[spoilers] The 49ers: Sanctimony and Public Defecation

[Commodore]

Tiny little continent, lot of people.

Very curious to see who my next-door SE buddy is.

[Commodore]

Making progress on sweet awesome completed farms. Having The Wheel means at least worker-moving can be efficient.


This is a darned crowded map tho.

[Hollybombay]

crowded neighborhood = more war right?

[Commodore]

crowded neighborhood = more war right?

It's a fun little tiny blob with nine spokes. Sure is nice to be Agg/Chm. I hope my foolishly optimistic immediate neighbors (Raskol and I...think Mr. Cairo) will think I'm looking at Machinery for my first conquest. This is absolutely a map to beeline HBR, use cheap barracks, and roll a neighbor and then go on towards Machinery. And then Guilds. With nanban harbors the main draw, because 2-movers > all.

[Commodore]

Some spokes are spokeyer than others. This is the other neighbor, Cairo, yup. He's already on two warriors, good for him.

[Commodore]

Horses in, and Natural Ally seen:

I'm going to hope that Migeulidicator can pressure Cairo into some slowness; I'm going to just plop a quick settler on that hill for security and chariots, then my main task is going to be containing Catherine on the other side. Cairo is a little passive, but he's not bad at all and he's not someone I want to fight until I'm ready to go ride-or-die mode.

[Commodore]

So this is just lovely. So great to have this early border tension, bumping uglies on turn 31.

Please note that tile yield. Archery next then.

[Commodore]

He declined to fight thus far. Nice and tight map is nice and tight.

HBR needed by 6 or 7 cities, looks like, good times.

[Commodore]

So which part of the India team thought that this made any damn sense at all?

-10 relations.

[Commodore]

We're small, but we're also compressed.

On the plus side, these pitiful six citizens are all working improved tiles.