Lizzy's rise to greatness

[Hercules]

I just had a look around.

The place is in Anarchy

No it looks quite good, a lot of positives.

I spotted an Inca Axeman in the Inca city Wien, to the north on the coast, near our workboat. And it looks like they are chopping another. They are under pressure from WPC.

In the west our Chariot is healing. When healed I think it should explore south and west. We still don't know where the Zulus live. Also our other chariot near Eridne should clear the fog along that southern coast.

Meanwhile Belle should move as Dinner suggests, find the coast and then follow the coast. I would love a barb warrior to appear and attack us, so we could get that extra promotion.

I attach the demog screen.

[mzprox]

things are going slowly, the turn above just had been restarted. Anyway we attacked and killed the barb, but we lost quite a lot hp so I gave our chariot combatI and shock promotion (since most likely we will face melee enemies)

[mzprox]

Game had to be reloaded, we won't do anything differently, but it will take longer till next turn.

[Dinner]

Let's kill the barb to get the experience and to make sure he doesn't wander back to our civ where he might cause trouble. Do we have anything we can trade to the Inca? Maybe an extra cow? As for Bell we should just have him continue chipping away at the black area and if necessary follow the coast. Slowly but surely we'll figure out what this map looks like.

[mzprox]

We have dicovered hereditary rule, and since there was no visible threat it was a good time for revolution 8into monarchy and slavery).
I think I can safely say that Queen Elizabeth is the world's first true monarch.

As youi can see on the pictures that barb warrior which did not attack our chariot still follows us.
question what to do:
attack him for 1 xp (which is good because we are at (4/5), but that would slow us down (1 turn+healing) or
just contnue the exploration

We have found an inca port city, we can get sailing in about 4 turns and then we can benefit from increased trade.

I made apicture of Belle's progress. you can suggest what to do with him.

[Dinner]

That sounds like a good place to make the border if we can expand that far south. It would be very far from our capital though.

[Hercules]

I had a look around and it is going well imo. At long last Port Boreas expands in 2 turns and we have a new workboat ready to exploit the fish resource.

I also took a look at Belle's progress north. Fine. But to the western edge of Belle's position you can clearly see an area of coast. So I am guessing there is a significant piece of water between us and the Aztecs.

[Hercules]

Well I think we can also explore their territory and maybe meet their foes, WPC? NA.

Also don't we have a NAP pact with them.?

[mzprox]

I don't really like that the inca warrior will enter our territory and will see our land. They might even get jelaous. Maybe we should tell them to turn back. if they just want trrade routes they can already have them with our new eastern city.

[Dinner]

At least there are no barbarians in sight. I guess we do need those warriors now since three cities have no defenders.

[mzprox]

some pictures:




Everything looks good, we have to maximize science to get monarchy in the next turn. The barb in the sw still did not attack our chariot which continued its journey (I will keep exploring the coast in case we find someone whom we can trade with.) It's a very nice city place btw.

[mzprox]

no org religion..not even religion..

[Dinner]

We'll be going to slavery and monarchy, right? I don't believe we have organized religion yet, is that true?

[mzprox]

Our next city should be near the wine to take advantage of Monarchy. How many warriors will we build and how long will it take?

I think it's a good idea to go for the wine instead of the fur. better expand east while the inca doesn't. Now it seems just one warrior in horse city, so not big deal. In two turns we revolt ot slavery and after that we will have access to bronze so we can start building some axemen.

[Dinner]

Our next city should be near the wine to take advantage of Monarchy. How many warriors will we build and how long will it take?