[spoilers]Oh Canada! Victoria has a Commodore, eh?

[Commodore]

Turn 100:


Here's Pitboss 13's very own Canada, Victoria of Portugal. There are a few bigger empires out there, and plenty better, but nobody even approaches this empire's foodlessness. In this cold northern wasteland Canada thrives, growing wider and wider, the leader in total denial about ever having to fight a soul-crushing war of exhaustion to his south. Here are a few high points of the nation; I glaze over on city-by-city screens but if anyone wants to see something, yell.

The capital we're shown to exhaustion lately; still working on the aqueduct for the Hanging Gardens. This is what passes for my "core", Ottawa, Quebec, Winnipeg, and to answer Goreripper, soon Ellesmere and Montreal, with Montreal being my exuse for a GP farm and Ellesmere soon starting Moai. Quebec will be growing onto some capital cottages and some of her own, while Winnipeg will stagnate at size seven working clams, two grass cottages, one capital plains cottage, and the three mines available.


The Wild East; gated by little Regina of the the high hammers and low food, this peninsula spites Brick's spite by actually being pretty good. Calgary will be a pain to grow but a joy to stagnate with all those power tiles, while Edmonton and Vancouver will fish and share deer to work nasty plains cottages and lovely coast. There is a wonder or two in all these forests; I'll have to figure out what exactly I want. Maybe the Apostolic Palace, if Theology still has a religion for me after the current tech push. I dread the irigation work it will take, but the south tip of the peninsula will get something eventually.


South Fillerton. Technically only one of the cities exists thus far, but I have already hooked up all of the food sources for them! Kill me. Saskatoon will work farms and make spicewine, while Halifax is going to get pushed up on the triple-shared corn to work its fantastic hammer potential. This place is going to get a round of stone-helped walls, because Vikings Exist.


These are the odds-and-sods other isles around. Baffin is a terrible wee boffin, but hey, silver, and it might have something interesting to its north. I might ignore the tundra place; we'll see what an explorer finds. I hate to steal from Montreal, but St. John's will fish itself up to whatever happy cap it is at, then stagnate with a mine and cottages/coast. I have no idea right now where else to expand...but I'll need to know in a dozen turns, because that's when I'll be looking further.


My economy is actually doing really well right now, probably because I'm Victoria. Nary a library in sight, but lots of precious metals and coastal work keep me in the money. I'll be wanting a library push soon, I'm sure, but thus far I've been doing okay with what I've got. Crop yield will always underperform in this frozen wasteland. The rest is all fairly ho-hum.


My surroundings are fairly bleak. Nakor and Pindicooter are south, but mostly its just Pindicooter; killing them would suuuuck. Maybe if they get blood rushing to head stupid with Nakor during the preatorian era, or entangled with Lewwyn, we could make crap happen but right now the second I have nowhere else to go the game stops being fun for all of us again.


To the west lies India; weakened by mighty dtay's hammering and their own stupid wonder/religion policy, they are eddible and I'm not ruling out trying something in a while, but for now I just hope they research Alphabet soon for open borders.

And that, my friends, is my turn 100 report. Now open for questions/comments/snark.

Operation Fiscal Jackhammer status: 4 worked cottages

[Commodore]

You've got to name one "sex yoda"...

what?! It's a fully Canadian reference!

Common Canadian jobs: it seems that the most popular occupations in Windsor are card dealer or stripper.

I think I'll take these and lumberjack together and go with "Professional Beaver"

[Thoth]

Common Canadian jobs: it seems that the most popular occupations in Windsor are card dealer or stripper.

There are some good reasons why Windsor is often referred to as "the armpit of Ontario".

[Commodore]

Bonus image while waiting for Azza:


Actually think I'll load up and explore north, I see shallows in the fog. More Canadian isles!

[spacetyrantxenu]

Is anyone playing as England in this game? Commodore variant: Canada conquers the motherland!

Edit: I don't think we have an England. But there is an America. Dhalphir!!! Who cares if you don't know where he is? It just makes it more of a challenging variant if he's a billion tiles away, right? Canada killing America, it would be novel. DO IT!!!

[Krill]

No England, no Celts.

[spacetyrantxenu]

Krill, you are a ninja. (I sent my kid to day care dressed as a ninja today, that's a little extra info from RL!)

I would edit this into my previous post but you're getting slaughtered in the overall post count, although for the non-Scoopin classification you're doing just fine.

[Commodore]

Xenu, I'd content myself with being the site of an ultimately failed Viking colonization attempt. Looks like they're on the ragged edge of trying; that's awkwardly placed alright. I guess the ultimate acceptability of that city is how heavily they push culture; I want BFC control in both Toronto and Saskatoon.


Pindicooter are winning score now; if they didn't have tough neighbors they would be winning period. Check out their representative rocks:


I have a little side project this game, I'm going to call it "Commodore stops sucking at vertical growth". These two cities are my main issue currently; Baffin once it gets a Granary and Lighthouse really ought to be working all its coast; likewise Regina needs to grow a good deal more as well. It's just hard what with the awesome silver and gold.



This is after all the original Canadian...

[Commodore]

Getting ready! Next turn, I found two cities and 1t the Hanging Gardens...unless someone snipes it.

As can be seen, it is now increasingly unhealthy to drive in Canada, thanks spears!


...anyway. I met Mr. Lewis Wyn and and now scuttling north again, let's look for more piney shores. Vikings are REXing hard after hanging out at 7 cities for some time; they're in Representation now. Good for them! I hope to leave the riffraff and join this awesome "wonder score" club.


Please don't snipe me, please don't snipe me...

[Hashoosh]

You racist bastard

We Canadians are a hardy folk! We don't take to no tomfoolery like having Ottawa as the capital! (Should be Toronto, duh)

If you want some fun names, try Medicine Hat, Okanagan, Wawa and the perennially amusing Dildo.

If you happen to venture any further north, a great iceball city name is (CFB) Alert. This has been a very fun report to read, not the least because Canada bashing is always good.