Here is the log up to 90AD. I would post a log in either case. Not a lot of change to the map.
Pre:
Well I have run across a couple of games where Overseer714 was trying to complete SG's that had gone cold. I agree with him that it is often sad to see them go away, so I have jumped in a few times to help finish them.
So stumbling across the reference to Civ2 ToT, I looked for it and will start the ball rolling. The game had not gone very far, so Overseer714 this is not call for you to complete it. I am just playing out some turns, in the event you do want some help to get it done.
I have not read the logs, but check on the conditions and it seems Conquest and Space are the desired ones. I would expect that Conquest would come before Space and will proceed on that basis.
My first move was to find the nation the farthest away and get an embassy with them (Japan). I paid 56 gold. I went with only them in the event that the game finds the other eliminated. I like to have a couple of embassies in the event of war.
This will let you steal, if need be. No embassy and war means no steals. It could come to pass that stealing will not occur, but just in case 56 gold is not a bad price.
Not too happy with the location of Buceopolis or Delphi, but those are the breaks. I would rather it was either next to the lake or first choice the hill on the river. Then Delphi on the other side of the river. Anyway I am not going to spend time on stuff I can do nothing about.
The builds I will have to study as I do not grasp the need for all eight towns to make war items at a time when we are at peace. Was war under consideration?
BTW I held off on embassy with Cleo to see what the rest of the world looks like over there. I would prefer to go with the nation that is the most likely to last.
I guess the boat was sunk as none are available to finish the mapping and we have no town on that side of the water. Will need to plant a town that can get a boat out and search. Argos is so far away from the unknown, I am not sure if it is worth it.
We seem to have a lot of troops as if a war was coming. I do not see why we would want to start one at this time. We do not have Iron. Japan is way too far away. Carthage has BW, so they will have Nums. IOW I do not see how we can press a war right now, so why all the warriors and archers?
Top four towns:
Athens 0/7
Buce 1/5
Sparta 1/5
Knossos 1/4
I rename Buceopolis to save me stokes and all that know the name, will get the reference.
Now where can we make wonders? We for sure want SoZ and maybe GLIB. We have two nations making the Oracle, so a rollover could occur, if either can make them when the Oracle finishes. It may be that no one has Ivory, not looked to see.
Anyway Athens is the only place that can grow past size 6 right now. I am going to take radical action for me. I switch Buce to a settler and sell the barracks. I will pop out the settler and move the town to the lake.
We need more towns that can become cities and we will not give up much and actually gain a few tiles for other towns.
Sparta will have to do for one site. I will get the cow mined as shields is more useful to me right now.
Pharsalos, rename to Phar and switch to worker. I do not want more regular archers as I do not intend to take on Nums with archers. Hannibal will send them to attack us and we will have to combat them. Not like Hops, that are attack one. Switch to wall as this is a town that will come under attack, when war breaks out.
I want to get a town on the hill to block access for Hannibal so I switch archer to settler in Knossos. I am not sure where the settler is headed. I would guess to get the ivory, but I will send it to the hill. I can get the ivory next.
I do not know if Hannibal has already crossed the area, but I want to be able to block him. I switch Athens from archer to temple. You need a temple in any capitol to build large projects and get larger.
I sent an archer and a hop from the newly rename Therm to the hill location and to cover the new town north of Therm.
875BC (1):
I stop the settler northward to make sure it went to the nearest hill. A Japanese warrior shows up, will see if a price is paid for sending out a settler with no escort. I did not check on the barb settings.
850BC (2):
Found Myce and start a worker in 10. Yahoo, now we have cut off that end. I disband a 3/3 archer, just to get down the maint and I do not want regular archers for more than MP duty. I envision this becoming a Monarchy and playing out as an AW, but that is not certain right now.
825BC:
Note that all the contacts have Math so the cost drops for us. We have no techs on them at this time.
800BC (3):
Found Herak. I did not abandon Buce as I wanted to let the settler get in place. This way I do not lose the support. One will replace the other next turn. I have a worker in Buce to make a road then.
775BC (4):
Found Buce after abandonment of the old one. All towns on the grid.
750BC (5):
Math next turn. Hannibal started GLIB and the Colossus was completed. I hope the Oracle finishes as that would stop any rollover. Cleo started the Pyramids.
I started GLIB in Athens, but it is working tiles with no roads, let alone a mine. I started FP in Sparta, which could be use for SoZ as well.
730BC (6):
I forgot to mention a barb showed up by the Iron. I opt to start on Poly to get to Monarchy.
Hannibal start Pyramids, hope he gets it.
710BC (7):
I spot an Egyptian warrior out on the far north. I had forgot about the warrior out there, so I disband it.
630BC (11):
Found Thess, need to get a road to the ivory.
610BC (12):
France finished the Pyramids, so we shall see what that means. We still have not gotten contact with a number of nations.
590BC (13):
There it is, Hannibal wants 33 gold, I say come and pry it out of my cold dead hands. DOW follows.
570BC (14):
Too many events, need an event log ala IV. I recall that Japan finished the Oracle. Japan started ToA and Cleo started MoM. We are falling behind everyone at this point. The lack of contact with the others slows research, which I will have to stop once I get Monarchy. We are just too slow.
Japan had two units about to enter our land, not sure if I will oppose that or not.
530BC (16):
I demanded they leave and they did.
