[SPOILERS] Seven Russias Into the Periclous Fray

[WilliamLP]

Of all of them I trust the star nosed mole the most.

[Bobchillingworth]

At least they aren't spirits animals, it's still too early in the week to get wasted. Although #6 might be hammered already.

[pindicator]

[SevenSpirits]

Of all of them I trust the star nosed mole the most.

You throw your trust around lightly, WillliamLP. However, in this case your trust is well-placed. The star-nosed mole knows of what it speaks.

Disclaimer: Neither the star-nosed mole nor the other sacred animals have been known to speak in any meaningful sense.

[NobleHelium]

My current theory is that each of the sacred animals represent Seven's appraisal of the player's personality as it relates to Civ4, if the numbers aren't taken out of a hat or random.org. So say the tiger might be aggressiveness, the eagle might be vision or high level planning, the wolf might be adaptiveness...

I struggle to guess the chimpanzee and the mole though. The mole is sort of like industriousness (propensity to build wonders) and the chimpanzee might be micro or something. Yes, I realize the numbers do not match Lord Parkin's personality weights at all, so maybe he just pulled them out of a hat. Whatever. I'm using this idea the next time I play a game though.

[SevenSpirits]

Next up we have



HitAnyKey, who I remember from PB7 as having some remarkably poor priorities. Simple variance all but guarantees that his play has improved since then, but how much? Well, he's played on a couple of teams, which could help substantially. What do the sacred animals think?


2/10

3/10

7/10

1/10

3/10


In this game he took Wang Kon (FIN/PRO) of SPAIN (FISH/MYST). Spain lays de facto claim to a religion, making it a not unreasonable choice. Wang Kon seems like a good leader, providing both an early production boost as well as a sustained increase in commerce. I think there are some flaws with picking them both together, though. By accelerating early workboats and workers by a significant margin, PRO demands that you stick to essential worker technologies. Taking mysticism to start, and presumably also hoping to go for early religion, conflicts with PRO very much and I don't think that HitAnyKey will be able to benefit from the best parts of both his picks - he'll have to choose one or the other.


What sayeth the sixth sacred animal of this pairing?

Baaaaaa

[SevenSpirits]

Hooray, the game is up! My password is sheep.

t0:




There are 2059 land tiles.

[Hashoosh]

More like bland tiles, am I right?

[pindicator]

More like bland tiles, am I right?

[WilliamLP]

2059 is seventy one times twenty nine. Do you think there is any significance?