a couple of thoughts.
one of the teams has a crop yield of 9. there are no size 3 cities. that means either a 4 food + 3 food tile are being worked, or a 5 food + 2 food tile. i'm not sure how sulla balanced the starts out - maybe some starts got a 3-food resource and others 2 2-food ones? if that's the case we got the better deal food-wise, although it's probably way too early to speculate on that.
another thing - i agree with ilios that there's a very good chance aquilonia is W of our position. it's possible the ottomans are actually NW of where we first met based on conan's movements:
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there are 2 things that make that less likely though
1) if conan were simply headed S/SE, tricky dick would see him now
2) it seemed to me they were a bit taken aback to see our warrior (particularly chatting in-game with pegasus)
the more likely scenario is conan is going on a wide loop around aquilonia and is now headed W/NW. so that means we have to choose whether we delay contact with other civs and send cortes S/SE, or we forfeit info on A4 and keep cortes on a W/NW course.
FYI we only have 5 turns before A4's capital expands. at least 2 of those turns will be spent healing. so unless aquilonia is further N than we think, i don't think we'll make it in time.
one of the teams has a crop yield of 9. there are no size 3 cities. that means either a 4 food + 3 food tile are being worked, or a 5 food + 2 food tile. i'm not sure how sulla balanced the starts out - maybe some starts got a 3-food resource and others 2 2-food ones? if that's the case we got the better deal food-wise, although it's probably way too early to speculate on that.
another thing - i agree with ilios that there's a very good chance aquilonia is W of our position. it's possible the ottomans are actually NW of where we first met based on conan's movements:
there are 2 things that make that less likely though
1) if conan were simply headed S/SE, tricky dick would see him now
2) it seemed to me they were a bit taken aback to see our warrior (particularly chatting in-game with pegasus)
the more likely scenario is conan is going on a wide loop around aquilonia and is now headed W/NW. so that means we have to choose whether we delay contact with other civs and send cortes S/SE, or we forfeit info on A4 and keep cortes on a W/NW course.
FYI we only have 5 turns before A4's capital expands. at least 2 of those turns will be spent healing. so unless aquilonia is further N than we think, i don't think we'll make it in time.