Cromagnus
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I failed to improve my score on maps with obs and with full tradition.
You don't need obs if you have 6 or 7 cities. Ihad 1K bpt in my best games, without obs.
Growth is really the key. So, I delay too Education for Engineering and Colossus.
I use faith from wonders to have decent faith, it costs many hammers. I'll try without to see if without wonders obs make it.
But you need this free settler and cheap next. I had only one game where I found a settler in a ruin.
Yeah, the problem I have on Ice Age is finding 6 or 7 good city spots with accessible cargo ship routes. It's much easier to find 4. On the other hand, they tend to have limited growth because of lack of rivers and too much nearby tundra.
If you can find 6 good spots to place cities, then yeah, with smaller cities, observatories aren't as relevant. But if your capital and one other city has an observatory, you can send 3 cargo ships to each of them for maximum beakers per population. /shrug
Lots of ways to play this. I'm really thinking NC before GL is the strongest play because you can get NC out with 2-3 cities super early while it's cheap, and thus not have to delay planting 4-5 expos.