viper275 said:
SGL: TGL sounds good.
War with Spain: The odds are highly against us at Madrid. It's walled and on a hill, adding a 100% defense bonus to the defenders, plus it's fortified, adding 25% more. Either send lots of units or go elsewhere (would we ge able to go over it?)
The bunny must have been in charge when I read this, I didn;t register the odds, so not knowing it was impossible, I did it fine. (translation: send enough swords, and all will be good, provided you use sufficiently high values of 'enough')
Pre-turn: Copernicus unpacks his reading material at the Idiot Academy. There's a rumour that the library is so great because copernicus' reading material consists of an extensive playboy back catalogue, but it is unconfirmed.
IBT: Get nervous at the spanish galleys cruising past our undefended cities
530BC: GLib built, we check out what's there for ourselves. The articles are really good.
Gift polytheism to Abe hoping to speed up us getting monarchy
510BC: Seville goes boom.
490BC: Beef, wheat and a canal all come together at Suez Steak Sandwich, our newest Idiot outpost
470BC: Swords continue to
rush plod towards madrid
450BC; In the depths of the library, we discover a large X marking a spot. We don't know what's there, but as we try and puzzle it out, a thought occurs: If we put Xes where we've been (and can tell left from right), we'll be able to go there again. Others call it map making. We also learn how to carry on wars for millenia, all based upon what great aunt Bella said about our Sharon at Abe's wedding. aka feuding.
More swords join the party outside madrid
430BC: That's some party. 6 spanish & 5 german units disappear somewhere, never to be seen again. Madrid is left with a redlined spear and a redlined sword
410: Get-rid of Mad-rid
Make happy with Bella for now, she hands over Vitoria and 30 gold.
I get a laugh out of the (Idiot) next to our cities, as the silly looking 1 tile creek W of the city means the name now appears as:
<---That's not a river (idiot)
Teach Bella about this feuding concept, and we tentatively agree to go back to open warfare a bit later. In return, she tells us about us being in sole charge of the empire (I thought we were already?). We party hard at the thought of this unrivalled power, and Copernicus emerges from his library temporarily to proclaim "You idiots are revolting!" We'll be an anarchy for 8 turns.
390: Yet another curragh drowns, I rename a galley as "I've got floaties" to help with the exploration
370: It works!!
350: For one turn anyway. Galley drowns, "I've got floaties too" and "I've got sinkies" are still alive.
We have a spare combat settler, there wasn't space by the ruins of madrid to put a city in without rubbing borders with Bella, which sounds almost as wrong as it is, and would put us right back to war. Also equipped 7 swordsmen with nice looking maces, the next war should go straight to Barcelona and steal the great wall. Bella's iron is hidden under salamanca, that should be the other target. This write-up got sillier than planned, but at least there haven't been any shrubbery requests (yet). I blame lack of sleep. That and the voices.
Save the shrubberies!
at the new avatar.
Nah, nonsense 
