Indiansmoke
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So our intentions will be to try to ally with the other teams against the Dutch and the Vikings then?
What if these two civilizations are our closest neighbors? (Just trying to visualize a possibility that we probably should make contingencies for just in case...) Or to make it worse .. if the map is a big central landmass with 6 small islands around containing the 6 teams - what if we have the Dutch as our closest neighbor at one side, and the Vikings at the other?
Nothing is certain yet of course, but Viking and Dutch have some advantages due to their UB's. I would certainly avoid allying with the Dutch at all cost since late game they will have much better production than us and hence we will lose any peacefull winning condition (space, culture). The Vikings though might prove usefull ally...