Well it has been an interesting set of turns, eventhou i played only 15 and that i am not sure of the outcome... well, check below and judge by yourselves.
Turn 0
Here's a peek at the world view around the Vikings with other civs location
This picture was taken after building...
... Uppsala!!
Turn 1
Sent the worker on a chop mission before wheel comes in...
Since i had to wait for 1 turn before wheel, i decided to spend only a turn on chopping before sending the worker to build a road between our 2 cities. Although, i started to chop on turn 2 and moved the worker on road working on turn 3
IT-- Hatsheput is now Hindu, joining with Asoka in their quest for spirituality... we may consider converting to keep em on our side, or destroy them both since Hatsheput will become a pain in the *ss soon.
Turn 2
Archer built in Nidaros, promoting him with CR1 for capital defense purpose.
Going for a 3rd settler since stone isnt online yet and cant work on a wonder.
IT-- Judaism was FIADL
Turn 3
"By the hammer of Thor! This new tool helps us moving things without using our warrior strength!!" We got wheels...
Going for Mysticism for monuments since we will need it to repel egyptian borders.
And now the worker is building a road from the cow to Uppsala.
IT-- Isabella goes for OR
Turn 4
Hmmm, this doesn't look good...
Let's hope the monument after the worker will pop soon enough to help us keep our borders.
Turn 5
ZZzzz...
Turn 6
The cows are online! Road goes on to Uppsala...
IT-- Stonehenge is BIAFAL
Turn 7
Nothing much really...
Turn 8
"Is that smoke we see over that hill chief?
-Aye it is! Start recruiting children and train them! I want arrows raining down on that weak barbarian city! Oh, and send our courageous archers there to scout and attack their wandering thieves!"
Sending the unpromoted archer on the hill north of the south barb city.
Turn 9
"Arg, they saw our archers leaving Chief!!
-By the Great Gods! Call them back! They are invading us!"
Nidaros
Uppsala
Good thing i brought the archer back...
IT-- Barbarian Warrior attacks Uppsala, but our Archer prevails!
Turn 10
"Chief! A dark man came by last night and told us about the Great Gods. They will be on our side if we feed him with cows and if we give him women.
-Do as he says! We don't want our Gods to be angered!"
Mysticism found! Going for Masonry, we need stones to throw them on barbs!
Promoting Uppsala's archer with CR1
Barbarian warrior near Nidaros has destroyed our Rice farm
Barbarian archer moves in forest west of river
Moving our Archer on hill north of barb archer
IT-- Barbarian archer moves on our cow (oh no you won't!!)
Turn 11
"Chief, our cows are being hunt by the barbarians!!
-Well tell our archers to shoot them from uphill!"
"Chief, our sorcerer says it is because the Great Odin has blessed our archers that they saved the cows!
-Sacrifice a 100 of them then..."
"Oh and Chief, some Uppsalaian are reporting more Egyptian activities... we captured a messenger from Egypt and discovered this... bird, bird, eye, snake, eye, bird, snake, snake.
-Ermm... kill the messenger, and send children to scout their lands
-Sir, all the children are being trained as archers...
- "
We need a monument soon, but im letting a few turns on that worker... it will be easier to grow uppsala when the rice will be farmed.
Turn 12
Promoting archer "Odin" to guerilla 1
"Chief! Odin isn't back at Nidaros yet, what should we do?
-Send our defending archer and kill those invaders!"
"Chief, the men saw Thor fall from the sky and they say he burned the barbarians with lightning and crushed the remains with his mighty hammer. He also joined forces with us!
-Great, ask him to come defend our city, i will prepare women and food for his return. Sacrifice 100 cows in his honor!"
(BTW, research is set to 70% with 0gpt)
Turn 13
Promoting archer Thor with CR2
"Chief, Uppsala is starting to speak like the Egyptians... all we hear there is bird, snake, snake, eye, bird, bird!!"
"Chief, we spotted a barbarian city to the north, we are surrounded!"
Turn 14
Sending Archer Odin back to the hill north of SBC (south barb city)
Turn 15
Settler ready in Nidaros
"Chief, our children are old enough to become real archers!
-Train them hard, we might need to whip them to learn faster
-Oh and chief, another invader has been spotted South East of Nidaros!
-Send back Odin to protect us!!!"
Sending Odin back on the hill near river at Nidaros
So this end my turns, i wanna leave the rest for suggestions since i dont really know where to build that 3rd city, although ive put 3 viking dots where we could build our next city.
Our worker has almost finished the road
Here is our world view at the end of my turns, 5 turns away from Masonry, 70% research and an invading archer close by
We are dead last in everything, normal for an emperor game with vikings
(next post)
Nidaros is going angry next turn, you might consider whipping the archer for 2 pop or wait a turn and sacrifice 1 pop for him, or even switch to a worker and whip him out. Uppsala worker will be up in 7 turns.
Here is Nidaros infos at the end of my turns.
(next post)
That's all, let's build up military now to bring the SBC down and move them toward Egypt.
We are now in 1480 BC.