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

[Rowain]

2 more turns played. Found and explored a ruin. My Warrior is now a Spearman. Somebody else (score indicates Azza) has grown to size 2 - guess he got that from a ruin. But then I'm not sure how accurate the scores/Demos I see are.

Next turn capital grows too and a scout will appear to explore the coast to our west. Production will continue with another scout ( 3 turns ) .

[Rowain]

Turn 5 where Ichabod has finally settled





The Spear in the south will make contact with an CS next turn. The scout will continue SW to the gems.
Demos show somebody got another landtile and from the happiness I guess someone found a natural Wonder.

[Rowain]

The CS is militaristic Almaty but at least the scout sighted another ruin.

[Rowain]

turn 8
Demos at the start:



During the last 3 turns my scout popped a ruin getting a Map and I met La Venta a religious CS which gave me enough faith to found a Parthenon. Hard to decide as there were several nice beliefs for gaining faith but in the end I went with one that gives culture for jungle-tiles as I plan to have 2 more cities with several jungle-tiles. I also bought the jungle + gem tile and told a citizen to work it.

[Meiz]

Hard to decide as there were several nice beliefs for gaining faith but in the end I went with one that gives culture for jungle-tiles as I plan to have 2 more cities with several jungle-tiles.

That's a good choice I think. Religion from gems coming close as second.

[Rowain]

Met Ichabod's warrior sitting where once were the ruin in the south

Granary finishes in 6 turns right on time to give birth to villager 4 the next turn.

[Rowain]

We are already on turn13: Someone not Ichabod founded his own Parthenon. He chose the one that gives 1 culture per plantation.
Overview from turn 12:



The southern Ruin gave another Weapon-upgrade while the northern one got blocked by Barb . Switched worked tiles to get the granary next turn. Next culture upgrade comes next turn too.

[Rowain]

Turn 14 . The barb left the ruin and I got 1 pop from it .

That makes me tied leader in pop but according to the demos I lead in CY and am lead/co-lead in all other categories except Approval.
I also lead the scoreboard now. In short the game can end right now




Production set to Warrior which will be followed most likely by worker, archer, settler.

[Rowain]

Turn 15: yuris met. He doesn't have any believe but like me tradition + 1 in the culture-section. That means Azza is the one with the plantation-Parthenon. Azza also retook the lead in scorepoints.

If I read the techcosts right then someone has trapping and somebody else has sailing and optics .

[Rowain]

turn 16:
demos : the Questionmark is Azza



And an overview showing where we met Ichabod and Yuris: