Playable?

[RaidandTrade]

This is turn 9 on Immortal with Rome. Started the game thinking I'd go Liberty and wide to take advantage of the "building lots of stuff" bonus. Now I'm not so sure...

Spoiler :

Save attached if anyone's feeling masochistic!

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[Loucypher]

Well, at least nobody will bother you until the Rennaisance...OCC Tradition Time?

 

[Shimmler]

Why didn't you settle near river? Bacause of stone?

Anyways, just assume that you're Malta

 

[Krajzen]

Well, at least nobody will bother you until the Rennaisance...OCC Tradition Time?

Yeah because this is not only the most climatic game as Great Roman Empire but also uses so many of Roman Civ5 unique features

I highly recommend restarting

 

[Memoryjar]

You settled on start position ? River an mountains near, it's a pity.

 

[Mudrac]

Well, you still haven't explored to the south. With ships I mean.

 

[Væringjar]

Not too bad. You have many sources and like Mudrac said, you haven't explored south.

anyway, non will be threat to your city until Renaissance. so, that's cool, isn't it?

 

[krc]

You could beeline optics and then push your scouts around the mountain range. There is a good city site south of the mountains with access to marble, wheat, and more copper. (The attached screen shot is turn 50.) With all that copper, the "earth mother" pantheon could be useful.

However, I'm not masochistic enough to go any further than this. Rome (the city) can never trade with anyone; there is no place to send caravans and no access to the sea.

 

[Vitruvius]

This has to be one of the worst starts... landlocked but alone, tundra, ice... i would have rage quitted by now.

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[GoStu]

That has to be one of the worst starts, if not THE worst start I've ever seen.

 

[kb27787]

one 2-food tile at the beginning?
No food, no chance... reroll

 

[danieladler]

Load initial turn. Restart. Hope for a better starting point.

 

[RaidandTrade]

Thanks for the posts. Glad to see I'm not the only one who'd have bailed on that one. This, BTW, is only my second immortal game so even more reluctance to take a bad start further!

Shimmler/Memoryjar - Went for a hill for production thinking to go for early infrastructure quicker and saw the hills and figured I'd be closer to gold earlier. In terms of being near a river, does being at the top I the river count for waterwheels, etc or do you need to be right next to it? (Missing the mountain is just a duh thing as I get observatory so rarely!).

Krc - You went further than me - I called time on it at turn 9 and restarted. Seeing turn 50 I don't think I'd have gone further.

As to joys of isolation, my previous game was an isolated France start so I was looking for a little more earlier war in this one! (I'm now enjoying a landlocked game and have reduced Ethiopia and Brazil to City state status which is more what I was after).

 

[Melchizedek]

I think it will be borderline playable if you settle by a mountain and river and ocean. With Rome where it is, no chance.