Well I guess it's time for an update with pretty pictures and everything.
This is what greeted me when I opened the first save of my turn set:
Ugh.. all those ugly signs. I'll leave them this time, since it seems to provide a sense of amusement for the rest of my team. They just confuse me.
Right of the bat I don't know what theses workers are supposed to do so I just build roads where they stood for the simple reason that Ellimist probably had some thought behind the placement and building roads there later would take an additional turn due to the terrain.
I noticed we have a stinking 3 cities at turn 72 and 3 workers. What have we been building all this time?
Ah, one of our cities got razed by barbarians and we got DoWed by The Fiddler. We also beat Orthus, which is AWESOME. His axe and a lot of high xp warriors will certainly help out in the long run with the Lanuns weak land military. We also build HT, which is early but what I'd have done, with Marble so close. This is a strong city only going to become stronger and stronger.
We also lead in GNP and Food while sucking at Production, as is to be expected.
We run a light military and I'm going to change that.
Sailing popped in my face, which is nice =), though I'm not gonna be building anything but a Galley with it. There are no pearls =(
We also got OO which is great. And another Settler which will finish next turn.
I have to research something, I decided on Festivals for the cheap Markets, either followed up by AH or Education. I'd like to get Education for Apprenticeship since there seem to be a lot of barbs and we could use more warriors to scout and open all those lairs and collect huts etc. But there are other things more important than warriors right now, so It'll be AH or something else.
The Fiddler also has only 4 cities.
Oh yeah and I killed the Skeleton
And EoT screen shot:
On turn 73 I decided to put the new city 1 tile S of the Mirror, if you got on of the best tile improvements of the game you can't do too much wrong with getting more of it.
I also started a OO Temple in our Capital and a Sea Haven in Tortuga. I debated about the Sea Haven, a Worker or a Settler would probably be better. But since I really want two Galleys (1 for exploring, 1 to defend against barb ships which could show up around T 75) I thought I'd save some hammers on them, also the extra health will come in handy if we raise the
cap. Which will take some time, the next
resource I can see is gems, and it's way off. Also the 8 commerce it'll give ain't nothing to sneeze at.
Looking at what we need to build: Settlers, Workers and Warriors, maybe researching Festivals wasn't that great of an idea but hey, not bad either.
And I destroyed another Skeleton bringing CoCoGuSh to 27 xp.
T 74 The workers finished the senseless roads, one of them is now putting a road towards our soon to be city and the other two are improving the forested gl tile 2 S of Libertatia.
Research is headed towards BW.
Btw. would it be possible to pillage the Guardian of Pristin Pass with a flying unit?