[SPOILERS] Emissaries from the blighted lands; Mardoc and Jkaen take on the world!

[Mardoc]

Played the turn, Way of the Forest should come in next turn. I think I was convinced that a Calabim Holy city makes more sense since I can build gold multipliers more easily, so if you can switch to Bronze Working, I'll follow you as soon as I pull in the religion. Which city should get the free missionary spread? Yin is my guess.

[Jkaen]

played the turn before I saw the message so didnt switch sorry. Fingers crossed you will still get it.

[Mardoc]

If I understand the mechanics correctly, there's no chance of me getting the holy city. That said...it was a fairly subtle difference, too, just that I'm guaranteed to have half-price Moneychanger, while you might not go Fin. And we're hoping we get the shrine from Drama not running a Great Person, so all in all I don't think it'll really matter.

I think I'd like the missionary in the city4 I'm about to found, it was placed for 2-ring more than any of my other cities so far. Then we just have to keep fingers crossed for free spreads so we don't spend many hammers on missionaries.

Do you still have a gryphon? And is your copper settler ready to go, or are the barbs still blocking? Definitely it's Bronze Working, next, for tech.

[Mardoc]

Ok, so the turn came in and I could answer those questions for myself:



I'm also officially confused about the mechanics of religions - only when I ended my turn did Leaves come in, so by my previous understanding it should have been in my territory, but it popped up here:


I guess it's all yours, Jkaen . You ought to be able to make Mind happy again if you swap to Leaves state religion - and actually I think you probably should use the missionary on yourself in order to get maximum use from that and save me the anarchy. I suspect Yin would benefit the most. I'll hold off on swapping until either I get some natural spreads, or we can afford to build missionaries.

And of course the Bronze settler is nearly to the city site picked for him, with worker support on site. Therefore Bronze Working next will be perfect.

Meanwhile, Body is mass producing Bloodpets, which is wonderful; I'll be able to have Yang stay on settler duty for a while, with the odd worker interspersed. Hopefully actually Body can do the workers as well, once I catch up on garrisons.

One of those settlers finished at EOT, so I'll have a fourth city in no time. The snowball is finally starting to accelerate for us.

[Jkaen]

Got the save but at work. Will take a while for the griffon to heal up, and annoyingly due to the size of the image when you select it the actual number of turns is blocked so I cant read it.

Bronze next for sure.

[Square Leg]

Got the save but at work. Will take a while for the griffon to heal up, and annoyingly due to the size of the image when you select it the actual number of turns is blocked so I cant read it.

Bronze next for sure.

You may be able to rotate the image by left click-hold and dragging it.

[Mardoc]

Played the turn for you, Jkaen. Didn't want to be nagged any more .

I hope everything's alright and you just forgot to send it to Ravus when you were done?

[Jkaen]

nope, the save missed the play window, then I couldnt play yesterday evening. thanks for covering

[Mardoc]

::dancing5::2dance:

[Jkaen]

ok, its official you open all our huts from now on!

In other news a lizardman took out another of my hunters e.o.t turn, making another in the capital now and will have to start sending them out in pairs, these barbs are brutal

This turn I then attacked a skele at 95% odds with my hunter with capture animal and lost