Incan Starts ? ? ?

In the last week, I played Inca several times ( 5 times I believe). Every start i got was in their bias, of course, but on a peninsula left alone in isolation from the world free to expand. In 4 of those games I had place for 7-8 great cities most of these spot were on a mountain (damn , highlands, me love ya).

I am asking: Am I really lucky or most of your Inca games are with pretty same starts?

Fast edit: Settings are all normal (Diety, Standard, Pangea)

I'd say it's just luck of the draw, their bias is hills as far as I recall.

So lucky, I always get no mountains, or a huge blob of mountains. Terrace farms are nice, but they don't really make up for half the tiles in my capital being unworkable.

I actually kept the saves because I started wondering should I participiate in the lottery. Looked at the civs in the game and I noticed that the other civs were all with starting bias of a kind or none but yet different from hills. So i guess that was the lucky part in it.

With Incas being my favourite Civ because they are so all-around and nice both econamically and with population, I always take 2-3 turns scout around the starting spot which is rather easy woth the UA and take like 5 minutes or more to choose my cap spot. I always take the spot with the best terrace farms because that is the power of the incas. You only little bit of luck with the food resources/ancient ruins to generate nice pop at your cap and then doing what you are best at - being awesome

best inca start evah

Incan bias is indeed hills. While most mountains are near hills, most hills aren't near mountains.

One of my favourite Inca starts was right on the edge of a big mountain range. The reason it was my favourite was because this mountain range effectively served as a giant wall, keeping every other civ out of my space. The range had two exits/entrances: one to the north, one to the south - both were one tile wide with the ocean on the other side. The one to the north was a longer passage, while the one to the south was a bit wider.

I made it my priority to seal off these passages with my cities/tile claims. The southern passage was already blocked by Sydney, so I made it my goal to keep them as my allies. My first city went to sealing the northern passage (Which also had a hill surrounded by 5 mountains, on a river, in a (later to be) Petra desert! Who needs the Hanging Gardens?

After that, with mountains to the west and an ocean to the east, I had effectively isolated my land from all the other civs.

The best is when the mountains are sprinkled around, instead of a huge blob with a small surface area