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Since it seems there isn't one, I'll start it for this month.
Anyways, it looks like a nice start after a little exploring. 3 wheat nearby, and a quick access to spices. After further exploration, I found the grassland to the south which looks even nicer. Then came the bottleneck that I found. Which became my first objective, so my 3rd & 4th cities sealed off the bottleneck. After that objective was complete I've now started expanding onto the Babs & Persian side of the continent and secured a source of ivory. Having that extra lux should help later.
Then came Iron Working and my big delima of no iron on our half. So I started assembling my archers to take Nineveh from the Babs which was their only iron city. Took Nineveh and Ellipi and sued for peace and got Akkad in the peace treaty. Assembled more archers and declared Babylonian War 2. That led me to destroying Uruk and a newly founded Nineveh and capturing Babylon.
I'm now in 70 BC preparing for War #3 most likely as the Babylonians are down to 2 cities and I want those silks from them. After that I should have the whole south side of the continent which seems to be the nicer half of it anyways. I still haven't even settled the spices on our half of the continent since I've bottlenecked our half off. I also now control both horses on the island, which will definately come in handy, especially when Cavalry rolls around and I can roll over the Persians in that.
Playing with foreknowledge is disallowed!
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889
Since it seems there isn't one, I'll start it for this month.
Anyways, it looks like a nice start after a little exploring. 3 wheat nearby, and a quick access to spices. After further exploration, I found the grassland to the south which looks even nicer. Then came the bottleneck that I found. Which became my first objective, so my 3rd & 4th cities sealed off the bottleneck. After that objective was complete I've now started expanding onto the Babs & Persian side of the continent and secured a source of ivory. Having that extra lux should help later.
Then came Iron Working and my big delima of no iron on our half. So I started assembling my archers to take Nineveh from the Babs which was their only iron city. Took Nineveh and Ellipi and sued for peace and got Akkad in the peace treaty. Assembled more archers and declared Babylonian War 2. That led me to destroying Uruk and a newly founded Nineveh and capturing Babylon.
I'm now in 70 BC preparing for War #3 most likely as the Babylonians are down to 2 cities and I want those silks from them. After that I should have the whole south side of the continent which seems to be the nicer half of it anyways. I still haven't even settled the spices on our half of the continent since I've bottlenecked our half off. I also now control both horses on the island, which will definately come in handy, especially when Cavalry rolls around and I can roll over the Persians in that.