1-4000BC
worker S, reveals whale. Choises: settle in place and lose it, move 1 SE and lose it, move 1 S and get it, but settle on cow (bad) or move 2 SW. Had it been possible to wage war I would have moved 2SW, but we need to expand N asap so I decide to move 1 S and place our royal bum on the cow to get whale and make the other cow available for next town.
2-3950
Found London --> warrior
worker moves to bg
Our opponents are (drumroll) : Americans, Sumerians, Germans, Mongols, Japanese, Iroquois and Greeks
Start writing full speed (50 turns)
3-3900
worker road bg
4-3850
space bar
5-3800
space bar
6-3750
worker (renamed Mrs Viking) start mining
ibt--
warrior-->curragh
7-3700
Fortify warrior Bubba for now.
8-3650
space bar
9-3600
space bar
10-3550
space bar
11-3500
space bar
ibt--
cultexpansion
12-3450
London grows to 2.
mine ready
place citizen on bg and whale
Mrs Viking is sent to forest for shopping...sorry, chopping
13-3400
curragh-->granny
start chop
send sea vessle along E coast and spot land 3 tiles away
14-3350
meet Mongols. we're up alpha and down Masonry/WC/CB. No deal.
Temu has no 2:d town yet. Stats equal but we're weak to him.
15-3300
curragh explores
16-3250
not much but the island E is just another side of a bay.
17-3200
chop finished, start road
18-3150
Oh, the bay looks like an island anyway
19-3100
Curragh spots spices far E
Shame, but growth will come 1 turn before granny is ready
20-3050
Mrs Viking moves to cow
Temu now has BW and Wheel also, darned hut popper he is.
Granny in 3, growth in 2 :-(
writing in 31
10 g's in the kitty, breaking even
THE SAVING OF THE QUEEN