This time my Dutch found themselves on an isolated island. I could use some advice from the better players. Game settings are normal speed, monarch difficulty and hemispheres map (random number of variable continents, islands and standard size).
First the map of the island with my initial attempt of dot mapping included.
I, II and III are my city rankings from the best to worse. Some of the III's are quite shabby and hopefully they'll be preceded by offshore cities.
My original plan is to found the city with pigs, crabs and wheat next because it's close, I'm already able to use all of its resources and it has decent production capacity to help my growing empire to keep barbarians at bay. And as Dutch are creative it'll give me Marble in 50 turns and removes the immediate need to use settler to claim that resource.
After that I'm planning to found both of the northern horse cities (probably the closer one first or should I take the better commercial city first even though it's further?). Rest of the founding order is unclear and will probably be influenced by future resources such as iron.
Then comes the problem. What would be a feasible type of victory? Domination seems quite hard so I'm mostly considering space (is my land rich enough in both hammers and coins for this?) or culture (if this is the best way I'm going to need a little help with my teching order as I've never actually tried culture before).
So is there hope for the Dutch people or do they fall into oblivion?
First the map of the island with my initial attempt of dot mapping included.
Spoiler :
I, II and III are my city rankings from the best to worse. Some of the III's are quite shabby and hopefully they'll be preceded by offshore cities.
My original plan is to found the city with pigs, crabs and wheat next because it's close, I'm already able to use all of its resources and it has decent production capacity to help my growing empire to keep barbarians at bay. And as Dutch are creative it'll give me Marble in 50 turns and removes the immediate need to use settler to claim that resource.
After that I'm planning to found both of the northern horse cities (probably the closer one first or should I take the better commercial city first even though it's further?). Rest of the founding order is unclear and will probably be influenced by future resources such as iron.
Then comes the problem. What would be a feasible type of victory? Domination seems quite hard so I'm mostly considering space (is my land rich enough in both hammers and coins for this?) or culture (if this is the best way I'm going to need a little help with my teching order as I've never actually tried culture before).
So is there hope for the Dutch people or do they fall into oblivion?
). I would think on space or diplo ( I prefer space, but is a personal choice ), but remember that ,regardless of the victory you choose, you'll need to overcome the AI tech trades, so economical buildup is a must. Go to Monarchy, for HR and CoL, for courthouses, get CS, work those FP tiles with cottages and have some collateral delivering units ( cats, trebs,... ) to deal with a possible AI thinking it is Hernan Cortez 
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and you may need a protecting fleet. Third, you might consider founding a colony to take advantage of the foreign trade routes and astro gives you both oceanic trade routes and the means of making a overseas colony.
