Great starting city, horrible starting location- what do I do here?

[Sephlock]

BTW, I'm using solver's event mod and his unofficial patch, but otherwise I'm unpatched.


I know from reading the forums that gold in your starting area is a cause for celebration, and the food is certainly nothing to sneeze at either- but man, theres tundra to the right (not to mention Alexander on my doorstep) and a nice big swath of unproductive desert in all other directions... I can see maybe one good site for a city- all the others would have to be

1: Way too close to one another

2: On horrible terrain

or

3: Very far away, ravaging my poor gold reserves.

Can someone good help me out here?

 

[Elandal]

Solver's event mod is not savegame compatible, so maybe post screenies (eg. map) and expand your explanation so it'd be possible to evaluate this without the save?

 

[Lanstro]

not having seen your start because of the savegame issues, you may want to consider a quick 4-5 archer rush for alex's capital. the BtS AI has very poorly defended cities in the first few thousand years and you can probably wipe him out in one go.

 

[Soneji]

I wiped out Washington and Asoka the other day with Warrior rushes lol