True Multitreaded semi succession game, Immortal or deity.

Event log for player "Deity MSG":

Turn 0, 4000BC:
Madrid has been founded.

Turn 10, 3600BC:
Buddhism has been founded in Madrid!
You have discovered Meditation!

Turn 15, 3400BC:
Hinduism has been founded in a distant land!

Turn 16, 3360BC:
You have discovered Hunting!
Washington converts to Hinduism!

Turn 24, 3040BC:
You have discovered Agriculture!
Alexander adopts Slavery!

Turn 30, 2800BC:
Washington adopts Slavery!

Turn 31, 2760BC:
Judaism has been founded in a distant land!

Turn 33, 2680BC:
You have discovered Animal Husbandry!

Turn 37, 2520BC:
Barbarian's Archer (3.00) vs Deity MSG's Warrior (4.30)
Deity MSG's Warrior has defeated Barbarian's Archer!

Turn 40, 2400BC:
You have discovered The Wheel!
Barbarian's Archer (3.00) vs Deity MSG's Warrior (fortified on a hill even!) (4.00)
Barbarian's Archer has defeated Deity MSG's Warrior!

Turn 44, 2240BC:
Barcelona has been founded.

Turn 46, 2160BC:
Confucianism has been founded in a distant land!
The Oracle has been built in a far away land!

Turn 47, 2120BC:
You have discovered Pottery!

Turn 49, 2040BC:
Stonehenge has been built in a far away land!

When playing best ball someone has to go for the home run off the tee, so I'm going to try and pull a Civil Service slingshot with Academy. The starting location is very strong and so this tactic should work out well if successful. We've got happiness in Fur and as Expansive we have health. The Clams with Fishing will allow for a fast growth curve.

Hut pops gold and I settle on spot. I start a Workboat while working the forest Fur. When it completes I switch to the Clams and start a second Workboat. This is interrupted when my wandering Warrior pops this:



So that sucked and I had to insert a Warrior in the build queue. My research had gone Mediation (nailed the religion) then Hunting with a detour to Archery due to those Warriors. After the second Workboat completed I built three Archers and a Chariot. Yes Chariot. I followed Archery with Animal Husbandry to open Writing. When Horses popped up I took a detour to The Wheel which I needed anyway to hook up the Fur. After The Wheel I researched Writing and it completed when the Chariot did. The next build was a Library and the next tech was Priesthood, neither of which have completed. Spain:



Here is a zoom in of the capital:



Doesn't look good at 2000 B.C. I basically need to finish the Library and The Oracle in the next 500 or so years. On the bright side the next border pop will pull Marble within reach, I might be taking a detour to Masonry (prior to finishing Priesthood) since this looks to be more Hammer limited than Commerce limited. I'll run the numbers before making that decision. I don't see success as likely and I'll probaby be borrowing someone's save for round three

Oh, BTW Alex showed up early he is nearby.

My initial start was workboat first, while working the furs forest tile and researching meditation. I was debating over whether to work the crabs tile while researching meditation to cut 1 turn off it, but decided against it. If I miss religion by 1 turn because of this, I will be pissed .

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Fur, gold, and if we get religion basically eliminates happiness concerns for the early game. This is a very strong start overall since we are also expansive so dont have to worry abotu health either. First hut gave me 51 gold, then second hut gives me wheel.



My luck ran out eventually, because third hut in the east gave me hostile barbarians, and my warrior was killed. 3360, founded buddhism luckily. After meditation, I decided to go after hunting and set Madrid to grow to size 2 and then build a worker. I got hunting in 3360, after which I decided to go archery. I think its always best to play safe on deity instead of straight to one of the techs which has to reveal a strategic resource. I had almost no exploration but alex's and gandhi both meet me around 3280... from the north. Since we had some pretty crap land to our north, I decided that first city is best going in the east even though its alot of tundra, there is a pig/fish city and a cow city, so I set research on Animal Husbandry after archery. AH reveals horses right next to madrid..



