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@Artisan, can you post the original save for the new game?

Would you share the starting save if you have it? It looks like a fun one to play along.

It looks like warrior W or SW to see just a bit more. I don't see an alternative for the warrior move. 1W for settler gives us back 1 forest, but we lose the river connection if I'm reading the screenshot correctly. So that may mean an earlier focus on TW to get cities connected. My guess is...

Best advice you'll get here is to post the initial save and do a shadow game. Post the picture of the initial starting position. Wait for some feedback and then play a small turn set. Based on what I read, your first 50-100 turns are the issue.

Giving this one a go. Monarch - NHNE

It appears that there is coast line 2E of settler. I'm inclined to think that settling 1E for the hammer won't be that helpful if you have coast 2 tiles away. It is possible that it is an oasis. And Fippy's suggestion to move warrior 1SE will reveal whether it is ocean or an oasis.

Thanks @krikav. In this specific situation, the chop wasn't going to finish the settler so that also played into my choice to improve the sheep.

Just got back to Turn 49 in my run through. Shaka settled in my direction making both the plains hill to the SE and the deer spot to the NE unusable until I kill that city that Shaka settled. So my third settler is heading to the cow city in the south. I did some testing to see what I was doing...

The first work boat is for the capital. Second is for the clam city. Or should the order be WB>>settler>>WB? With the second WB for the capital? Second WB is what I 2 popped into at the same time as completing a chop. If I understand correctly, the 2 pop represents 60 hammers. 30 go into the WB...

I'm struggling to get the same results with my micro. I'm at turn 38 and have built worker>>warrior>>WB>>WB>>settler. However my settler is still 3 turns away. So I'm curious how you got your city settled by turn 40 with both WBs also out. Tech was AG>>BW>>Fishing>>AH. Started chopping as soon...

@lymond I've been following this thread and enjoying it and playing along as well. In earlier advice, you suggested that cow city should be 1NW of cows which is where the OP settled. Then in the above advice, you said you preferred 1N of cows. Minor detail in all of this. But I would be...

Thanks for the response @AcaMetis. So since he is so close, do I need to plan on an early rush of some sort? HAs are a viable option if I can get enough cities started. I'm guessing I can get 4 or 5 fairly quickly if I chop the settlers rather than settle them. I'm concerned about how close he...

Thanks. I do understand that everything is case by case. Since the courthouses are half priced, then it certainly makes sense to me this go. I wouldn't say that I automatically went for fail gold. I would say that I looked at the options for that city and knew that I didn't need anything...

@krikav Thanks for the advice on the transitions. I'll open borders and switch to rep as soon as I continue game play. At this stage, I don't have a vassal and I'm not too worried about the others that I know about. In this case, on this map, I don't think it makes sense to go after...