Dominatrix Cathy - Round 2 continued
You'll notice I founded the 2nd city from the minimap. For some reason I didn't take a screenie of that. Cathy gives me 6 strokes of the whip for being a naughty boy. The deliberate mistake was not researching fishing before founding this city, so I can't build a workboat from the off. I am bound and gagged and sent to the dungeon. I research fishing after pottery anyway, and put some hammers into a barracks here. I don't really need a granary just yet since the growth here will be fast with the floodplains and the clams.
Sury wants to do some REXing as well it looks like... not that he has much space to expand into...
He grabs the marble site, it's on a hill as well. We may have to kill him before we start work on the Great Library. Cathy is insulted.
Fishing is done, start the workboat. I had been working the floodplain for 3F1C here until now, then I switch to the clam since I still grow in 2 turns and it shaves a turn off writing, the next tech on the list. I want a lbrary in the capital to hurry along research.
I thought you needed sailing to get trade routes on rivers in BtS, but
apparently not.
Exploriing scout senses imminent danger...
But the bear obviously isn't hungry and leaves me alone. I decide to wind up some lions hoping they will attack me so I get some experience
DOH! (EDIT: note I can see that Izzy is around here as well...)
Amazingly, the scout survives 2 attacks by hordes of lions. I didn't get a screeny of that either. Back to the dungeon for me.
Meanwhile the horses are hooked up and I build a chariot with no barracks in the capital. Hopefully I can beat on some barbarians to get some XP.
Another dominant female turns up...
Could go either way, if I share her religion (although she keeps changing her mind about which one she likes best as she founds more of them), we team up and dominate the men together. Otherwise, this continent aint big enough for the 2 of us.
And someone else turns up, he's not angry yet but I'm sure he will be later on
This continent must be pretty big, it might be big enough to get domination on its own, so this could be a quick game!
Meanwhile the worker has moved to the new city and improved the horses there.
The warrior has healed now and keeps tabs on Mansa. I also decide that the workboat is taking too long to build so I revolt to slavery. Cathy needs her slaves anyway.
Pacal and Mansa are the tech leaders early game. They are both financial so there's not much surprise there
2nd worker has been busy, chopping a forest and building a cottage. I was building another settler as well, to grab the copper before Sury gets any clever ideas, so the chop again gets a bonus.
I whip the workboat. This will be whip central for a while so that's why I want a barracks, to whip units with promotions.
Focus on growth here
Writing is in, I get open borders with Sury, I want to have a look at his capital. EDIT: He doesn't like Mansa either. It's not like Mansa is boxing him into to a tiny strip of land on the west end of the continent...
I also get open borders with Izzy, hoping one of her religions will spread to me.
1800BC: Settler is finished, start on a library for the capital.
To be continued...
EDIT: hey, I just noticed Sid's tip is wrong - it says you need a library for the Heroic Epic (you need a barracks for that).