RB PBEM #1 - Pericles (SPOILERS!)

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Well, we definitely can't get round that lake.



I guess I'm just going to keep heading south with that scout and see if we can meet a new civilisation to talk to.

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Ugh, more gold from that hut. That's 3 hut pops and nothing but measely gold.

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Turn 14 update: Scout finished, work started on a warrior. Bronze working due in 3 turns. The worker is now mining a grass hill.

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A view of the capital and its surrounding area:



And the capital itself:



Capital is looking pretty good. Plan is to build another warrior after the current one and then build another worker. The first worker will build another grass mine and then chop out a settler to aim for copper.

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Big news! We met Ruff Hi:



Nice to make my first civ contact. We exchanged "hello" emails and I warned him of a bear. Aren't I nice! He says he is east of our scout contact.

And we have copper!



The copper is in a nice location. I don't actually have to build a city to get it, but the pigs is a nice tile so I will settle a copper+pigs city. The lake is not actually a lake and appears to be a salty sea (1/0/2 tiles). I think I will settle on the coast.

My second warrior is built. The first warrior will explore east of my capital a bit but not too far and when barb warriors appear he will head home. My second warrior will head towards my new city site and maybe look at the tiles east of those pigs. I sent a scout north but he got attacked by a wolf and is healing. He seems to have found the tundra bit of the highlands map. Slightly disappointing since highlands normally have either the north or the south quarter of the map tundra and the opposite quarter is usually grasslands and jungle. Looks like I am on the border of the central hill region and the northern tundra quarter. I think my chances of meeting another civ to my north is low, since Sullla will have been unlikely to have put a starting location up there in the far north, which is a very weird but visually stunning film if you're interested.

[Sullla]

I sent a scout north but he got attacked by a wolf and is healing. He seems to have found the tundra bit of the highlands map. Slightly disappointing since highlands normally have either the north or the south quarter of the map tundra and the opposite quarter is usually grasslands and jungle. Looks like I am on the border of the central hill region and the northern tundra quarter.

I seem to see copper and stone near that starting position, so I wouldn't be too "disappointed".

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Oh sure, my capital is great. That wasn't meant to be a moan, just generally everyone wants to be nearer to the jungley quarter of a highlands map than the snowy quarter.

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Research has finished into the wheel and my second worker completed. I started work on animal husbandry for my new city's pigs. Then I'll go for masonry and make a stab for the pyramids. One worker is chopping a grass forest to speed up the third worker and overflow into a settler and another is going to start the road south toward my new city. Once my third worker is complete he will start a road towards the stone.

[Swiss Pauli]

Where are you going to put the city? 1 or 2 S of your current border? I'd probably go for 1S and share that river grass hill with Athens.

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Still haven't decided actually. There's a hill 2W of the pigs that I'd get if I settle 2S of my current border. But I do like that overlap with the capital's grass hill. I'm going to put my road through the grass forest hill and the copper, so that I can go back and chop the forest on the hill quicker and directly road the copper rather than the tile 1E of it.