turn 39 : 2480 BC

[PJayTycy]

I moved the scout, no danger seen.

I have to leave for the weekend in about 5 minutes, so can't really check on other things, so I post the midturn here for somebody else to double-check our working tiles in the city, the worker etc...

[-SafaN-]

changed nothing
ah and settler will both be finished in 1 turn,

currently we have as new goals:
tech: iron working
civic: change to slavery
building: whipping a forge

i'm not used to whipping, so i might need a little aid to get the most out of it

[ForesterSOF]

First hold the whip firmly

Second use it as part of the arm so you get the whole effect.

This way our slaves fear pain and work harder.

[binTravkin]

There will be one turn of anarchy and then some turns until we stockpile the needed amount of hammers before you can whip.
Also - we should consider boosting the production by a chop.

[PJayTycy]

also, our worker has finished the mine. He should probably start building a road somewhere. I don't think we can shave off a turn for settler movement, so it doesn't really matter where the road is started.

[PJayTycy]

didn't do foreign intelligence for this (previous) turn yet:

Gathering Storm grew from 3 to 4 pop
Mercenaries grew from 1 to 2 pop (finally)

[PJayTycy]

Due to an error in the foreign intelligence for the previous turn, there's a change here too:

Gathering Storm grew from 3 to 4 pop
Mercenaries settled their second city (the first in the game), they now have a 2-pop and a 1-pop city.

[Lacero]

which explains their slow growth I guess.

[binTravkin]

Yeah, I guess mercs were using settler first or something close to it..

[Lacero]

which perhaps means they were stuck in tundra to start?

[-SafaN-]

PJay has pointed out they have growed very fast, i would count on a very foodrich place, and they expected to benefit more from a worker-settler first strategy ...

I don't think snoopy would have alowed a game with one of them being in tundra, just like none of the civs started next to the sea.



PJayTycy

Prince

Apr 2005
time: 14:50

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So, finally, the foreign intelligence update for the latest turn:

=> We went from 9 to 10 tech points due to animal husbandry discovery
=> Sarantium went from 7 to 8 tech points
=> Gathering Storm went from 5 to 6 tech points
=> The merc's capital grew from 2 to 3 pop (24 food in 2 turns time!)

The mercs clearly have used their big food-bonusses to build a worker and settler immediately (they stayed on 1 pop for a very long time). Now they have a crop yield of atleast 12 (someone out there has a crop yield of +16, if we work the rice, we have +13 max)