Great first round everybody!!
I'm sorry that I was unable to post a screenshot of my game. I'm sure the world has changed a great deal since then anyway.
I'm glad we were able to get to the iron source. Someday soon all of those horsemen are bound to be a mighty force of knights and later cavalry.
This had to be one of the quickest first rounds I've been involved with! If the two Swedes get a chance to play, it could mean two nights in a row of succession gaming for Kev. Not complaining
OK, my thoughts on future strategy:
1. It may not be a bad idea to flex our muscles and knock the English around a bit given our decent standing army.. With inexpensive libraries and temples, we could use a few English citizens to build culture in any captured cities. Further, I would LOVE to get a leader out of some battles for a quick wonder.
2. I would try to remain friendly with the Persians. Firstly because they seem to be decent tech buddies and second because we don't want to have to deal with immortals quite yet.
3. It may not be a bad idea to throw a temple and/or a library in some of the older cities to start boosting our culture score. Perhaps we'll be able to eventually absorb a Persian or Aztec city or two in the long run.
4. Perhaps we could have a city begin a palace in an effort to catch a wonder later on. The Great Library would be a wonderful one to get, but I fear we may not win that race. Hey, if we get the Oracle in Babylon, that would be a nice culture boost there as well.
5. This may be controversial, but we may want to look into eventually finding a way to disband Silver Forrest - like when we change governments to Democracy or Republic. I whipped up so many citizens there, and there could be a lot more whipping done over the next few turns. The happiness there is going to be a problem later in the game, and to tell the truth it may be better served if it's moved a few squares north and west. As it stands now (at least when I completed my turns), there was only a barracks there which we could sell. Disbanding wouldn't lose us any buildings then. It's not a huge deal, and others may think differently - I'm certainly not married to the idea. Don't even know if disbanding with a settler is a possibility. Oh well, we can debate this idea.
That's it. Looking forward to my next turn. Hope you all liked the Hammurabi Hood story.
