Turn 87
In a bit of meta the lurker thread has been a bit busy over the past few days. At a minimum it means something...interesting...is going on...somewhere. Just as long as it’s not something in the fog just off the coast I’m cool with it.
Quad #3 is complete at Al, start Quad #4. I put #5 in the queue and will purchase #6. Graceland and Good Time have both grown in population. War declarations are noted. There’s a Russian galley off the coast of Al:
I leave number three in the city for the time being. AS can be seen above Mercenaries will complete in 6 turns. The two quads in the queue will take 8. I’ll drop two turns into Drama & Poetry to get started on Divine Right while I wait. Chariot at OC is done, heads for Al.
Go to move the galleys and we got ourselves a hoedown:
That’s going to keep Ljubljana/Woden distracted for a while! I’m able to move past the mess to the east and I’ve found Phoenician home territory:
I thought Wodin was close to us but jeez….Phoenicia’s not-so back line is right on top of England’s (former) capital. Here’s another shot to get a sense of the location:
I’m going to go north “over the top” as far as I can go to see if I can figure out the northern coast of Phoenicia/Norway. Galley at Borna Barasic has reached “our” end of the strait. Southern galley has shaken it’s Australian “tail” for the time being and finds a lone impenetrable island:
Graceland should get the hill wine next turn. That’ll boost production and gold a bit. At 50 Ways the builder harvests the stone, monument completes and the Holy Site is down. Mercenaries is down to five turns. The city will grow to 2 population in four turns, at which point I’ll move the citizens over to the wines and jungle for some
and to get the Holy Site built faster. I was going to get the bananas improved with a plantation but instead I’m going to head up to Graceland now. The second tile expansion will be shortly after I get up there and it will likely be the iron. Everyone else on the island chills out. Confucius has made the crossing and found some enemy loyalty:
Archduke’s milpower on Turn 85 was 299...he’s up to 398 and that will likely keep going up. Gossip shows that Mohenjo-Daro has also declared on the CMF/MPTF crew. Perhaps if we find it with the jongs the city-state will need to...disappear? Yerevan is also somewhere out there. It declared on Woden/Ljubljana so I assume that’s a suzerainty of CMF/MPTF.
Hit end turn, Woden meets a city-state.