[SPOILERS] Willem of Portugal (Dantski + Mukha)

[Mukha]

Suppose I should fill this first post with random things.

Smiley Test:



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So that's the first 15 done. 121 to go.


I think I'm only on this team because Dantski couldn't be bothered to update another thread. Thankfully that means I therefore have full control over the historical record of our civ. So why did Dantski chose Portugal over Carthage?
Apparently because they're green. That is honesetly the quality of my teammate.

Pros of being green:

Slightly more likely to have someone accidentally invade because our city is hidden in jungle.

Cons of being green:

Can forget that we founded that jungle city.

[Mukha]

That looked like way more text when I was typing it. Dantksi was right, this is too much work!

I'll try to post some of our email/im discussions about civ/leader choices. Later. Need to edit out all the embarrassing bits first. Dantski wanted Gilgamesh of Native America, I'll leave that bit in.

[Dantski]

protective archs + 3xp from totem poles!

spam cities go bust but hey, it'll anooy the other teams!

[Mukha]

Oi. My thread! You can stay as long as you don't challenge my authority.

I think we agreed, you make all in game decisions. I misreport it here and tell everyone why it was a bad decision and completely your fault.

Although to be honest, I was also tempted by a Sumerican empirre.

[Mukha]

Our start:

[Mukha]

So we have lots of options, some better than others:

1. Settle in place.

2. Settle on silver

3. Settle on plains hill SE , 2SE or NE

Options quickly become sub-optimal after this but I'll list them anyway for completeness:

4. Don't settle in place. In fact don't settle at all. Settlers make great scouts.

5. Ally with someone with optics. Get them to gift us a caravel which should turn into a Carrack. Settle poles/desert island. We would be safe until astronomy. Only problem I see with this is we would only have a single warrior to offer in trade.

6. Gift/delete the settler.


I'm leaning towards option 3. But our first priority is to name our units.

If it fits Gaspar Whose Laugh Stinks of Killing for the warrior.

Then maybe move him SE or SW? Don't want to explore to the north much because it looks like there's a desert hill 3 N of starting spot.

[Mukha]

Settling unirrigated corn gives 3 food as well. But even unirrigated corn gives 5 food so this would be a waste. Settling a 2 hammer tile I think is usually better than 3 food. Silver according to Dantski doesn't give a bonus hammer. Although we would then have a happiness without needing iron working/lots of worker turns.

[Mukha]

Warrior should move SE with settler. Or NE. I think we're probably going to move settler SE onto plains hill anyway. So I would rather move warrior with him and then next turn we could move SE again with warrior and have good visibility on the river and be much more sure about our cap's position. Fewer tiles revealed overall but tells us much more that's useful immediately.

[Mukha]

Warrior Reveal:

[Mukha]

Demographics:



If there are actually any lurkers left not playing in PB3, could someone tell me how GNP is calculated?