Luckiest Start

[plastiqe]

Sometimes the gods smile on you. In my most recent game with Cyrus on monarch I had some rapid fire goody huts, 3 techs in 4 turns and a little later I got the +2 health treatments event. All that combined with a pristine little landmass is one of the best starts I've ever had thanks to the RNG.

 

[BarbarianArcher]

We all get lucky sometimes.
Theres probably a strategic in the plains to the north of you. Hopefully, it's Iron

I got lucky with the huts once, too. My borders popped two goodie huts at once, which proceeded to give me BW and then IW

 

[Higher Game]

Huts and events can break the game. I wouldn't bother with them.

 

[markiz2001]

meh. not very good. starting position would be better 2S. poor land. small continent. plus where is fishing?

 

[Zx Zero Zx]

That happens all the time on lower difficulty levels.

 

[Praeclarus]

In my most recent game with Cyrus on monarch

That happens all the time on lower difficulty levels.

It happens a lot less after noble

 

[coanda]

Somewhere I've still got a screenshot saved from the most ridiculous starting position I've ever seen. Unfortunately, it wasn't my starting position - it was an AI one. Joao II started with 2x gems, 1x gold, clam, fish, and rice in the BFC. An incredibly easy continent layout meant one relatively nearby blocking city secured enough land for 9 cities without any fighting or rush; he also had easy early access to Ivory. So to recap: An expansive, imperialistic leader, with 3 food resources and 3 high-commerce tiles in his capital's BFC and 3 happiness resources almost immediately accessible, plenty of space to lay down 9 cities without fighting any wars, with only one choke-point city and only one immediate neighbor, Mehmed II, but a second neighbor accessible as an additional trading partner. Oh - and there were 5 small post-astronomy islands, 3 of which had truly great city sites, which the Carrack should let Joao settle first, in addition to another continent with the other 4 civs.

If I'd still had the 4000 BC save from that game, I might have WB'd the save and bumped the difficulty up to Deity - if ever there was a start I ought to be able to compete with Deity on, that has to be it!

 

[Bibor]

Speaking of a lucky start:

Spoiler :

(oh and there's iron in Washington's BFC)

AND

There's a Fish/Ivory site just north of the Northern bananas.

 

[Quaren]

On a recent game I played with 3 friends the AI Tokugawa got 7 fur and 5 seafood in his BFC. unlucky for him he was isolated on a tundra island or he would have been a real pain. He was the only AI that had tech parity with the 4 of us (well I killed the 2 on my continent early and my GF killed another 2 a little later so there weren't many left around astronomy but still).
Worth noting is that we didn't trade any techs between the 4 of us to get ahead either.

 

[Paperbag_Hobo]

Bibor, what difficulty level are you on? That map looks like fun, post the save!

Also to the OP: That's a sexy continent to run State Property on.

 

[Bibor]

Bibor, what difficulty level are you on? That map looks like fun, post the save!

Also to the OP: That's a sexy continent to run State Property on.

That's on monarch. Save attached

 

[Paperbag_Hobo]

Perfect - I can't beat emperor yet (or haven't tried) - by the way I've always loved your signature.

Thanks!

 

[plastiqe]

Charasmatic promotions and Imperialistic GGs, I think I found my new favourite warmonger in Cyrus. Anyways I won by conquest (first time) just now and after that romp I'm gonna move up to Emperor. By the end I was just chain air-lifting paratroopers but for most of the game Sargon here was my best guy: