7 cows!?
- Thread starter AluminumKnight
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madviking
north american scum
get cities around the cows so not just one has it.
moondoggi
Chieftain
LOL ya, like... Hi, my daddys last name is Rockafeller/Dupont/Gates how can I spend his money most effectively.
I sure hope you can find some cows in those shadows, you seem to need a few more. Probably move your settler 10 or 15 tiles for a better spot. 
AluminumKnight
Conquistador
Absolutely love the hija- I mean help guys...
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
I'd build 1-SE, 2-NE, 3-SW and 4-NW of them so that you get
1- mined cow shields for the floodplains city
2- a "pass" through the strait with a harbor city, which would also have the spices (that'll be a gold pump)
3- Use for the gold hill and mountains through the extra food of one irrigated cow
4- Use those last 2 cows with one city, so as not to get +6 -> +9 food in one city, which would be chopped off by growth at one point under size 7, and would be more tricky to MM than a plain simple +5 after anyways.
Build close, since size 12 is your maximal limit for the greatest useful part of the game.
Hope I helped more than Dave
1- mined cow shields for the floodplains city
2- a "pass" through the strait with a harbor city, which would also have the spices (that'll be a gold pump)
3- Use for the gold hill and mountains through the extra food of one irrigated cow
4- Use those last 2 cows with one city, so as not to get +6 -> +9 food in one city, which would be chopped off by growth at one point under size 7, and would be more tricky to MM than a plain simple +5 after anyways.
Build close, since size 12 is your maximal limit for the greatest useful part of the game.
Hope I helped more than Dave
AluminumKnight
Conquistador
Thanks for the help! Cleared things up for me, mostly. One question though still. I'm a little confused on where I should place the floodplains city. If I put it on the flood plains so as to get the wheat, I only get one of the cows. I was thinking of putting it NE of the top sugar so I get both cows, but then I only get 3 flood plains and it's not on the river. I also looked at NW of the top sugar but I lose a sugar and I still won't get the wheat, plus it's closer to the gold hill city.
Beorn-eL-Feared
Idiot riding pedals
You'll get sooooooo much extra food from FP that you only (and barely) need one of the cows. I'd pick the plains one here because, mined, it's 3 shields, 2 despot or 4 railed.
My main point here is: grab as many cities as you can around them. Misfortunately, it looks like you're just starting, you're pretty far and you have competition. So deal with that carefully: the AI settle pretty randomly around ressources, so he might steal too many from you to make it worth it, and anyways they might be too far from home to be of real interest after all.
My main point here is: grab as many cities as you can around them. Misfortunately, it looks like you're just starting, you're pretty far and you have competition. So deal with that carefully: the AI settle pretty randomly around ressources, so he might steal too many from you to make it worth it, and anyways they might be too far from home to be of real interest after all.
AluminumKnight
Conquistador
Alright, thanks for the help again. Actually see that little bit of lighted water on the eastern edge of the screenshot? That's the LOS of my capital, so I'm really not that far away, plus my cap is a decent settler factory that's just about set up so I should be able to grab all of that.
Grand Cadfael
Freedom fighter
Sea cows dont taste that good
jeffbot
Chieftain
Speaking as the poor sap who started the five-cow thread, I'm amused. In a humiliated sort of way. 
rainmaker
Warlord
Those workers need to clean up all that cow flop or you may get some early polution
Tribute
Not Sarcastic
How about you start over and never speak of such unfairness again? If you're on Emperor or above this would be prudent....
You won't get them if you are.
You won't get them if you are.
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