Entering the little huts (tribal villages) gives you a bonus. The village disappears afterwards. Possible rewards: Money, a technology, a settler, a warrior, or experience.Tribal villagers: Hello!
Warrior: Give us everything you own
Tribal villagers: I say that sounds a little rash
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Warrior: So kind of you to give us this
Beheaded tribal villagers:...
Me:So, I was sitting in my palace, looking out across the river, when suddenly-
Me:EVIL ELEPHANTS. WHAT DO WE DO?
Warrior: Sir they're just a resource.
Me: Are you crazy? War elephants, man! Strength 8, 50% bonus versus cavalry!
Warrior: Well yes but I doubt the elephants have construction.
Me: What if they get it from our enemies?
Warrior: No one has alphabet yet.
Me:... warrior, you annoy me. Other warrior, remove him.
Other warrior: Yes sir.
There are various unit classes: Melee, archers, mounted, siege to name the first few. Units can get promotions to give them advantages against other unit classes.Other warrior: Sir why does this production review of warriors contain an entry for bauxite mechanisms?
Me: Oh hush.
This is just after our borders expanded. As you can see from the little house on the pigs, we are making good use of our new territory. The pigs are worth 3 food/turn whereas the forest we were working was only 2/turn. This way the city will grow quicker. However, whilst our borders can expand further, we can only harvest tiles under the area we currently have.
We couldn't afford a war juuuust yet so I let them live.Isabella the religious nutjob: Bla bla bla something about religion
Me: Are you an elf?
Isabella: No!
Me: Are you
suuure?Isabella: Yes!
Me: I don't believe you.
Isabella:....aaanyway, are you foolishly going to declare war on someone you just met?
Me: Nah.
The various leaders come in many flavours. From this text we can see that she is aggressive. As it happens I know that Isabella will basically declare war on you the instant you commit heresy. An absolute nutcase, and a crappy neighbour.Isabella: Good. Is there anything else?
Me (aside, to warrior): Look, look, there, is that, or is it not, an elven ear?
Warrior: Now you mention it...
A few turns later...
If we had chosen to take meditation, we would now be one turn away from a breakthrough, and all that effort would have been for a crappy technology no one wants.Warrior: Buddhism has been founded in a distant land!
Me: Where?
Warrior: A distant land.
Me: ... Then how do we know?
Warrior: We just do, ok?
Me: Ok...
As it happens it was the spanish who researched it. Great. Just great. Now we
have to kill her.
...
Nah, we had to kill her anyway. She's cramping our style.
Woo! As it happens, we are the first, so we get hinduism's holy city! Woop woop!Mr Duck: Hello, Ghandi.
Sunshine man: Worship us!
Tree bark: Yes, worship us!
Several hours later.
Me: Warrior we have made an breakthrough.
Warrior: Goody.
Me: After expending the entire research budget on magic mushrooms I was spoken to by the gods. They told me to worship them.
Warrior: God
s?
Me: Yes. Not at all similar are the race of the immortal machine fairies and the race of dwarves that walk beneath the earth.
Warrior: Phenomenal. Now what?
Me: Hang on let me just skip bronze working and make a little statue to show you.
The circled icon shows that a)this city contains Hindus, and b)that it is the holy city thereof.Me: Now do you understand?
Warrior: We are going to worship your hallucinations?
Me: HERETIC. BUUUURN.
Why on earth not? We don't get anarchy, so the conversion is free.Me: You are all Hindus! Order of the state!
Peoples: Yay!
Me: Well that went better than expected... warrior, have some people beaten up for rioting anyway.
Warrior: Right away.
I seriously recommend fishing. Like, regardless of what people say I will take fishing first. But what after fishing? Right now we can't chop forests, perhaps we should look into bronze working? Farming is currently pretty useless, except as a prerequisite for animal handling, which lets us exploit the pigs more.Science-type-fellow: Shit guys, Ghandi will be back for more mushrooms soon! We must find a place to hide!
Other Science-type-fellow: But le warriors, they get everywhere.
Other other Science-type-fellow: Not the sea!
Science-type-fellow & Other Science-type-fellow: Gasp!
...
Me: Where are those damn science fellows?
Warrior: No one knows, sir.
Me: Pah. Have them found, if we have to research an entire new technology to do it!
