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[civ_steve]

COTM 69: Maya!

Lots of work travel - heading off again tomorrow, so I'm pushing this out late tonight. This month the civ is the Maya. An interesting map combo - small, continents, 60% ocean. Good Luck!


Civilization: Maa
Rivals: 7 pre-selected
Barbarians: Restless
Difficulty: Regent
Land Form: Continents, 60% ocean, Small map.
Geology:3 billion years old, Normal and Warm.
AI Aggression: Normal

Conquest-Class Bonuses:

1. 
   Free Ceremonial Burial
   2 Free Spearmen
   100 Free Gold

Open-Class Bonuses
None!

Predator-Class Obstacles:

1. 
   No Pottery
   AI get 2 Bonus Defense Units, 2 Bonus Unit Support and 1 Bonus Support per City
   Javelin Throwers do not Enslave

 

[silversheep]

Send worker to mountain.
Nothing especially interesting= settle in place.
Wines close by =

 

[CKS]

I'm sending the worker to the BG, not the mountain. The mountain gives more information, but it gives it about the wrong area. If there is something interesting to see from the mountain, that would be great, but I'm not going to move off the river to settle. If the worker sees something interesting from the BG, I might move along the river toward it, and if I settle in place instead, the worker will be ready to start.

 

[bluebox]

But our starting location is in the NE corner of the map. Moving S to settle wouldn't be bad to leave more space for the rings.

 

[Spoonwood]

Send worker to wines and irrigate. That's 4 extra food in the box in despotism for the Maya with the agr/river bonus.

 

[CKS]

Settling south takes both the wine and the BG out of our nine starting tiles. Even if this were PTW and I were going to settle in rings, that'd be a lot to give up.

 

[Più Freddo]

Predator-Class Obstacles:

1. 
   No Pottery
   AI get 2 Bonus Defense Units, 2 Bonus Unit Support and 1 Bonus Support per City
   Javelin Throwers do not Enslave

You've certainly upped the ante this time.

 

[templar_x]

piu - that was exactly my thought when i read about the predator obstacles!

templar_x

 

[PaperBeetle]

small map is always welcome, even if it is only 60% water.
Settling in place looks like a good bet; fog gazing shows items 2NW, 2NE and ENE. 2NW is surely another forest, ENE probably also, but 2NE just might be another wine, for +5fpt. Wishful thinking on regent?
Should we assume that there are no horses or iron nearby? It would force early warlords to use the slavers, which are expensive and will start an early GA, and in predator don't even have any great advantage over regular archers...

 

[Lanzelot]

And also: settling in place is the only way to bring fresh water to the wine quickly.

 

[TxCraig]

I was thinking settler 1S and worker chop. You'd have the wine & BG back after the first culture expansion in 3450, would that be OK?

 

[Spoonwood]

It will take 10 turns to get the wine via cultural expansion. That's 6 less turns of extra food, and above Monarch having a luxury roaded my the time you hit size 2 can help significantly also.

 

[CKS]

This is regent, so roading the lux early isn't critical.