Seeds of Greatness: Game #2

[Eurisko]

I don't really care, since one could also get that info from reading the posts.

Popped a hut. Advanced tribe. Again the placement is a bit adverse, so it will remain uncertain whether or not the city will be an asset or a liability in the future.

Close to Calah, a brave skirmisher unit sacrificed itself to soften the defenses of the village on the riverbanks. Then our chariot unit swooped in to slaughter the defenders which were in complete disarray.

Further downstream, a band of skirmishers was barely able to raid a village and capture more scum which opposed Sargon's designs on the world.

[Peaster]

Eurisko: From your report, it seems that you popped a hut and successfully raided 2 villages. But you are only allowed to do ONE of these 3 actions per turn.

[Eurisko]

Oh?

I thought the 1 per turn rule only applied to popping huts?

Doesn't such a strict limit needlessly slow down an already pretty slow game?

Anyway, defeated the warrior downstream.

[Peaster]

Thanks, Eurisko! Rule 12 says you only get one hut OR village per turn (not both); see also post #45 about that. You missed the rules debates in our play-test thread - consider yourself lucky, or go back and read over it, if you want. Most players agreed that unlimited huts could put one lucky civ too far ahead. IIRC there was less discussion of villages, which are less common. But I included them with huts and got no objections.

[Straybow]

Try being stuck on a 25-tile island...

[ISeeALL]

Sorry guys, my computer is currently disconnected from the Internet. I will try to post my save tomorrow. You can do the turn for me btw.

[Straybow]

See if Slo or somebody might be willing to fill in for players after 24hrs.

[Peaster]

Slow hasn't answered, and it seems impossible to know when ISeeAll will return. Dario, I guess you can either Ctrl-N for ISeeAll, or play Egypt's turn for him.

[Straybow]

At this stage that probably won't hurt anybody.

[SlowThinker]

I answered, but it looks the message eaters did their job.
I can help but not now, since I am not home and won't be several days.
(off topic: I also asked Sinbad to barter some caravan in game #1
and another answer is awaited from Hitts, were all my messages eaten?)

[Bostero]

@steve:

i wanted to give some more time to IseeAll, if not, tomorrow i'm ctrl+ning his turn. i saw a message from him, that he was going to be back.

@slowthinker: hello, you are an expert of this scenario. would you like to take command of Persia?

[Straybow]

(I was doing a Colonial Era reenactment this wkend. Will get to game#1)

[Peaster]

Hellooooo......?

Dunno what's happened with ISeeAll, but he didn't ask us to wait for him. And anyway, we just don't know when he'll be back (hopefully soon).

Dario - IMO your clock started days ago, and you should play your turn! Otherwise, Straybow must pass you to get the game going again. If you are feeling bad for ISeeAll, why don't you play his turn for him ?

[ISeeALL]

Sorry guys, I currently have no Internet at home, but the problem will be fixed in a week or so. Please Ctr+N my turns (or play them if you wish) for this time.

[Bostero]

re:

i forgot! i had this turn played some time ago, and saved it to a floppy disk, before i sent my Pc to be fixed.

Egypt: Ctrl+N
Persia: one swordmna from a hut.
Greece: discoveremnt of Pictographs!