AT loves it when a plan comes together!! [Spoilers]

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more exploring. barb animals are out.

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Battle comes!!

Well, a wolf attempted to eat my scout, but his trusty stone hatchet gave him a nice pelt instead!! I do have to heal for a few turns, though. Can't face that lion at 60%.



Note that I have a nice little private sea there



More and more, i want the great lighthouse. I might want it more than stonehenge, though henge is pretty powerful for me - lets see - lighthouse will give me an extra 2-4 commerce a city, stonehenge will allow me to get an extra cottage or coast tile. Hmm. that's probaby closer than it seems...

Course, the lighthouse is basically 2 cities. So, are two cities better than 2-4 extra commerce per city? probably.

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We got first score increases from land this turn (its' turn 20 already?) - I'll post a pic and do some analysis of who has what in their cap. We'll get more (obviously) next turn when those who moved get their increases.

scout is healing, worker moved to the hill to start mining.

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Not a lot to say.

Got BW and copper is right next to me. grew to size 2 and whipped out the workboat (first person to have a score decrease)

Nice site to my east, actually - copper, fish, pigs on a hill

Next builds will be warriors as I chop out a settler. One will explore the cold to the south, the other stick around home, maybe kill some animals.



This is my world. Lots of food and health resources (1 farm, all three 3 pasture, 2 fishing nets, one calendar) and some nice happy (hunting, calendar and optics), plus, of course, copper

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When i popped that hut near me, i got experience.

I'm curious what other people would give the scout in the situatiion - which 2 promos. I gave it Woods II, for better jungle exploration and survival, but C1/Medic was tempting, too.

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Scout fought off a lion, but took 60 hp doing so. Geez.

Warrior hasn't got out of my culture

got to size 3, started builing settler again. Will whip it when I can.

Whip, build WB, whip worker, whip stonehenge - that's the ticket in A-Team! (well, whip INTO Stonehenge, at least)

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oh - well, of course it's a big land-mass. This is a lakes script all one landmass. That probably means the lighthouse is less interesting, since there won't be many islands. That said, everything can be coastal.

Someone circumnavigated...

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Bad news:



I HATE bears. They are really strong. Fortunately, I have the forest and a 20% bonus vs. barb animals for monarch, and there's a small chance he walks away. basically, I SHOULD survive to pop that hut. bets?

Question: is it better to stick to woods? or stick to the coast? Woods have better protection, of course, but the coast means fewer ways to attack. Any opinions?


It coudl be worse news:



Scout won, but is basically out of commission for 10 turns. Am debating bringing him back to the cap where he'll be safe and heal faster. Not sure what I'll do there.

And, someone circumnavigated.

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Survived the bear! Popped the hut and got.... a scout. well, that's good, right? more exploration = better knowledge = more power...

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wow, have I been doing a poor job keeping this up to date.

Here is an overview of the land I can see:



nice land, though I think all the land is basically nice. I have a 3 early luxes near me - ivory, fur and silver. Assuming everyone does, thats probably not the best thing for me, since it'll take longer for my higher happy cap to make a difference. Lots of food, everything coastal.

Both copper and horses and marble near by is good - Hagia Sophia would be nice - better workers will make up some on the expansionist civs, and parthenon would help make up for the philo civs.

Taj down the road - and, of course, the Epics are doubled with marble, so its really useful. Plus, a ToA is much more useful than it seems - with marble, the payback is pretty fast



I'm basically last in everything except GNP (I'm actually running heavy on that, trying to set up a dog for a 2 pop whip later) and food. Not all that surprising, considering I have no cheap anything, but a little discouraging.





These are my two cities - A-Tem and MASH. I have 1 worker, 1 warrior and 2 scouts.



A-Team, the cap. Doomed to be razed in 50-100 turns when I forget to adequately guard it against an easy to see coming "sneak attack"



M*A*S*H - my 2nd city. Just growing. Making a 2nd workboat for the cap.

I expect things to get better, though it would be really nice if I could come up with a coherent plan, other than "well, screw around and maybe get stonehenge"....