Future City Sites - using the Gem Mountains to its' fullest potential

We're fast approaching the industrial age (which we should be at, at about 500AD - it's about 50 turns or so quicker to each age on the next higher difficulty), and we should plan ahead. Below is a map of where I think our next cities should go. (Ignore the northern gem-city for now)



This is if we manage to conquer the Japanese. You can sort of get the picture where our Forbidden Palace should be. The proposed city NW of Hakodate could be moved north or south to fit another city in there. But, if we want to be war-like, then we should have numerous productive cities, and some idea what we want them to produce. Artillery? Tanks? ICBMs? Wonders?

Notice that grasslands give us 2 food. If we irragate and railroad all of the grasslands in a given city radius, it gives us 2 food each to support the mountain tiles, or 2 food to support 2 hills. Plains only give us 1 extra food (with a 2-food base), so that's two plains for 1 mountain, or 1 plains for 1 hill.

As you can see, we'd have to "move" a few Japanese cities... We can always have it build a settler/worker and move it to that site.
We could rename it if we want.

Looks very interesting. I only hope the Military Dept makes this a viable possibility by then.

The first city I would put in our NW Territory would be directly between the Cattle and the Iron (this would be 1 tile North and 1 tile NE of your eastern-most city). That city would grab both resources on expansion, develop nicely, and give us a good land grab of the area and a city enroute to the diamonds. For the diamonds, I would then place a city on the coast (for a harbor) NW of your northern-most city.

Looks like a perfict front for a close encounter with the Japanese . We can also benifit from the gems and the Gold to .

Originally posted by FortyJ
Looks very interesting. I only hope the Military Dept makes this a viable possibility by then.

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I'm gonna do my best

CT, I like that plan.