HidingKneel horses around with Rhoanna [HAR! I mean, SPOILERS!]

[Qgqqqqq]

Just to clarify, a body of water is always freshwater if it displays two food (which occurs when it is less then 10 tiles). In other words, all your lakes are freshwater.

[HidingKneel]

Just to clarify, a body of water is always freshwater if it displays two food (which occurs when it is less then 10 tiles). In other words, all your lakes are freshwater.

Ah, good to know. (It's amazing how many things I haven't learned even after a zillion hours playing this game .)

So, turn 0 is here!

I founded the capital in place:



Went with the default name for now, but we can change that later when inspiration strikes.

Settled the shade as a sage, tech set to Calendar (10 turns).

There's a tribal village over to the east. Sent our scout over there to pick up a free tech .



And who doesn't like living dangerously? Our warrior went the other way:



Now, we're going to be needing that warrior: I want to leverage the Exp trait into some super-early cities. But I don't think he's actually in that much danger: he'll stick to defensive terrain, and just mosey over to see what's to our immediate west. Looks like it might be coast, in which case he'll be back in the capital in a jiffy.

And I doubt I'm in danger of getting early visits from the neighbors. This map has 3820 land tiles ! That's almost twice as big as the FFH XXV map, which is already huge. That's what, 40 nonoverlapping cities each? That's great for the civ with two builder traits and fast mounted units, to be sure.

Though possibly a lot of that terrain is lousy (lots of tundra to our immediate north). That's good for Ellimist, who can potentially turn any spot into something halfway decent by cash-rushing Temples of the Hand.

I wonder if Aristograrianism is a good idea on a map this big. But we can figure that out later.

Demographics!



So far, only Brian and Tholal have moved. Looks like they must have both settled Engineers.

[HidingKneel]

New turn in.

Our scout has made an interesting discovery:



Gems to our east. Maybe our second city goes over in that direction, instead? I'll have the scout investigate the surroundings after it pops the hut.

Demographics:



Power ratings are the same as last turn. Looks like neither Ellimist or DaveV have settled their shade yet. Presumably because neither one settled in place (Ellimist did mention wanting a long time to think about the turn).

[flugauto]

I don't know why, but the demos image is small, too small.

[HidingKneel]

Another turn in.

For openers, we got a nice event:



27 gp. Which is a pretty nice bonus in the early game: it'll shave a turn or two off an early tech.

Note, however, that the scoreboard indicates that Brian got himself a free tech. Where's our free tech?



Not here, unfortunately. Tribal village gave us a map instead.

I don't know why, but the demos image is small, too small.

Yeah, I screwed something up. Too lazy to fix it (and I've deleted the screenshot already). But here are the new demographics:



Not bad. Maybe some C&D to follow.

[Merovech]

Demos are decent, wheat is awesome, event is great, map is lame. That sums up my contribution this turn.

[Molach]

Wouldn't you get something like "Rawhide" (-inkneel) if you mix 'Rhoanna' with 'Hidingkneel'

Wheat and gems - where would you settle if you decide east is the best place for 2nd city?

[HidingKneel]

Merovech sums it up nicely. There's not much to say in these reports so early in the game...

Except, we get new map knowledge each turn. Our warrior discovered this:



Riverside grasslands sheep. Not a bad tile; it'll be worth putting a city up there are some point.

Wouldn't you get something like "Rawhide" (-inkneel) if you mix 'Rhoanna' with 'Hidingkneel'

Hmm... there's an idea. Some kind of Old West theme? I'll mull it over.

Wheat and gems - where would you settle if you decide east is the best place for 2nd city?

Good question. We saw a little more of that this turn, also:



Note: that's reagents NE of the wheat.

ATM I'm thinking we should grab the gems with a more southerly city #2, and plant city #3 on that plains hill to pick up wheat + sheep. But first I need to see more of the map, and then stare at it for a while.

[Thoth]

Wouldn't you get something like "Rawhide"

Rawhide?

http://youtu.be/Elf1We0FuXM

[Merovech]

Wouldn't you get something like "Rawhide"

Rawhide?

http://youtu.be/Elf1We0FuXM

I was thinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdR6MN2jKYs or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5upqYOuH0jQ, but that works, too. Rawhide was a pretty good show, honestly.