11-12-2003 09:02									#1
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I just love that plural.

Dim Sum and Chow Mein will both finish settlers in three turns (1225). Where should they go?

Here's my suggestion:



(1 has been founded as Kung Pao, and a settler is already on the way to 2)

I think we should settle 3 and a camp city NE of the plains wheat. NE of the wheat can fit in between the layout above and can put the wheat inside our food production, and also shares one of the cattle tiles for food flexibility, which will help us avoid wasting food.

	13-12-2003 02:37									#2
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Sounds good to me.

	15-12-2003 01:14									#3
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*bump* once more. We need to send those settlers out next turn. Are we using this plan?

	15-12-2003 01:22									#4
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Here's another possibility...settle 3 and the site directly north of the wheat. That gets the cattle tiles and wheat tile as well as making sure they aren't too close together. Once the two cities start growing we can switch those tiles back and forth between the cities as necessary.

	15-12-2003 01:26									#5
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After these two settlers I'd definitely say our next two cities be 4 and 5. I'm liking 4 more and more for the ability to shuffle defenders back and forth through the lake with a galley. From the horse city to site 4 is two galley turns as well as the ability to unload the units in a city so they still have their movement points. Essentially we could get 1-move units from horse city to one tile above the chokepoint in two turns.

Also, I'd really like to get a choke city on the western side of the lake sooner or later.

	15-12-2003 01:41									#6
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N of the wheat sounds good. The move would mean lower corruption than Wonton, but it would still be too far out to raise the rank of any of our current major producers (Buffet, Chow, Roll, and Suey). It would get in the way of founding that ? site, but that site's not necessary so long as Chow is there, which I hope it will be for a while to come.

I agree 4 will be nice once we get a galley in the lake, but I think the western chokepoint site you mention is more important. (The spices, beyond the obvious benefits of spiced foods, would also be very valuable for freeing up MP units; we could upgrade some warriors to swords and station them on our borders and/or send more spears to the chokepoint(s))