I moved my warrior to the SW gold to reveal an oasis and a river with floodplains. Decide to settle in place and grab the gold with a 2nd or third city, as we are creative. We can probably share the southwestern clam with another city on the riverside 2 SW 1 S square.
SIP reveals riverside corn as well, pretty nice start. I decide to start on a worker and research Mining. I move my warrior southwest a bit to reveal some more gold, and then a border pop reveals another gold. Quite a lot of floodplains to go along with that as well. Mining is researched at turn 7 from working the oasis, I decide to go bronzeworking next. After all, we have a unique axeman, so I'd like to know if I can make use of it. Also the BFC is filled with forest, and I don't want to waste worker turns after I complete the farm & mine. Further north I discover Marble and water. Considering all the gold we have, I hope I can REX and seal that part of the map off. Turn 10 I meet Isabelle up north, and she hasn't got a religion yet. Surprising =). Turn 11 Christianity comes in ( I play with choose religion), turn 12 Isabella adopts it. Less surprising. Turn 12 my worker also comes in, I go warrior next. I find the Spanish capitol to the northeast, and considering the surroundings of the marble and Isabella being so close, I probably can't go for that spot. Turn 20 Bronzeworking comes in, I go for Fishing next, to set up Uruk with a lot of food for whipping. I also finish my warrior and make another one. BW reveals copper to the southeast, which I can probably pick up pretty soon. Isabella is a bit far to rush though, so I decide against a rush. Turn 24 I've found even more gold, spices and stone, and I finish Fishing. This also connects the corn and gold to the capitol. Next up: Pottery.
Turn 29 I meet Suryavarman (no religion), Pottery comes in, and considering what I've discovered so far, I go Animal Husbandry next. There's a couple of sites I like with pasture-food, so better to get that in asap then. It also reveals Horse, which could influence city placement too. I switch into slavery at turn 30, and discover I can maybe block of land to the SW of the capitol, as well as block Isabella off from the southern part of the continent if I am really ambitious. I decide to REX as much as I can and pump a lot of settlers/workers from my capitol now, with escorts for the settlers.
I lose 2 warriors to lions before they could help the first settler that came in, so I have to waste some turns and settle Eridu on turn 44 on a plains hill to the east, with Corn, Pig and Stone. This is fairly ambitious, but with a 2nd Settler I can already seal Isabella off from a big part of land. To the south is Surya I presume, but he has to work his way through jungle first if he wants to take the good sites near the gold. Kish is up at turn 47 at a riverside gold/copper/spices location. I open borders with Isabella and Surya when Writing comes in around turn 50 and go Aesthetics next.
Up until 1 AD, I spam workers and settlers, claiming even more land than I'd originally planned for. But Sury seemed slow moving up north, and it's decent land, so I figured it couldn't hurt. I'm researching Currency to catch up in gold, and then it should be fairly easy to win lib. The teching on my continent is surprisingly slow, I still can't trade anybody for Alphabet. Not really planning to research it myself if I can help it.
I really like my position up until now, I have 10 cities settled peacefully, I have room for at least one more on the islands to the west which I haven't explored yet, and I will take a barbarian city to the south in the coming turns as well. The continent seems to be turning into a Christian lovefest with Isabella being rather small and possessing the holy city. Which makes her an interesting target =). I'm already ahead more than 150 points over the AIs, which can never hurt. My land is a little bit underdeveloped, but I'm working on that. I also just got Cristianity spread to me rather late, but that was my own fault cause I'd missed one fog tile so I didn't have trade routes with Isabella until very late.
Screenshot of my empire (deal with my poor paint skills
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Capitol build queue: Worker - Warrior - Warrior - Workboat - Settler - Settler - Warrior - Granary and then a stream of Settlers, Workers, Workboats and Vultures
Tech path: Mining - Bronze Working - Fishing - Pottery - Animal Husbandry - Masonry - Writing - Aesthetics - Ironworking - Hunting - Mathematics - Sailing - Currency (still busy)
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. Literally only difference was the second path (fishing first) was one turn ahead on growing to size 5 but was further behind on scouting the surrounding land. No micro was done, and maybe there is a different, better start, but the two paths I did were essentially identical at 2720 BC.
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, kind of week vassal and no decent land for her to expand.
