[spoilers] DTG thinks filthy casuals are ruining Realms Beyond

[Ruff_Hi]

SW vote here too as the next move from the other direction is likely into a forest too.

[DTG]

Nicolae Carpathia found us with his Scout:




He and Eikad have met, and have dedicated all their EP to one another (Eikad's 6 EP on us excepted).

Nicolae is the sole player yet to experience a score increase, but Korea only start with Mysticism and Mining. So how does he intend to feed his capital? Either he's attempting something unusual, like beelining Bronze Working, or he didn't realize that Hunting enables Pastures in RtR and then switched from Agriculture ---> Hunting. Honestly, either one of these should be good for us.

[picklepikkl]

Nice! Let's assume then that NC is on the other side of Elkad. We know that Elkad moved his Settler; possibly we can explain all our observations with the theory that Elkad moved closer to NC, they met very early, and NC panicked and swapped from Agriculture -> Hunting like you postulated with the goal of beelining Archery?

But seriously though, what I wouldn't give for a map trade. I have no idea what's going on in this game, and while that's kind of exciting, a Jedi craves not these things.

[DTG]

We have graphs on Eikad now, so I switched EP to Nicolae.

[Ruff_Hi]

It does look like it loops around? For future reference, we should position some cities as canals (between fish and wine).

[DTG]

It does look like it loops around? For future reference, we should position some cities as canals (between fish and wine).

It will, but of course there's no straight and direct path:







I do wonder if we're going to bump into Eikad's capital, if he's located to our south.

[picklepikkl]

FAKED OUT, GODDAMMIT

boy I am looking forward to that first Quechua.

[picklepikkl]

DTG, I hopped in to take a look at the game and what our exploration has turned up thus far, but unfortunately did so on the turn we'd finished a tech and our Quechua. In order to make the game happy, I selected Mining/another Quechua (I assume that we're putting hammers into something to size 3, then working our best tiles for a Settler? Second Worker seems redundant at this point), but didn't move either of our units or do anything else.

Incidentally, one of the things I noticed while in-game is that we've lost demos on Elkad. We should probably get those back.

[DTG]

DTG, I hopped in to take a look at the game and what our exploration has turned up thus far, but unfortunately did so on the turn we'd finished a tech and our Quechua. In order to make the game happy, I selected Mining/another Quechua (I assume that we're putting hammers into something to size 3, then working our best tiles for a Settler? Second Worker seems redundant at this point), but didn't move either of our units or do anything else.

Yep, no worries. If you want to prevent that happening, I *think* there's an option in the menu that delays all pop-ups until the end of the turn (I can't remember the exact phrasing, and don't feel like you have to change it on my behalf).

Incidentally, one of the things I noticed while in-game is that we've lost demos on Elkad. We should probably get those back.

Yeah, I clicked 'enter' last turn and realized immediately after that Eikad's shifted his EP back to us. It'll probably take a couple of turns to get graphs back.

Speaking of Eikad, we've located his southern culture:




I think it's likely he's moved onto the large Sea-Lake that we're circling. Next turn, I'll take some pictures so we can work out exactly where his capital is in relation to ours.

We're going to need to rush a bit to grab any contested spots. Luckily Quechas should nix any thoughts he has about Archer rushing us (and I don't think we should Archer rush him). Being Expansive, we have a head-start on pushing out.

I do have a small theory about the map. I think there are four groups of three players, with capitals close to one another but a large amount of backfill each. Could Greenline have been lazy in assigning starting positions according to the snake pick, i.e. :

1. Borsche - Mehmed II of Carthage
2. Gawdzak/Chumchu - Julius Caesar of Russia
3. GSorel/DMOC/Ichabod - Genghis Khan of Zulu


4. Nicolea Carpathia - Brennus of Korea
5. Elkad - Asoka of Sumeria
6. DTG/picklepikkl - Mao Zedong of Inca


7. OT4E - Bismark of Ottomans
8. wetbandit/ipecac - Winston Churchill of China
9. StarDoor - Shaka of Arabia


10. dcodea - Joao II of Khmer
11. NylesStandish - Wang Kon of Aztecs
12. pindicator - Suryavarman II of India


?

[DTG]

We should gain visibility on Eikad's capital next turn... two turns max:













It looks like our Scout will return a few turns after our Quecha has explored towards the tiles around our south. Shall we go back to check out the Ivory?

Capital area:




Quecha goes 1SW?

It's likely that there is a seafood resource by the Fur site, but we won't want to settle that as a second city.