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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    I'll be coming back to this, perhaps tomorrow night. I'm going to see how I do with Start#2.
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Okay, I just made a go at this using Start#1, and my first attempt was 79 turns. Not horrible, but I found a few things about the first attempt at this exercise. Without a goal past the Library in the capitol, I ran out of things to build and research This caused me to build a lot of military...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Yes, I agree. The thing I like about this exercise is it removes any concern for moves after about T65 or so. This allows the player to focus on what really matters for the opening, developing a strong infrastructure. My intent with working these exercises (and others, I'm sure), is that on...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    I don't see why not. I intend to check the numbers on everything and decide whether or not rushing will help. It should, but maybe it's more economical in this case to avoid it. I'm in the middle of calculating things, and this is what I have thus far: 4 Cities at Size 4 This will require...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Are you basing that on the fact that it has more forest to chop than the rest? That's worthy of consideration. I could chop 8 forests there for a lot of extra hammers, and that would end up leaving wet grassland for cottages. Too bad Hatshepsut's not financial. :lol: I need to crunch the...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Actually, I do know that but I forget it all the time. I'm often surprised when I can't build a mine. Only on hills or strategic resources then. Yes, you're right about that. I was thinking about excess food when writing those but decided not to mention it for simplicity's sake. Given...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    So after looking at all of that, it seems the fastest growth city would be #2. I'm still not sure about the city tiles, though, but I know it always produces 2F. Next, (probably tomorrow night), I'll play through the goals on each start and see which one is fastest. I'm liable to make some...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Finally, here's Start #3: With this start and with expansion in mind, I think I'd be forced to go Fishing. Farm the rice yielding 4F 1C, build fishing nets on the first-ring clam yielding 4F 2C. I could then mine the two forest tiles 2N and NE to yield a total of 2F 8H. All that...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Here's start #2, done the same way: This one at first glance encourages the player to work with the clams, but that necessitates researching fishing and I wouldn't want to do that unless absolutely necessary. Thankfully it's loaded with food-rich tiles so that's not necessary, and I...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Okay, now I'm going to do a bit of planning. Tell me if I'm out to lunch. Here's Start #1 with a dot map outline over it, and signs indicating the simple improvements I would make to get this city up to pop 4 and use it to start up the civilization. Those signs might be hard to see...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Thanks, Beningal. I didn't think to check imgur but found it easy to do, so I've resized the images. I also added the three saves to that post. I understand that horses will appear on grassland and plains. Do they appear over forests as well, or is it necessary to have open tiles for them...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    I assume Hatshepsut was chosen because she is spiritual and creative, which means no anarchy and automatic growth via culture. Egypt starts with TW and AG which are decent for a new player as the food is immediately accessible once a worker is born. Hatty also gets War Chariots, which...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Here are the conditions from the original thread: Initial Expansion with Hatshepsut. Our opening exercise takes place on an Inland Sea map (ancient era, normal speed), with Hatshepsut as the leader of the Egyptians. In this exercise, we want to establish a simple base from which we can...
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    NEWB1: Initial Expansion With Hatshepsut (credit to VoiceOfUnreason)

    Hello all, It's been something like three years since my last post here, and I recently re-caught the Civ bug when I accidentally came across "Baba Yetu" when searching for "Baba O'Riley." Seriously. So I came back the forums the day before the site went down. Too funny. Back in 2012 I...
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    Yahya's Back-to-School Game

    Hey lg, Sorry, but I haven't had the time to study this in-depth to this point. I'm nearing time for final exams. That said, I've finally (after three years) gone back to full time at my first job, allowing me to quit the extra job I've had at the mall to fill in the gaps, which will free...
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