Excellent, glad to see you're back and on top of things Sulla. And yes, I guessed right on this one getting a good number of signups
(I would still give 50-50 odds of seeing a Macedon squad form, actually) BTW, I can vouch that "Griselda" plays a very mean 'Rome' indeed!!
I'm excited to see fresh blood on the Persian squad, and with those yummy immmortals, gormdragan, you can bet the Macedonian soil will see much blood shed upon it. I didn't see anyone on 'B' who doesn't have the game yet, so current plan would be for me to start it (tonight likely) and use the order Sulla listed. I can delay however if needed and don't want to dash out far ahead of another team -- it will work best I think if we're not reading what our enemy civ will be doing 400 years from now.
I would ask that anyone on the roster of either team familiarize themselves with the RBCiv rules and disallowed exploits (although most already know this). The only issue in doubt is how 'seed corn' works in a conquest-setting. Sulla, would you mind choosing a fixed rule on that for this game? (See the discussion in RBC2 about this. We chose a 'buy no more than one worker per civ' rule in the BC era to make it clear, and this was a DG game. It won't be clear til much later if that had a bad impact on our foes) It sounded like no one had any real problem whether that was zero, one or two, but it's good for multiple teams to be playing under the same 'constraints.'
Also we like to here a "got it" within 24hrs of a turn posted, then up to 48hrs more if needed to play out the turn, so that the game doesn't drag. With lurkers and others reading the accounts of different civs it's also good to keep the pace moving well in all games. Since this is a 'historical' conquest and the maps are fixed and readily known, would I be right in assuming it's ok for players to read the threads of the 'other civs' -- or we do it like previous A/B/C games where you don't read the other 2 threads until your game is finished? (Either way is ok, again it would be good for Sulla to clarify)
The taste of mortal (nay, immortal!) combat shall soon be upon our lips...
Charis
(PS at Rubberjellos' comment... I can't speak for Carthage or Rome, it should be a good matchup, but... Macedon is going to to pulverized to Jello!
Oh wait... they have the Hoplite
Just wait til we get iron though!)