[PB37 SPOILER] Coeurva, Bacchus -- Cyrus of Carthage

[Bacchus]

There's also this: http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/downloads/

[Coeurva]

Entries at ID range 612628 - 625122 from that source (WordForms.txt; 28,829 entries total) are also hapax legomena, so it seems that my homebrew wasn't too far off.

Now to dredge this ocean for oysters.

[Bacchus]

I'm not sure whether it's the best, but our start is certainly cowish. And it's mirrored, so not breaking CTON.

[Coeurva]

I love this theme already.

GONERIL. Then shall you go no further.
It is the cowish terror of his spirit,
That dares not undertake.

(King Lear, Act IV, Scene 2)

Here's a selection of words starting with 'A'. We could limit ourselves to one initial letter and never run out.

Aerial
Aegion
Allicholy
Alligator
Almanack
Almond
Amaimon
Ambuscado
America
Ames-Ace
Amphimacus
Anchorage
Anchovies
Ancus
Andren
Andirons
Angler
Anteroom
Anthem [though also Anthems]
Antiopa [revisiting me from Baudelaire's Bijoux]
Antipathy
Anyone [!]
Apartment
Ape-Bearer
Appendix
Apple-John [though also Apple-Johns]
Apprenticehood
Appris
[sadly not Aqua-Vita, because "aqua-vitx" is an obvious typo]
Archbishopric
Architect
Arcu
Argo
Arion
Arithmetician
Ark
Armigero
Arteries
Artois
Ascanius
Asher
Aspersion
Astraea
Astronomy
Atlas
Atomy
Atropos
Aubrey
Auburn
Auricular
Avoirdupois
Azure

I think the scout will be "Anyone" (that kind of unit naming is alright, I reckon?).

Edit: The capital must be named "Cowish Plainsong".

[Bacchus]

Wow, Shakey mentions America!

Anyone is good. Even if that's a lie.

[Coeurva]

You should look up the context for America, too. What's more, the list has both "poleaxe" and "Polacks".

"Cowish Plainsong" only fits if I omit the space. I would be aghast, but that word doesn't appear on the list (nor anywhere in Shakespeare). We will have to go with "Cowish Rhapsody" instead.

The master plan behind picking Carthage was to ensure ARTSTYLE_GRECO_ROMAN, of course. It looks so satisfactory, right from T0.

[Bacchus]

Polearms are inherently funny.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html

[Coeurva]

A "Bohemian earspoon" is something we need to smuggle into this game.

Scout move revealed absolutely nothing except for a whale tile 89 of his current position.

Thoth, playing for Krill, ended turn without settling -- what's going on there?

[Bacchus]

I see there is a hill 3N of the capital, probably want to end up on it at the end of the turn after next.

No idea on Krill movement, albeit his thread title seems to say "Fear me rushing towards you as Boudica of Inca". Which is pretty scary. Maybe the jungle is fake jungle and there are untold reaches beyond? In any case, if there is a spot worth settling that far out, I'm glad we picked Imp. Hopefully it's not us Krill is rushing towards though.

[Coeurva]

Anyone's guesstimated trajectory is 8871, unless better cover or vantage points present themselves.

I've been wondering if the jungle belt was perhaps two tiles deep and meant to psyche us away from the area. We'll know more about the suspicious southwest (there's a forest, not jungle, on that hill we can see) on T5.

My prediction is that Krill's still-wandering settler gets devoured by a panther on the same turn.