Turnplayer Thread No. 5

[Kodii]

Looks like people are getting the hang of pressing the End Turn button.

The next turn has begun ~5 hours early!

[Sullla]

Yep, Banana ended their turn so I logged in to take a look. Seems as though Donovan got the message, because he's gone absolutely apesh*t with the draftings and whippings. Banana burned through 14 pop (!!!) before last turn ended, and then another 5 pop on the current turn. That's the maximum of six drafted units for sure, plus another eight pop on several unit whips. Even though this is going to decimate Banana research capability (which is based on running lots of specialists), it's great news for us! Go Donovan!

I have offered Education to Imperio for Military Tradition. No need to offer the trade again, just wanted to get it in place ASAP to prevent any tomfoolery from Imperio's end. I also dropped research to 0% and changed focus back to Optics, our presumed next tech. Cape Town was the only city that finished a build, I set it to another cat. For the rest, I'll leave it in sunrise's capable hands.

[MyOtherCar]

Well managing an OCC isn't that hard to do, except the C&D department. But I doubt Templars have one.

[sunrise089]

Nice job Banana!

I assume his capital is producing much of his research, so we probably should have said "slave everything except the capital" for our purposes.

Yep, Banana ended their turn so I logged in to take a look. Seems as though Donovan got the message, because he's gone absolutely apesh*t with the draftings and whippings. Banana burned through 14 pop (!!!) before last turn ended, and then another 5 pop on the current turn. That's the maximum of six drafted units for sure, plus another eight pop on several unit whips. Even though this is going to decimate Banana research capability (which is based on running lots of specialists), it's great news for us! Go Donovan!

Along with the post mocking Templars' tile improvements at Jerusalem (where did that one go?), I nominate this for the hall of fame

[sunrise089]

Turn 166

City Report:
*Airstrip 1 - University due in 7. Market on hold.
*Pink Dot - University due in 10.
*China Beach - University due in 15. Cat on hold.
*Cape Town - Cat complete. Another cat due in 1.
*Something Fishy - University due in 9.
*Green Acres - Islamic Missionary due in 5.
*Mellow Yellow - Bank due in 175.
*Saxon the Beach - University due in 13.
*Bluebell Fields - University due in 15. Bank on hold.
*Red Herring - Forge due in 12.
*Upper Burgundy - Library due in 1.
*Frozen Clams - Library due in 35.
*Jericho - Cat due in 5.
*Jerusalem - Theater due in 4.
*Jungle Fever - Granary due in 48.
*Sweet Tooth - Granary due in 57.
*Constantinople - Theater due in 51.

Worker Report:
*Followed the Soooo plan. Jerusalem's cows will be hooked up next turn.
*Also we have two workers on the Backstab staging tile.
*Finally I corrected my mistake and continued to chop the jungle at Jerusalem.

Domestic Military Composition Report:
*Cape Town garrison - 1 axe, 2 archers.
*Jericho garrison - 1 archer.
*Jerusalem garrison - 1 pike.
*Constantinople garrison - 7 Omomos, 5 elephants, 5 maces, 2 longbows, 4 pikes, 6 cats, 1 GG chariot.
*Naval strike force - 1 trireme, 2 galleys, 4 Oromos.
*Mounted strike force - 4 knights, 5 HAs.
*Units in transit (just in case someone wants to keep tabs on everything) - 4 Oromos, 3 cats.

Enemy Military Composition Report:
*Imperio mega-stack: 4 knights, 2 muskets, 3 elephants, 8 macemen, 3 pikes, 4 longbows, 9 cats.

Military Action Report:
*Our mounted units moved to their correct staging point.
*Everything will be healed at Constantinople next turn except 2 maces and 1 cat.

Spy Report:
*Bad News:

Spoiler:

Questions and notes:[/B]
*The Islamic Missionary destined for Jerusalem failed
*Cool - We can see PAL's demos. Printing Press due in 2.
*No trades have gone through yet with Imperio.
*We got a free religion spread into Jungle Fever, Christianity.
*Banana got a Great Artist
*What grassland hill tile does the new settler go on? 3E or 4E of Jungle Fever?
*It's a good thing we have more reinforcements on the way than Imperio - they have 10 more units in their stack than we do!

[sooooo]

*Banana got a Great Artist

Grrrrr, this is terrible news. We could have gotten printing press for free but now we have to research it.

[sooooo]

Shame about the lack of islam spread into Jerusalem too. I whipped the theatre here anyway.

Next planned builds: Courthouse at Jerusalem. Probably barracks at Upper Burgundy? We can work the plains mine again and get some production going.

We can draft Frozen Clams next turn. May as well whip the library too afterwards.

[sooooo]

*What grassland hill tile does the new settler go on? 3E or 4E of Jungle Fever?

I suppose we may as well settle the hill 3E of Jungle Fever. Better to overlap with tiles from JF and Jerusalem than to get ocean tiles we will never work.

Reccomended worker actions:
John and Max chop. Parsons moves to the plains forest at Pink and finishes the chop.

If the two combat engineers near Cape Town decide they aren't backstabbing, then they can farm the tile 1NE of Cape Town - could be useful post-biology and it keeps the workers available to road the rice at any time.
There will be a spare worker near Jerusalem who can do whatever sunrise wants.

[Sullla]

Military Tradition trade has gone through with Imperio. Do we want to cancel horses to Banana this turn and swap Cape Town to a cuirassier? There's still time to do this, and having one cuirassier on hand would certainly help out our Mutal strike enormously!

I have posted an attack plan against Imperio for discussion in the "Backstab" thread, and would love to see what others think.

[Dreylin]

we're up over 500posts in the thread again, do we need to start a new one for the next phase of the war....?

[Swiss Pauli]

Thread closed.

New thread here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?t=187096