[SPOILERS] enough is ENOUGH! scooter opens some windows and finishes first!

[scooter]

You expect the lurkers (read: me) to remember posts from over 12 hours ago? My memory ain't that good...

Basically yes. Never fear though, I've gone back and added a sentence to clarify it for you in case you forget the post and happen to read it again tomorrow.

On a completely unrelated note, WOW has the forum been terrible today. It's usually bad, but today was especially bad.

[oledavy]

On a completely unrelated note, WOW has the forum been terrible today. It's usually bad, but today was especially bad.

I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed it.....

[scooter]

I was wondering if I was the only one who noticed it.....

Yeah it was definitely worse than normal today. What's odd to me is why when it happens only the forum goes down. When it's down if you just go to the main page (realmsbeyond.net) it's completely fine... So I'm not sure what to make of that.

[scooter]

Turn 11 is in, and for those like Krill who are prone to forget, this is scooter's PBEM32 thread which is an AW CTON game and I'm playing Joao of Mongolia.

ONWARD.



The drawback of this is, well, there'll be no escort for my first city. Living dangerously. Northern scout saw not much interesting and really needs to return home and yeah. Lewwyn land.



Well I was going to end on plains hill but... Yeah no, not happening.



Serdoa grew:



So did Brian Shanahan. Lewwyn still at 2, Commodore at 3. Commodore at 3 is interesting. I don't see any reason he wouldn't be at 4 by now unless he's building a settler or worker... and worker doesn't make much sense, so I'm assuming settler. I'm doing the same:



Demos and suchness:



The high in food is Serdoa and he's also probably the other guy at 10h. Not much interesting here.

[Mardoc]

Turn 11 is in, and for those like Krill who are prone to forget, this is scooter's PBEM32 thread which is an AW CTON game and I'm playing Joao of Mongolia.

So this is the one where you've got to pick between allying with Nakor and Uberfish, right?

[scooter]

So this is the one where you've got to pick between allying with Nakor and Uberfish, right?

Yeah that's the one. I'm a little skeptical of Nakor right now, but the main problem is that Uberfish is always a werewolf so really, how can I trust him? Gonna have to go with Nakor here probably.

[Gaspar]

Uberfish is always a werewolf so really, how can I trust him?

QFT.

[dazedroyalty]

Just checking in to say that I'm still here! This map is interesting to explore for sure. There's not a lot to really comment on though while scouting is the only plan. I'm very curious to see what the warrior reveals and what that will or will not mean for a settling plan. Which way we settle could also have long term effects on which neighbor we end up in the most contention with over land. Anyways, so far you've been so thorough, I've had nothing to add so good job!

[scooter]

Turn 12 is in the books. I continued Bravely Running Away from Lewwyn.



Don't hurt meeee! See the cool thing about the mirroring is for the land to my west, I can scout the northern half of it with that scout and the southern half with this guy:



Also I'm pulling back my northern warrior to protect my soon-to-be-settled city.



Lewwyn's initial warrior could theoretically get to that new city and kill me, but that's an unlikely direction for him to have taken scouting. Still, I'd like to not risk the game on that. The settler will get there before my warrior will be like 3ish turns, but my scout is heading that way too and should hopefully be able to spy his warrior if it's there and going to be a problem. Overall I should be safe. On the home-front things are still going as planned.



Lewwyn grew as I would've expected but everyone else stayed stagnant.



Not much else to say. Things are going as planned. Also seeing frequent lurker thread posts make me nervous!

[scooter]

Just checking in to say that I'm still here! This map is interesting to explore for sure. There's not a lot to really comment on though while scouting is the only plan. I'm very curious to see what the warrior reveals and what that will or will not mean for a settling plan. Which way we settle could also have long term effects on which neighbor we end up in the most contention with over land. Anyways, so far you've been so thorough, I've had nothing to add so good job!

Thanks! I feel pretty comfortable with the spice/crabs spot being our 2nd city, so pretty soon here I'll take a closer look at all the land we have around us and try to figure out City3 which will be a tougher decision. I'd really like Pigs/gold, though I haven't checked on whether or not settling that would coincide with AH being done. It also may depend on if/where I have copper.