Ichabod
Gaucho
Well, aristocracy + conquest it's too unsinergetic, in my opinion. And I'm a big fan of cottages. I like to see them growing! Not a gameplay argument, but there you go.
Speaking of which, cottages are better in EitB, aren't they? But I guess we'd need to go to a branch of the tech tree that we probably won't be, to adopt the needed civics.
The city 1W of the lake isn't a killer site, but it's probably the best we can have, especially due to the strategic benefits. We'll have a gold city soon enough too, since there isn't much to build besides settlers, workers and warriors. BTW, I say we wait until building an Elder Council in the capital. There are better things to build, in my opinion (maybe we can use the overflow trick to make it a quick build, though).
About the cottage/farm fight, you need to take into account that farms take more time to build. So that's another plus for the cottages (not a big one, since the number of turns we need to turn those fp farms into cottages are going to be much more).
Speaking of which, cottages are better in EitB, aren't they? But I guess we'd need to go to a branch of the tech tree that we probably won't be, to adopt the needed civics.
The city 1W of the lake isn't a killer site, but it's probably the best we can have, especially due to the strategic benefits. We'll have a gold city soon enough too, since there isn't much to build besides settlers, workers and warriors. BTW, I say we wait until building an Elder Council in the capital. There are better things to build, in my opinion (maybe we can use the overflow trick to make it a quick build, though).
About the cottage/farm fight, you need to take into account that farms take more time to build. So that's another plus for the cottages (not a big one, since the number of turns we need to turn those fp farms into cottages are going to be much more).