Nobles' Club CXXIX: Roosevelt of America

Normal Fractal map.

In each scenario file you can select your level of difficulty, but that doesn't give the AI the right bonus techs by itself. Use the Noble save for all levels at and below Prince. The Monarch save gives all the AI Archery. Emperor adds Hunting; Immortal adds Agriculture; Deity adds The Wheel.

For players on Monarch or above, you should add archery as a tech for the barbarians (if you don't, the AI will capture their cities very early). This cannot be done in the WB save file and must be done in Worldbuilder as follows:

Note: The standard saves have no huts and have events turned off. If you want tribal villages and random events, choose the saves with "Huts" in their names. If you want huts but no events, select the Huts saves and use Custom Scenario to turn on the option that suppresses events.

AH -> Mining -> Mysticism -> Meditation -> Priesthood

Build Oracle and take Horseback Riding, and while building Barracks+Stables ->
The Wheel -> Hunting -> Archery -> Bronze working immediately after

(to see where there is copper to insta pillage the mine 1 turn into the war, and of course to chop/whip Horse archers)

To fuel research (which is usually the limiting factor) and because being industrious (which is OP) I may want to build Stonehenge in the 2nd city for fail gold.

The Great Priest from the Oracle can shrine Buddism or whatever (since Brennus pretty much always goes for that) if I can snag the Capital at that point.

Will probably research Pottery -> Writing with the capture gold and try to trade HBR for Alphabet with some other civ.

SiP, thought about gambling and moving the settler 2S1E to the hill in hope of some fish, but upon seeing the corn to the east, decided against it, would take away from any decent city trying to work it.

Tech is AH-MIN-BW-TW-MYS-POT

I improved Cow, Pig, then Horse, I assume this is the best order?

I think I should have teched TW before BW so my worker could do something more useful than build a mine which wouldn't be used for another handful of turns, but I was worried BW might reveal something which could affect my planned city placement, but I don't think it's as inefficient as I originally thought; would have lost turns bringing the worker back to build the mine later.

Settled the Corn and Cows first, then the river site up north.

I want to get a worker off Brennus (don't think we're going to be friends) but can't find any so far...



Kinda have to go for the Oracle with this setup, I think I'm going to take MC instead of CoL though, want the cheap forges asap.

Other than that, guess it'l' be Cat+Ele for Brennus, if he's slow to hook up any metal he might have, maybe I'll harass with HA.

Still unsure about my city placements, not an awful lot of choice but think this setup's ok?

Jelloholic said:

Still unsure about my city placements, not an awful lot of choice but think this setup's ok?

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New york is good. The position is complicated, though. The problem is that the cows are the only food resource for the land to the west, which means you have the corn to share between New York and your current location for the silver. There are a lot of flat green tiles near by, so maybe it works out that you micro the food around and NY works a zillion cottages.

There's a more flexible location for the silver city.

Boston... I think the position of Boston is a bit weak. It fits with your map (though maybe that northern city should be south of the spices?), but I'm not convinced that city on the north east coast deserves the cows. My guess is that Boston should be on the desert hill, with the cows eventually feeding a city on the plains hill between Boston and NY, and another city sharing the flood plains on one of the ivory -- presumably the northern one.

The remaining land in the NE corner gets claimed by a fishing village parked on the plains hill at the corner of the river.

Only 3 votes more than required:Score:Statistics:Power graph:My early tech order was: AH - Mining - BW - Sailing - TW - Masonry - Mysticism - Hunting - Writing - HBR - Alphabet - Currency. Just like Jelloholic, I also think that I should have researched The Wheel before BW. Or Sailing. Getting early cities connected via trade routes is very important. Spending time researching BW can delay the trade routes quite a lot.

I settled New York to the east, on the hill next to the dry coastal Corn, and prepared it for The Great Lighthouse which was completed in 975 BC. In order to take advantage of the extra 2 trade routes provided by the GLH, my next 2 cities had to be coastal. Boston got settled on the desert hill to the north, next to the Cow resource. Philadelphia secured the Silver resource to the SW. It didn't have food in its 1st ring, but again - getting the extra TRs was the most important priority. After a border pop with a Monument, it got the Corn resource.

My first GS was extremely late - 100 BC! Washington had extremely poor commerce, so I didn't waste him on an Academy. An HA rush against Brennus was in preparation, but I didn't have Currency yet. So I just fired a Golden Age in order to secure Currency.

Attacked Brennus with an initial force of 18 HAs or so in 150 AD. Brennus had spread out so the war lasted until 650 AD. Luckily I met no Longbows, though I was prepared for that. With an exception of border skirmishes with Mansa and Wang, a long period of economy-oriented game followed. Beelined Banking for Merc, Constitution for Rep and Democracy for SoL. The relations with Toku became so good that he opened borders with me and even became my vassal.

Finally, I declared on Mansa/Hatty when I had built some Infantry and Artillery. A couple of turns later, Wang DoWed on me. Being not interested in fighting on multiple fronts, I pulled back my invasion force from Gao and concentrated on pacifying Wang. After wiping out his main stack and capturing 3 cities I accepted his capitulation.

Although I was preparing for the second invasion to Mansa's and Hatty's continent, I tested the Diplomatic victory. Test successful