Pong Report

For our second game, I drew Gorgo! Another leader I haven't played much, but I feel pretty confident in my ability to use her well. At first I was really excited to see that I had so many luxuries within range of my capital, as last game the lack of variation was pretty rough. There's not a whole lot of food around, though I can probably make up for it with production. Having the extra wildcard policy slot is a pretty great Civ ability! I'm happy to not have to decide between the two economic policy cards, and essentially am guaranteed a pantheon with no effort. 11 turns in, and things are not looking up. The mountain range to the north of Sparta is pretty oppressive, and the rough terrain makes it slow going. The hills of Sparta give way to... Desert and desert hills. Still very little food out there. I'm working on getting a Barbarian hunting force up. The next turn I find some grassland and rice! And Scythia. ...

Since Pong-2 was broken by the recent patch, Joe and I started up another game. We played 47 turns but called a mulligan  and we quit this one. An abbreviated report of my play appears below. Settings: All Standard except Quick speed and Fractal map. Civs: Random Mods: None World map as it will appear at game's end on turn 47