Here is what happened during my 20 turns:
3000BC: Examining current game status. I reduced science to 20%. This made iron working go from 35 turns to 39 turns, not very significant, but the income doubled from $1 to $2. This could help us out in the future.
2950BC: The warrior climbed the mountain and was able to spot the Germans. I contacted them and they had nothing. 10 gold and no techs. I gave them 1 gold just for good measure and was off.
2900BC: The worker completed the first section of road. I stopped the goto order and moved him on the wheat tile (which Rome's citizen is working). He is going to start building a road to increase our commerce. The warrior is starting to explore west of Germany.
2850BC: A Japanese warrior appears west of Rome. I contact them and find out that they are doing a little better than Germany. They have 2 tech: The Wheel and Mysticism. Both are nice but they want me to give 2 techs and gold for only one of their techs. I decide that it is probably not worth it to trade at this point. I think it might be better to research ourselves for a while (Chieftan level). Plus, we don't need either of their techs yet. I give 1 gold for good measure and leave.
Meanwhile, Rome completes a warrior and I will have him explore west of Rome. Rome is starting a new settler. I switch science to 70% which makes our income go from $3 to $1, but iron working jumps down from 36 turns to 23 turns.
2800BC: Settler reaches Lemming's proposed city site. I like the site but I am moving the settler one tile SE since we will get an extra shield building on grassland with no sheild bonus.
2750BC: Veii is founded. I building a warrior. The two warriors are still exploring west of Germany and west of Rome.
2710BC: The road on the wheat tile is completed by Rome. Our commerce increases and iron working justs to 12 turns. This working will now start working on the road to Veii again.
2670BC: Still exploring. Looking for a good city site for our third city.
2630BC: Still exploring.
2590BC: Our warrior found a hut west of Germany. It contained a map - too bad. It looks like the water is just one big lake.
2550BC: Rome produces a settler. Rome is now producing a worker. Our warrior has found the Japanese border.
2510BC: The warrior by Germany is now moving up to explore NE of Rome.
2470BC: Still exploring.
2430BC: I try to contact Germany and Japan once again. Germany still has nothing for us and Japan still wants 2 tech and gold for one tech. No deal.
2390BC: Antium is founded. It is building a warrior.
2350BC: Veii produces a warrior. Now it is building a worker. Rome builds a worker. Now it is building a warrior. The worker is starting on a road to Antium.
2310BC: Warrior SE of Japan finds the coast (hopefully it is the real coast this time).
2270BC: Still exploring.
2230BC: We just learned iron working. Now I am researching Masonry. An iron resource appears right next to Veii. Good city spot Lemming. We now have a warrior fortified in Veii.
2190BC: Our warrior found the east coast.
2150BC: Veii produces a worker. Now it is working on a warrior. I moved the worker on the ivory tile but haven't started the road yet. Rome produces a warrior. Now it is working on barracks. The warrior is fortified in Rome.
So right now we have a warrior exploring the coast south of Japan and another one exploring north east of Rome. Mansonry will be discovered in 7 turns and we have a net income of $1.
We need to get a temple in Veii so the iron deposit will be within the city limits (no point in wasting a worker to build a colony). Veii is currently producing a warrior and I was planning to switch to a temple after that. I'll leave it up to the next player whether they want to forget about the extra warrior and just switch to the temple right now. Might not be a bad idea.
We might want to get a few settlers and build some cities next to Japan to cut them off and force them to expand south and east (towards Germany. We can also cut off Germany but they are so far behind us that I wouldn't worry about them too much at this point.
I'm thinking that we can start popping out Legionary units (once we get the iron and a couple more cities) and also some Spearmen for defense. Then, we might want to consider taking out Japan and then Germany. Since this is Chieftan level, we don't really need the neighbors to keep up with tech research.
Anyway, that's all up to the next player. I look forward to picking up the game again around 500BC. I'm booked solid until 1000BC but my calendar frees up after that.
Andy S
