OK, here is the summary of my first turn.
Out of the chaos coming from the fall of the Himiko Dynasty emerges a new leader for the Japanese: the patrician despot Sulla! Japanese scholars express great confusion as to how a Roman aristocrat has gained power in ancient Japan. The Japanese scholars find their so called "logic" does not prevent Sulla from feeding them to the lions.
On to the reign of Sulla, know as the "Micromanager", as there was little else going on at this time.
(0) 2150 BC Change Osaka off of Wealth (it was on wealth because...?) to Temple. Kyoto set to produce Granary due to lack of food resorces in city radius, and to facilitate further expansion. Science cut back so we are not running a deficit. No need for luxuries at this stage in game, so they are set to 0 (I checked - they were doing absolutely nothing).
(1) 2110 BC Osaka's temple is whipped. Sulla is a bad boy
Wheat will come into city radius in 5 more turns, allowing for faster growth. Micromanaged Kyoto to get an extra shield of production.
(2) 2070 BC Osaka builds temple. Warrior disperses an Aryan encampment - apparantly they aren't as racially superior as they think.
(3) 2030 BC Nothing happens.
(4) 1990 BC Osaka regrows to 2, set to build a worker. Hope that this city will be able to pop a lot of settlers soon. Warrior exploration reveals a possible landbridge north of Kyoto - is it?
(5) 1950 BC Nothing.
(6) 1910 BC Cultural borders of Osaka expand. Landbridge is revealed to be a penninsula... beginning to suspect we are on an island here - if so, plenty of room for cities.
(7) 1870 BC Osaka builds worker - back to size 1 again (Sulla is cruel). Positive side is that now Osaka can expand to size three in fewer than 10 turns, with a fish and wheat in range. Due to lack of irrigation (sigh), worker set to mine wheat.
(8) 1830 BC Movement of troops.
(9) 1790 BC Mine near Kyoto finished, another one nearby started. Granary almost done....
(10) 1750 BC Our warrior finds a possible landbridge in the far northeast! Dyes AND horses will be within city radius of a city founded in the chokepoint. This will be a top priority city location in the future.
(11) 1725 BC Yep, that's definitely a landbridge up there. Sulla anticipating possible civ contact.
(12) 1700 BC Little happened this turn.
(13) 1675 BC Kyoto finishes Granary, starts settler. It should be able to crank them out shortly. Osaka finally gets some decent production as the first mine is finished (it's back at size 2 again).
(14) 1650 BC Barbarians appear - good, because we need money. More endless jungle spotted in north...
(15) 1625 BC Win battle against barbarians. More jungle in north.
(16) 1600 BC Looking for barb camp.
(17) 1575 BC Plains spotted far to the north.
(18) 1550 BC Kyoto builds settlers. Moving towards location for city...
(19) 1525 BC More trackless wilderness in north. Osaka getting close to settlers.
(20) 1500 BC Treasury is dangerously low. Founding new city will help, but we need to find that barb camp soon.
Sulla, now over 850 years old but mysteriously still youthful in appearance, rides off into the sunset. He built no cities and discovered no technology, but significantly improved both existing cities. The Japanese people hope that the next ruler is faced with more interesting times!
* Seriously now, we are currently behind the other civs (wherever they are
) but should be able to expand very rapidly now. I'm leaving suggestions for the next player, but giving them lots of latitude on city placement. I strongly suggest placing the settler on the red dot in this map, as it will clear the forest automatically and give us a good corruption-free site near our capital. I suggest the yellow dot for the next city; it will have 2 space overlap with capital but at this point that won't mean much and the site is excellent for another core city. Still, that will be up to the player to decide. Good luck to all!
Gomen nasai, honorable sulla.
