Multineer has Monarchy and Theology which I haven´t and CS would take 15 turns to be researched. The NE is in production and takes another 8 turnes to finish. A GP is hanging around in the capital.
Phil isn´t researched (lightbulbed)
Wonders build (all in capital):
GL, Oracle and Pantheon
6 cottages were build (4 in capital) and 4 cities were found so far, 3 quite big ones (capital size 13 with some troops to keep it happy)
Civics are herrule and slavery and research is at 70% without loosing money
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Giaur has Monarchy and Theology which I haven´t and CS would take 20 turns to be researched. The NE is already finished. No fogbusters are in the north-lands.
Phil is researched (lightbulbed)
Wonders build (all in capital):
GL, Oracle, Stonhenge and NE
11 cottages were build (6 in capital) and 4 cities were found so far, all medium sized. Animal husbandry isn´t researched??? and the pigs near the capital aren´t worked
Civics are herrule and caste-system and research is at 60% without loosing money
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Now my try:
I have metal casting but am missing monarchy (next to be researched) and CS would take 13 turns to be researched. The NE is already finished.
Phil is researched (lightbulbed)
Wonders build in capital:
GL, NE
In second city:
ToA, Colossus (one turn left)
In third city:
Great Lighthouse
Only 4 cottages were build (2 in capita and 2 in second city, with no more cottages planned) and 4 cities were found so far (5th settler is on the way), all medium sized.
Civics are despo and slavery and research is at 80% and loosing 3 gold per turn
Some milestones:
2200 BC:
Most fogbustering is already done and monuments are being chopped, for popping huts I researched hunting as first tech and then produced 2 scouts
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900 BC:
Had
is whipping the Great Lighthouse, Utica is building the ToA, while the capital is producing the 4th settler
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25 AD:
I missed the 1 AD save for one turn...
Utica is building the Colossus, the revolution to Pacifism and Taoism is in process. In Had
and Hippo the real whipping just started and I try to pump out city infrastructure
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Fazit/Differences:
All games look more or less equal/good, despite the different approaches:
@ Giaur:
In my opinion, you have way too many cottages while your cities are to small (your reseach is the worst). When running her.rule and caste, you should build less cottages and grow your cities more... ...why haven´t you researched animal husb. early and have worked the pigs???
@ Multineer:
I normally would try to get the NE and Phil. earlier, because it really speeds up GPp. The Pantheon I don´t build, because it doesn´t do that much difference when you have the GL and the NE early in my opinion. Why haven´t you used the whip lately (I see no citicens complaining
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@ all:
What I did different and why (I don´t say it is better, but different):
Main thing is, that I didn´t build all my wonders in capital. I did this, because I wanted my capital to be a GS factory early and didn´t want to spoil the GPp with other wonders. I decided to build the Great Lighthouse because I felt I had time and lots of forrests to chop and a decent sized city to use a final wip. The ToA and the Colossus were planned after I had seen marble and bronze, because they would speed up research and help to produce a GM. Therefore I had set research to metal casting first (building a forge and the colossus), then CoL (Monarchy will be next, then currency, then Compass (to build/whip the Carthag special building in all cities, then CS)
I used the whip quite early and quite a lot to speed up buildings
I didn´t build much cottages, but started to work 4 of them very early (first and second city). Again in my opinion, this is enough to fuel your early-game research.
I didn´t build the Oracle because I don´t like getting to many GP´s and dont think this wonder is worth it (my reseach at around 1 AD is comparable even without it). Stonhenge and Pantheon I never build because of the same reasons (I don´t want GP´s and GA´s, I only want GS´s in the beginning)
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Everybody feel free to criticize my try
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