Another Awesome Start... Thoughts?

[RockTheCazbah87]

I'm back with another awesome start.

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Three gold within the area... with food, and marble... seems like I'll have no trouble getting Aksum to Legendary Culture.

 

[Guardian_PL]

Well, attach it then, but tell me difficulty level first

 

[Johan^^]

food ... one plain Cow aint food. it is only +1

That means you have to get some grassland farms.

This is not an awesome start. In fact you will not be able to work all those nice titles right away. To many mountains vs amount of food.

 

[Verge]

With the number of hills and plains, it's a classic mine and farm operation.

 

[Orion071]

food ... one plain Cow aint food. it is only +1

That means you have to get some grassland farms.

This is not an awesome start. In fact you will not be able to work all those nice titles right away. To many mountains vs amount of food.

I was thinking the same thing. It's a plains cow tile? Ugh. You'll need 3 grassland farms just to be able to work the 2 gold and the marble. And forget about whipping anything because the city can't grow back fast enough. Not a great start at all.

 

[madscientist]

I think it a very good start for the follong reasons

1) River farms and cows get 1 commerce. Basically any worked tile has at least one commerce.
2) 2 gold? Who needs a cottage in the capital.
3) Four resources that produce hammers. Good deal providing you farm up.
4) Plenty of forrests to chop.
5) Rivers make communication with future cities easier and unpillagable.

Overall I think this is an example of a Wonderspam capital. Start on Stonehenge and Oracle, settle the GPs then proceed down the wonder route. Let the nest few cities worry about military and expansion.

 

[RockTheCazbah87]

The latest save is attached... (275 BC I think, it's on Warlord)

I've built the Oracle and Stonehenge; Gondar is a double holy city

It's a huge map, so you might not be able to get it to run. Depends on your specs I guess.

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[futurehermit]

This is an excellent production city. With bureaucracy it will be a production monster. Slow-growing early, which I really dislike. I wouldn't call it "awesome" but it is good and definitely winnable imo.

 

[DaveMcW]

The gold is useless, because you don't have enough food to work it.

If that marble was a grassland corn it would be awesome.

 

[oyzar]

This doesn't have anywhere near enough food...

 

[RockTheCazbah87]

I know the food situation's bad. There's some rice to the south-east, if that was in the fat cross then that city would be sa-weeeet.

 

[oyzar]

On warlord it is easily possible to win without ever improving titles or growing cities though which makes the game rather wierd...

 

[Sarek]

On warlord it is easily possible to win without ever improving titles or growing cities though which makes the game rather wierd...

Hmmm,
That almost sounds like a "variant" challenge for this start?
Win without ever improving tiles?!?

 

[RockTheCazbah87]

@ oyzar:
For you, yeah, because I'm guessing you play at Prince or above. Monarch maybe?

 

[solvero]

I'm quite a noob, but wouldn't it have been better if you moved the settler one west?
it would leave you with the same resources and would switch a couple of mountains with some grassland.