Hi, finished the first round on turn 112. Here's what happened.
Settled the capital on turn 2 1N of the gold, then the scout pop'ed the hut for gold.
The build order in the capital went worker -> warrior -> warrior -> warrior -> warrior -> scout -> warrior (3turns to go).
The worker went FP -> wine -> partial FP -> copper -> finished FP -> gold and is now on a FP waiting to start.
Teching went Crafting (then poped from hut) -> Mining -> (Exploration from hut) -> mining -> Calendar.
The warrior went NW then W and South along the edge of the known map, he met a scout from this guy on turn 9:
After him the warrior went south and spied someones borders to the west, i didn't send him investigate as i wanted him back in the capital, which was build a worker at the time.
The scout followed in the warriors wake popping the first hut for the gold already metioned, the second hut for Crafting and the third hut for a map. This revealed a area to the NW, which looked cold, dull and empty, so i sent the scout NW then SW to fill in some gaps and to come down from the north onto the nearby civ, who turned out to be:
I spotted a lizard man sitting on a ruin next to her capital so took a wide berth around him heading south. Took advantage of a tower just south of Os-gabella to have a look around, spotted the mirrior of heaven just to the south, so ran up to that. The mirrior show a big area of map all the way to the jungle and a village. So took a cautious route to the village as there was a tiger hanging around, still got attacked by a griffon though, which i somehow killed. Got to the village which gave me some more gold, then the tiger turned up, so a legged it west. Got attacked again near the pool of tears which i could just see the label of. So took a gamble that i wouldn't be attacked and went to the pool to heal. From the pool i headed a little west, didn't see the elohim then, and headed north looking for the dwarfs. Got attacked again, retreated to the pool, then headed back north, found the dwarfs and carried on north following the coast. Found a couple of dungeons then a village which i popped for:
After that headed East along the snow line, found bridgit in the ring of carcer, popped a dungeon for the jade torc, dodged some bears and connected up with the areas already explored north of Gabella. Then i headed south down the western side of Gabella's turf and back past the pool. Soon found the elohim:
and started to head east along the bottom of the jungle. Soon ran in to trouble. Had to dodge a gaint spider, then ran into a lizard who almost killed me. the scout retreated eastward thanks to withdrawal promo. Only to run into a wolf coming the other way. I couldn't move in any direction that got me clear so i thought: right he going to die, might as well move to see as much as possible, and saw this before he got eaten:
a barb gargoyle! the only place that could of come from is the pristin pass, which means that somewhere, not far enough away, to the south some one disturbed the prisin pass and unleashed a horde of gargoyles.
This is when a decided to slip in a scout into the build queue so i could send him to explore east along the coast, but at the moment he is having trouble getting past a gorilla there that keeps chasing me off
. I have sent a warrior off north to explore the NE corner, where he has found the letum frigus, which i got a event urging me to claim it for some reason.
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Here is the known world at the present:
At the moment my city is 3 turns rom finishing a warrior, after that i am thinking a worker to help connect the gold and build other roads. That should knock up the happiness cap by another 1. Should we keep that in reserve or build an other warrior and wait for the next pop.? Warriors take 6 turns to build, workers 10, settlers 36 at the moment. But we still have one more tile to farm and agarianism to flip to.
What is the tech order from now? At the moment it is on AChants, so we can build monuments to pop borders, but after that? Should we go for archery for defense or AH to wok tiles. or BW for axes, or mysticism for eldar councils. And where to build more cities? Here are the views around the capital for dot mapping:
To the north:
To the south:
and to the west:
Look forward to your responses and dotmaps.