BaII cleans up THH's mess [spoilers!]

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 7 report:

Our inventive people have discovered the secrets of seeds and of the tilling of the earth:



Our seers foresee that next they will discover how to delve beneath it.

In Armenelos, it is sheep-shearing season (yay, I remembered!):



At this point, maybe I should post the breakdown of how growing to size 2 before maxing hammers for the Work Boat or maxing hammers from the outset compare (sorry for the formatting; it looked different when I was typing it):

Grow to size 2, then stagnate:
Turn Food Hammers Commerce Notes
0 3 1 3 Working Fish
1 6 2 6
2 9 3 9
3 12 4 12
4 15 5 15
5 18 6 18
6 21 7 21
7 22 10 23 Working Sheep, grow to size 2
8 22 15 25 Working Sheep & grassland forest hill
9 22 20 27
10 22 25 29
11 22 30 31 Finish Work Boat

Stagnate at size 1:
Turn Food Hammers Commerce Notes
0 1 3 2 Working Sheep till borders pop
1 2 6 4
2 3 9 6
3 4 12 8
4 5 15 10 Borders pop
5 5 19 11 Working plains forest hill
6 5 23 12
7 5 27 13
8 6 30 15 Working Sheep, finish Work Boat
9 11 31 18 Working improved Fish
10 16 32 21
11 21 33 24
12 22 36 26 Working (say) Sheep, grow to size 2

Unless I've screwed up somewhere, it appears that growing to size 2 first gets us to the benchmark of "size 2, Work Boat finished" one turn earlier, with fewer hammers (naturally) but more commerce. Not a big difference, but it seems to be worthwhile. Feel free to correct my math or assumptions.

[Sian]

Ocean Clam? ... usually thats impossible (then again ... so is freshwater seafood) ... that said, i'd first say to pick it up with a back filler city when you're starting to get low on good city spots

[TheHumanHydra]

I agree ... the best spot so far is that one 4S of the capital. Hopefully there's more to the north-east.

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 8 report:

Our Scout revealed some contours to the land to the north that I was not expecting:



Armenelos at size 2:



I found the Top 5 Cities screen interesting:



Did somebody else build a Work Boat, or did they build Warriors and Scouts?

[TheHumanHydra]

Nothing much to report for Turn 9, save that from fog-gazing I think the northeast is surrounded by water, too; we are probably connected to another landmass through a narrow corridor running due north. Scout is investigating now.

[Sian]

I'd suggest keep moving on around looking for the best place to settle your second city ...

i'll be mighty surprised if someone fails enough not to build a workboat if they're size two right now

[TheHumanHydra]

There are so few land tiles to the east, it should suffice to send a Warrior over there while building our first Settler. Besides, if there are good city-sites on the land-bridge that would be contested, it might be more important to know about them and get a Settler up there first.

I would be surprised if it wasn't a Work Boat build too.

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 10 report:

Just a shot of that peninsula to the north; evidently we're south of the equator:

[Sian]

on handcrafted map you can't use type of terrain for anything at all ... allmost fantasylike mapscript neighbours such as jungle next to ice have been seen before

[TheHumanHydra]

Turn 11 report:

Our Work Boat finished at the end of the turn! Next turn we will be Gone Fishing ...

In case anyone is interested, I made a micro Scout mistake last turn. You can see in the last screenshot that if I had moved to the forest tile 1S of where I did, I would have revealed the plains tile 2SW of there on the coast, and ended up in the exact same spot this turn as I did, one of the two jungle tiles at the top of the screen (I picked the left one). Not a big error, though!