For those without the game, this is for you

Now, I have a game running now. I shall save it and start a new one. I will try to walk you through an entire game from the very beginning. However, I will be playing the game for you people who don't have it yet. First, tell me what civ to play as and who else should be it. This is about you people seeing what you want to see, I.E., the Redcoats in action or the effects of playing with too many civs on a small map (border clashes and wars a plenty).

So, I present to you these questions about what I should do.

1: What civ and what leader? I was thinking about the Greeks or English (if the English, I would pick Elizabeth). However, it is entirely up to your popular response.

2: What are civs should play and how many? I will play on standard map-generating scripts and on warlord difficult, just because I'm new to the game too. And I will give all the civs more room to breathe in expanding. However, it is up to you how many civs and what civs (and leaders, oh, also you can both leaders of a civ play like Roosevelt versus Washington).

EDIT 3: Of course, it doesn't have to be a random map. It could be on the Earth map or one of the scenarios. I guess that is the urgent question here.

Then once the game loads I will take your feedback as to where I should found the first city, what strategies to employ, what techs to go after, who should be my ally, etc. I want this game to be as close as possible to you guys playing.

EDIT: In a Photobucket account problem, all screenies on Pages 1-6 have been dissapeared. From Page 7 onward you will find the best screenies of the late game.

Arabia, 3 Continents, 18 civs, largest map possible, after that I need to know where you started, nearest resourses, etc.

Since Sullla is doing Arabia for his walkthrough, I wouldn't mind seeing something different. I'd say go with Elizabeth and the English, its fine. Largest size with the most civs works well.

Those are my thoughts.

Thanks for doing this, btw. It is definately appreciated.

Treefoot's example is good.

And thank you for playing such a game for us, period!

Arabia seemed like a fine choice, because the philosophical-spiritual traits (I usual lean cultural, but I shall play however you want me to play), and the Camel Archer seemed like an interesting UU, but I'm going with the English and Elizabeth. Of course I have to use all civs, I want to see them all in action too. I'll load it right now, and expect lots of screenies! Remember to check back at this thread frequently, I'll update every chance I get (about every 5 turns or so).

zany is the man!

Huuuray!!!!!

Just get going and play it fast. And tell us about it! I vote for "Small," i.e. 6 players with your choice of settings .

W00t! Very interested in seeing how Redcoats perform.

Load time was outrageous, but my graphics settings were too high for the number of civs. Just give me five minutes and I can grab a screenie of our starting location and where we should settle. .

Also, for the Huge size map 12 civs are recommended there will be border clashes right away and early wars. So, I guess our early strategy could be either build up an offensive military, growth to grab land, or culture to claim it. Well, first on that capital city.

Terribly sorry, but my system simply couldn't handled 18 civs. I have to play on a small map with 6 civs on the lowest possible settings. But all that means is I can update you on the game sooner! Hold on a little bit longer and we can FINALLY get into the game.

Okay, I am playing with 6 civs (Asoka, Napoleon, whoever you spell the other Chinese leader's name, Huayna Capac, and Kublai Khan). I set it to 2 continents, and here is our starting location. Pretty tricky, as the AI-approved possible city locations are several moves away.



I wish I could remove my desktop background from the screenshot, and make it bigger. Anyone know how? But we have a problem: where to build that first city. Any suggestions?

I just found the city on the starting square. I decide to build a warrior to defend the city, while I send out the starting warrior as a scout. He comes across a goody hut, but only gets 45 gold. I was hoping for promotion points, but no biggie.

Do you have an image editing program? It's as simple as clicking on the screen print button and opening the Windows "Paint" program, where you can paste the image and select the "cut box" tool for trimming out your unwanted backgrounds. Better still, paste the image as a new selection in any image editor (Adobe Photoshop, Corel Photo-PAINT or Jasc Paint Shop Pro) and use even better tools to crop, resize and add text comments and highlighting graphics to your images.

London expands and starts working on that cattle square. Once my warrior is completed I'll build a worker. My warrior, venturing south, reveals coast there. So, I've got some lakes near me and also freedom to expand southwards.

Oh, I forgot to mention, Buddhism was founded on that turn. I'm already aiming my sights on a later religion, maybe Christianity. The next turn Hinduism is founded. My warrior keeps on scouting.

Yusaku John III, I don't have any programs beyond Paint. However, I will edit the next pic (after the one in post #16) to eliminate that obnoxious desktop background.

On the same turn I met Napoleon (there are many lakes and peaks nearby, so expanding the borders of London will secure much coastal land for the mighty English Empire), got experience points from a goody hut, and discovered Animal Husbandry. I promote my scouting warrior to Woodsman II, because I don't know want else to promote him to.



A few turns later my worker is built, and I begin work on a warrior so my next to be built settler will have an escort. The worker begins building a pasture on the cattle ASAP, while my worker continues scouting towards French territory, and the French scouting warrior does the same.

Looks like I'm still having a bit of trouble with the screenies.
What Napoleon is saying is "You can call me the Little Corporal if you like, but then I'd have to kill you." One question about his leaderhead, why isn't he wearing a hat? Oh yeah, and no era-specific leaderheads in Civ IV.

A while later by warrior is attacked by a lion, and almost killed. Rather than waiting 9 turns to heal, I press onward. With the woodsman II promotions, I waltz right through the woods and make it into a goody hut next turn. There they give me a warrior, quite valuable. I send the injured one home to heal (next turn) and send the new one out to explore some more. After my workers finish the pasture on the cattle, I send them out to build a cottage adjacent to that square (also on next turn).

Update (no screenie, nothing new to show): I discover Bronze Working and decide to set my sights on Theology to unlock Christianity. Who knows, I might stumble across Judaism on the way there? I change to the Slavery civi and suffer a mere single turn of anarchy.