Edited to reflect BC play, a quote from the final spoiler:
sjwaste said:
So can I ask what your strategy was? From basically turn 1, I was way behind on tech, but I built some stacks of swordsmen to take out Asoka. From there, I never expanded any further than having my whole subcontinent. By the time I got Asoka out, I was still stuck with swordsmen as my best unit and ...
My first question was where will I get my
? They can and will come from several places:
- Cottages (slider)
- Luxury resources (slider)
- Non luxury commerce tiles (slider) *early on, coastal seafood, lakes, oasis, fur
- Wonder fail gold (slider)
- Religious shrine (slider) *weak and often a diplomacy nightmare
- Pillage (slider)
- City capture gold (slider)
- Slider multipliers (library, market, monastery)
- Specialists (Food, representation)
- Trade routes (TGL, currency)
- Direct hammer conversion [research (or wealth) build after alphabet (or currency)
- Tech trades/peace treaty demands
- Begging/demanding
My thought process and method of proceeding:
I strongly dislike a capitol with seafood. Basically, this is because there is a lower return on hammers spent on workboats vs. workers. Essentially, your workboat dies giving you a seafood improvement. Whereas a worker lives on after building a floodplain cottage. This in amplified in the capitol and not as important for subsequent cities.
So I moved my warrior to the NW tip of the continent and saw a fish that wouldn't be worked from my continent if I SIP'd. Since there was a PH with 2
that would still be able to net the clams and I could fog-gaze two FPs, I moved 1SW to settle on PHF. This set me up with two great city locations. Now you will see that
Cactus Pete, based on his comments here
Pre-Game, disagrees. To each, his own! (I am sure he will do better than I, but I play to my strengths!)
At this point, I see
from seafood and FP cottages. As I explore, I see juicy gold mines to the SW with seafood or corn and a gems to the SE with corn. Unfortunately, the next three potential city sites require a border pop to pay dividends. Paris's second border pop will help a NW 2 fish city (with copper popping up) and the gems site. So I underestimate Immortal AI and Asoka nabs the gold site before me, grabbing the corn, not the fish. He already has a religion and will probably take the corn before I can get there, so he has effectively foiled two great early commerce cities with one brilliant and moronic settling location.
I consider TGL. Too late. I have copper and have to put it to use. So I whip the crap out of my two cities and declare on Asoka in 910 BC with Axes and a spearman for protection. I take heavy losses, but get the gold and gems cities. I also get the southern horses city before taking peace. I am still shamelessly whipping in my two original cities and now chopping axes too. I migrate and take a barb city before turning on Asoka again in a final push to take all his cities. During this time, I am researching HBR and then construction with plans to take on the next neighbor with Cats and Elephants. I am neglecting all wonders, and trying to work two specialist in my first two cities to add to research.
