I forgot to mention that the barb skeleton kicked my citizen off the horse tile, and I forgot to switch him back in my grief over my lost scout. So I worked a grassland forest for a turn, losing two hammers and one commerce 
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DaveV explores the dark [elf] side
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Three turns to heal the scout, after taking the Subdue Animal promotion.
The worker finished the gold mine this turn, moving me back to roughly mid-pack in demographics. After roading the tile, I'll have a happy resource and can grow my cities (probably on an Elder Council after I finish Mysticism). I also found a gems tile NW of the copper in the north, that will probably be a priority for my next city.
I'm behind on updates, but not a lot is happening. I sent a scout to make contact with Mr. Cairo so I could see his graphs, and they are about as expected. He's running God King and is well ahead of me on manufacturing, but about even on crop yield and GNP. I was most concerned about power, since I'm not ready for a centaur rush, but he only has one jump big enough for a centaur. Most of his power appears to come from population; he's doing the Kurio thing and growing his cities nice and big.
Two turns till my next settler, whom I'm planning to send the the tile between cows and gems. I finished Mysticism and connected my gold, so I can now build some buildings and run some specialists. My plan for research is Hunting->Way of the Forests. Fauns would stack up pretty well against Centaurs, and also against Hill Giants (Pact of the Nilhorn is a nice project for the Kurios).
I'm ready to settle my next city in the north (on the bear sign) next turn; I'm hovering over the stack to the SE of the sign. Meanwhile, two barb warriors are trying to be annoying in the south. Now would be a great time for a Mr. Cairo sneak attack.
Exciting times. There was a bear standing on my planned city site; my scout captured him at 78%. Now I'm looking at a bunch more combats in that same range, with two warriors in the south and two poison goblins in the north. Early apprenticeship is looking like a good idea.
Also, the mirror of heaven is peeking out of the fog NE of my new city of Dirt. When the barb pressure lets up, I'll have to send a unit up there for some long range scrying. Edit: seeing all the units on this screenie reminds me to comment on some more civ-specific custom graphics (like the Balseraph last game). Most of the Svartalfar military units are women in leather bikinis, following the old "female skin is better than armor" trope.
One of the goblins attacked into Dirt, and came within a whisker of killing the defending warrior. Now he's poisoned, and it will take a long time for him to heal.
I attacked the other goblin with my subdue animal scout, at 71% (in retrospect, a dumb idea - I could have lost my best unit), and the SW warrior, who stepped onto flat land, at 75%. I won both battles, now I'll have two animal capturing scouts once they heal. The SE barb warrior is still jockeying around in the woods; I'm waiting for a clean shot at him. I built the gems mine and finished Elder Councils in Ant and Bat, which gave a nice boost to my research. Next is a warrior in Ant, since I'm bringing up the rear in the Power demographic. Bat was supposed to assign a sage specialist, but was on manual control and didn't
Thanks for the updates. Have you met anyone else?
Erebus in the Balance - a FFH Modmod based around balancing and polishing FFH for streamlined competitive play.
Only Mr. Cairo so far. I suspect that stepping on the mirror of heaven might give me contact with someone, but I can't spare a unit at the moment.
Two great sages have spawned the last two turns. Nice work by the not-philosophical guy; I'm just starting to generate GPP. Also, someone (almost certainly Auro) founded Octopus Overlords. Edit: and xist apparently founded FoL. I'm way behind already... |
