Gliese 581
Your average civ junkie
So I decided to try out Justinian since I haven't played him yet. This is the start:
Now I play ALOT of games and normally I'm to impatient to ask for advice on the boards, but since this start is clearly awesome I would like some input on how to best proceed.
The biggest drawback of Justinian as I see it is not his rather weak traits but the horrible starting techs. The Wheel and Mysticism is probably the worst combination imo, nothing for workers and unable to build work boats, hunting while limited in what it enables for workers provide you with a scout and lets you research AH as your first tech if you want to.
So what to do here? I'm going to settle in place so I'll have lots of seafood to work, there's also a few hills and a lot of forests, as well as a corn tile.
I could research fishing or agriculture first, what should my first build be? Remember that it will be accelerated by the plains hill -start. Should I go for a worker first or grow while I research fishing? How aggressively should I pursue BW?
The settings are emperor hemispheres with 2 continents and 8 civs including me on a standard map, so we're looking at a fairly large continent with 2-4 AIs sharing it. From what I know of these maps they tend to be stretched from the far south to the far north with an ocean between them so I'm likely located on the east coast of one of these continents and given the jungle I'm more in the middle than in the end so I will likely be surrounded.
The save: Justinian 4000 BC
Now I play ALOT of games and normally I'm to impatient to ask for advice on the boards, but since this start is clearly awesome I would like some input on how to best proceed.
The biggest drawback of Justinian as I see it is not his rather weak traits but the horrible starting techs. The Wheel and Mysticism is probably the worst combination imo, nothing for workers and unable to build work boats, hunting while limited in what it enables for workers provide you with a scout and lets you research AH as your first tech if you want to.
So what to do here? I'm going to settle in place so I'll have lots of seafood to work, there's also a few hills and a lot of forests, as well as a corn tile.
I could research fishing or agriculture first, what should my first build be? Remember that it will be accelerated by the plains hill -start. Should I go for a worker first or grow while I research fishing? How aggressively should I pursue BW?
The settings are emperor hemispheres with 2 continents and 8 civs including me on a standard map, so we're looking at a fairly large continent with 2-4 AIs sharing it. From what I know of these maps they tend to be stretched from the far south to the far north with an ocean between them so I'm likely located on the east coast of one of these continents and given the jungle I'm more in the middle than in the end so I will likely be surrounded.
The save: Justinian 4000 BC
. You probably want to move your capital later though, so you can take better advantage of Bureaucracy. I would start off by researching Fishing->Agriculture->Mining->BW while building Warrior->Workboat->Workboat->Worker. Try to time the finishing of the warrior on to same turn as getting fishing, and then work a 3H tile while building the first workboat.
haul will crawl otherwise. I would pursue Bronze Working aggressively (putting it before Agriculture) - you'll be sprouting whippable population and you'll want to clear some Forests away for Mines. I'd start with a Warrior and interrupt for several Work Boats on the discovery of Fishing, and later finish the Warrior off to address the "we fear for our safety" issue when you get to your happiness cap. The Workers should pop out once you've got some Work Boats on the seafood.
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