[spoiler]Mountainclimbing Elephants: Rowain plays Carthage Old and New

[Rowain]

Wow, busy turn. What pantheon do you plan to take?

Currently nothing really planned. Especially as I have no plans to start looking through all possible Pantheons now.
But on general one that makes growth easier/faster is always good

I'd suggest bringing the warrior back home soon, if you plan on getting a worker before another warrior. That barb camp is very close and barbs are really active in BNW.

Yeah they love to come visiting. But I plan to build the granary first so the warrior can still spend some time to scout.

[Ichabod]

If you want growth, there's one that gives +% food on cities. Fertility rites or something like that.

[Meiz]

BNW patch also brought the new pantheon that gives extra food from wheat, citrus and bananas.

[Rowain]

And we are moving again

Last we looked we had a Parthenon to found and a ruin to explore.




The new believe reduces the time till next villager from 7 to 4 turns. You can also see the altered Tradition tree.
Overview:



The new scout spotted a new ruin to explore and the double wheat + Orange region begs to be petrafied.

Research set to sailing and a granary ordered in the capital.

[Rowain]

A new day a new turn. The ruin only yields Info about Barbcamps.
But my exploring Units find the borders of 2 more CS. One in the east with Gems



The one in the west with Cotton



A glimpse into the tradescreen shows that a TR with Vatican will be worth 5 gold currently

[Rowain]

turn 008

A day of new friends (?). first we meet friendly, cultured Kiev in the west then religious, irrational Kathmandu in the east.
When the Scout in the middle moves to a hill we get notified of contact with Russia another step and the mysterious contact is revealed:



Yuris is currently in the last place scorewise but first in some demographics but that is of little concern since he is the first player he gets the rank 1 in case of equal values.




He is thanks to the Spear the rightful Nr1 in Soldiers and is the one with the high GNP.
Me being last in Hammers makes it clear that Calerdorn has 7 production.

[Rowain]

Turn 9:
At the start the message that somebody else has founded a Parthenon greats us:



In the north yiuris tried to block the scout from exploring the ruin


but since he didn't declare war the scout moves on and earns 55 gold

Demos showing someone got (bought ? ) some land and an increase in happiness.

[Rowain]

And now to something completely different




This time with Ichabod and his Flying Circus Carneval

As I'm last in turnorder the score (taken after settling) says that Ichabod and Yuris have decided to move instead of settle. Moving west onto the hill would most likely been superior for me too but so I can try for Petra in the capital. (No that was not the reason why I didn't move that was simply laziness and fast playing). The lot of jungle increases the chances to have Ichabod
as next neighbour (Brazil has a jungle-bias). Despite being inland a city next to the Cacao looks good.

Production was set to Scout and research to Pottery.

[Meiz]

Then again you'd lose 3rd ring cows by moving, so probably not that big of a deal.

[Rowain]

Another turn revealing our surroundings:




The score shows that Ichabod has still not settled

The Demos are therefor a bit twisted.




They do show that yuris and Azza are both working 5 hammers and 4 food (I have 5 food 4 hammers) while we 3 have the same GNP. Noone has gotten a soldier/pop or money (? at least not enough to show in the soldier column) from a ruin. why has yuris 2 points more than Azzza and myself? Maybe the landdemo (on which we 3 a re equal) is differently calculated than the score for land. Then it would indicate that yuris capital is landlocked (fitting for Russia) while Spain and myself have 1 coastal tile.