[Spoilers] Mismanaged empire is best empire

[AdrienIer]

I replayed the turn. Password is FW.

[AdrienIer]

And the hut gave me... A scout ! It will be pretty useful for a game with no map trading.




I discover the best tile in the world : an ice floodplain. Dang I wanted a grassland floodplain.




I'm now 100% certain of getting hinduism, I'm at 20 GNP while second best is at 19. That means that all the people researching a second column tech are working a 0 commerce tile. Therefore I'll get hinduism a turn earlier than the fastest other guy. Now what do I do with that

[AdrienIer]

Gavagai is running in the wilderness, I hope he's not running towards me.

[AdrienIer]

This is actually a pretty nice area, there are at least 5 good food tiles there (4FP and a deer). But I'm wondering what kind of improvements you can build on ice, is it just watermills ?

[GermanJoey]

They're the same as regular desert floodplains, except improvements take 1 additional worker-turn.

[AdrienIer]

Thanks. Ice towns are coming then

[AdrienIer]

And the villagers give me...




A map. NS and Serdoa got two techs, I don't mind my extra scout but still !

[AdrienIer]

I was wondering how many players got techs with huts, but this land is really filled with them. Also, I was right not to go for Buddhism, it would have been a coin flip as someone (one of Barteq Molach and HAK) founded it last turn. I think I've got Hinduism in the bag.

[AdrienIer]

You may wonder what the huts gave me : 54 gold and just this turn another scout. I'll get two more huts in the next two turns (unless someone takes them right in front of me of course. Agri comes a turn too late (as expected) so next turn I'll have a FW that can't farm. He'll road though, with India your FW are never totally inactive, at worst they'll road stuff until you give them something to do.

[AdrienIer]

Not sure if this is AT or Molach but I just stole 27 gold just outside his doorstep.