After AH, I went mining for the gold. Also unfortunately gandhi founds judiasm and converts. The barbarians start thier attack in 2580, sooner then I was expecting, I had 0 military at that point...



I had to starve madrid to rush a couple of archers ASAP. I got mining in 2440 BC and stonehenge was build same turn. Met washington in 2360 who founded Hinduism. So either this is a pangeae or all the civs on our continent have founded a religion, which isnt too great for diplomacy... Atleast we have only met 1 aggresive civ so far.. In 2360, I see first sign of alex's border, its looks as if we are going to be trapped in our little peninsula for a while.



I decided to make a detour to research bronze working around the time my settler was half-way done so I could whip it. So here is situation in 2000 BC, BW just finished, we have a copper in the east near the pig/fish city. Ive put about 4 turns of research into horseback riding, which might have been a mistake, but Ive decided to go after Horseback riding route instead of iron working because I dont think we have a iron near us, since we already have horses and copper. Heres the dotmap I made



Im planning to do a horse archer rush on alex once I found those cities, im also debating whether to found a city to work our gold soon or whether to go military build straight and attack alex. Im leaning towards the latter.

Pretty good start Qwack . I think if I had gotten The Wheel from a hut it would have been enough for me to get the CS slingshot, as it stands now I'd say I'm less than 20%. I'll probably play my save one more round but if it fails and you can get a good rush on Alex (heck, in that case maybe even if the CSS succeeds) your start has a lot of potential. I haven't looked at any of the others yet, hopefully we'll have a good set to choose from going forward.

After reading the other reports, I think I am going to stick to my own save, but steal some ideas from mutineer. Im going to swtich research to sailing and go after Great lighthouse, which will probably delay my rush by 25 or so turns, and found my first city near the gold to help maintenance for the pigs-fish whipper in the east. THe gold city can whip for 2 pop easily even with unupgraded floodplains so it will basically produce as much Horse archers as the cow city.

Darrelljs, I think it might have been safer to go oracle prophet slingshot to CS instead of academy route your going, I expect oracle to be built around 1200 BC here with gandhi in the game. I dont think you can get CoL by that time.

Godel, founding barcelona on that spot is quite good, it will be interesting to see if you can get that copper or if alex's culture takes it.

Robo Kai, I like the start area . Yeah the land around the capital isnt too good, but the capital itself is a beauty.

So initial thoughts and strategy. Settling in place is a no-brainer. It’s a strong start with 2 no calendar happy resources available which will tackle the extreme Happy Cap at these high levels.

Build Order is Workboat, Worker, Warrior then pause.

Research. Probably my most controversial as I opt not to chase a religion at all even though we are almost guaranteed Buddhism if we chase it. Reason is

1. Only research what you absolutely need. We have sufficient Happy to not be desperate for a religious happy.
2. At these levels diplomacy is key and having founded and adopted a religion we may unnecessarily irritate neighbours. If we found a religion but don’t adopt it I feel there is a better use for precious research turns at this stage of the game.
3. I want to be first to Alphabet for its trade value so need to not be distracted by Buddhism

So I research Mining, hunting Bronze working to
a) Unlock Furs
b) Get some Hammers from the Hill to the NE
c) Get into slavery quick to utilise our strong food start
d) Find Copper as I only expect to build 2 cities and one of them has to have Copper

What happened.

Popped 51 gold from first Hut NW of start and was lucky to pop The Wheel from the Hut to the East and some more gold from the hut on the coast.

So where are we in 2000 BC

Researched.

Hunting, Mining, Bronze working, Animal Husbandry and Archery all of which I still feel I needed more than Buddhism. Writing in 2

Capital is doing well with both fishes, Furs and horses hooked up and gold will be hooked up soon.

A settler is on its way to found copper town in 4 turns.

Militarily we have 2 Archers and 2 Warriors and 1 worker, after next archer build another worker will be whipped in to speed up hooking up of copper then full on Axemen building.

Location of coppertown still not 100% decided as instead of Pinkdot founding on the pigs to work all 3 fish = copper is an option.