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Turn 1: Settler moved, workers working, including a chop in Irvine. Tech research at 100% for now. I've also sent the westernmost warrior to scout around Babylon. I think Hammurabi may be preparing an attack. Turn 2: Axeman killed a warrior to the north, the spy is now scouting Babylonia as suggested, and I've started a library and a chop in Peragus. Turn 3: Settler is in place. Started an axeman in CK. One axeman. (See what I did there?) Turn 4: The chops are done And we now have a view of Babylon. Take a looksee. Just two Bowman. Turn 5: The Library and the worker are done, and I am now popping axemen all across the land. In other news, Confucianism has spread to Irvine. For now I've decided to forgo conversion. Peragus is suffering from unhappiness, though. Finally, Hammurabi has founded a new city to the south of his empire. I'm going to see if can check it out. Turn 6: We are now researching Metal Casting. It will be done in 8 turns with research at 80%. I traded Currency to Zara Yaqob for Monarchy and Math. It will give our chops a nice boost, and mathematics leads to a bunch of good techs, including construction. Finally, I switched to Hereditary Rule to help Peragus and Irvine. Turn 7: The AI settled on a gold. Schmucks. Turn 10: Zara Yaqob wanted us to convert to Conf, but I told him to bugger off. Seeing as there are three Hindu civs, it just didn't seem like a good idea. Turn 11: I started a market in Peragus, to add a bit to our economy. And here's Hammurabi's army. The only units that are missing seem to be the two bowmen in Babylon. He may have built more there since then, though. Turn 12: Our spy was found! Turn 13: The library in DOOM is done, so it is now finishing off the barracks. Turn 14: Confucianism has spread in DOOM. Turn 15: Metal casting is done. Construction is next. Six turns for it to be done. Turn 16: Forges started at Irvine and CK. Turn 17: Forge begun at Peragus. Turn 18: Wang gave us Calendar and Mono. Monotheism, that is. Turn 19: We now have two cities to raze: Also, I founded Meatytown to the north. It's building a lighthouse. Turn 20: Construction is done, so I started Machinery. Whoever goes next, as soon as the forges are done, start building catapults.

Good call, both Peragus and Irvine are in need of happy faces. I've already started and I'm going to send that settler to the northernmost city site. I'm thinking of not settling it just yet, as I've already raised the tech rate, and we will be in the red for a while.

Let's see what I can do. I'm going to make Construction and Machinery a priority, and see if I can increase the research rate. If you disagree, go ahead and tell me.

Toy Dolls - Harry Cross (A Tribute To Edna)

Muddy Water - Hoochie Coochie Man

Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You

Miles Davis - So What

Nirvana - Polly

If Walsingham or someone else(Oerwinde?) doesn't show up, I'm gonna take a round myself.

The crotch glint movie was a lot better. Even with forking Master Chief in it.

Cake - Mexico

NOFX - Flossing A Dead Horse

If what Guard Dog is saying is true, then the planets closer to the Sun should be getting warmer by a significant degree than the planets further away from the sun. The data he gives, however doesn't seem to indicate that.

Go ahead.

It's because Mus? was on a public computer. Those pictures are clearly, kitty porn. This is degrading for the devil kitten:

It's the link gun, I think.

Well, I think that as soon as we place a bunch of cottages our economy should be able to handle the extra war effort. However I agree about waiting for catapults before making a full attack on Babylon. Also, remember that all we may need to do in a first war against Babylon is to raze that smaller city and pick out any stray units (especially workers). If we build a moderately large army I don't think Babylon is going to actively retaliate and, as such we should be able to negotiate peace a few turns later. Goddamit, that AI habit was one of things I hated the most in Civ 3.

By the way, I think that city should the next to be founded, and as such we should begin to plan an attack on Hammurabi. For starters we should scout his territory, and have Peragus begin producing City Raider units. His bowmen worry me, though.

I think Tale may have botched our chances of a proper Oracle slingshot. Other than that, I think he did fine. Also, people should generally do what Enoch says even if I disagree with him. I still won't do what he says, though. As for a religion, I think that now our best change of getting one is Code Of Laws, so we should direct research that way. It's on the way to Civil Service too, so even without the religion I think it's the way to go tech wise. Finally, it seems to me that your red dot site, Enoch, has to go two or three tiles south because of the proximity to Peragus. So, who's next? Walsingham?

UT3 screenies. Me, alone in the Shangri La map with everything maxed out just to test the performance. It feels smooth, although the actual fps were between 20 and 30. The only problem seems to be that the first use of any weapon seems to create hitches. You may have to put on sunglasses before looking at these.

I was going to give UT3's demo awhirl, but it turns out 9 gigs of free space isn't enough to install the game. WTF!

Yay!!

If Tale isn't going to pick this up, the someone else should.

It looks like Amazon is telling you to search inside O'Rourke's mouth. I'm reading Francine Prose's Reading Like A Writer. It's ok.

Don't you have an extra duffel bag or something? I'll pay the excess weight fees.