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[binTravkin]

Todo:
- worker west of Xian - start chopping
- worker south of Tassagrad - move unto forest near Tassagrad to chop
- worker northeast of Tassagrad - start chopping
- chuck southeast of Tassagrad - move into city and set to heal
- Beijing citizens - should be tuned for growth (one of them is on 1-3-0, should be 2-0-4, sea)
- worker west of Dongjing - start chopping
- scout in the north - keep moving east
- chuks in the south - move ahead towards Vox last city (who knows, maybe we can get some loot )
- switch to bureaucracy

Things needing attention:
1. Dongjings' next build.
It has done forge and a worker, I think it's time for Granary

2. Southern scout.
It could move straight ahead, but we risk losing it on a barb. Perhaps it should slow down a bit to be marching at the same speed as chucks until he gets out of forests and unto the hills?

[PJayTycy]

For units south, refer to this image from the previous thread :



Shortest Chuck movements to Vox' city:
=> southern most chuck : S-SE-SE => 3 turns : 1 chuck
=> chuck just above it : S-S-SE-SE => 4 turns : 2 chucks
=> eastern chuck : SE-SE-SE-SE-E => 5 turns : 3 chucks
=> the 2 northern chucks : don't care => 6 turns : 5 chucks

So, soonest we can reach them with one chuck is 3 turns. Every turn we wait, we can have one extra chuck. I would delay 3 turns and arrive with all 5 of them in one stack.


For the scout, it will move in a different direction : S-S through the mountain-gate towards previous Vox capital (now GS territory), so it's no use waiting for chucks. I'd just count on the fact there are probably enough GS military units around to protect us from barbs.

[N35t0r]

for delaying 3 turns.

[binTravkin]

Actually, when our chuck reaches the top of that hill, we will know for sure what to do.
I highly doubt that Vox has stationed a unit to attack two tiles outside the fat cross and towards a hill. Killing that chuck would take a minimum of 2 horse archers, which I doubt Vox has in range.

[PJayTycy]

Right, so in that case whoever opens the turn should move the southern chuck SE onto that hill and post a screenshot before moving the other chucks.

[binTravkin]

Turn's in so someone could move that chuck and take a screenie.

[PJayTycy]

In 4 hours I'll be able to play/chat/...

[-SafaN-]

well we can't see the city

[PJayTycy]

argh, right, the city already has a culture expansion, so it's one tile further than we thought.

[-SafaN-]

done everything as proposed

[PJayTycy]

Looks good, but perhaps the workers near dongjing could co-operate on chopping instead of each chopping a different forest.

For the rest, there's not really anything we can/need to do, so I guess we can send on this turn.

I'll post some screenshots below...

[PJayTycy]

Situation down south with proposed futher movements...

[binTravkin]

Hit the endturn and sent on.
Moved the Xian chuck NE in anticipation of the new settler - realized that the chuck should go on and lift some fog, so no more surprises hit us.

Here's a screenie of our stats with others':

[Mart]

There is forest next to the city - west tile. good for its 50% defense. There is desert to reach it, so units would be exposed there to some horse archers.

Playing BTS, I see diversity in units is good. Having a pikeman or spearman in stack would be useful. Does spearman defend better against horse than chuk?

It's good to remember not to have any adjecent tile foests near our cities, in case some civ sneaks troops into our territory.

[Kataphraktoi]

If the chuks are on hard terrain, they defend great against horrse archers. And chuks have odds on horse archers even on grassland anyway. On unit diversity, chariots getting 100% versus axes is the best change since vanilla IMO.

Spearmen will be usefull later on for elephants(stopgap measure) and pikemen for knights\ellies.