COTM 108
Settler west sees the wheat, worker north. Next turn move worker north and consider to move another two turn for the coast tile NW of the wheat. But then decide against it and settle on the tobacco in turn 2. after seeing the lands, i wished i had wandered further…
Start on Pot, build an initial settler
3500 get 25g from the hut on border expansion. See wine and 2nd wheat
3350 meet Portus, they have Alpha but wont accept TW for it. Yet.
3250 first settler out
3200 decide to trade TW+5gpt+3g for Alpha, even though that seems to be a very steep price… start on Wri
3050 found 2nd town SW of 2nd wheat, S-SE-SE of capital
2800 meet France (i still have no troops), they and Ports are now up Mas and BW. Good they have techs, but of course now it looks better i would not have made the TW deal.
2630 gran in capital
2510 see horses in the south
2430 first settler from factory; warrior-settler combo factory from here on!
2390 curragh as first military unit built 
2310 see French curragh, a rare sight
2270 first barb camp, lucky they did not come earlier
2230 Ports have 160+ gold, how come?
2150 see gems in the south
1990 meet Korea and can make a fine deal: TW+CB for BW, WC, 2 slaves and 35g. they also have IW
1910 strategically build a town by the gems, securing those and horses. Connect first lux to all towns (except the new one)
1830 found 5th town S-S-SW of cap
1725 horses connected; Writing in. 2 slaves look too juicy, trade Wri fort hem+HB+112g with Portus; 91g+Mas with France; IW+25g with Korea
1650 N-NE-NE-NE
1625 2nd gran finished
1575 find iron to the north
1350 gems connected
1225 Philo in, not early enough to get Rep. Someone on the other continent got it first.
Abandon game.
again, the remaining time won´t be enough for me to finish the game. so i decided to sink no more time into this. currently cannot see how i could participate in the XOTM.
other than the lost SS, i was far ahead in everything. no idea how the other continent managed to get Philo. but surely there was some fast and sloppy playing on my side.
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