In a nutshell, no new cities, two settlers on tap. We've met the Mongols, and Sumerians. We're even in tech with both America and Mongols. Philosophy due in 18. My notes...
2150 BC...
Switch Pyongyang from temple to Curragh due in 7 to explore the coast. Seoul kept on warrior for scouting. We'll have to watch the south for Barbs. We'll switch to granary afterwards. Both workers are building roads.
[1] 2110 BC Move settler escort onto hill and reveal another goody hut. Move settler onto tile next to river, where he'll settle next turn. MM Seoul to push out warrior in one.
[2] 2070 BC Seoul warrior -> granary. Worker finishes road and starts irrigate wheat. Original Seoul defense corp moves out to explore north. New warrior heads south.
Wonson founded, starts warrior. Spear pops hut SE of Wonson and a friendly tribe gives us maps of about three squares of sea. Our spear rejoices. Western warrior explores.
We still can't research any faster, so we are pulling in 6gpt.
IBT... Abe doesn't appreciate exploring warriors... Moving along...
[3]2030 BC Road to cows SE of Pyongyang is complete. We'll mine it for now. When we do get around to expanding Pyongyang, we can irrigate, but we need the production right now.
90 % sci cuts the research by two now, 0 gpt. Done. I think twice on Wonson's warrior build and switch to spear.
[4] 1990 BC Our wandering spear heads back. Abe now has iron working! Where did he get that? He may have self researched as his gold pile is the same. He's not interested in temple construction...
[5] 1950 BC Exploring coast south of Seoul reveals furs. Nice. A future fishing village will pull those in. A barb shows up between along river between Pyongyang and Seoul.
Max sci to cut writing to 16 turns. O gpt again.
IBT... no barb attack.
[6] 1910 BC Seoul worker completes irrigation, moves south to mine irrigated grass for prod. Exploring north of New York, our warrior climbs a moutain to reveal another cow, and fur. A bit far for now...
IBT... Pyongyang builds Curragh -> Spear.
[7] 1870 BC Curragh heads north. NY explorer reveals more furs. Okay, now Abe has contact. He picked up the wheel, ceremonial burial, and warrior code and some gold.
. Abe isn't interested in gifting some tech.
[8] 1830 BC We poach the barb and our warrior goes elite.
[9] 1790 BC Pyongyang worker finishes moo-mine, starts mining BG to west.
[10] 1750 BC Our Elite warrior finds barb camp on river. MM Seoul, still grow in 1, but cut three turns off granary. Okay, bad move on my part. Pyongyang grows to three and will riot next turn. Only two content on Regent? Oops, switch one citizen to scientist to avoid riot. Spear in 4. This does cut research on writing to 8 turns.
IBT.. Mongol scout to our north...
[11] 1725 BC Contact Temujin. Yikes. 3 cities as well, up Wheel, Warrior Code, Iron Working, and Mysticism. We have nothing he needs. And he has ivory. Ouch. Potential for Statue of Zeus. Writing better net us something good when we get there.
We disperse the barb camp and get 25 gold. Our curragh spots a light blue border to our NE.
[12] 1700 BC Wonsan Spearman -> worker. Currugh moves farther north... Sumeria. Nice.
Gilgamesh has 4 cities,and is up warrior code, but lacks Alphabet. Decide to hold off before trading.
[13] 1675 BC Seoul worker starts to road mine. Hold one more for Alphabet deal.
IBT... Gilgamesh doesn't like encroaching currughs, moving along.
[14] 1650 BC Pyongyang completes spear, starts settler, due in 8. Trying to time it to our growth. Gilgamesh now has Mysticism as well as Warrior Code... and Abe still lacks Mysticism. Alphabet to Gilgamesh for Mysticism. Hoping Abe will strike a deal. Trade Abe Mysticism, 79 gold and 1gpt for The Wheel which will show horses.
Mongols have horses. Our closest sources are 1 to west close to America and one NW in plains.
IBT... American settler moving our way.
[15] 1625 BC ZZZ
[16] 1600 BC The Wheel and 5 gold to Gilgamesh for Warrior Code.
Wonson worker -> settler. Can overide..
[17] 1575 BC zzz
[18] 1550 BC Seoul builds granary-> settler in 5. Abe has writing.
[19] 1525 BC Learn writing, start Philosophy. With the tech pace, I don't think we can get Code of Laws and Philosophy before the AI. And Philosophy is a faster research.
Trade Temujin Writing for Iron Working and 21 gold. This puts us even with Mongols and America. No close iron. One west near Boston, one north.
[20] 1500 BC Nothing much...
Well, 1 settler due in one, one in 3, one at Wonsan due in a bit, but mined BG will spead it up. Philosophy in 8. We need to grab iron, and horses if possible and try to connect our cities. A city in plains to NW will grab horse and iron upon expansion. A must.
I promise. I'll cut down on the rambling next time...
Oh, and the save :
Korean expansion
Basically if a tile already produces more than two of something, then when improved under Despotism, you'll still get the benefit. So the irrigated wheat will give us 4 food which is great. The grasslands will still be limited to 2 food until we are out of Despotism. I'm pretty positive irrigation travels from point to point, so the quickest way to irrigate the wheat would have been to irrigate directly east, and then irrigate the wheat.
I know you can.
The other AIs will pay a fortune for any goverment based tech learned, especially if we're the first for it. They're normally more then willing to trade 2 techs and some other goodies for a newly learned goverment. So make sure we get CoL first, or it'll bite us in the arse.
Oh well, nothing to be done for it now. We need a Dot Map to figure out the best areas to settle. Anyone good with them? Or at least tried one before?
