greatbeyond
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- Jan 7, 2002
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Old Dog new tricks...
In the 12 years I've been playing Civ 3 and almost as much time on this site and competing in GOTM, I've never read about joining a Worker at the beginning to get a Settler out earlier. I read the mentioned thread and see a couple of situations where this might be beneficial. I'm not sure it would be good here. If you had a close neighbor who was willing to trade his 2 Workers for a tech very early it might be worthwhile. It might also be worthwhile where you have to seize a key resource or territory. On the highest levels and smaller maps you don't get a whole lot of time to settle prime territory.
The starting area will most likely have tundra to the south, how close is the question.
Settling in place will give you at least one permanently unimprovable coast tile, and you won't be able to build a harbor. Under the magnifier it appears there may be 2 coast tiles, which along with the no-food mountains, leaves settling in place food-poor.
Emperor is not so daunting that a delay of 2 or 3 turns to get a better settling place might be worthwhile. The question being, are there better land/resources nearby?
I see there is a river in the upper left corner of the screen shot.
I 'm thinking, Settler SE to the mountain and Worker SW or W to a mountain top. Further action based on what is observed.
In the 12 years I've been playing Civ 3 and almost as much time on this site and competing in GOTM, I've never read about joining a Worker at the beginning to get a Settler out earlier. I read the mentioned thread and see a couple of situations where this might be beneficial. I'm not sure it would be good here. If you had a close neighbor who was willing to trade his 2 Workers for a tech very early it might be worthwhile. It might also be worthwhile where you have to seize a key resource or territory. On the highest levels and smaller maps you don't get a whole lot of time to settle prime territory.
The starting area will most likely have tundra to the south, how close is the question.
Settling in place will give you at least one permanently unimprovable coast tile, and you won't be able to build a harbor. Under the magnifier it appears there may be 2 coast tiles, which along with the no-food mountains, leaves settling in place food-poor.
Emperor is not so daunting that a delay of 2 or 3 turns to get a better settling place might be worthwhile. The question being, are there better land/resources nearby?
I see there is a river in the upper left corner of the screen shot.
I 'm thinking, Settler SE to the mountain and Worker SW or W to a mountain top. Further action based on what is observed.