Obviously there is something dumb about playing against yourself, and I do not know how soon I will get real bored with this, but I do expect to learn something about differences in playing the seven fantasy civs. It is evident even in the first turn that they all should do something a little different.

When they run into each other (which will be soon, I'm playing on a small world), I will be trying to act appropriately for each civ, trying to take into account only what that civ should know.

I would rather play real Multi-player of course, but I do not have the sustained blocks of time that would make this possible.

I would appreciate comments; I will report if the experience turns out to be noteworthy in any way...

- toby