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This is interesting, great start, the game has a lot of potential.

As you are playing on cheiftan, I'm guessing you're a noob, here is some constructive critisism, (I hope you take it like it anyway) you should research pottery first, and build a granary before settlers, as it doubles the rate that you build them. Build a barracks as a prebuild (something you begin constructing for shields you'll use for something else once you have the tech) and once pottery is done, build the granary.

But since you're militaristic, barracks are cheap, and if you'll build it before pottery is done, build a spearman or warrior first.

Welcome to CFC! [party]

Thanks. I hope to find that helpful.

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BUILD CITIES! Expan, expand and expand. I never build wonders that early in the game. I always create a granary in my capital and then start pumping out settelers to colonize as much as possible. When Bergen finished their spearman you should build a settler there. And Trondheim should always create settlers.

But good story, i will follow this one. And get berzerkers asap plz, they rock!

Wow. Thanks. I think I'm going to start over. And I don't think I'm going to use pictures.

kinda cool.

remember, no need for wonders, let your AI waste their sheilds, then take them. Same effects just no culture. Otherwise build settlers and build on that river

Thanks. These tips are very helpful.

The Vikings

Settings

World: Huge, roaming barbarians, continents, normal climate, temperate, 4 billion years old
Civilization: Scandinavia, default rules, 7 random rivals, normal aggression, chieftain

Chapter I: Becoming a Civilization

Throughout history, Vikings had been thought of as ruthless barbarians who had no cultural understanding or civilized thinking. As scientists and archaeologists are finding more and more about this civilization, they are also learning that the Vikings were more advanced than portrayed throughout the media. The Vikings have surely earned the title of a culturally advanced civilization. I’m here to tell you about the great Scandinavian civilization.

The Vikings arose when a man named Lodbrok (most sources specify his first name as Ragnar) was tired of living as a nomad and he was tired of living in tents, moving with the animals, uncivilized communities, and the small villages he lived on. He was tired!

Lodbrok: I’m tired!

He summoned eight people (a worker, a settler, and six advisors) to follow him in his quest for civilization. The first advisor, Kim, was the domestic advisor. The next advisor, Sally, was advisor of trade. The third, Chad, was skilled in military affairs. The fourth was Kevin, the foreign advisor. The fifth, Connie, was the cultural advisor. And the last was Ben, the science advisor.

So they searched for thousands of years (actually just a couple of days) for the utopian place to build their capital city. They soon found a place near lots of grapes, the ocean, and a river. So they built their city there. Much dispute went on about the name. A squirrel tried to carve “Please be quiet” on a tree, but the people read it as “Trondheim”, so they called it that.

Consequential to building the city on grapes, they could make wine. This “wine” was a drink that most people enjoyed. So it made the citizens happy. Lodbrok liked this, so he made the worker go build a road to the other sources of wine. The roads were named after the worker, John Road. But over time the word “Road” has become “road”.

As the worker labored over the wine roads, a warrior was born! He was sent into the vast unknown. Meanwhile, back at the palace:

Kim: You have a guest, sir.

Lodbrok: Send him in, please.

Bede: Hello, your highness.

Lodbrok: Greetings! Who are you and what is your purpose here?

Bede: My name is Bede and I am an historian. I have finished my book: The Most Powerful Nations of the World

Lodbrok: Catchy title. May I see it?

Bede: Certainly.

Lodbrok opened the book. Inside was a list:

1) The Glorious Vikings
2) The Great Mongols
3) The Fine Japanese
4) The Mediocre French
5) The Puny Spanish
6) The Pathetic Dutch
7) The Hopeless Koreans
8) The Forgotten Chinese

As Lodbrok read this, a smile came to his face. He was number one!

Lodbrok: Thank you, Bede. You have brought joy to me. May I keep this book.

Bede: Certainly, your highness.

The man walked out.

A trained shipbuilder and able-bodied seaman, Lars, was sent on an expedition of the unknown lands in a curragh. The warrior and the curragh were exploring the unknown lands. Lodbrok was really hoping to find one of these civilizations mentioned in Bede’s book. The warrior had reached a small village, where the Burgundian tribe taught him ceremonial burial.Ceremonial burial spread throughout Trondheim. Ceremonial burial gave the Vikings the first iota of religion. Rites and other religious ideas spread throughout the land.

Meanwhile, back in the palace, a man came to Lodbrok.

Tacitus: Hello, your highness.

Lodbrok: Hello. You must be an historian. If your like Bede, I will thank you and praise you. Anyway, let me see.

Lodbrok looked at the cover which read, “The Largest Nations of the World”. He opened it up and there was a list:

1) The Glorious Mongols
2) The Great Koreans
3) The Fine Japanese
4) The Mediocre Dutch
5) The Puny Spanish
6) The Pathetic Chinese
7) The Hopeless French
8) The Forgotten Vikings

Oh boy, was Tacitus in for it. Lodbrok is probably the sorest loser ever! One time he chased someone out of his barbarian village, just for being the first person to make fire. Same thing with the wheel. Ragnar chased Tacitus all the way out of Trondheim. He never saw Tacitus again.

Finally, a settler was sent to build a city. Ragnar ordered the settler to build somewhere on the river. He found this helpful in Trondheim. So, a settler and an archer moved along the river to a nice spot. The city was named Bergen (the consequence of another squirrel’s bad handwriting). It was a decent little city. Bergen was at the edge of the river also.

After much searching, the warrior finally saw a border. He moved in closer and found the Spanish. Kevin informed Ragnar on this. Ragnar hired a local boy, Sven to be his messenger. After about a month or so, Sven came with a message:

Sven: Message from Isabella of the Spanish: “Who are you and what is your business with Isabella, ruler of the Spanish.

Lodbrok: Their leaders a female! Ha! That must be a joke.

Kim: Excuse me?!

Lodbrok: Sorry. Sven, tell Isabella we are interested in trade.

Sven: Yes, sir. By the way, how much am I getting paid?

Lodbrok: We haven’t even discovered currency yet!

Sven sped out of the palace. For the next few months, he ran back and forth, but no deal was made. The Vikings had more cities, more technology, and more military units. Obviously, Lodbrok didn’t want to trade with them.

A settler accepted the job to build another city. Lodbrok wanted it built someplace that has been discovered, so they moved north. This time, a squirrel did not influence the name of this city. It was influenced by a squirrel and a seagull (which was really quite amusing to watch). The town’s name was Copenhagen (said to be named after some seagull god or something).

yeah that is cool!