division ships will depend on whether we have oil in our desert...or if Lego has two.