GOOD – I worked out how to activate fortified units in cities and found that the one square I hadn’t looked at was, indeed, a land bridge.

BAD – There doesn’t seem to be any dimplomacy that I can see, just permanent war.

GOOD – I defeated some enemy units and built a new city.

BAD – The city got killed. It was built between two enemies, it seems. Not a good place. The dark blues came from the west, the light blues from the east. Squish. My settlers got killed. Most of my units got killed.

GOOD – My new chariot seems to be killing stuff.

BAD – There’s a general lack of information that I’ve found so far. I get messages every few turns that the bloody Americans have built yet another wonder, but are they the dark blue or light blue chaps? Dunno. I can’t highlight an enemy unit to get details of it or even see if it’s part of a stack, as far as I can tell. I can see a progress bar telling me how far through production my city is, but not how many turns that equates to. It’s possible this is available somewhere. I need to go online and look for the full instructions. The game gives a web address that I’ll look at later.

GOOD – The enemies fight each other as well as me.

BAD – Given the number of units pouring out of the west and the number of wonders the Americans are producing the AI must be cheating. And this is on Chieftan difficulty, the easiest.

GOOD – It made the bus journey to work absolutely fly by, despite me feeling a bit lost.

BAD – Still can’t seem to build ships.