ZeroM
Warlord
In the game I started today, Vanilla/Noble/Huge Pangea/Marathon, playing as Roosevelt, it looks like Washington is , at least early on the best choice for a production city. It has a food resource, horses, several hills, one with gold,but also a lot of floodplains and riverside grassland with few plains in either the BFC or the 2nd border pop. The immediate area where cities 2 and 3 are has copper and marble, one is mostly grassland with a hill or two, and the other may be good for a production city in time. These ar on either side of the capital.
Washington has the makings of a killer commerce city I think, I'm going to try specializing for the first time, and if I added up the food correctly, I don't have to build any farms save for on the corn tile. It's about 1000AD, but I only have the 3 cities up, and the barbarians are just running me ragged, sending 2 and 3 units at me constantly. Just as I beat off an assault at one city, they show up at the next. I am constantly moving units to deal with them.
With FDR I should be prety good with wonders, I have stonehenge and The Oracle already and have what looks like a good shot at the Parthenon in the Capital. I haven't put a barracks in it, not wanting to waste the hammers/or chop fodder, but have had to whip out archers to keep the barbs at bay. I have a barracks in one of the other cities, but it isn't ready to be a production city. There is a barb city to the north not far away, but I haven't been able to break away to deal with it.
One caveat, I am going to start the game over because I erred on placing the 2 other cities, they did not pop into the copper and marble soon enough and the barbs are now coming with axes and I'm still a turn or two from even starting them. I do have Hereditary Rule through the Oracle, founded Judaism and bulbed Theology with the first GP, as it was too risky sending him to the Holy City for the Judaism shrine.
So upon restarting, should I expend the resources on a barracks in the capital and use that as my militray machine early on, or assuming earlier copper access, try to get the other city up sooner?.
I'm not at home right now, but when I get in I will put up the initial start.
Thanks.
Washington has the makings of a killer commerce city I think, I'm going to try specializing for the first time, and if I added up the food correctly, I don't have to build any farms save for on the corn tile. It's about 1000AD, but I only have the 3 cities up, and the barbarians are just running me ragged, sending 2 and 3 units at me constantly. Just as I beat off an assault at one city, they show up at the next. I am constantly moving units to deal with them.
With FDR I should be prety good with wonders, I have stonehenge and The Oracle already and have what looks like a good shot at the Parthenon in the Capital. I haven't put a barracks in it, not wanting to waste the hammers/or chop fodder, but have had to whip out archers to keep the barbs at bay. I have a barracks in one of the other cities, but it isn't ready to be a production city. There is a barb city to the north not far away, but I haven't been able to break away to deal with it.
One caveat, I am going to start the game over because I erred on placing the 2 other cities, they did not pop into the copper and marble soon enough and the barbs are now coming with axes and I'm still a turn or two from even starting them. I do have Hereditary Rule through the Oracle, founded Judaism and bulbed Theology with the first GP, as it was too risky sending him to the Holy City for the Judaism shrine.
So upon restarting, should I expend the resources on a barracks in the capital and use that as my militray machine early on, or assuming earlier copper access, try to get the other city up sooner?.
I'm not at home right now, but when I get in I will put up the initial start.
Thanks.