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

[Bowsling]

Yep, that's why there's a little cabin occupying the hindquarters of one of those deer.

[Bowsling]

A lion has appeared. We should stick to defensive tiles from now on (although I didn't this turn, so that we can move onto a hill next turn).

MLP has gotte a six-point score increase, indicating a tech. Rival max soldiers is now 6000, meaning it was a military tech (Mining, Hunting, or TW). They start with TW, and they can only have ~60 beakers for a tech with no prereqs. They have thus researched hunting.

[Aivoturso]

Which hill? I'm thinking that we should go to 9-9 since we have more than enough time before we need to know where we'll put our second city. Though of course if we move 8-7, we might be able to send the dude off to find other nations a bit earlier.

BTW, the fact that MLP researched Hunting suggests that they also have Deer in their BFC.

[Bowsling]

Yes, most of the demographics have been suggesting mirrored starts. The first few teams to settle had 2 water tiles, some had 1, and the team that moved for a turn (Care Bears) had none. One of the teams that did not SIP also had a really high MFG, indicating that they were working the PH. So yeah, I'd be willing to bet that every team has a similar sized lake, a river, a deer, a pig, and a forested plains hill.

[Bowsling]

Another turn down. LP and DMOC both finished techs. My gut says they both got hunting, although the Byzzies could've gotten a number of things (not a religion, though).

Also we got wheat E of that gold!

[Bowsling]

Yossadorn has discovered mining.

[Bowsling]

Played another pair of turns. Yuufo and raptorous both teched agriculture at the start of this turn.

[Bowsling]

I've done a little bit more micro fiddling. BW absolutely should come before fishing. We get the settler significantly earlier, we don't waste worker turns, and we have 4 warriors (or possibly impis or axemen depending on where the copper is) compared to the one that we get from teching fishing.

Also, seeing the rest of the land. I think we should settle 4S1E as our second city. Even though it can't work all of its tiles like the fish, the pig and the sugar, the already-improved deer and the rice easily offset this. In my sandbox, it took the second city 15 turns to grow to size 4, and thus really quick settlers and workers, something we can't match anywhere else.

[Aivoturso]

Thanks for playing the turns. I just got hit by some real life SNAFU (nothing serious, just time consuming). So I unfortunately have very limited time to focus on the games I'm involved with until next week's Friday is over.

[Bowsling]

Okay, good to know. I won't have nearly as much time in the fall as I have had the last couple of days, so if you'll be able to play a few turns afterwards, that'd be great.