Chapter 1 - "How I missed the Oracle by one turn"
Settled in place. Settled 2nd city 4E of Delhi to have the Marble in the first ring. Went Fishing - BW - Wheel - Pottery - Writing - Masonry - Poly - Priesthood - (Aesthetics).
Fogbusting strategy :
Note that I use two warriors to fogbust the East, so many times the barbs just won't attack (I have a woodsman II guy already).
This is the earliest great wall I've ever seen from the AI...
Polytheism planned for 1440BC, getting ready for mass chopping...
These fast workers are amazing
However...
Obviously the AI is cheating
1440BC the Oracle isn't gone yet, 3T to Priesthood --> why not?
I get Priesthood in 1320BC, whip a settler into it + 3 chops... 1200BC 1T to complete the Oracle and then...
I don't care, I needed Priesthood anyways, right? Getting the Oracle would have been a little cheesy here. Plus I don't really want that GP pollution, so it's no big deal.
Quick fail gold isn't bad either...
Now I'm going to explore a little, and hopefully expand to 5-6 cities ASAP. Will probably build GL + NE in the capital as it isn't much of a cottage spot, this will speed up the GP generation. I don't see any really wrong decisions I've made until now (except not exploring enough, but we already know it's isolation, right? ). Next city is probably the fish + sheep spot. I will probably pause Aesthetics and go for Sailing (and AH, maybe) first. I don't think I'll build an Academy before Astro here.
I attached the save if anyone wants to look at it. I played very quickly so the micro was most likely suboptimal.
Edit :
Build order :
Delhi - half worker - wb - worker - whip wb - 2*warrior - half warrior - settler - granary - finish warrior - library - worker - settler - 4/5 Oracle
Bombay - wb (whip) - library (not finished yet) ; maybe should have built a granary in Bombay first, didn't do the maths...
I reloaded a couple of times because of miscalculations / wrong timing in whip overflow / worker turns (I know, that's cheesy )
Settled in place. Settled 2nd city 4E of Delhi to have the Marble in the first ring. Went Fishing - BW - Wheel - Pottery - Writing - Masonry - Poly - Priesthood - (Aesthetics).
Fogbusting strategy :
Spoiler :
Note that I use two warriors to fogbust the East, so many times the barbs just won't attack (I have a woodsman II guy already).
This is the earliest great wall I've ever seen from the AI...
Spoiler :
Polytheism planned for 1440BC, getting ready for mass chopping...
Spoiler :
These fast workers are amazing
However...
Spoiler :
Obviously the AI is cheating
1440BC the Oracle isn't gone yet, 3T to Priesthood --> why not?
I get Priesthood in 1320BC, whip a settler into it + 3 chops... 1200BC 1T to complete the Oracle and then...
Spoiler :
I don't care, I needed Priesthood anyways, right? Getting the Oracle would have been a little cheesy here. Plus I don't really want that GP pollution, so it's no big deal.
Quick fail gold isn't bad either...
Now I'm going to explore a little, and hopefully expand to 5-6 cities ASAP. Will probably build GL + NE in the capital as it isn't much of a cottage spot, this will speed up the GP generation. I don't see any really wrong decisions I've made until now (except not exploring enough, but we already know it's isolation, right? ). Next city is probably the fish + sheep spot. I will probably pause Aesthetics and go for Sailing (and AH, maybe) first. I don't think I'll build an Academy before Astro here.
I attached the save if anyone wants to look at it. I played very quickly so the micro was most likely suboptimal.
Edit :
Build order :
Delhi - half worker - wb - worker - whip wb - 2*warrior - half warrior - settler - granary - finish warrior - library - worker - settler - 4/5 Oracle
Bombay - wb (whip) - library (not finished yet) ; maybe should have built a granary in Bombay first, didn't do the maths...
I reloaded a couple of times because of miscalculations / wrong timing in whip overflow / worker turns (I know, that's cheesy )
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