[SPOILERS!] Pericles of Babylon. Kyan, Twinkletoes, Whosit.

[Twinkletoes89]

Thanks for the post Whosit, where has our belovéd dancer got to i wonder?

Dancing of course! Very busy day today - lots of single ladies needing dance partners!

Pericles managed to mis-move his entire army and clearly packed too much porridge as we're now being followed by 3 bears! Don't tell me there's no material now haha.

I might be able to concoct something from that! I want a screenie that we are being followed by 3 bears as proof though!

I would like to get bronze working asap. If we're gonna be as tight as i suspect we are, we need to secure a metal asap and there's no guarantee's we will all get our own. It wouldn't surprise me at all if sullla had spread them out evenly between civs to promote early warring.

Besides the fact that guarantees has no apostrophe (grammar police get their first victim), I agree with this suggestion. Don't expect it to happen too often though Kyan! Though I suspect we'll agree quicker than those in PB2 (except for our darling Whosit of course)

Scouts aren't quite as great in my opinion due to emperor barbs tend to eat them alive. I'd rather use novice as a scout for now and chariots later on when possible. Not that we can currently see horses- which if anything makes a metal grab an even more important task.

Agreed

Turn was totally uneventful- novice moved south and i'm thinking we take the risk of SW next turn and pray for the best.

I disagree (back to normal), we just cannot afford to risk novice on a coinflip. If we are as packed in as you suggest, we need novice to find our neighbours and Exodus sites. I don't want to lose him now. Caution is required right now.

Demo's were slightly more interesting, a few people have researched a tech now. Looks like nakor's team has both grown and discovered a tech. I also suspect someone lost a unit to a barb. Would scouts affect this? I'm thinking not. Judging by the lack of capital's at size 2 i would say pretty much everyone went worker first - cept the inca's which i presume is a quechua. There are a lot of very defenceless civ's out there. The axe rush option could still well be VERY viable!

LOL well one step at a time Ky! We need to know where our neighbours are and the metal is before we risk anything that crazy!

[Kyan]

There's a screenie of ebars on page 13, but feel free to log in and take a newer one.

Moving South-west next turn wouldn't be a coinflip.

If the bear moves south-west, we'd already see him before we move and could act accordingly. If we don't see the bear, there is only a 1 in 5 chance that he moved south. If he moves anywhere OTHER than south, we can avoid him.

So it would be 0.2*0.5 = 0.1. 10% chance of losing Novice. Bearing in mind we have no real danger of losing our capital to a random scouting warrior thanks to our defence mechanism from earlier, i like those odds. You don't win thru always playing safe and we need to find a better spot ASAP for exodus.

[Twinkletoes89]

I shall bow to your mathematics then, on your brain let it rest

[Whosit]

Fortune favors the foolhardy . . . .

I mean, the "bold."

[Kyan]

So, the basic consensus is "ok Kyan, have your way. We're both getting our 'i told you so's all nice and warm, ready for you..." ?

I hate you both

[Whosit]

I hate you both

Oh, come now. I would have taken the chance myself, anyway, even without your mathematics. Speaking of which, isn't that cheating? We haven't researched Mathematics yet. Hm, well, I'll let others arbitrate on that. And there's still a small chance that we can beat the Bear. Small.

In any case, I'm not too terribly worried about it.

[Kyan]

Oh, come now. I would have taken the chance myself, anyway, even without your mathematics. Speaking of which, isn't that cheating? We haven't researched Mathematics yet. Hm, well, I'll let others arbitrate on that. And there's still a small chance that we can beat the Bear. Small.

In any case, I'm not too terribly worried about it.

Good point about the technology- which leads me to point out that we also haven't discovered writing yet.

Pictorial communication from here on out?

The story of Pericles:






:duel:

:2dance:





(Kudo's to the person that can add the best commentary to our epic tale! You guys have learnt writing right?)

[Whosit]

Good point about the technology- which leads me to point out that we also haven't discovered writing yet.

Pictorial communication from here on out?

No no no, see . . . this is the oral history. We're having our children memorize and repeat back all of our conversations verbatim. Yeah, that's it.

Love that pictorial history, though!

[Speaker]

And there's still a small chance that we can beat the Bear.

Hopefully it is not a man-bear-pig. Those are gruesome.



How are you guys enjoying the game so far? Looking at the lay of your land, I am wondering why you chose to move to the plains hill off the river, rather than the plains hill on the river. Obviously you didn't know the corn was down there because it wasn't in your line of sight, but I am curious what prompted you to move off the river? You will need to farm 1 or 2 grassland tiles now, to stay at an acceptable (+6) food level for growth.

I think you may need to combine the unirrigated rice (+2) and plains cow (+1) into 1 city, and my still need another farm or two to be able to work the gold.

Wow, your land is pretty food poor so far.

Anyways, I've chosen your thread as one of the three I'm going to follow. The game is too overwhelming to try and keep up with everything!

As the followers of Yogurt would say: "Dink dink!"

[Whosit]

How are you guys enjoying the game so far? Looking at the lay of your land, I am wondering why you chose to move to the plains hill off the river, rather than the plains hill on the river.

Because they didn't listen to me.

As the followers of Yogurt would say: "Dink dink!"