Challenge Run #3 - Bank of Venice

[Milae]

Our Merchant council has agreed that you need money to make money. You have been tasked with building up the treasury to 5000 gold as fast as possible.

Rules:
- Settle your first city no later than turn 2.
- don't use merchants for instant gold (diplomatic mission)


Settings:
Venice
King difficulty
Communitu Map
No ruins
No events

VP 7-1-3
No other Mods

Dyes, coast and desert, but quite an isolated spot. Settling Colonias and sea trade routes will be essential.

 

[Milae]

Okay so apparently it wasn't King and also you get mad gold for using a Merchant of Venice for the gold in a city state. I updated the savefile with a king one and the rules to compensate.

 

[bonniepbilly]

Spoiler My game :

Thanks for the challenge. I had never played Venice in VP yet so it was a good opportunity to experiment.
Went tradition (again), god of commerce, tithe and holy law.
I focused on defending my trade routes, due to the isolated start, and later in the sea.
Went trade first and built Petra, then sailing, but maybe calendar would have been faster (for the monopoly).
I never noticed that before, but you can't send two opposite land caravans (internal food)? I was hoping to do that with my first expansion for the god of commerce bonus.
Cattaro should have been further north but barbs were in the way...
I also ignored the national wonder (faith) to focus on expo giving monopoly or trade routes potential.

 

[Milae]

Went tradition (again), god of commerce, tithe and holy law.

Nice one man, I do have a feeling other policies would be better since tradition doesn't give much gold, but you do get a better start and help with religion. Did you go for Pyramids or just straight for trade?

On the trade routes was it just because of no granary maybe?

 

[bonniepbilly]

Straight for trade. And fishing first to make sure I had 4 pop when opening tradition.

No I had a granary.