Still not a single grass tile in sight. 
And big stretches of desert, with river but no flood plains. Some water mana and springing could turn some of this into pretty decent land, though.
Resources...well, at least they are out there, even if the land isn't real attractive at this point.
The sources of happiness are especially nice for the future -- furs, cotton, dye, ivory, gold (although you have the palace source already, of course). The food situation is not looking so good.
Hill giant...note this is a named hill giant. I thought those could only be created as bad results from a lair? (Assuming it was not pre-placed by the map maker, of course.) That would imply someone is pretty close by and took a risk on a lair...and got that unlucky roll. Don't named critters also tend to have minor creatures associated with them? Of course, they could have died fighting whatever unleashed the big guy....
Ah, well. The life expectancy of scouts is astonishingly low, and this kind of thing is why. Let's hope the hill giant goes somewhere else, especially since it will get experience from munching your stubby scout dude.
And big stretches of desert, with river but no flood plains. Some water mana and springing could turn some of this into pretty decent land, though.Resources...well, at least they are out there, even if the land isn't real attractive at this point.
The sources of happiness are especially nice for the future -- furs, cotton, dye, ivory, gold (although you have the palace source already, of course). The food situation is not looking so good.Hill giant...note this is a named hill giant. I thought those could only be created as bad results from a lair? (Assuming it was not pre-placed by the map maker, of course.) That would imply someone is pretty close by and took a risk on a lair...and got that unlucky roll. Don't named critters also tend to have minor creatures associated with them? Of course, they could have died fighting whatever unleashed the big guy....
Ah, well. The life expectancy of scouts is astonishingly low, and this kind of thing is why. Let's hope the hill giant goes somewhere else, especially since it will get experience from munching your stubby scout dude.
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Nothing I'll admit to here. The risk/reward ratio on popping a dungeon (which does not auto-spawn barbs) and a ruin/barrow (which do auto-spawn barbs) aren't quite the same.![[Image: Civ4ScreenShot0124.JPG]](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21249278/Civ4ScreenShot0124.JPG)
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