[spoilers] The Bulldog of Africa: Commodore gets boat murdered

[Qgqqqqq]

A genuinely no-resource game would be interesting to see...though infuriatingly slow.

[El Grillo]

There are definitely resources, just not guaranteed to be anywhere near the player starts. Also, by default the script will segregate resources by continent/region, which could definitely cause some problems down the line. Some kind of bizarro setup with only low-yield tiles would be mildly horrifying, as vast swathes of the world just wouldn't be worth settling at all. It's hard to finance a new city if it has to farm all of its tiles to grow.

Any plans to leverage, er, any of your traits/uniques, Commodore? Commando archers aside, of course :3

[Commodore]

Bronzemurder, an ill-conceived capital city.
   
This is a capital city. All craftdwarfship is of the lowest quality. This city is adorned with a dry corn and menaces with spikes of fir trees on hills. In the city are citizens of hopeless prospects and a hungry future.

[pindicator]

reporting style = genius. Please do this all thread

[Commodore]

reporting style = genius. Please do this all thread

Probably won't do it for all things, but yeah, you're gonna see a lot of DF-style updates here.

[Commodore]

Any plans to leverage, er, any of your traits/uniques, Commodore? Commando archers aside, of course :3

Thanks for the segue, Koala-dude! I do indeed have plans for polishing what Mardoc left in the bowl here.

Commodore (Unsubtle, Forward) as Churchill (Charismatic, Protective) of Carthage (Fishing, Mining, Numidian, Cothon)
So that’s a bit of a dog’s breakfast to be sure, eh? Churchill is legendarily bad, running neck-and-neck with Tokugawa in the race to “worst leader”. BtS Protective, I hope I’m not about to shock anybody, sucks. Drill 1 and CG1 on shooters is fine, but not really enough to make a trait, and walls/castles are kind of awful. I guess with the free castle route I can pile up a ton of trade routes thanks to cothon? I’m reaching there…not like you want to be sinking hammers into that stuff around Engineering time. Charismatic is a decent combat trait, best for withdraw-happy horses but overall solid for any fighter; needs active use though. I will note non-jokingly that commandos are actually doable for us here…although also for Sian and Brick, so yeah. On an untouched map, the extra happiness from the trait actually should come in handy. Given the Myst/Mining/Ind Sian I don’t think Stonehenge is in our cards but oh well, we can just shrug and build the freaking monuments.

I shall not disparage our civilization, however! Already mentioned the mildest of mild cothon/castle synergy, which is a reach. The withdrawy aspect of the Numids like Chm, I guess. But both UU and UB are awesome and obvious to leverage, and the fishing/mining is pretty obvious. BUT NUMIDIAN CAVALRY IS THE BEST THING EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE THE END:

[Commodore]

Sailing, "The Eventually Useful", a hut-given technology.

This is an ancient technology. All craftdwarfship is of middling quality. This technology is adorned with coastal trade routes, lighthouses, and Moai Stones and menaces with galleys to settle visible northern islands. The villagers in the hut are culturally and ethnically overwhelmed by orange culture.

[El Grillo]

Maybe I'm sounding the apocalypse chimes a tad early, but the Great Lighthouse seems to be a great way to redeem a low-commerce, low-food, broadly coastal start with lots of forests, and one source of intercontinental routes already visible. Granted, the lack of actual seafood does raise a messy escrow cost, and there is an Industrious rival, and this is all predicated on future turns' scouting. I think this start will need to take on significant risk to get anywhere, assuming from Totestra experience that someone out there actually does have 3+ food resources.

[Commodore]

Maybe I'm sounding the apocalypse chimes a tad early, but the Great Lighthouse seems to be a great way to redeem a low-commerce, low-food, broadly coastal start with lots of forests, and one source of intercontinental routes already visible. Granted, the lack of actual seafood does raise a messy escrow cost, and there is an Industrious rival, and this is all predicated on future turns' scouting. I think this start will need to take on significant risk to get anywhere, assuming from Totestra experience that someone out there actually does have 3+ food resources.

It's very early to sound the chimes, aye. At least one, I think two of our rivals got either 3h plants or forested elephants, so that's extra ouch...still, there is a lot of game ahead (~200 tiles per player) and I think we're really going to appreciate Chm happy here in the wastes. So it's not the apocalypse. That being said? Great Lighthouse would be an amazing pick up and we actually seem to have three islands, albeit weird landforms might mean those fog coasts are our land. Also our next city is easy but it's anyone's guess about third.

Capital *really* should have gone 1E. That city would have been downright okay.

[Commodore]

Wari Ore, "Wari Hammersmash", Explorer.

Wari Ore has been miserable lately. He was caught in the rain recently. He has been annoyed by flies. He has been satisfied by work lately. He admired a magnificent desolation lately. He has slept without a proper bed lately.
Wari Ore likes Sand, clubs, trees, and frogs for their long tongues. He prefers to consume Dwarven beer. He absolutely detests wolves.
He needs alcohol to get through the working day.