Team Game by Newbie for Newbies - Mansa Musa

[bramirez]

if enemy is close then you should go for archery and send 3 skirms into his land. If not then maybe you should research masonry so you can get stonehenge relatively easy. Other techs which will be usefull is bronze working animal husbandry too. Mine hills work cows and get stonehenge. Then chop next worker and start making settler. Expand to 5 cities and cottage every river tile. You can also try getting pyramids. You have many choices

Would 3 be enough? Even being so early in the game? And I can't whip until I get bronze working

Also doing masonry to take advantage of the stone right? First I though I only need to be with the city on top of a resource to get it but it seems I need to research what gives access to it.

So at the moment I can't also mine the forested hill - will one hill be enough?

 

[bramirez]

So this is how things went:

3800 BC discovered fishing

3640 BC Buddhism was founded somewhere

3560 BC Founded Pottery

My good friends got Bronze working in 3480BC So they both went for slavery

3320 BC Someone founded Hinduism and we discovered masonry (the other team of two must be spiritual both (maybe))

3160 BC discovered hunting

3000 BC Archery

2840 BC Stonehenge was finished

2720 BC got us BW.

So what to do next?

Quin has an archer and a warrior in his capital but with BW maybe he his on the way to some axes.

I am really confused what to do next. Started a granary at the capital - but maybe that is not the best idea.

This is the way the world looks and some ideas would be very appreciated.

I have 3 warriors moving around and a skirm at home. My worker is going for the 3 cottage.

 

[Sian]

Beijing is to far off (same is copper for the matter) to be a decent axerush ... so i'd REX trying to end up blocking off between the insea and the coast at the sugar and silk just north of China ... maybe not with the first cities, due to the jungle between Beijing and that place which does that AI is not that likely to break though early on ... but it should be a priority with 3'th and 4'th or 4'th and 5'th city in my opinion

 

[bramirez]

So, considering expanding fast and smart this is a dot map i made.

What do you guys think?

Maybe moving the A city one to the east after clearing to see what is there?

And the E city one north so I want grab the mountains in the BFC?

I would go for D and B first and then possibly G if no one gets to it first and that would prevent the other AI to get to my buffer area.

What are your ideas on the matter?

And also I would say research will depend largely on where we decide to go next.

 

[Sian]

move B one West for fresh water (and room for another city east of it)
Move E one East for less ocean (maybe even two)
Place a city 4s2w from C (which would be 4e1s from where i'd move B to)

scout more

 

[bramirez]

I did a bit more scouting and this is the look of the known world:

I think I am going for D, then C, then F (but maybe F is not that needed.

What you guys think? I though about going for MC soon but maybe it is not that needed.

Both the other team members are cornered in the south part so blocking them might be the best strategy.

Help and comments will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Sian]

F 1E for less waters (still)
E 1SE for less overlap with moved F
C 1SW (gets 3 unused Flood Plains ... need say more?)
B 1S
G 1S
H 2W1S AND 2SE

as far as i can see you have the northen area alone ... so cities north of your border can be backfilled later

Primary cities as far as i can see it is

New G (Monster Capital later on and Copper)
D (starting Block for backfill and Gems)
New F
Easten H

and that would proberly also be the order i'd build them in

 

[bramirez]

I will make the changes in the map a play a bit tonight. Just also curious to know what do you think I should research next.