[SPOILERS] naufragar earns no points

[NobleHelium]

And where is Rusten (Miguelito)? I can't really tell from your pictures.

[naufragar]

And where is Rusten (Miguelito)?  I can't really tell from your pictures.

Voila!


Miguelito/Rusten is the grey to the southwest. The further South city is the capital. By the way, am I in to infer from your order ("Rusten (Miguelito)") that Rusten is driving?  

Here's the contested border area.


That "x" isn't really a city pin. It's just a neat idea. Scooter will beat me to it, but if that makes him a target, so be it. I went with a wonder. I'm thoroughly pleased with 'henge even if I'm not totally sure what to do with it.

[NobleHelium]

You said Rusten so I followed your lead. I am not implying anything.

[naufragar]

You said Rusten so I followed your lead.  I am not implying anything.

So I did. Sorry, Miguelito!

Today we learned a lesson about why one shouldn't build early wonders. The neighbors start getting real disrespectful.


I've included the arrows to show that Scooter didn't do this to dodge the bear. In addition, he's got 50 EP points into me compared to my 20, so he's had my graphs for a long while but is trying to hide his own graphs. Very well. I can use the Stonehenge Great Prophet to shrine Hinduism once I take his capital.

I discovered where Horses are. That's a fine spot. Thanks, Comm. I'll have to move my proposed dot map because I don't really want to wait the ten turns for the border pop. Copper is on a desert tile because Commodore hates me, personally. Boo, Comm.

[naufragar]

I've got too much civ on my plate. Had a senior moment and made a silly move.


I have no idea what I was thinking moving my warrior to the hill. It wasn't a misclick, just a moment of temporary insanity. Scooter has a coin flip to kill the flatland warrior. He probably should take that roll since he sees that the cap is empty. If he wins the battle, I'll have to play this as a duel with the goal of killing Scooter. The meta-game reasons for this should be obvious.

[naufragar]

I wasn't punished for my blunder and, would you believe it, my mood improved dramatically. Scooter offered peace. I think I know what he's going to do with this peace, but that's ok.

I think I still want to settle for those horses first ring. This doesn't effectively use Stonehenge, so maybe it's wrong. In fact, my dotmap in general is hella ugly. I've already stranded a grassland tile with the placement of my copper city. I stand to strand a plains.


Now that I'm in a less frame of mind, I do like the map. It's natural-feeling and small. It's cute. I think Scooter will use peace to plant on the easternmost X. That spot grabs a luxury and two food resources. I want it in the long term, but perhaps I don't have turn on the berserk fury just yet.

My horse city could be the spot for a Great Lighthouse.  

I've started to improve my copper.


The lion shouldn't be able to kill the worker. But I'll tell you why I still get nervous. Once upon a time, I was playing a FfH game. Somehow, an animal had become trapped in my culture. I had cultural control of the tile and it looked like he couldn't move. I moved a unit outside my borders, but next to the "trapped" animal. Then, surprise! The animal wasn't trapped. He could move out of my borders but hadn't exercised that power until I had a unit he could eat. Ever since then, I don't trust the furry bandits.

[naufragar]

Lurkers didn't comment on my impossible dotmap. Disappointing.

How fast do we think Scooter can get a galley?


An unlikely scenario and one that I can preempt by putting a unit 1N of the copper. Still, somebody's gotta plan for these things.

[Commodore]

I just figured your were pessimistically marking Scooter's rice city. Gandhi vs. Augustus gooooo

[NobleHelium]

I noticed your city was impossible, was debating whether to tell you or not.

[naufragar]

Well, shucks.


Glad for the enforced peace. That's Scooter with pastured horses before I've finished mining my copper... Holy smokes. Yikes.

Edit: You can see it in my turn 46 pic. I just missed it then.