[SPOILERS] Adlain Whistling in the dark with Hammurabi of the English

[Adlain]

Ok, warrior is now 5T away from home, found a Peak 1N and deer 2N of the Silver. scout headed NW, N and found nothing of intrest.

Worker Due in next Turn, BW in 4 or 3T

[Adlain]

Warrior is home, Also another Warrior due in 1T, Working Corn and Gems, Growth to Size 3 in 2T, Found a sweet site in the north of my Island (Red or Pink Dot) with Copper, Stone and Pigs that is likly to be my second City Site, with the site with Silver, Wheat and Deer (Green Dot) to prob be my 3rd, Double Clam site (Orange Dot) my 4th and Rice, bannanas and Marble (Blue Dot) my 5th.



BW is in, started AH in 5T

[Adlain]

Contact with Mardoc/ Seven Spirits. warrior to my south. had a plesent exchange on Email, he has kindly given me a hand drawn map of the guessed layout of the place so its a good start to our relations already in my book

also chatted to Seven tonight after playing my turn (still nothing of note happening in my "empire" atm and a lack of time for detailed Simming of any discription.) Turns out they may be heading down the Hindu line for the religion. i have floated the idea of a missionary, if they get it i may enquire again as i have no real plans for an early religion at this time.

Hi Adlain, pleasure to meet you! How goes?

Seven (and Mardoc)

Greetings Seven (and Mardoc),

Welcome to my humble Abode, I hope i find you both well
If you wish to Contact me for any rason, this Email address (snip) is used for both Gmail Chat and its Email Functions or if you use MSN, my Username on that is [email]SNIP[/email] (yes it is a very old account)
May i ask your thoughts on this map we inhabit??, it seems that Ruff has hand made it at the very least, and the Railroads are an intresting touch. Also have you met any other Civs along the way??
Anyways, Im Glad to have met you and i hope we will have a long and Freindly Relations in this game

Kind Regards

Adlain.

We use gmail exclusively, so this is the best spot. We're open to
chatting, but it probably has to be scheduled, since as you might
guess this is a secondary account for both of us.

Funny you should ask about the map... we scouted around with both our
starting units and were able to figure out the overall layout pretty
quickly. Since you asked nicely I've attached a diagram below - hope
you find it useful! It's actually quite a clever setup - due to the
rails, everyone's essentially bordering everyone else, but Ruff still
managed to make a symmetrical, balanced map with 7 players.

As for contacts, we've actually just met everyone now... some have
been more friendly than others. We certainly hope to have good
relations with you!

20:50 me: Greetings Seven/ Mardoc
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: hey! (it's seven here)
me: Hi Seven
Just wanted to say thank you for the map you sent me
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: you're welcome
20:52 me: my scouting has, im afraid, been less impressive than yours. I had guessed a similer map to yourself (although far cruder) but i am glad to see my suspisions confirmed
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: cool
yeah, I got kind of obsessed with figuring out the layout, haha
20:53 me: i know the feeling
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: I like the early game a lot and I like puzzles
hey btw, mardoc and I were discussing the possibility of grabbing hinduism
me: yea, you never know what stratagy is the best at this stage imho
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: did you already have any plans in that direction?
me: Hmm, let me check
(damn my scatter brain)
20:54 Mardoc/SevenSpirits: sure
me: No, i dont have any imediete plans in that direction
20:55 however i may be open to some missionary love
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: ok
nothing's set yet, we might not even go for it, don't want to be racing anyone
20:56 but I should be able to let you know in a couple turns
me: cool, np
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: awesome
20:57 me: and yea, racing somone for religion can get quite painful as you are generaly neglecting other useful techs to get it
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: yup
20:58 me: Well, i have to run, unless you have somthing you wish to disscus with me. Just saw you online and a chat is always preferable to Email imho
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: agreed!
all right, cheers man
20:59 me: Good to speak to you, and i hope we can get along in this game
Mardoc/SevenSpirits: me too

[Adlain]

Contact with Tatan, should be intresting as i probably know the most about him than anyone else in this game due to PBEM 10. i have found his island is to my north West and is my direct neigour in that direction.

Barracks is built next turn, City is now size 4, going to start a warrior or a settler next, choping a forrest to my SW of City to put into ether a worker or the settler to speed things along. wheel due in 2T then pottery next and start getting some cottages down.

[Adlain]

sorry for the lack of info, but heres a quick sunnery for now (NEED SLEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

• Worker choped forrest 1SW of capital into Worker (2T waway),
  
• warrior 1 scouting fogged land on my island to the SW,
  
• Scout who found Tatan has doubled back and will explore the northan reaches of my island before going in serch of the rest of my fellow Players,
  
• Warrior 2 is on gard duty as i am now size 4 capital,
  
• Wheel is in, started pottery (3T) after that myst (3T),
  
• Afer worker completes will start on Settler. Worker 1 will road to Gems then start choping to speed up settler, Worker 2 will road towards my planed 2nd city site.
  

[Adlain]

Ok, quick Info Dump about what been happening,

I have contact with every player now, i know where GES, Tatam and Amelia are located (and that Amelia has a 2nd City atleast on the 2 Clams Spot) and tht my diplomacy Sucks. Dispite what i thought at the beginning, i just dont find the time to sit and write messages to people unless i want somthing, and tbh i dont think i have been active enough in that yet ether. somthing to work on i guess.

I have my 2nd City, Granary in 1T and then i can start whipping away happly for City 3 and 4.

Currant lands:



Known Map:



Capital:



2nd City:



Demographs:

[Adlain]

Ok, Simple truth time i suppose - i dont have enough time to do any justice to this game imho.

Dont get me wrong - im able to play the turns ok, reporting however - as im sure anyone readinding this will know - is nonexsistaint and as for my diplomacy.............. yea thats nonexsistaint bar plako whom i currantly have a NAP with.

So yea, basicly i would like to sound out anyone who is intrested in taking over. I dont want to shout this out too loudly at this moment in time as i feel thats a sure sign of weakness and likly to get me dogpiled even quicker than is already likly to try and get some extra land as from what i can tell we are limited to our own islands for expansion i the mostpart.

We are in 720BC so its still early enough (just about) to reverse any decicions i have made you disagree with and im happy to stay about to play any turns if required but if no-one is intrested, i am able and willing to continue as is - but someone with more time for diplomacy would be better placed.

Adlain

[Adlain]

Right, a quick update - for my memory if nothing else

Tatan: NAP untill T90 (TBC)
Plako: OB also NAP untill T100
Luddite, Amelia, GES, Mardoc: No Agreements afik