Cloak & Dagger

[Sullla]

mh, Banana got a huge infusion of Soldier points last turn, either 12k or 13k (it's hard to read the little bar graphs!) This leads me to believe that they did indeed complete Moai Statues on T123, which carries 10k Soldier points, and would explain the 16 points that we have unaccounted for in the score tally. It makes perfect sense: Banana has a seafood heavy capital and they've had stone since very early in the game.

I think that's one mystery solved.

[T-hawk]

since we have good relations with Banana, can we just ask him what he built? Couch it in micro advice, like "Moai might be good at your capital".

[mostly-harmless]

We will sail past their capital soon enough. Expect to see a seafood monster.

mh

[mostly-harmless]

Not sure if this is relevant or helpful, but the map type is actually a "continents & islands" map, not a "terra" map.

mh

[mostly-harmless]

T125:

PAL:
Rabbit:
Banana:
Imperio:
Templars: pop - Damascus [8]
RB: 3 x pop

Population census:
PAL 53 (size 11,8,7,6,5,5,5,5,1)
RB 43 (10,8,5,5,5,4,4,2)
Imp 40 (10,7,7,7,5,4)
Ban 28 (9,8,5,4,2)
Tem 26 (8,7,6,3,2)
Rab 8 (4,3,1)

Treasury report:
Templars: 124gold (+11gpt)
Imperio: 276gold (+1gpt)
PAL: 206gold (-91gpt)
Rab: 37gold (-1gpt)
Banana: 40gold (+3gpt)

Production:
Mutal: Macemen
Lakamha: ? need to move Lady Godiva

The Warning: Confucian Temple (seems we were wrong all along with our wonder analysis. Got to keep an eye on the other treat.)

Jerusalem: ? a unit?

mh

[mostly-harmless]

T126:

PAL: 7 x pop!!! & couple of land points
Rabbit:
Banana:
Imperio:
Templars: land points
RB: 2 x pop

Population census:
PAL 60 (size 12,9,7,7,6,6,6,5,2)
RB 46 (10,8,6,6,5,4,4,2,1)
Imp 40 (10,7,7,7,5,4)
Ban 28 (9,8,5,4,2)
Tem 26 (8,7,6,3,2)
Rab 8 (4,3,1)

Treasury report:
Templars: 138gold (+14gpt)
Imperio: 274gold (-2gpt)
PAL: 117gold (-89gpt)
Rab: 36gold (-1gpt)
Banana: 43gold (+3gpt)

Production:
Damaskus: ???

The "double move" tile between Chichen Itza and Cape Town is at 47%! Yay.
The Warning at size 12 gives 1.2 base trade, not enough to give us a 5gpt trade route in A1 but we are getting there.

mh

[Swiss Pauli]

Do we suspect PAL got a soldiers returning from war event?

[T-hawk]

I doubt that. It would show up in the event log. The population growth lags a turn behind the event - so for pop growth for T126, the event would have to have happened at start of T125, and we would have seen it then.

[Swiss Pauli]

Are you sure we'll see the foreign event messages in MP? I checked the log, and found our two events and no others.

PAL's growth does seem somewhat unnaturally rapid

[mostly-harmless]

We have been notified about the slave revolt and one more positive event for PAL before. Also their growth does not seem unnaturally from my excel tables. It is just a sign that they are improving their lands.

mh

[mostly-harmless]

T127:

PAL: whipped last turn & The Parthenon
Rabbit:
Banana: lost pop due to slave revolt
Imperio:
Templars: land points
RB: pop & land points

Population census:
PAL 59 (size 12,9,7,7,6,6,5,5,2)
RB 47 (10,8,6,6,5,5,4,2,1)
Imp 40 (10,7,7,7,5,4)
Ban 27 (9,8,4,4,2)
Tem 26 (8,7,6,3,2)
Rab 8 (4,3,1)

Treasury report:
Templars: 152gold (+14gpt)
Imperio: 244gold (-30gpt)
PAL: 239gold (+122gpt)
Rab: 35gold (-1gpt)
Banana: 34gold (-9gpt)

Production:
Calakmul: Library (although I am not sure it wasn't there before.)
Uxmal: ? unit/galley ?

The Warning: Obelisk (Egypt UB = Monument)
Alexandria: ? unit ?

The "double move" tile between Chichen Itza and Cape Town is at 48%.

Somehow we got our trade routes to Rabbits back. +2gpt for Saxon.

mh

[Sullla]

Nope, the library was NOT there in Calakmul last turn. That's what their mystery build was? Uh... OK.

Just to make this clear: Imperio had no libraries anywhere in their territory, then they built their first library in their youngest, most immature city, which lacks granary, lighthouse, barracks, or anything else. O...K....

[Swiss Pauli]

Library to combat the culture crush from The Warning. Good luck with that, Imperio

[mostly-harmless]

T128:

PAL: 2 x pop & Paper learned
Rabbit: classical tech learned
Banana: pop & land
Imperio: 2 x pop
Templars:
RB: pop & tech & land

Population census:
PAL 61(size 12,9,8,7,7,6,5,5,2)
RB 46 (10,9,6,6,5,5,2,2,1)
Imp 42 (10,8,8,7,5,4)
Ban 27 (9,8,5,4,1)
Tem 26 (8,7,6,3,2)
Rab 8 (4,3,1)

Treasury report:
Templars: 166gold (+14gpt)
Imperio: 213gold (-31gpt)
PAL: 148gold (-91gpt)
Rab: 43gold (+8gpt)
Banana: 36gold (+2gpt)

Production:
Jericho: ? unit?
Caerbannog: ?
Doal: ? worker?


The "double move" tile between Chichen Itza and Cape Town is at 50%! One more turn and we not only steal that tile and improve our forewarning system but also steal a worked coastal tile from Chichen Itza (effectively -2gpt).

mh

[mostly-harmless]

T129:

PAL: 2 x pop
Rabbit:
Banana: pop & land
Imperio: 2 x pop
Templars: 2 x pop
RB: 2 x pop

Population census:
PAL 63(size 12,9,8,7,7,7,6,5,2)
RB 48 (10,9,6,6,6,5,3,2,1)
Imp 42 (10,8,8,7,5,4)
Ban 28 (9,8,5,5,1)
Tem 28 (8,8,6,4,2)
Rab 8 (4,3,1)

Treasury report:
Templars: 180gold (+14gpt)
Imperio: 196gold (-17gpt)
PAL: 57gold (-91gpt)
Rab: 4gold (+4gpt)
Banana: 38gold (+2gpt)

Production:

The "double move" tile between Chichen Itza and Cape Town is at 51%! However it has not flipped to us yet. Lets hope it does so next turn, as it becomes quite important.

mh