[SPOILERS-PBEM15] Jkaen is Hannibal of Zululand

[Square Leg]

As CHA stonehenge is a really nice build but I imagine that you may already be behind the curve for that unfortunately - look at PBEM and what that allowed Krill to do regarding happy cap and not having to worry about culture in his first settlements. There are other good examples of SH being usefuly.

Horses seem to have turned up in a reasonable location in what appear to be our backlines. There are several city spots that would pick them up - I'm leaning towards the PH 1E of the horsies. Be nice to see if there is some seafood to pick up in that region too. Maybe the latest warrior sat in the capital could go see while the other one circles around the north of the capital?

[Jkaen]

Yes, first warrior will go NW next turn onto the desert hill. The new warrior will plod around south. Starting to loop the scout back across now to bring him round to see whats to the east

[Jkaen]

General comment on wonders, is that I am going to try and resist them as much as possible. In SP I tend to wonder whore, and am concerned that this well get me in deep trouble in MP.

Hence going to attempt to overcompensate and build very few in order to hopefully force me to keep my military/economy up instead

[Jkaen]

Well got onto the hill to the west and nothing that interesting revealed



Demo

[Jkaen]

Well, found my first opponent in the form of TT



I moved to the grassland hill west of there and saw his borders one above me.

In scouting news, still looking round my city but no copper yet. Settler due I believe in 4 turns now. Decided not to use another chop on it and go pasture the sheep instead

Oh and have more Demo

Note I am getting my GNP butt handed me right now

[Jkaen]

Sent the following greeting to TT

As Arthur peered through the undergrowth of the jungle, he at last saw others sharing this realm. Pausing a while, he tried to observe their behaviour more closely. They seemed darker of skin than himself, and wore strange clothes, however what gave him pause in introducing himself in his normally chirpy manner was the amount of attention they seemed to be affording the wilds pigs they had stumbled upon.

While the brave scout understood the loneliness of exploration, he hoped he would never descend to that!

Deciding not to interrupt their social activities, he left a polite note, and was on his way

Dear Pig Friends,

It is nice to have seen others, I would have said hello, but you seemed busy, I hope we will find an opportunity to talk against soon

A.H.

[Square Leg]

First contact!

TwinkleToes hey...

Ok - so he has played a few games around here and not had the best of results but, I think it is fair to say that he has got a lot better at civ since the start of PBEM 3! (No offense TT!)

Mali - so he has the Skirmisher UU and Mints - his leader is HC - fin/ind. Pretty strong - expect him to Oracle Metal Casting for his UU forges levering the IND trait nicely. His early tech path is therefore going to be - basic worker onto priesthood. Chance he will found a religion on the way but not certain.

[Jkaen]

Oh, good point, religion!

Was walking through the F key menus yesterday and found out that both the early religions have gone, I admit I wasnt paying attention so am not sure when they dropped, seems TT didnt get either of them though

[Square Leg]

TT - Huayna Capac (FIN/IND) of Mali (Mining/Wheel/Mint/Skirmisher)
Ioan - Louis (CRE/IND) of Byzantium (Wheel/Myst/Hippodrome/Cataphract)
JKaen - Hannibal (FIN/CHA) of Zulu (Aggri/Hunt/Ikhanda/Impi)
Piet - Mansa Musa (FIN/SPI) of Ottomans (Aggri/Wheel/Hammam/Jannisary)
v8Mark - Darius (FIN/ORG) of HRE (Hunt/Myst/Rathaus/Landsknect)

Well - the religions are likely to have fallen to Ioan of Byzantium and v8Mark or HRE. Unlikely that TT went Mysticism first and then founded a religion even if he is going for the Oracle - He would have wanted some worker food techs first like Agriculture, BW and maybe AH...

[Jkaen]

Well, seems meeting us is so intimidating it broke TT's computer!

Will be interesting to see if he can play on or if we get a new player as our neighbour