Adventure Fifty-Nine: Dhal's Incomplete Game

[Dhalphir]

Right, so I ended up not having the ability to write a comprehensive report or finish this game. I was in a dominant winning position by the end, and didn't really feel like the hours it would take to mop up.

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In total, I found ten Christmas trees.

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This game was a lot of fun, but turns out I just don't have the patience for full reporting.

[WilliamLP]

Interesting, and a bit of a contrast to my game as Egypt. You got the islands much earlier than I would have, and I got more land on the main continent, playing for settling forward and then backfilling later. I didn't take the forest wheat on the south coast until maybe 60 turns after you did! You also seem to be teching faster than I did, probably not crashing your econ as early. Did you build any wonders?

How you did you react to seeing that copper and horse were nowhere in site?

[Dhalphir]

Interesting, and a bit of a contrast to my game as Egypt. You got the islands much earlier than I would have, and I got more land on the main continent, playing for settling forward and then backfilling later. I didn't take the forest wheat on the south coast until maybe 60 turns after you did! You also seem to be teching faster than I did, probably not crashing your econ as early. Did you build any wonders?

I think I landed Taj and Notre Dame, though I didn't get any early wonders. And yeah, I definitely didn't settle as aggressively forward as you did. That's probably part of what kept my economy going better than yours - I played very MP style, with lots of small cities packed together overlapping BFCs and sharing tiles to make sure cottages were being worked. Mostly I did that to practise MP mechanics.

I would have expected your approach to have been easier to win the game from, though. I had a LOT of cleaning up to do because some of my opponents were quite competitive on land.

How you did you react to seeing that copper and horse were nowhere in site?