Time for a little update on this one, because things are going well!
1 Starting location looks ok, with cattle tile on river, good bonus grasslands and a fur in reach for my capital. Other settler obviously goes down the river. I don't get a scout, because I am militaristic and industrious iso epansionistic, but I can build scouts so I will do that. Should I report this to Aggie, though?
I have masonry and wc, so I cannot research a second level tech, so I will go for pottery @ max
2 Decide to let my second settler cross the river southwards, as it appears to run into coast in the west. worker starts mining cattle. Switch Mecca to warrior, I won't be building any scouts this
. would have been nice to have 2,5 trait
9-did some exploring, surrounding are ok. Pop a hut with barbs, first one kills my warrior [grr]
In the turns hereafter I would just expand, losing a handful of warriors to superbarbs. I'm not going near those white boys anymore now
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Then turn 52 will be remembered as the day that put Arabia on the world map.
52- Discover math and have monopoly! Time for a trading session: First buy writing from Carthage for 7gpt and 15 gp, since they have maps, and thus mapmaking. Sell Math to America for Mapmaking and 60 GP. Sell MM to Korea for BW, TW, CB World Map and 4gp (nice
). Sell MM for IW and Myst, 2gp and terr map to Russia. Sell Math for HR to Korea. Sell Math to Vikings for
WM and 2gp. Establish embassies with every civ. Sell MM to Romans for 34gp, WM and RoP. Sell Math to Carthage for 115gp and WM. Sell Math to Russia for WM and RoP. Sell MM to Vikings for RoP. Gift Math to Romans.
Things are looking good
. Everyone is polite or even gracious towards me. Aggie is now far behind in tech. Everybody is up to par with me, except for Romans and Russians who lack HR. Aggie is prolly researching math, but that will get him nothing no more. He even lacks BW! That really asks for a quick galley invasions with a couple of swords. I have almost complete map knowledge, and I'm the only one who does.
Research is now set towards construction at min. Some pics:
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This is the first PBEM in which I managed to maintain any chances after 50 turns