Clash of civilizations: team game

[strijder20]

Hello!
I've decided to start a new story as the save of my last story mysteriously disappeared, meaning I'll have to replay 10 turns
And no, I can't find the auto-save either.
This game is a team game. There are three teams, consisting of 5 players each.
One team consists of a bunch of psycho's and slightly-less-psycho's. They all have the aggressive trait.
Another team shares the protective trait, mainly as a buffer for the aggressive leaders.
And the third team consists of leaders which don't have either of those traits, including me!
I am Willem van Oranje of the Portuguese. My buddies are Joao of the Dutch ( indeed, we swapped civs ) , Huayna Capac of the Ottomans, Zara Yacob of France and last and certainly least, Brennus of the Celts.
Yep, unrestricted leaders is on! This means we'll encounter Monteh's whipped legions, protective Chu-Ko-Nu's powered up by a totem pole and worse!
And before I forget to mention it: it's a huge map, fractal, normal speed and my difficulty is Monarch (although this will be compensated by the teching of my team members).

This is the starting position:

Looks... nice
A little voice in my head shouts: Pyramids! Representation! Pacifism! National Epic!
Should I move 1N, swapping a grassland forest for a plain wine, a coast for a clam, a floodplain for a forested plains hill, a coast (possible with seafood) for a forested grassland?

Capac's start: looks acceptable.

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Joao's start: pity he hasn't got access to the ocean.

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Zara's start is nice, but he is very likely not on our continent - he might die

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And here is Brennus.

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Should I move one tile to the north or not?

EDIT: I'VE DECIDED TO PUT THIS STORY ON HALT UNTIL I HAVE FINISHED MY OTHER STORY.

 

[Yoshiegg737]

Zara's gonna die

 

[inohotep]

well, i dont think you should've cause then you wouldn't get the fish (witch is more valulable than the clams) and the extra wine seems usless

great start though, seafood, goodie hut, and flood plains...too good
you didn't cheat did you?

 

[hoplitejoe]

I would go 1 north so you have more land to work.

 

[strijder20]

Well, seeing there is some interest in this story anyway, I decided to do a write-up.
I took no screenshots, though :S I'm in the Modern Era now, building space-ship parts.

The people of Lisbon founded their first city. Seeing the lush, fertile ground and the sea full of life, they thought:
"Omg! This is an excellent GP farm!"
So they named their city Lis-Bon, which is GP-farm in Portuguese.
Soon they found out other people inhabited their continent. The Portuguese, proud of their nation and fierce warriors, tried to attack them, but when a Portuguese weapon was about to hit a Celtic, Dutch or Ottoman head, it rebounded. So there was a forced peace between those four nations.
There was a fifth member of the Alliance: Zara Yacob of the French. Despite him being isolated on an island far, far away, the Lisbonians could miraculously see his lands and cities by telepathy.

A Dutch Galley sailed far beyond the safe waters of Utrecht, a Dutch harbour city. Then it saw a weird, yellow line in the sea. Their first thought was : "Oh no! Fallout! And we haven't got ecology yet!" but after looking through their pre-optics telescope they could see a city in the distance.
A man teleported on their boat and said :
'Greetings, I am Mao Zedong. Do you want to have a copy of my Red Book?'
The crew was awed, as neither Literature nor Printing Press had been invented yet, but still this Holy Roman being managed to create copied Books.
Then four more men/gods teleported on their boat: Hammu-rabbi, a follower of the Jewish faith, Qin Shi Huang, who had facial features which reminded of Mao Zedong, despite their empires and people separated by thousands of kilometres, King Kon (his first name was Wang, but he preferred the title 'King') and Church-ill, an atheistic fellow.

Those men warned the sailors for a mighty alliance of crazy warmongers to the south, who attacked anyone they saw, cut off their fingers, toes, and other parts, and then the skull open and ate the brain (while the poor victims were still alive!). The sailors promptly sailed south.
There they met the Gengsharagmonalexandrian alliance, the worst enemy of former alliance.

The five friends stayed in peace with the bigger continent for a long, long time. The wise Willem van Oranje (me) pointed out that a beeline to optics would allow early expanding overseas due to his UU, the carrack. Despite the rest of them not understanding what he was talking about, a beeline to Optics was made, allowing the claim of a smaller continent to the north. Four mighty cities were found there.

After six thousand years, scientists finally agreed on a name for the black liquid near their cities: oil. This misteriously allowed faster completion of buildings and faster training of units in nearby cities.
After another hundred years of research, the scientists realised they could extract this oil by putting it in a bucket. This allowed the construction of huge metal warships.
The warmongerian alliance, seeing the riches of the other continent, decided to launch an invasion. Many of their ships were blasted, but most still reached the shores (because the huge warships were somehow only able to shoot one ship down in two years). One soldier, however, caught a cold, and after an enemy catapult launched a flaming missile to him, melting the cold, the two alliances decided peace should be made because of this noble and merciful act.
The wise Willem knew that if a spaceship reached some star nearby, his alliance would obtain dominance of Earth. So he beelined to techs allowing him to build spaceship parts.
The spaceship was launched and Willem was declared King of All Kings, despite the fact he wasn't in hereditary rule anymore.

NOTE: I decided not to write up this story properly, because it was WAY too easy (and boring). I was producing twice as much beakers as the second member in my team, despite the production and commerce bonuses. I'll probably do this again, but on Deity and Pangaea, to spice things up.

Lisbon. Great city, enormous amount of food, state property water mills. And NO, I didn't cheat with world builder. This is my best start I've ever got, by the way.
Pity I'm not running representation.
That's 12 scientist run there - w/o a food corp

The empire twenty turns before the Space Ship was launched.
The two other alliances had been a war a few times, but without notable consequences.

 

[Mosher]

That start reminds me of Nidaros on a game Dhoom, me, and Ilduce played...


Got Nidaros from size 4 to size 22 in 20 turns... before 1500 AD.

 

[inohotep]

so, the story's over, right?

and are you going to put the diety story on this thread or another?

 

[strijder20]

so, the story's over, right?

and are you going to put the diety story on this thread or another?

Yep.
And I'll put it on this thread.
I hope I get another amazing start like that

 

[inohotep]

well, on diety, you need a start like that