Turnplayer Thread No. 5

[Swiss Pauli]

From when I looked at the game yesterday, I think the Imperio longbow stack has joined their SoD.

[sooooo]

Swiss is right, they have moved their longbow stack south. This exposes Mutal to the knight strike we discussed earlier.

Can I suggest that we therefore withdraw our knights from the constantinople/jerusalem area and get move them north. I think we need to do it next turn (T162) in order to mount a T165 attack on Mutal.

Maybe Joan needs to stay with her stack to guard it, but the knights+HAs that heal in Jerusalem and Sarah can be spared for the attack.

What about the Forbidden Palace in Jerusalem? It should be surrounded by cities soon, thereby reducing the maintenence in Jericho, Constantinople, Sweet Tooth, Jungle Fever, the two-clams site, Pink Dot and Something Fishy. We only have 5 courthouses on the way or built, so we'd need to whip a sixth in Frozen Clams. It's just a double-whip.

[regoarrarr]

Does Jerusalem itself have a CH? If not, it can be the 6th

[sooooo]

No it doesn't, but the distance maintenence is zero from itself once the FP is built so the CH in Jerusalem wouldn't be particularly useful. FC is probably fine - it gets similar quantity of gold to the beakers that the library would provide.

[Swiss Pauli]

Swiss is right, they have moved their longbow stack south. This exposes Mutal to the knight strike we discussed earlier.

Can I suggest that we therefore withdraw our knights from the constantinople/jerusalem area and get move them north. I think we need to do it next turn (T162) in order to mount a T165 attack on Mutal.

Should we not start a new thread for the war against Imperio? We've got some posts here, some in Sweetheart, and some in the Imperio thread.

FWIW, I like the name 'Operation: Backstab!'

[Dreylin]

No it doesn't, but the distance maintenence is zero from itself once the FP is built so the CH in Jerusalem wouldn't be particularly useful. FC is probably fine - it gets similar quantity of gold to the beakers that the library would provide.

Doesn't the FP require a Courthouse in the city before it can be built...?

[sunrise089]

Doesn't the FP require a Courthouse in the city before it can be built...?

Yes.

[MyOtherCar]

Doesn't the FP require a Courthouse in the city before it can be built...?

Yes it does.

[sooooo]

Oh, ooops. Well that settles the question of where to build the sixth courthouse then!

[MyOtherCar]

Swiss is right, they have moved their longbow stack south. This exposes Mutal to the knight strike we discussed earlier.

Can I suggest that we therefore withdraw our knights from the constantinople/jerusalem area and get move them north. I think we need to do it next turn (T162) in order to mount a T165 attack on Mutal.

Won't this tip them off, us sending units north, away from the war-zone?

[mostly-harmless]

Won't this tip them off, us sending units north, away from the war-zone?

Well, as far as Imperio is concerned our war with Templars ended with the capture of Jerusalem. By the lines of the treaty, we are not to move any further. And surely they are not expecting us to help them conquering the rest of Templars cities.

mh

[Sullla]

Some end of turn news. (Imperio made us all wait an extra 16 hours by not ending their turn... )

- Two Great Generals died out in the fog this turn. One was Caerbannog, the original Rabbit GG, while the other one wasn't renamed and could have been either Rabbit or PAL's GG. Eisenburg is still in Rabbit hands this turn, but expect it to fall next turn.

- sunrise, you probably know this already, but we want to move our Constantinople stacks NE (onto the horses) and E (onto the oasis) so that we're on their road network. That could potentially be important in the post-Templar future when the cultural borders disappear. Plus, it makes it all but impossible for them to attack Jericho or Jerusalem.

[sooooo]

A new turn has begun (T162). Logged in and nothing of note on the log except that our golden age ended. Rabbits seemed to have settled a new city Aachen. Good news for us - more overseas trade routes. Cape Town has popped its borders and now we should start to win the cultural battle over "The Tile", though mayve we can capture Chichen Itza before that even happens. I set CT to galley but I'm not sure what sunrise's plans are. I don't like setting cities to research because it messes up my calculations of how to set the science slider and tech etas.

Anyway, we have 2030 beakers to go on Education. Plato gets us 1746 and we get the remaining beakers at 80% science. That means we are 1 turn from education! I've set some cities to max-hammers to clear their build queues to get universities going.

[Zeviz]

Which way did Imperio's main stack move last turn?

[sunrise089]

@Sooooo - Turn report coming soon, but...

1) Should we burn the GS this turn then, so we get the tech during the interturn?

2) Can we assign cities with completed builds to culture without messing up your calculations? If not, how about explorers?