Multiple Personality Disorder - FFH2 Style (Succesion Game)

[Qgqqqqq]

The warrior and scout are moved in the picture.
I'll get a save tomorrow but I moved the settler and:

Fake edit: oh damn, sorry I've been having some problems with screenshots lately so I probably uploaded the wrong one. Anyway I moved the settler onto the closest plainshill to get a look around and theres a bunch of hills there and then a row of mountains which are especially prevalent near the incense to the west.

That basically convinces me that we should settle in place and pump out mud golems with the plains hill, research agriculture-> calender->mining-> whatever.
I'll play tomorrow.
Luchuirp may be worst for a early hero but mud golems+worldspell make up for that IMO.

 

[Qgqqqqq]

When do we want to fire the spell?
I favor either after the second or third cities, and then combing them at cap.
I also think we should go arsito, which is pretty meh considering one if the best things about EitB is making cottages worthwhile, but cottage growth is lost at each switch (as is production, GPP (!) and tech BTW) so would demand quite heavy micro.

 

[Kiech]

Not too thrilled about settling on a square without fresh water.
Save the spell for the last moment, or when we know that we are done settling cities for the round.

I am confused about how this switch is going to work...will Merovech be generating a brand new game that he copies all of the units onto, or editing our current game?

 

[Qgqqqqq]

What's the deal with fresh water?
The info under the leaders name in the wb file will be copied from another game and pasted in there.

 

[Kiech]

Health bonus and trade. If its all mountains to the west, can we settle on the river plains square 1s of the scout?

 

[Qgqqqqq]

That deprives us a 2hammer plant - all the more important as the luchuirp.
I think its worth it - what's the trade bonus? - as health isn't that important compared to a fast start.

 

[Kiech]

2 health plus the river gives us It would be really nice to settle on the western hill for the river and hill bonus.

http://www.civfanatics.com/civ4/strategy/completeguide1.php

 

[Kiech]

Just to note, I can't see the rest of the terrain, so make the call.

 

[Qgqqqqq]

River doesn't give TR, river allows TR (I.e it serves as an alternative to roads).

 

[Kiech]

Isn't that what I said? It provides us a trade route to get trade routes.

 

[Qgqqqqq]

Ok...I just think thaat not needing to build one tile of road is negligible seeing as TR have to wait until Cartology anyway.



Anyway, played the turn, settling on the eastern plains hill.
I went MG->MG->Warrior->settler, and agriculture->calender->mining->wheel
Settler is 5t away, exploration 4t away.
We can either settle a or b, a is superior long term (better border with elohim) but b gets copper faster and doesn't need a pop.
We can afford to take a few farms off the cap as it wants to stagnate on MG/warriors/settlers. I favour a and then quickly settling the border, but don't mind what you do.
a/b features in both dotmaps.
We lost initial units to griffons.
I think we should head straight for CoL next, maybe slotting in Festivals to get half price markets.
Oh and ethnes to the west.
MG can finish actions because new city will be borrowing farms, and cap will want mines anyway.
Pic dump:

Save:

 

[Qgqqqqq]

Oh, damn, damn, damn.
I was wondering about it and just checked - I put it on quick :duh:
Um, do people want to continue with this?


I quickly corrected this to Normal based off the Turn1 save (eitb deletes the T0 save) but won't be able to play for 4 days, so if the next in the set wants to do that then that works as well.
FTR I think the build MG->MG->Warrior->Settler is still good, as is agri->calen_>Mining->explore

 

[Kiech]

Did we decide on a lineup?

 

[Qgqqqqq]

No but I'll presume:

Q -
Scutarii - UP NOW
Akatosh - ON DECK
Keich -
Brian -
Should work as its mostly las tones.

 

[akatosh]

What happened to Folket?

 

[Kiech]

He never said either way from what I can tell...

 

[Qgqqqqq]

He voted "no interest" in the poll.

 

[scutarii]

Me now? how many turns? basically - expand, no warrior rush.....

 

[Kiech]

30 turns, you are basically starting from the beginning since Q had to reload the game.

 

[Brian Shanahan]

Looked like a solid set Q, but unfortunately all to the bin.

I'd say plop the initial settler in the same place as with Q, and go fro/m there. There'll be spoiled knowledge but as the game should be OP do we really care?