Another Succession Game?

[Daddy-O]

So, water the plains and sand, mine everything else. Roads and RRs are always good.

Excellent and it's almost my turn!

[snoopy369]

Sorry, i've been busy and will be again tomorrow. Thursday looks good ... maybe ...

Water plains and anything with a food bonus. Anything that gets you 0 food (desert) isn't worth it at that early in the game, unless you're agricultural, and anything that gets you 2 food the 3rd is lost in the despotism rule (3rd food or shield or possibly trade is lost per tile, automatically, regardless of corruption), so don't irrigate anything that gets you already exactly 2 food.

OTOH, water anything that gets you 3+ food, since you need the food bonus to grow quickly. Cows and more cows are the best possible start (on grassland), with wheat on flood plains a close second (though the shield lack hurts). Both irrigated give you a ton of food and help your city grow fast to build settlers fast...

[Paddy]

party hard great Lord

[Daddy-O]

snoopy: no need to rush.

Thanks for the tips! Water the cows...

[Modo44]

*BUMP*

Well, hopefully Snoopy can get to this game as well... Snoopy?

[snoopy369]

Go ahead and skip me here, unless it's still waiting until tomorrow. I am reallly tired ... dang on retail ... and just imagine how much worse it gets as I climb the ladder ... (at least it pays much better! )

[Daddy-O]

So what is the turn order? This is what I've got:
Snoopy369
Modo44
Skrobism
LMToops
PaddyTheScott

Are we waiting for snoop-dog?

[Modo44]

Waiting one last day. If Snoopy doesn't pick it up by tomorrow morning my time, I'll get to it.

[snoopy369]

I need sleep ... so go ahead.

[Paddy]

Originally posted by snoopy369
I need sleep ... so go ahead.

the Retail King of the Great Lakes has spoken

[Modo44]

Sorry to hear that, Snoopy. Hope you can get back soon.

Alright. Beware, Chief Modo is here.

Taking a look. We are a bacward civ. Low technology, few Workers, and few cities. Nonono, that can't be happening. Persia doesn't have Philosophy, but has Code of Laws. Germans dont' have Code of Laws... Spain has Polytheism, nobody else has it... How about we make everyone equal, and store all the available cash in our treasury?


550 BC

• Code of Laws from Persia for Philosophy, 5gp.
• Horseback Riding, 130gp from Germany for Philosophy.
• Polytheism from Spain for 460gp. As "cheap" as possible...
• Mathematics, Iron Working, 59gp from Germany for Polytheism. Now they have 0 gold stored.
• Korea has Currency, but they won't give us a reasonable price. And, we're still at war.
• Switch builds. Most important - switch the Temple in Lake Itcheycott to a Granary. Target: fill the continent with cities, get a foothold on the continent, get to 30 workers. Loads of stored food needed for that.
• Republic in 37 turns. As fast as possible, with 30% lux, 70% science, -5gpt.

510 BC

• Barbarian galley bounces off our own ship. Good, we will need to transport some Settlers soon...
• Established Embassy with the Aztecs.
• Established Embassy with the Spaniards.
• No useful alliance possible.
• Spain has Construction now.
• Lake Itcheycott is a 2-turn Worker pump now. Please don't touch it for a looong time.

470 BC

• Korea pays the Aztecs to declare on us. More War Happiness.
• Most people have Currency and Construction now. We don't. This is bad.
• Establish Embassy with Persia.
• No useful alliance possible.
• Korea has Philosophy now. Persia has Polytheism.

450 BC

• Found Akwesasne south of Jumping Fish.

410 BC

• Found Tyendenaga in the middle of the prairie.

350 BC (half time)

• 15 Workers (that's 7 new ones)
• 2 new cities
• At war with another enemy (Aztecs).
• Peace with Korea, or Aztecs not really possible. Neither is an alliance with someone.
• Plan to land on the Furs just across the ocean, and Settle there. Have little hope of defending the city, though.
• We have no Horses.
• We have Iron...
• 26 turns to Republic (20% lux, 80% science).

The current map:

[Paddy]

a great half time report mighty Lord Modo

[Modo44]

This will be a looong game, I tell ya. Good.

310 BC

• Buy Currency from Spain. Don't ask for how much...
• Republic in 22 turns, but with -32gpt, and 202gp in treasury. So it will slow down considerably soon. Yes, we are paying huge gpt to the Spaniards.
• Construction, 172gp from the Germans for Currency. Now they are broke.
• ROP, Alliance against Korea, 14gp from Persia for Currency. They have Iron, so I'm counting on them clobbering the Koreans with the help of a Golden Age. Plus, this will be a distraction, so we can try and put that city on those Furs...
• Peace Treaty, ROP with the Aztecs for Currency. Getting the second threat off our planned expansion.

290 BC

• Found Kahnawake near Mount Kahnawake.
• Most people have Monarchy and Engineering now, but no one has Republic. Fingers crossed...

250 BC

• Tired of waiting, I pop-rush a Temple in Maunch Chunk. Now it can make some more Workers. The corruption is high, so a big population doesn't do any good there.
• Spain has Monotheism now. They are running fast, are they not?

210 BC

• Found Caughnawaga east of Salamanca.
• Korea pays Spain to go to war with us. That's so nice to hear. They just gave us War Happiness, and gave up the 24gpt we were paying them.
• We can keep on researching Republic. We are only at -9gpt now.

170 BC

• Spain buys the Aztecs, and the Persians into the war with us. Not a big worry, except that landing any forces on the continent won't do much good. We have Barracks done, and some defensive Archers soon.

150 BC

• Lower research a bit, because we're finally out of money. Republic in 13 turns, with barely enough cash.

We're in a bit of a hole. We are nearly done REXing (2 city spots left at home, as far as I can tell), and we have just about enough Workers. But we are low on infrastructure, low on military, and low on technology. We still didn't get those Furs just across the channel. And four of five nations we know are at war with us. The good thing is, no KAI is developing yet, so we should be able to catch up. The question is when...

Screenie of our Despotism:

[Modo44]

Demographics. Not very encouraging, yet.

[Modo44]

This doesn't look nice either...