We should have every tile that can hold food unmapped in 4 turns, barbs forgiving. That would be T33 when we settle city 2, so I plan to do a full overview then. With any luck that will be Tuesday evening right before I go and work 7 out of 8 days, so it's a good time to get down thoughts and plans.
This turn was a bit of a surprise, as a wolf attacked and lost against the scout for something like 8hp worth of damage. The scout is now 3/5 XP and I promoted to C1. Long shot we get 2 more XP but I'd rather have the medic 1 scout than anything else as it won't be exploring far at this point.
There is a plains tile that is riverside, picks up dry corn, plains sheep and the plains deer that would make a sound HE city. Size 9, 25hpt with just mines, no workshops? 40hpt at size 17 with only 2 caste workshops and 5 watermills (if we used Serfdom, trivial to reach 40hpt). All food is second ring though. City location is W-SW of the corn, and this fits with a city N-NW or 2N of the corn to pick up both furs and use all the tiles (and leaves a late filler city NW of the sheep).
S-SW-SW with the warrior. Moving to the grass hill only makes sense if we want to try and fight the bear on defense with odds, but I'd rather...not. Those two tiles of FoW need to get uncovered with the scout dancing in and out. This will give full knowledge of seafood in the area.
OH was first to his second city on T28, ahead of the sole IMP player in the game (Cairo). Benefit of SPI and early BW.
This turn was a bit of a surprise, as a wolf attacked and lost against the scout for something like 8hp worth of damage. The scout is now 3/5 XP and I promoted to C1. Long shot we get 2 more XP but I'd rather have the medic 1 scout than anything else as it won't be exploring far at this point.
There is a plains tile that is riverside, picks up dry corn, plains sheep and the plains deer that would make a sound HE city. Size 9, 25hpt with just mines, no workshops? 40hpt at size 17 with only 2 caste workshops and 5 watermills (if we used Serfdom, trivial to reach 40hpt). All food is second ring though. City location is W-SW of the corn, and this fits with a city N-NW or 2N of the corn to pick up both furs and use all the tiles (and leaves a late filler city NW of the sheep).
S-SW-SW with the warrior. Moving to the grass hill only makes sense if we want to try and fight the bear on defense with odds, but I'd rather...not. Those two tiles of FoW need to get uncovered with the scout dancing in and out. This will give full knowledge of seafood in the area.
OH was first to his second city on T28, ahead of the sole IMP player in the game (Cairo). Benefit of SPI and early BW.