Another city-placement issue

[SeVeS]

Hello,

Generally I'm having trouble with my city-placement. In every game I've played so far I've made some city-placement judgment errors. I have a settler ready in my capital, hats the city under the dye indicator, and need to hook up an Iron resource. I've have no copper nearby. Shaka, he has copper, is north of me and he seems to be ready to squish me. O, I'm playing Mansa Munsa, so I'm financial.

Currently I'm torn between these two options.
-2E1S of eastern Iron: less maintenance, lots of coast for
-2E1N of western Iron: flood plains and stone, but also 5! desert tiles

Thanks in advance!

WJBG

 

[r_rolo1]

How about 1NW of western iron (fish + iron +stone + coastal) ?

 

[svv]

That's a good suggestion. An alternative is to 1 NE of the same iron. This would lose you the fish, and cause your city not to be coastal, but you'd add 4 floodplains (which otherwise might end up floating between cities), plus the stone would be right next to you in case you wanted to build pyramids or something.

 

[SeVeS]

That's a good suggestion. An alternative is to 1 NE of the same iron. This would lose you the fish, and cause your city not to be coastal, but you'd add 4 floodplains (which otherwise might end up floating between cities), plus the stone would be right next to you in case you wanted to build pyramids or something.

Thanks for your opinion! I placed it indeed 1NE of the western iron! Health is an issue right now.. but I'll fix that!

 

[futurehermit]

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

How I would've approached this:

Settle 1 N of E iron. Raze both of Shaka's visible cities. The first one is in the wrong spot (want it a bit west on river to take advantage of a v. nice commerce city there) and the second one is too far away.

You can't let Shaka build up or he becomes a monster. I would say raze as many of his cities as you can and then settle your chunk of the continent. Once you tech past col-currency-construction you can use elephant + catapult to finish Shaka and, if necessary, whoever else is on the continent.

Once you have around 15 cities +/- you can settle in and shoot for a space win.

 

[d4m]

Dont forget by settling ON a desert you turn it into a workable tile now.