I have set our opponents to be America, Germany, Japan, Rome, Scandinavia, Mongols and Ottomans. Here's our start...
4000BC (0): We're on a river, which is nice - I have the impression that you get fewer river starts in C3C with non-agricultural civs than before. We also have gems in reach and tobacco for some extra commerce, but no bonus food and rather barren lands around us. I move the scout on the mountain and the worker on the tobacco to get a better view but find nothing that would justify a move, so Moscow is founded and a scout is ordered.
We know pottery already so I start to research iron working, hoping for a trading opportunity. The alternative would have been to shut down research immediately, but we're scientific, so...
3600BC (8): Our second scout goes exploring, a third is ordered up.
3550BC (9): Moscow's borders will expand next turn and it will grow at the same time, so I raise lux now to prevent a clown when workers get reassigned during cultural expansion.
3500BC (10): Germany is contacted. A volcano erupts near our first scout, and I'm glad lava doesn't kill units as it should.
3450BC (11): Finally, we pop our first hut and get...maps.
3400BC (12): We produce a third scout and a warrior is ordered next. I hate to go over our free unit support so early, but with 40% land I wanted to take max advantage of our expansionist trait, and now we need a warrior to defend against any restless barbs.
3300BC (14): Another hut and...more maps.
3200BC (16): And another one: 25 gold. Seems the barbarian settlers are hiding somewhere together with their techs...
The newly produced warrior leaves Moscow for a short while to explore the rest of our immediate surroundings, and a granary is ordered up next.
3100BC (18): A Víking warrior is met in the east.
3050BC (19): Germany knows iron working now, grand.
3000BC (20): Finally, a hut yields something useful: Warrior code! The tech both our contacts know already, yeah...
There are some nice lands southwest of Moscow, a river with two cows and another river with flood plains, and there are spices to the east. To the north and west lies Siberia, though.
I had decided to continue research on iron working, maybe we can get it before Scandinavia or other AIs meet Germany.
May you have more luck with huts...
Roster:
T-hawk
Bede
Justus II
Kylearan
6thGenTexan
Grimjack
Edit: I guess we should do first come, first serve for the first rotation to finalize playing order.
-Kylearan