praying for pink polka dots [pbem25 spoilers]

[greenline]

Decided to found 1E after sending the scouting warrior west and seeing another river. The west river will be a good second city candidate and the extra housing will really help the capital out.

Screenshots pending another turn, maybe

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Founded capital on the marsh rice, giving a 3/1 base. I will be missing out from waiting on working the 2/3 deer tile from the start, but I am hoping that the housing will make up for it when I deploy Pingala. I decided to go builder first and focus on building some mines - the deer tile is the only one in the city's first radius of tiles with 3 cogs yield. Getting the irrigation boost from the wheat won't hurt either. Seeing no pasture resources so far when scouting - probably good that I skipped Australia.

I call upon lurkers to give me potential naming schemes. I got nothing.

[Japper007]

Would you like Dutch Cheeses for your naming scheme? Of the top of my head I've got at least 5 already.

Or maybe Dutch "delicacies" (I did this I'm a PBEM here, but I didn't get very far...)?

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I adore pastries and cheeses, so I am sold on that.

[Japper007]

Just dropping these (cheeses) here then:

Edam
Gouda
Beemster
Old Amsterdam
Blauwklaver
Wapenaer
Maaslander
Milner
Goudkuipje
Limburger
Leerdammer
Fryske Tsiis
Leidse
Kanternagel


Half of those sound made up to me lol, I really live in a fantasy country (I can see a windmill and a dike from my window)

[greenline]

As a poor American, I have not tasted many of those cheeses. But there is one that is commonly found even in the supermarket:




It's probably not authentic, but it's still damn good.

Warrior spies a cow to the northwest, along with a fur. Deer and fur would make Goddess of the Hunt tempting, but there's no telling on whether I'll be able to get it as a pantheon in time.

[Japper007]

Unlike many European regional cheeses, Gouda is not a protected term. So a Wisconsin Gouda (have had some of this as a novelty, it was really good! But way to expensive over here to do for anything more than a laugh) is as much a Gouda as one actually from the city itself.

Also fun fact, since Gouda is more of a technique, almost every cheese on the list would qualify as a Gouda. A great name for the capital.

(Pronounced Ch (like in Achmed)-Ow-Da, for those curious. As a born Alkmarian. I've heard every mangled pronunciation under the sun)