[SPOILERS] Rowain and the USA

[Ituralde]

Never could stand those Gondwanians, anyways. Our destiny clearly lies in glorious Kazakhstania!

Good luck in the coming turns, I'll read along happily.

[Rowain]

Never could stand those Gondwanians, anyways. Our destiny clearly lies in glorious Kazakhstania!

No ,no that is the wrong attitude . Those Gondwanians are Kzakhstanis in potentia. We just have to convince them

Good luck in the coming turns, I'll read along happily.

Thanks I'll need it

On to turn 3 Moved the Warrior but sadly the woodlands block contact. So another turn needed.
Looking at the borders makes clear that it is a CS and going by the colour I think a commercial one.



I hope I'm the first.
Afterwards I 'll turn southward as the settler-view showed another coastal tile in the north.

[Rowain]

The CS is Zanzibar and I'm it's first contact.
It's current Task is triggering the Eureka for Masonry which is a bummer as so far I have not seen any stone at all.




The warrior will cross the river next turn (SW to the floodplain) and then follow the river south.

[Rowain]

3 more turns happened but nothing interesting except the fact that Washington is now size 2 and the score-board sees me in the lead with 7 points over the pack with 6

1 Barbscout sighted west of Zanzibar.

[Rowain]

My lead was only shortlived as this turn Kaiser got a civic and grew a pop:




Moving my warrior revealed another border

[Rowain]

Bacchus is the first with a new tech. suboptimal has now a second pop. Only Ichabod is still at 6 points.
To optimize scouting I moved a bit further south-east. Discovered another river. Next turn I can move Southwest+west and perhaps get contact.

[Rowain]

Contact!

It is Arabia. suboptimal makes the same amount of science(3.6) and culture(1.7) as myself but he makes 4.2 f/t

A barb-camp spawned south of Zanzibar. My slinger completed and I started a Warrior. Tech: learned Mining started Pottery.

[Rowain]

Turn 11
Lets start with the score:




we left off with contact with Arabia . Overview on where the Arabian capital is located (his scout is included):




And now lets take a look at it:




That's a really nice capital. 2 2f2p tiles and tiles for easy Eurekas. Going by the picture he is currently producing a Unit. I hope he gets some Barbs to slow him a bit.

[Rowain]

T14
suboptimal produced a slinger. And I found 2 new CS (no contact yet) . In the west a faith-CS very close to Arabias capital.




In the south a Science CS which looks to be very close to me. Sadly I scouted northwest first.




Finishing Code of Law pushed my score to 11 points too. Started Foreign trade.

New policies are the standard ones +1 faith and coin and +5 vs Barbs.
That gives me 2 fpt but suboptimal with his 4.2 will get first pick on Pantheon.

[Rowain]

The religious CS is Jerusalem which acts as a holy city for your religion if you are suzerain. It has currently 1 civ influencing it which turns out to be suboptimal (as expected). Task: Great Scientist

The science CS is Hattusa which grants any strategic resource you have discovered but don't own. It's task is building a Heavy Chariot. Hattusa is influenced by an unmet Civ. Given that Kaiser has just completed another tech( and gained 1 pop) I assume it is him. So I have Japan somewhere in the south/southeast.

My capital also gets visited by a Barbscout.