Until now we Vikings have been without much in terms of longterm objectives more specific than "kill enemy, steal their wives and money". It is about time that we tried to think of something more specific.
We are placed in the middle of 3 civs we know of - the Persians to our West, Egyptians to our North and Spanish to our NorthEast.
The Persians have no Horses, and one source of Iron that could be easily cut off by a Galley landing onto the Mountain where the mines are. We are within one turn of seeing if they have it connected or not.
If we could deny them Immortals AND Horsemen even our Archers could dish out some severe damage and give us the Silks they have.
The Egyptians have Horses (and thus their UU War Chariots), and the only Iron they have is on a small nearby island (very capturable
). This island also has Horses, so may be a very good way of quickly getting resources. However, we would need a Harbour there with a permanent route back to the mainland else our enemies could cut off our supplies. The trade route would have to pass through either current Egyptian or Persian territory.
We would need to be careful, however, as with their GA from a successful Chariot attack, the Egyptians could throw a tonee of units at us.
The Spanish are on some very broken up land, in addition to having a colony on the island immediately south of us, with several Galleywith which they could found more cities anytime. They have both Iron and Horses, but their land is such that they have many bottlenecks which would make it difficult for them to ambush us, with proper planning.
If we took some of their land we add Dyes to our luxuries available.
That said, there is some land around us that is unsettled. There is room on the Southern island for at least another city, and probably more in the unexplored regions. We have a settler ready to go and found a city on the East coast of this land. Also, we have sighted an isalnd of some type to the far west of us, to where Valkrie Makahlua is leading her Galley of feared warriors right now. There is also some unsettled land on our island to the west of our current settlements.
So, hungry Vikings, what should we do? Settle everywhere we can first, or choose one or more of our neighbours to sharpen our axes on?
