Thurman Merman
Chieftain
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2016
- Messages
- 20
Came back, loaded up a new game. Egypt, Emperor. Founded my first city on turn 2: on top of a silver deposit on a hill. Next to the coast and a river. Adjacent to cattle and horses. Had another silver and a marble within 2 tiles. Turns out I also had iron (2), coal (6), oil (4), and fish all in my city radius.
Founded my second city 8 tiles away in the middle of some lovely flood plains next to some wheat, stone, silver and Mt. Siani. Turns out I was next to much oil as well.
Third city had some sugar, cattle, horses, and much coal and uranium.
AND....
I got slaughtered. How did I blow that fantastic setup?!? Picked bad beliefs for my religion. Got beat to almost all techs by everyone else. Let war opponents off the ropes too many times.
When Washington won a tech victory, I was still 6 techs away from the end, only had 3x5 and 1x4 on social policies, hadn't even built a spacecraft component.
Wow, I'm not as good as I remember being.
Founded my second city 8 tiles away in the middle of some lovely flood plains next to some wheat, stone, silver and Mt. Siani. Turns out I was next to much oil as well.
Third city had some sugar, cattle, horses, and much coal and uranium.
AND....
I got slaughtered. How did I blow that fantastic setup?!? Picked bad beliefs for my religion. Got beat to almost all techs by everyone else. Let war opponents off the ropes too many times.
When Washington won a tech victory, I was still 6 techs away from the end, only had 3x5 and 1x4 on social policies, hadn't even built a spacecraft component.
Wow, I'm not as good as I remember being.