Swiss Army Desert Domination

[Swiss Pauli]

And another question (if I'm not being too annoying...): You mention holding back your first prophet until you founded Christianity. What was the benefit of doing that rather than just packing him straight off to Damascus?

I was going for the seven holy cities gambit, so that's why I held onto him for the lightbulb of Christianity into my new city. Somewhat to my surprise, the cultural-control effect of the holy cities was better than I had forseen.

[Chacal]

Oh! I misread. I thought you'd used the GP to found the shrine insteading of grabbing the religion.

[Swiss Pauli]

dude! i wish i'd let my nappy live so we could get him to meet up with yours and have their heads examined. i just looked at our paris pictures side by side. your "inside paris" picture is 80 years after mine. 2 forests left. mine has 10. but somewhere in there he found the hammers to build two wonders in mine, and just one in yours. what the heck was going on? i guess the french decided they were environmentalists in my world, even tho they were 80 zillion techs away from medicine? i'm freaking out. probably just need more bacon in my diet or something.

Think Boney must have got some GEs in your game, but I've no idea why he left the forests untouched. Must be something to do with preserving them when working on wonders...maybe Blake would know?

[KMad]

oh he did! i was preparing for war, twice i saw him get a GE, so twice i gifted him a tech with a wonder i wanted so that he'd build it for me, are you kidding? that's why sistine chapel and notre dame are there, i special ordered them! but pyramids and parthenon, how they got there and the forests stayed, i dunno, freaky. i considered gifting him up to DR but i thought versailles was against the rules .

[Swiss Pauli]

I missed that in your report: I must admit I find the no-caps style quite hard on the eye, so I tend to skim-read your reports. That's a really neat trick with the wonder-tech gift, actually. I'll have to make a note to try it myself .

As to the other wonders: I guess he had stone connected for Pyramids, and maybe Marble for a (late) Parthenon, which added to his IND trait might explain those two.

[The Judge]

i was preparing for war, twice i saw him get a GE, so twice i gifted him a tech with a wonder i wanted so that he'd build it for me, are you kidding? that's why sistine chapel and notre dame are there, i special ordered them!

I have to agree: that is deviously clever.

Nice win, SP. Enjoyable report.