FIRST BLOCK - Up to discovery of Bronze Working
Continued to scout, moving to what turned to be the eastern coast, and then moving back westward, popping two huts - one for gold and another for a very large chunk of the map.
Then, in 3850 - we met our first civ who appeared to come from the N or NW -
In 3685, we have already lost a point of relations with Brennus, after our ambassador caused a "faux pas" - boy we are friendly and great already, love it! Then, another stroke of great luck - our scout was mauled by a bear in 3640, the same year a fellow Civ discovered the world's first religion, in Buddhism! I found out the next turn on the conversion that it was indeed Brennus who founded it, as I expected.
EDIT:
So we know, because Brennus's civ color is very hard to see (at least for me, I'm male colorblind) his capital's BFC is in the area by the cow tile to the North and slightly West... he's definitely close, and the culture of his religion makes me think trying to get him out of our hair quickly is our best course of action... we won't be able to REX far that's for sure - and most of the land to his east is not great for cities, at least in my "crap civ player" humble opinion.
In 3550 our worker finished, a few turns after the discovery of Agriculture and the start of Mining, and he went to work farming the corn tile. In 3235 BC, Nidaros grew to Pop 2, and I began working the finished corn and the three hammer tile to get out our workboat, so we can start getting that commerce from the seafood. The same turn marked the founding of Hinduism, so the first two early religions are now in play.
3085 BC marked the end of our 2nd build, the Work Boat, so I set it to fish one of the crab resources, and changed the city tiles to work the corn tile, and one of the furs. Since we still had a decent surplus of food, I was willing to take the decline in growth in order to bring the "money bag" in from the fur, along with a hammer that I would not have obtained from working the seafood tile. I feel this is the correct way to work these tiles, but I am interested in opinions on this play. Started building the 2nd fur camp, and a Warrior in Nidaros to finish scouting out the west coast near our start. Thinking at this point in this post of building another warrior for protection and using the other for an escort for the settler that I will build directly after.
The next turn I actually thought better of it, realized I was a little stoned, and switched from the 5F corn tile, to the 4F, 3C Seafood tile. This additional commerce lowered the finish of the BW tech to 15 turns, with our warrior finishing in 14. So I will scout out just to the west side of the start and I'll be stopping there to give us a good look.
The following screenshot is the beginning of the turn directly after the anarchy ended for adopting Slavery. As you can see, our only visible source of copper is quite a ways from the start... and in it's path is a lot of crap desert.
So, we are now in the year 2830 BC, we are in our 2nd warrior build, and I have The Wheel picked for the tech to research simply as we had to have something up - but I am interested in tech path we should take here. At least for our first city, we have all the worker techs we need now - except for Masonry for the second border pop to incorporate Marble, and I'm thinking that Animal Husbandry may be necessary to find a strategic resource but that just could be me being panicky since this is the first game of this format and I'd like not to embarass myself too badly.
I'll be waiting for your input, I have the next two days off of work, so we will be able to get a lot of discussion and play in! Again, please accept my thanks to all of you for participating in this thread, and making me feel very welcome as a fellow lurker trying to play a bigger part in the fun of CivFanatics!
Till next time!
Your bud,
Jay
as to the reasoning behind this... Seems to me, especially with the ton of food in our capital, that we will need that happy resource sooner rather than later... but I am curious as to your reasoning behind this, and thank you for sharing!
