CLV01 - Movin' On Up

[Admiral Kutzov]

Though I would move blue 1 NW - that would give it a bit more land to work with, be CxxC from Medina, and still be coastal.

good thought

The white dot was exactly the extra site to which I was referring earlier. In my experience with spots like that, you don't really get much out of them shield-wise because there's just not enough land for them to work. But they can be excellent for commerce if you don't mind paying to speed up the occasional improvement. If the game continues past Mass Production (Commercial Docks) those sites can be huge - in my last game my four biggest research centers were my capital and three sites like the white dot. But early on they can be a pain, because you'll basically have to flat out buy them at least a harbor, market, and aqueduct. If we settle white, we may have to let it sit for a while at pop 3 or 4 before we can afford those things.

good thought 2. Bede refers to them as fishing villages

My personal idiocy - expand east towards the grassland peninsula at a nice easy pace. You don't want to stop expanding.

Think you need a little discussion about what you're researching and why. HBR is fine as the arabs, but what might you going to miss thats going to hurt?