And....I forgot to send a delegate to you this turn.
Turn 68
Open the save to someone killing a city state. Check the scores, yeah, it was Archduke.
Obvious Child has finished the warrior and starts the Harbor. Warrior already present heads southeast towards Al. Embarked units do their thing, slinger will disembark at Big Island next turn. Builder at Good Time will put in the fur camp next turn. Southern galley finds nothing interesting.
Back on Big Island the warrior moves to the horses and the settler comes ashore:
This is an interesting decision. I originally wanted to settle on the cove in order to use this city as the trade hub to the mainland without having to build a Harbor. However, in looking at this situation there seem to be two better options – NE of the warrior or on the warrior. Both spots are sheltered from sea attacks (on the warrior can only be attacked from one sea tile, NE has no line of sight from the sea). #2 has slightly better resources (wheat becomes available and all resources are second ring) and at least two good spots for Holy Site + Campus. Settling on the horses makes the city a 2
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tile from the get-go. I could start a Holy Site immediately and not worry about builder charges for the time being. I’m currently leaning towards on the warrior just because of the resource availability and good appeal in the area.
I’ll see what’s in the fog to the NE/E of the wine next turn once the settler moves into the mountain pass. The warrior is going to cross to the other horses and then head southeast. For reference, here’s the appeal in the area:
OK...time for the diplomatic rundown:
Woden/Ljubljana: Met everyone, at war with CMF/ Marcopolo
CMF/Marcopolo: Marcopolo has met everyone, CMF has not met one of Kaiser/Archduke
This layout sort of confirms that Kaiser/Archduke are in the opposite corner from us and/or just in the fog to the east of the map. For the city-states:
Antananarivo: Roland has two envoys
Hong Kong: CMF has one envoy
Rapa Nui: I’ve got two envoys, Roland has one
Nazca: Woden has one, one of Archduke/Kaiser has two, the other has one.
The city-state interface doesn’t tell you who has met the city-state; it only shows the civs you’ve met and is a bit useless in that regard.
Given what’s up at Nazca I’d assume that Kaiser or Archduke has a boat in the water in my immediate area (though possibly south of Nazca). Given how Nazca blocks the passage I’ll likely encounter one of them running along the southern coast of Big Island.
Kaiser founded his religion this turn.