[BTS] BOTM 253: Churchill, Emperor - First Spoiler - 1AD

[Powerfaker]

Moved the settler S-SE. Didn't see any seafood but did see lots of grass+river, so moved back to the starting spot to settle.
So, missed the PH spot which would have been better for a fast opening, but I'm not unhappy with my 1AD capital,

I didn't notice the hut NE of Paris, but accidentitally stepped on it and got ..... hunting, nice how the game compensates for slower start
Decided to steal a worker that was busy on the 2nd gems. The nice thing now was that Louis wouldn't dare send a settler passed my sentry warriors, so I could settle the area myself. Stole one more worker. This all threw him back a lot. When I signed peace he still had 1 city and only a few units. That was 500BC or so. But he had an axe, and I had my territory secured by then.

Slightly earlier a barb city popped up on the copper, garrisoned by axes. This was acutally nice for my chariots. When I conquered it , 100BC, it even had a granary.

So at 1AD 9 cities 39 pop. I was piling up gold for ages , waiting for the academy. Now just finished Calendar and moving on to Construction in 3T. I'm so ready to raise an army and kick out Louis.
Further teching will be a pain still, doing +18 gold at 0 reasearch, but my 4 spices are not hooked up just yet. Wonders are all built on other continents by the way.

Spoiler :

 

[Fine_Distinction]

Moved the settler S-SE. Didn't see any seafood but did see lots of grass+river, so moved back to the starting spot to settle.
So, missed the PH spot which would have been better for a fast opening, but I'm not unhappy with my 1AD capital,

I didn't notice the hut NE of Paris, but accidentitally stepped on it and got ..... hunting, nice how the game compensates for slower start
Decided to steal a worker that was busy on the 2nd gems. The nice thing now was that Louis wouldn't dare send a settler passed my sentry warriors, so I could settle the area myself. Stole one more worker. This all threw him back a lot. When I signed peace he still had 1 city and only a few units. That was 500BC or so. But he had an axe, and I had my territory secured by then.

Slightly earlier a barb city popped up on the copper, garrisoned by axes. This was acutally nice for my chariots. When I conquered it , 100BC, it even had a granary.

So at 1AD 9 cities 39 pop. I was piling up gold for ages , waiting for the academy. Now just finished Calendar and moving on to Construction in 3T. I'm so ready to raise an army and kick out Louis.
Further teching will be a pain still, doing +18 gold at 0 reasearch, but my 4 spices are not hooked up just yet. Wonders are all built on other continents by the way.

Spoiler :

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@Powerfaker ty for report and nice to see your cities in detail. I settled same and placed cities very similarly, although I had less by 1AD. Did you put cottages immediately? Or farms first? Since SIP capital was not particularly food-rich, I farmed everything first planning to add cottages "later" ... never happened, which is one of the reasons my tech rate sucks so much this game.

 

[Powerfaker]

@Fine_Distinction
No farms. No time for my worker(s) , though it would have been good to have one or two. After Agri I went Wheel-AH-Pottery and built/whipped (not sure which) a granary after 1st settler. I whipped a 2nd settler and then started cottaging and grow to the max. It helped a lot that I stole 2 workers and saved myself the burden of producing them
My city at the corn/fish northeast (York in my game) took over the task of building settlers, 4 in total I think. This took off as late as 1000 BC or so.
But yeah, without the cottages this game is problematic Your 1AD city/pop count is workable, pop count being more important.

 

[Conquistador 63]

SIP t0.
Met Louis early and have been using him as my worker provider (got 5 by 1AD).
9 cities (took one French city SE of Paris with pigs/wine), pretty similar layout and stats as in @Powerfaker 's game.
Built SH in London and GLH in a city to the NE, but this investment has not been really useful yet. I got a lousy GProphet, plan is to use it to bulb Theo (no religion present in our continent yet).
I already have construction and some cats are about to start the real action, but other that I am pretty backwards. It will be a long way until we get Optics/Astro.

Spoiler Map :

 

[Fine_Distinction]

SIP t0.
Met Louis early and have been using him as my worker provider (got 5 by 1AD).
9 cities (took one French city SE of Paris with pigs/wine), pretty similar layout and stats as in @Powerfaker 's game.
Built SH in London and GLH in a city to the NE, but this investment has not been really useful yet. I got a lousy GProphet, plan is to use it to bulb Theo (no religion present in our continent yet).
I already have construction and some cats are about to start the real action, but other that I am pretty backwards. It will be a long way until we get Optics/Astro.

Spoiler Map :

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5 workers, well done