General though after my second session. I'll try to use the spoil option for the first time so let's see how it work.
First game on a East VS West Map. The giant river all over the continent is incredible for specialist city. Once I'll clean those puny civilisation who dare established so close to me, it will be up for a good start. Secondly, these map are small and narrow compare to usual Standard size map. I was kinda surprise I reach the tundra so fast whil exploring. Make it perfect for a puppet-rex strategie. If I had known it, I would probably have gone for a millitary start even tough I got a bad start with that. And then, there's the science overflow. I can't wait 'til they fix that. Before library, it's really hard to manage, even imposssible when you are beelining. And in a cultural game, you are beelining a lot.
I look at CharonJr just up there and I'm disappoint I didn't go that way too. I really got to practice my millitary side on this game. It's what got me that bad ranking on TSG2.
Now, let's see what happenned.
I start with Animal Husbandry to see if I could Horseman-rush the west continent. Unfortunaly, by the time my warrior got slayed by barbarian, I had only discover 2 horses and no others civilizations. Aiming randomly on the map with 2 horses didn't seem like a efficiant conquest way so I kept going the upper science tree for calendar, writing, philosophy...
After a worker, and a monument, I start the construction of Stonehenge. Now I'm thinking it was a mistake. As I said in my preparation, I aim to go for a large-empire-city-gifting strategy and the addition of Stonehenge might be of little help in that situation compare too a small-empire-regular-type of cultural win.
Mistake, mistake and more mistake. Money-wise, I was saving money for my first settler. But I didn't look carefully and put my worker in a dangerous position. I had to waste money on a scout to save him, greatly delaying that second city. Loosing my warrior so early as greater signification than in civ4 where I just sent them to there death at the other end of the world.
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Tech Tree : AH, Pottery, Calendar, Writing, Philosophy, Mining, Archery, Trapping, Civil Services
Social Policy : Tradition, Aristocracy
Hammer : Worker, Monument, Stonehenge, Scout, GL(not finnish), Warrior, Settler, Oracle (too early, I would have had time to built an army first but as I got rape for GL, I was mad and didn't think much about it), Library, My army on the way