[SPOILERS]-! Churchill and the natives, a true story.

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[img][/img] WELL WELL WELL. fairly close to our neighbor who i believe is dtay, will find out next turn for certain. i dont like that he has such a nice bunch of resources RIGHT there.. and i got banana, but i guess i could have worse...

i have no idea if the turn pace for this game is going fast or slow. seems to be a decent pace, 1.5turns or so a day isnt bad for my schedule.

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[img][/img]Demographics, early game seem to not matter nearly as much as later. but some interesting things are
- the number of people without a lake at the start seems to be the grand majority, as im lumped into the last few in land.
- im doing alot worse on gnp than i would think, working a lake tile for extra commerce, very curious how others are ahead of me, (financial lake?)
- looks like aretas must have either grew a population point, or teched.. archery? that would be the only tech he could get that quickly i think.

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Looks like my guess was correct, Dtay, Genghis khan of celts. agg + faster settlers.. should try and hem him in a little bit by settling towards him, with plenty of archers of course.

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a little sign to keep me aware, looks like he is straight north of my cap, 14 tiles. .. that cant be good.

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to try and keep on the front page.... i wonder why these people havent posted recently in their threads, Lack of exciting news? quitting soon? alot of IRL stuff going?
-Dtay, the starter of pb38. looking at his pb37 thread, looks like he's just not much of a poster. fair enough.
-Aretas, the newbie-lurker-player. and also the person that researched archery. a quick kill, then posting? a quick fail, and then quitting? i really wish more of us newer players would post so in the post-game i can figure out why they did what they did. ( or any level of player for that matter...Dtay...
-2metraninja, the last of the people to have not posted since the locking of the pb38 starter thread..
Really hope these guys get to posting, when i die early on ( likely to Dtay me-thinks ) i want some reading material!

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[img][/img] according to the espionage screen, it says 4/8  and ive got that red icon next to dtays name, im assuming that means im currently ahead of him in espionage? if so, that would mean he has found another person nearby, and had time for his scout to come back around this way..

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various random screenshots. Will get back to regular and more accurate-to-current-turn screenshots soon.

current plan, move scout around south, and then back around capital for 2nd city/other city sites.
Plan A.1- found city 2. rush dtay and get him out of my face.
Plan A.2 found 3-5 cities, tech HBR, destroy dtay.
Plan A.3 build many cities, tech longbows, dare people to come at me.
Plan A.4 ???
Plan A.5 Profit.

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sigh, really wish aretas would be posting in his thread. hasnt had a thread comment since the sims went out.. really curious to what in the absolute hell he is doing. if he is nearby, i need to watch out for his early archers, but if he isnt, his early game is going to be Absolute trash and do nothing but further help veterans and other players around him.. its like the damned templars almost. all those weedy moves. UNLESS im completely mistaken and he knows what he is doing and has some elaborate plan in place... but i just dont see what in the hell he is doing. someone, Some lurker, please post in his thread or pm him to post about his thoughts.
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moving on, Dtay hasnt tried to aggressively scout me so my best guess is he is really just looking for his 2nd city site and isnt looking into being too aggressive. However, unless a juicier target arrives, i feel i have no choice but to go straight for him. get a 2nd city settled, and then hope he doesnt look at the graphs too much, and just whip and chop out 3-4 dog soldiers and take him out. Not set in stone, but i dont like how close we are.

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[img][/img]Demos for  turn 15.

[img][/img]Grand overview of what ive defogged so far.

-- ugg, if there wasnt a bunch of jungle shit to my north id try settling towards dtay with pro/cha archers and hope that he settles elsewhere. Because that is some Damn good land... just so close to his borders. lets hope that there is some better land to the south or east of my cap.

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got some updates coming shortly... curious if i have any other neighbors.

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Alrighty, now that ive disappointed the grand majority of players, lets see if i can turn the tide, and sweep a neighbor away in some early conflict, ( pics coming soon ). dtay must have either gotten archery, or far more likely, Bronze working as his soldier points/power graph spiked fairly hard. if he hasnt gotten say, archery... i can prolly settle this 2nd city at a nice production place, and then crank out 2-3 Dog soldiers and maybe catch him off guard? it looks like he still hasnt found BGN who is basically the same distance from dtay as i am... hmm.

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Pics galore, but before i spam my thread with pictures... Question for any lurkers--- Happen to know what turn barbs start to head for the border on monarch? Thanks!

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alrighty, ill be caught up now for each turn after this one.. so i can start saying something about each picture.