Settler Factory?

[Tomoyo]

Springfield has the terrain the be a 4-turn settler factory. If we make it one, we'll expand very fast, but we'll need to somehow get some military to protect those cities. A city in the NE region of Springfield would do that very well. Cruller can be a worker pump.

 

[killercane]

Agreed on springfield as settler factory.
Agreed on NE city as unit factory.
Agreed on Cruller as a worker pump.
Shelby for settlers and workers.

Agree all the way around.

 

[Robi D]

Sound like a damn fine plan to me, we need to consolidate the river basin and start opening up the terrian east of springfield and this should do it just fine.

 

[zyxy]

Sounds good. We'll probably want several barracks towns eventually, fortunately there's a lot of good terrain up north.

A 4-turn settler factory can operate at size 3.0-5.0 (that is, from size 3, 10 food in the box to size 5, 10 food in the box) as follows
turn 1: work cow, wines, bonus grass -> +5 food, 6 shields
turn 2: work cow, wines, bonus grass, and forest on growth -> +5 food, 8 shields
turn 3: work cow, wines, bonus grass, normal grass -> +5 food, 7 shields
turn 4: work cow, wines, bonus grass, normal grass, and forest on growth -> +5 food, 9 shields.

Total: 6+8+7+9 = 30 shields = 1 settler.

For this we need to mine one more grass tile.