HorseshoeHermit
20% accurate as usual, Morty
You reroll this start, right?
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(CP) Where's my food?
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tu_79
Deity
Not if playing Vox Populi. A God of the Hunt pantheon looks good. Lacking a bit of food, so it's best to focus on expanding.
HorseshoeHermit
20% accurate as usual, Morty
How long until you work a 2f tile under that plan?
vyyt
Deity
I probably should not be trying to read between the lines, but just in case you are wondering, I am pretty sure CBP is not touching the starting locations, so this is what you would be getting in the vanilla Civ5.
And yes, I would reroll this start - resp. rotate to a different starting location - I am using the WHoward's mod which lets you rotate between some available starting locations on turn 1.
And yes, I would reroll this start - resp. rotate to a different starting location - I am using the WHoward's mod which lets you rotate between some available starting locations on turn 1.
tu_79
Deity
Talking for VP, not CP:
Forests already have 2f1p, one extra food when you build the Herbalist (calendar?). That one with furs is even better. Research trap and improve immediatly with a worker for an extra 1f1g. The other way is to research Animal husbandry and get extra food with pastures on those hilly sheep, for a 2f2p total each one. When learning a pantheon, choose God of the Hunt for extra food faith and culture on camps, or God of Stars (the tundra one) for extra food faith and culture on tundra resources, but that would encourage you to settle along the tundra border. Your worker can plow farms to the north. It takes 8 turns to build the farm, plus 10-16 turns to produce the worker. With three adjacent farms in plains you'll have three tiles with 3f1p.
With a low food start, I would probably choose Authority, so I get extra food and gold every time the borders expand (and they expand fast in capital if you keep killing barbs).
So you see, with VP you can play with almost any start.
About barb spamming, if you play on normal difficulties, AI is having the same troubles as you have, so increase your army when posible. It's a long game and you'll have plenty of choices to recover.
