Hi ! In my latest game, it seems I find myself on a peninsula (pangea map). I intend to block it off even though the neck is quite a long way from my capital, but I can't quite decide where to place my city, considering the resources and the few sterile lands available there... any suggestion ?
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I would place it a square above the rice near the marble. By the 2nd expansion you will have seald it off. The spot you are currently at will hurt you as far as distance costs from the capitol go. You can expand to the spot you are currently looking at once you get CoL.

I like the spot one N of the Blue Circle. You get cows, iron, and a flood plain in the fat cross and, depending on how important this may be given the rest of the landmass, a way to pass ships through.

I like the spot one N of the Blue Circle. You get cows, iron, and a flood plain in the fat cross and, depending on how important this may be given the rest of the landmass, a way to pass ships through.


Agreed. Strategically and tactically desirable.

Agreed as well!

Yes, that's a no-brainer. Easily worth giving up the fish over. About the only thing that might override this is if it was a choice between having a canal or the iron. Luckily that's not a problem here.

Wodan

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I didn't factor the canal thing in. It seems to make sense...
Thanks (for both the replies and the welcome). :)

Yeah, definitely the spot 1 N of the blue circle. Gives you perfect distribution of the fat cross (no tundra or desert), plus the strategic importance of the canal there will pay dividends for the entire game. You can always get a hold of the resources further to the west with some other cities, and who needs fish when you have a Grasslands Cow resource and a floodplain?

I would place it a square above the rice near the marble. By the 2nd expansion you will have seald it off. The spot you are currently at will hurt you as far as distance costs from the capitol go. You can expand to the spot you are currently looking at once you get CoL. i agree on that one

If blocking is essential, the current settler standing spot is OK (as everybody agrees). However I would put city closer to caital, rice and ivory, and leave this sealng off until next city (well, I dont see whole map, probably there are reasons for doing it now)

Also why is this road there? You could spend worker time 1000 times better than building road to nowhere :)

Sorry to nit-pick, but it's an isthmus, not a peninsula. ;)

Definitely an isthmus. (Geography 101)

I would agree with the "one north" of the blue circle as your first city to block the passage into what you want to be your territory. But as soon as I had Col, I'd put in a courthouse. Then I'd build another city north of the rice.

Either way it looks like you have some good resources in your area.

Please enlighten us, as to why did you build that long ass road to nowhere?

To connect the resources I presume;)

yeah i agree with one north of the blue ccircle, but that will have huge costs.That said, unless you have a close neighboor i would put your first city one above the rice and have the blue circle city be city number three

Definitely the spot 1 north of the blue circle. As for the road he probably built it to connect his two cities. I usually do it after the city is founded though.