[spoilers] novice & moon shoot the world

[pindicator]

Odysseus (ok, maybe not mainly known for archery)

How else is Penelope to recognize him without his archery?

Wasn't Paris also an archer of renoun?

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Odysseus (ok, maybe not mainly known for archery)

How else is Penelope to recognize him without his archery?

Wasn't Paris also an archer of renoun?

I see I'm not the only classics nerd here .

Not sure about Paris, but Odysseus would definitely qualify - he was the best archer in the world at the time.

[Ceiliazul]

'the world' being a flat circle with radius ~250 miles?

[kjn]

I see I'm not the only classics nerd here .

Not sure about Paris, but Odysseus would definitely qualify - he was the best archer in the world at the time.

Do you know about the schizo-Cephalonian theory about Ithaca?

[Shoot the Moon]

Yeah I like settling that northeastern site. I'd like to get a warrior to the NW before settling there just to make sure they are actually identical though.

[pindicator]

I see I'm not the only classics nerd here .

Not sure about Paris, but Odysseus would definitely qualify - he was the best archer in the world at the time.

Do you know about the schizo-Cephalonian theory about Ithaca?

I hadn't heard about that, so I think I'm gonna head down the street to a coffee shop and read the paper

[novice]

Yeah I like settling that northeastern site. I'd like to get a warrior to the NW before settling there just to make sure they are actually identical though.

Yeah, we don't have an excess of military, but we'll be able to send a warrior onto the plains forest hill there on the turn of founding, to make sure that the promised food resources are there, and to make sure there are no bogeymen around. A war chariot will be on their heels to provide real protection. So we might waste a settler move or two, but we won't found the city blind.

Anyway, I played turn 35, and we have some attractive spots in our backyard as well:


Definitely want the marble founded by the time we can tech Calendar, not sure if that's doable actually. But these resources do seem to suggest that a pure Writing->Math->Sailing->Calendar tech path is an option.



Robin Hood reached 50 culture, it didn't reveal much. Apparently Mackoti's small southwestern river is 1 row south of ours. The copper is now in our culture but let's hope we can make do with war chariots for some time.



I'm avoiding revealing our warrior's presence to Mackoti.

[kjn]

Do you know about the schizo-Cephalonian theory about Ithaca?

I hadn't heard about that, so I think I'm gonna head down the street to a coffee shop and read the paper

Granted, there is much more about that than a paper. We have a very thick book - Odysseus Unbound - at home describing the theory, and even then it doesn't document all the research and field work that was done in support of the theory. My father-in-law was involved in that, though it's not presented in the book.

[novice]

Updated sandbox:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15215428/pbem47...dSwordSave

The diagonal pathway to the southwest almost certainly leads to the neighbour two positions to our west, and we'll have a similar northeastern pathway leading to the neighbour two positions to our east. So we'll actually share a border with all our opponents eventually. Neat map layout.

Half-assed illustration of the five spheres of influence:


The map is 32 tiles tall, so those resources we see in the southwest are still closer to us (14 tiles distance to the marble) than to our rival (18 tiles distance).

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Do you know about the schizo-Cephalonian theory about Ithaca?

I hadn't heard about that, so I think I'm gonna head down the street to a coffee shop and read the paper

Granted, there is much more about that than a paper. We have a very thick book - Odysseus Unbound - at home describing the theory, and even then it doesn't document all the research and field work that was done in support of the theory. My father-in-law was involved in that, though it's not presented in the book.

I wasn't, but I found this: http://www.odysseus-unbound.org/index.html
thats interesting.. I would actually like to read that book