Ranamar and Lewwyn, ministers for Bismarck of Mali

[SevenSpirits]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought on prince you automatically win your first combat vs a barb? If so we should surely attack the bear for max XP.

[mackoti]

Yes you win, so you should atack .

[Ranamar]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought on prince you automatically win your first combat vs a barb? If so we should surely attack the bear for max XP.

Wait; what? Why did nobody ever tell me this?
Okay, I forgive you; I did, after all, play when nobody was online. On the other hand, I had no idea that happened. Say, is that the case on defense, too?

This turn, nothing interesting happened, as I continued to make an end run around the bear. (This may stop next turn.) Have some demographics!


... and I neglected to get the city listing, so I'll go get that now. Expect an edit.

Edit: have a cities page, for gloating; we are still a turn ahead of everyone on city growth:

[Ranamar]

Played another turn in an interlude where I was waiting for streaming Babylon 5 episodes to load... will post pictures later.

Moved first warrior onto hill; bear didn't follow us; found a wolf that can probably see us and might attack (really makes me wish I'd whacked the bear...) and another sheep. Have been moving second warrior S; unfogged tile E of fish as desert; has Jungle S of it; planting on desert would make an otherwise useless tile workable.
Switched build to worker; Worker 1 finished pasture on sheep; will check micro plan to figure out where to go from here.

Edit: Holy cow! Three turns in one day!

[Ranamar]

Big two-turn post:

North:

Not much to say here... another sheep (was revealed last turn, actually...). Lots of space and no sign of a land bridge yet.

South:

Two fish! Also, a dead end... The question is, for the inevitable city, found on the desert (makes it usable and shares sheep) or found in that jungle 1S?

Demographics:


Of note, all but one team has grown to size 3 now. Yuris is last in points, so I think it's them. Commodore is 6 points ahead again. We still have a 1-turn lead in improvements from our worker.

I'd have posted those images as a composite for dotmapping, but I took them at slightly different angles (and hence zooms) curses! (Also, I need to remember to turn the interface off so we can have a blank slate for dotmapping.

Oh, and 9 turns to our next border pop, which should reveal a bunch of the west coast if we don't explore that sooner.

I swear I'll post more about turnplaying, but the short version is that I am a control freak who likes poking at things himself, but I think you guys are better at this game than I am, so I'm actually more likely to make a weedy play than either of you are. Besides, I'm currently, at least, posting enough of my thoughts here for feedback that I don't think you'll be wondering what I want to do.

[SevenSpirits]

Wow, two fish! The desert spot is amazing. Also, that looks like the counterpart to the western jungle arm heading south. Interesting. I guess we need to get going on updating the sim, because it looks like getting fishing soon would be quite good.

Have we spent our free barb win yet?

Looks like the northern warrior should go NE-NW and then loop back towards the jungle arm.

[Ranamar]

Wow, two fish! The desert spot is amazing. Also, that looks like the counterpart to the western jungle arm heading south. Interesting. I guess we need to get going on updating the sim, because it looks like getting fishing soon would be quite good.

Have we spent our free barb win yet?

Looks like the northern warrior should go NE-NW and then loop back towards the jungle arm.

re: barb win: shit; I should check... all I know is that there was a wolf and now there isn't. Will check warrior exp next turn. If not, I suppose it could be time to kill a lion.

re: warrior move... wait, where are you trying to go? That puts it E of the sheep; I'm guessing you want to go explore the west coast after all?

[SevenSpirits]

For the first just check the event log.

For the second, I was talking about the northern warrior.

[Lewwyn]

Save came in again, I'm gonna play it.

[Lewwyn]

Moved both Warriors NE to defog coasts:



and



Woot. That's another fish and whales up there. Sadly we might waste our free barb kill defending here.