Man, I'm glad we're back on a roll. Both of my PBEM games died were lost at the same time.
I just finished a settler, so I'm bringing my Archer who has been exploring back home, and I'm going to start a city just to the north west of my capital. I'll be starting to crimp off the land mass that way, and getting at least 1 gold resource.
My scout was beaten to within an inch of his life by some wild animal. I'm not sure since I didn't see it happen.
I'm perfectly fine with Ulfang joining up. To be honest, if we wanted to restart and change the play order, or even the teams, that's fine by me too. The classic start games are much faster to get going.