This post helps show the power of food cargo ships sent to the capital in combination of Tradition. To prevent large duplication of existing tradition guides it assumes knowledge of them and will basically only touch where specific to food cargo routes.
This is also as a civ that has below average starting food (due to Forest bias) the Iroquois. Nor did I use religion to get any food boosts at all. (Tears of the Gods, Pagodas, Religious Community)
The basic strategy is mostly the same as standard tradition, except that you use the first 3 cargo routes as Food Cargo Ships. The timing for each cargo ship ideally is after the capital has the lighthouse but before its fishing work boats but the non-capital cities that are going to the origin must have a granary. (In addition, must be within range, in this particular case one of the cities didn't become in range until Optics, while the other 2 were from turn 1)
Attached are the screenshots of the beginning of the Midevil, Rean, Industrial, Modern, Atomic, and Information era. (Yes, size 37 at beginning of Information era, it was size 41 when I won)
In this case I went Freedom (via entering Modern era) and built Statute of Liberty and also completed Rationalism for additional bonuses from specialists, but during the Modern era I converted 1 of the food cargo ship routes to hammers.
For other landmasses, if you start coastal on Contenants and place your other 3 cities on the coast (NOT behind an iceberg), this works just as well as it does on the landmass I picked. But even if your capital is inland, you can still get your capital grown much faster than normal with 3 caravans (it's just not as much free food as cargo ships)
This is also as a civ that has below average starting food (due to Forest bias) the Iroquois. Nor did I use religion to get any food boosts at all. (Tears of the Gods, Pagodas, Religious Community)
The basic strategy is mostly the same as standard tradition, except that you use the first 3 cargo routes as Food Cargo Ships. The timing for each cargo ship ideally is after the capital has the lighthouse but before its fishing work boats but the non-capital cities that are going to the origin must have a granary. (In addition, must be within range, in this particular case one of the cities didn't become in range until Optics, while the other 2 were from turn 1)
Attached are the screenshots of the beginning of the Midevil, Rean, Industrial, Modern, Atomic, and Information era. (Yes, size 37 at beginning of Information era, it was size 41 when I won)
In this case I went Freedom (via entering Modern era) and built Statute of Liberty and also completed Rationalism for additional bonuses from specialists, but during the Modern era I converted 1 of the food cargo ship routes to hammers.
For other landmasses, if you start coastal on Contenants and place your other 3 cities on the coast (NOT behind an iceberg), this works just as well as it does on the landmass I picked. But even if your capital is inland, you can still get your capital grown much faster than normal with 3 caravans (it's just not as much free food as cargo ships)