[SPOILERS-PBEM15] Mansa Musa of the Ottomans

[Piet]

Turn 24 in.

Road built, 2nd worker due next turn. Still no strat resources.

T-I discovered Bronzeworking, Jkaen also discovered a tech (4k Soldier Points for him, should be Wheel - which would probably mean his last tech was pottery)



Demos are relatively unchanged

[Piet]

Did a few things with T-Is and my graphs. Hope it is correct

Food



Production



GNP



Soldiers



ok, seeing the pictures directly above one other there is something wrong with my guesses. First the size 2 guess for Food doesnt match production, second there are two small GNP increases from Mining to BW. Will have to measure it out - if I have time and feel like it.

Soldiers and tech path seem to be correct though.

As a fun fact - note that my german civ has the soldier count graph under "Electricity". Yeah, sure :-D.

[Piet]

T25 in

Worker finished, switched to settler. Both workers start chopping the forest on the eastern PH. I can already smell my second city - but perhaps its only the river Ankh just out of the palace .

My scouts revealed a lot, but still failed to find copper or horses. Nothern Warrior will move NW next turn, southern will explore W. Is that coast in the far W ? (No, it seems to be desert)



TT grew to Size 3. Seems he built a settler or worker at size 2 (both + City Growth is hard w/o BW in 10 Turns). If it was a settler - and he does not send him around the earth - we should see his second city any moment now.

Demos (reflect TTs Growth, not much else) ...

[Piet]

T26 in

not much happened. Pottery in, switch to Myticism.

Scouts fail to find strategic resources.

Demos completely unchanged.

heres the map (flood plains W of the rice, not coast )

[spacemanmf]

Maybe this is a map devoid of strategic resources!

[Piet]

Yeah, thought about that, but it would be very unusual, wouldnt it ?

At least, if this is the case, I have chosen exactly the right Civ .

[Piet]

T27 in

whipped the settler, granary will be next.

further scouting in the west revealed nothing special

TT discovered a tech

The map :



The demos (after whipping) :

[Piet]

Diplo with T-I - semms no one of us has met anyone yet

Hey Piet,

Thanks for the turn. Just wondering - have you met anyone yet? It seems
awfully quiet in our little corner of the world...

Regards,
T-I

Hi T-I,

no, I am still searching and scouting, but no other neighbours yet. Could be continents or something, but this would be a little bit strange with 5 players - fair distribution would be difficult. Will probably build a scouting workboat at some time to find out more.

Best Regards,
Piet

[Piet]

T28 in - quite a busy turn

First - my opponents were busy. City 2 for Ioan and techs fpr Jkaen (non-militaric, guess Mysticism) and T-I (Wheel, his soldiers went up 4k).

Second - settler is out and already on target (right out of the screen at the right).

Third - horses found !



Went around them all the time, Murphys law inc. .

Demos - will stay bad a few turns while granarys and a monument in C2 are getting built. Should get rapidly better after this. Switched tiles in Ankh after the screenie so the granary there will complete faster (it is due in 3 Turns).

[Piet]

A first hasty dotmap (done on my sandboy save, so it is next turn)



The two western cities are not much jungle-infested and could be settled before IW (Although I proably have IW when the third city is founded - or I find copper soon). Must scout out the northern border yet, perhaps this city will be moved.

The horse city can work one sugar tile asap.

In the moment im thinking horse city 3rd, clams & double Banana city 4th (if IW is in), Northern Pig city fifth.

The should be room for at least 2 nice cities further west - 1N of the rice f.e. - but there is still a lot of scouting to be done.

Comments are welcome :-)