Sorry for being late. I played the game, I just couldn't finish the report.
I played 8 turns to even turn count (it read 72 or something...)
01: I looked around. The Settler I have been left was the dramatic decision of the day. If I settle on the plains hill, I get two incenses and a lot of production, but with an absolute lack of any food resources.
So I moved 1NW, to get horses, sugar, pigs and one incense (which is a crappy tile anyway). It will provide us with some good production methinks and let us grow this city... and it will give us horses (Anyone for a Cavalry whoopass?)... So yeah, let's settle here.
In the interturn, our mighty Axeman slays his barbarian, outdated foe: a Warrior.
02:
*yawn* I just signed OB with other AIs, even those never met. (i.e: those we aren't aware of their position on the map)
03: Here's the shot at Lyons:
Given the fact that the best tile is a plains forest, I ask the city to work the tile and go for Monument to boost culture so we can use the worker.
Paris finishes it's Library, and Orleans - an Axeman. Orleans switches to Worker (we start losing money because of military units, so start taking care of the economy). I switch Paris to... Monument. Quite strange, but we are Charismatic and Paris already is on it's happy cap. It will take us 3 turns to finish the Monument. Grow, grow, grow.
4: Look there:
One of us planted a Road from our city to the tile. The problem is, we see Incan culture over there. If we are to get this site (Fish+Marble+two hills, if I am not mistaken!), we have to go after Huayna, and, sigh, raze the city.
5: I do not have to do anything with the Workers. One of them goes for Lyons to make a route to the capital. The other worker... Yeah, I decided to road the silk and some other tiles. When barbarians come knocking, I just don't like to lose the improvement because I came short on movement points.
6: Monument in Paris finished! Worker started.
7:
8: The barbarians are coming from the west... In order to secure our capital, I allow myself to move the Axeman to the west to Paris. Worker finished in Orleans, we start on an Axeman.
And that's all, folks. (music from Looney Tunes unavailable)
Roster:
1: Winth - FINALLY played.
2: mystyfly - UP NOW ("I pity the fool who comes next into the roster!").
3: pigswill - ON DECK
4: Ralph_Jackson
5: Sweetacshon - sleeping.
Question: How we will run an economy? The land around us is so food poor, and to the North there are Egyptians, so we are in a race to get the land.