[SPOILERS] Vive l'Afrique libre : Bowsling and Aivoturso are Mansa Musa of the Zulu

[Bowsling]

Just misclicked our scout into a 70% (for us) battle with the lion. And he lost. I am a terrible person.

[Aivoturso]

Accidents happen. Don't feel too bad. Losing scout means only that we will get contact & map info a bit later than I would prefer.

[Bowsling]

Played some single player that night and ruined a good game by losing a whole bunch of battles with odds in that range. Gonna be real busy this week, probably no time for civ. If you don't mind playing the next few turns that'd be great.

[Aivoturso]

Yeah. I've played now couple of turns. Moved worker on the hill and started mining.

[Aivoturso]

I'm not sure if I'm missing something on micro, or not. It's turn 29. Alcatraz is now size 3, we're building a settler (6 turns left), 5 turns until BW and worker just finished the mine. Only thing I could do with the worker is a farm 1S of Alcatraz. We're building that now and it finishes conveniently when BW finishes, but we want to change that to cottages later, right?

[Bowsling]

Great, thanks for playing those turns. Stuff snuck up on me in a hurry.

I think my MM plan involved growing to size 5 with a few warriors, then chopping and whipping the settler once BW comes in. Whatever, that should be fine. I had a mine on that green hill I think, but a farm works just as well. Kinda wish I had have written down my second sandbox.

Don't forget to move the warrior to guard the spot before the settler finishes.

[Aivoturso]

Finished teching BW. I changed to Fishing. I have not tested which is better, Fishing->TW->Pottery or TW->Pottery->Fishing. My instinct says that Fishing first is better. Only drawback there is that our worker moves might not be optimal, but on the plus side we get access to quick and easy food & commerce. BTW, we have Copper quite near. See the attached screenshot.

BTW, next turn the settler will be ready. Current plan is to settle 4S1E and the warrior is positioned accordingly. Do you think that is still valid or should we switch for the copper spot? That'd probably postpone settling for couple of turns, but would give us earlier access to Impi.

[Aivoturso]

We have settled our second city Cosa Nostra 1E 4S from Alcatraz. Cosa Nostra is working the Deer. Both cities are currently building warriors. Next turn when Alcatraz will grow to size 5, I'm considering changing the build to a settler. Another possibility would be building Work Boat next as, we'll finish Fishing next turn.

[Aivoturso]

Oh and I built already couple of warriors and a scout in Alcatraz. We currently have 3 warriors, 1 scout and a worker.

[Aivoturso]

Turn 40: Alcatraz grew to size 5. I put one turn work in a settler. We were briefly in shared 1st position in scores and were number 1 in population Finished fishing and we are teching TW.
Turn 41: Mine on plains hill finished -> Changed build in Alcatraz to Work Boat, the boat will finish in 3 turns due to micro changes. In 3 turns Cosa Nostra will also grow to pop 2. Oh and our potentially strongest rivals, Team Orgynized built Stonehenge. To commemorate the occasion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

My plan is to continue building the settler in 3 turns when the work boat is done. Cosa Nostra is building a Warrior. After the settler is finished, we'll need at least a second worker. BTW, my suggestion is that we build the third city on the spot labeled as "City?" in the screenie below.