Well, I tried and took the short route to religion. Settled in place, first tech Meditation. While this start is good there are a few problems, such as no easy food (we need to go AH for that) and no prereq techs for AH. We need to hurry along a bit. As such, first build was a warrior because a worker takes forever on a 2-food tile and he'd have nothing to do anyway.
The first competitor on our continent was in after 5 turns: It's Hannibal. I'm not quite sure what to think of that. He's pretty balanced, techs well and sometimes aggressive, but does not often prioritize religion and does not attack at pleased. I'd say he looks more like a potential convert than a competitor in the religious arena.
And when Meditation came in... it turned out we were first. When we got our choice for religion, I of course picked Christianity, Izzy's favorite religion.
After that I went Hunting. The main problem is that we'll need AH before this capital will be of any use to us (well we can farm the, and I can easily see BW coming late and getting us into barbarian problems (remember we've already lost time by going meditation instead of worker techs). Just to be on the safe side, we now have the prereq for archery... just in case. This just was the safe&quick choice.
AH is queued up after finishing Hunting. I doubt that we'll change that, seeing as how badly we need that.
Our land isn't half bad. We have a FP site, some gold nearby. I think it's best to get the gold with the second city, seeing as we'll likely still be developing slowly and can use the extra commerce.
Oh, and feel free to change my worker build. While we do want a worker once AH is in, he'll be around early and have nothing to do. That, unfortunately, is the fate of Spain going for an early religion with no seafood or agri resources... Nevertheless, I think we're in a good position, development hampering through early religion notwithstanding.
Roster:
Roster:
PaulusIII - just played
Arlborn - UP
Ralph_Jackson - on deck
nocho
Meiz
Loki_Strikes