Da Hittite Swimming Pool Smashing * * SPOILER * *

[Beam]

The Hittites founded their cap on the spot next to some mjammie [groucho] spices and were gifted a volunteer warrior. The friendly guy is mapping Hittite homesoil while a curragh is under construction to explore the neighbourhood. Hittite government is pretty confident a settler for a 2nd city can be build on the mark prior to construction of some high-tech stuff for storing grain.

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[Aggie]

It is very interesting for me to see what choices you all made with that first city. What is your current research path?

[Beam]

Turn 31:

Aggie put a lot of time in this map so here is an update. First of all: the pace of the game is quite good for an 8-player game. The pic tells a lot how the game is progressing. The Farmers grow fastest, three non-Farmers who settled on the spot and went for a settler at size 3 are the second group and finally there is akots who told me he settled on one of the luxes losing a turn and Banzai who told me he went for Pott. and build a Gran in the cap. He'll pick up soon I guess.

Counterclockwise from the Hittites:
- Krys (fucking Dromons nearby but krys is reluctant to have an early GA as learned in our PBEM although he learned the effects of coastal bombardment the hard way)
- anar
- Eldakkar
- Most likely Arghis

Clockwise (learned by intel):
- Banzai
- Kemal
- Most likely akots

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Current plans are settling, contacting everybody and evaluate the surrounding islands of which there are plenty. Finding partners might also be a good idea. Techpath undisclosed here but those interested will surely get a reply on PM inquiry. ;) I really trust everybody but it avoids fuzz if there is an accidental misclick.

Finally: I'm glad the Vikes ar far away!

[Pastorius]

Noone ever misclicks...err...hm...oops...

with that kind of build, you will have 8-10 cities on that land?

[Beam]

It will be a little more dense than city-tile-tile-city but just where needed. The surrounding islands look promising as well with luxes and most likely also critical resources. So settling those is needed imo. :)

[Aggie]

It indeed looks like this game is progressing very well. Nice to see that.

[Kingreno]

Why did you irrigate the BG NW of Urk?

[Pastorius]

That is indeed a good question. Unless Beam has created an optical illusion on that tile. Or perhaps his phasers have made a greyish hole in the center of the tile [crazyeyes]

[Beam]

quote:Originally posted by Kingreno

Why did you irrigate the BG NW of Urk?


Because I pressed the wrong button. :( Sad but true.

[Beam]

Turn 43:

Brief update and current minimap.

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Although it is pretty quiet on the spoiler front I am pretty sure many diplo talks have happened and still are happening. All have contact with each other and it was amazing to see how fast Writing got distributed. To give a little hint: I didn't research it myself. ;)

Anar looks best positioned to win the Philorun and afaik he is the only one going for it but I don't know everybodies techplan atm. Anar also PM'ed me that he will have IW soon and since I can't imagine he will choose IW as free tech he must have a partner.

Talking about partners: found 2 good ones and things are running smooth. :)

2 cities atm, one settler is just completed, another one next turn in the upcoming settler fac. There are a couple of nice adjacent islands so settling won't be limited to the core island.

[Pastorius]

Update time soon?

[Beam]

Turn 66:

Game has been slow for a long time but is speeding up. :)

The world as it is known:

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With various peacedeals with all but the most remote 2 players (akots and arghis) i'm playing this as some sort of farmer gambit. 4 turn settler fac in place. Main issue is the lack of workers but that's gonna change soon:

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Finally Civscore, at this stage still an expansion indicator:

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No surprise the Agri civs are leading, compared to the non-Agri's the Hittites are doing pretty well. akots settled on a lux which explains his higher score, Banzai and me have been close for a long time, depends on new cities. Running slowly away from krys and arghis has been the backmarker for a long time now.

We already saw the first war: Kemal invaded akots and destroyed one of his cities!

Policy is expand, expand, expand. Tech situation:
- Researching CB.
- CoL, Phil, MM.
- WC, HBR, Math is available and secured as part of deals.

[Beam]

Turn 73:

As said in the open thread turnaround time is about 2 days now! :)

Map. Just one settling slot left in the core. No priority atm, the Ivory W and the Gems SE are. [evil] Made a deal with the Portugese how to split the 6 islands on the outside, we have a lux deal as well. :)

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Minimap. Bit hard to see that a couple of competitors are already settling outside the core. At least the Agries and Portugal have done so.

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Civscore and demographics. Akots is overtaken, the early war between him and kemal is leaving its marks. ;) 5th in pop and 4th in landarea is ok, as all agri civs will be ahead and I assume Portugal to be 4th in pop. 5th in Mfg, 3th is possible with some reshuffling of tiles.

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Victory screen. Kemal has double my pop! [scared] Together we have 29% which leaves 71% for the other 6 players. anar and Eldakkar can't be far behind say have 35% combined which leaves 36% for the rest. No one has build any culture. Very barbaric Swimming Pool. [viking]

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Techs. Goes as planned. Researching IW, ready in 6.

Gossip. First talks about targeting other players are happening, many peacedeals end in turn 100. 101 will be interesting.

[Pastorius]

Hey, why the viking helmet when you re talking barbarians? [rant]

We gave the world cool stuff like longships and berserkergang, if that isnt culture, then I ll have to ask Thor to smite you with his hammer [hammer]