[SPOILERS] Novice and SevenSpirits play Suleiman of Korea

[novice]

Mackoti is size 2 as well, now. Gaspar's probably building a second worker or settler at size 1. I wonder why Mackoti was delayed by one turn - maybe he adopted slavery? Anyway, Lewwyn adopted slavery this turn.

Our scout took a wrong turn. I suggest we declare war next turn to get past Lewwyn's culture. I don't see how he can read any ill intent into that. He might kill our scout if he can, but we still speed up circumnavigation as compared to going back around Persepolis.



We can offer peace on the same turn, after our scout has passed through.

Our map hypothesis seems to be slightly wrong, which is my official excuse for our scout's navigation error. We seem to be closer to each other across the tundra "pole" than through the jungle. And the blobs seem to be mirrored to be symmetric around the pole point.

[novice]

Updated sandbox:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/PBEM29/...dSwordSave

Our starting spots are 17 tiles apart through the tundra, and 23 tiles apart through the jungle.



The sandbox might already be slightly inaccurate with respect to beakers, due to tech discounts from opponents knowing techs. I don't care though, I'm using it to speculate about the map right now, and we can replay it from t0 easily enough if we deem it necessary. Just be aware of it if you're using it for micro plans that have tight beaker dependencies.

[SevenSpirits]

I offered a 10t peace treaty to Lewwyn.

[novice]

NW-SW next with our newest warrior? Along with Attach Mimes' border expansion on t25 that should reveal all the coast to our west, and the warrior can then continue exploring the northwest without having to backtrack.

[SevenSpirits]

Looks good.

[novice]

Lewwyn accepted peace. Cow pasture completed. Will finish second warrior build and grow to size 4 at the end of next turn.

[SevenSpirits]

Looks like we circumnavigate in just 2 more turns should we be so fortunate. We already have all but one row. Next turn's scout move reveals columns 5 & 6, and the warrior reveals column 3, leaving only column 4 for the turn after.

Big news I was holding my breath over is we can't settle 1W of the elephant as it will orphan a crab resource.

[SevenSpirits]

We need to decide on the next worker task. My inclination (with no calculation) is to mine the plains hill over the grass hill. Opinion?

[novice]

We need to decide on the next worker task. My inclination (with no calculation) is to mine the plains hill over the grass hill. Opinion?

Agreed. Gets us to 8 base hammers for Imp goodness.

[SevenSpirits]

If we lose circumnavigation now it will be to turn order.