Hi guys,
my internet provider decided this was a good time to f*k up the connections. I'm now on a limited modem connection so I need to keep it short. I played my turns without being able to read all the good advice and it shows...
Here's what is written in the annals of the great Japanese people about the years between 3500BC-3050BC.
pre-turn
It is said that in the year 3500BC our great ancestrial city would expand it great cultural influence over the fields where our great-great-grandfathers worked to bring water from the rivers over the lands. All was well. The bravest of our people went exploring the lands surrounding our magnificent capital, that was still like a village then.
turn 1, 3500BC
The borders did expand in this year, the people got to know the great grey beast with the valuable teeth. They made plans to make some use of this magnificent creature. More brave people went away, leaving those that stayed behind some luxeries, to still their pain, believing that the money invested would yield more by the greater knowledge. The waters are alive with even bigger beasts, heralding deep waters.
turn 2, 3450BC
Our first exploration team so huts from the mountaintop. They thought it wise to only report this, and leave it for a later, more strong team and better defenses installed in the beloved homecity. Our third team would be ready in the near future, they did not need all the shields so the people moved from the forest to the green field.
turn 3, 3400BC
Our third great braves came to be, so the people turned their energies to building a structure to keep the food longer. Wise men believed this would be of great benefit. Since the people had a few of the braves guarding them the luxeries where saved again.
turn 4, 3350BC
Planners computed optimal yield by working the wheat and the green shield yielding fields, not a grain would be lost, and growth was expected in three turns. The braves dared even further, the new team also saw huts, the instructions remained although some of the enthousiastic young braves had to be stopped: "Curb your curiosity, our workers are of too great a value to be lost, you'll see some action one day, I promise".
In the flood plains roads were ordered.
turn 5, 3300BC
Our western away team found flagrant incenses, more flood plains, wheat and black and white spotted herds.
turn 6, 3250BC
Our eastern team spotted wonderfully coloured, thin threads which would hold great value when used well.
turn 7, 3200BC
Our numbers grew to 60.000. 10% procent of Luxeries came available to the hardworking people, still leaving an income of 6 gold per turn, adding to our growing wealth. More of the 'silks' as the threads were dubbed showed in the western forests. The workers were sent to the green, shield yielding grasses.
turn 8, 3150BC
The workers for the first time in those days started to mine for extra shields, as the need for quicker production was apparant even in those early years when our people were still innocent of the existence of other great nations.
turn 9, 3100BC
It was in this year that the emperor harakiri'ed. The light blue borders showed and it was only then that our people realized, they had seen the strangely coloured men before. They did not negotiate with these people in all of those turns. Some people heard his last words "but I could not consult the gods, the heavens were concealed to me" but this was the only thing that is recorded of this black page in the history of our great recoverance. Not all was lost, our braves went on in search of other nations that would share their knowledge and our hopes where the cost would go down.
The in those days great Americans had:
- access to incense
- 35 gold
- Bronze working
- Masonry
- Warrior Code
3 cities
and were (altough ever so rightly annoyed) ready to sell either BW or WC but not Masonry.
turn 10, 3050BC
Eastern away team finds a big jungle.
