Yared
That Guy
Yay he followed my tip! 
I'm guessing he did it because he wanted all 3 hills and all resources in his BFC.
I'm guessing he did it because he wanted all 3 hills and all resources in his BFC.
The 'I Suck At Civ' Series
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attackfighter
Emperor
but 3 of those resources need calender to work....
They still provide a tile bonus even without a Plantation. Plus, whenever he does get to the Calendar, they'll be quite good.
NihilZero
WHEOOHRNY
I too am a Prince neophyte. New at Civ, I won a game on Noble after a couple of tries so then I shifted up to Prince. The AI is pretty active at seizing territory and it's easy to get hemmed in with nowhere left to expand if you aren't aggressive. On the other hand, you can crash your economy if you expand too fast by settling or conquest. 
Balancing these complex matters is no paltry task for rookies like me.
However I just won my first Prince game, so persevere and you shall prevail!
With Squatting Bovine, my guess is that you will need to squeeze every last drop of great person-producing fecundity out of his oversized Philosophical testicles, lacking as you do any other means of getting a tech advantage. Furthermore, as somebody said already, you need that gold as a matter of no small urgency. You have access to a shitload of flood plains which ain't bad.
Stake out some lebensraum ASAP, but watch the accounts and make sure the books balance.
Balancing these complex matters is no paltry task for rookies like me.However I just won my first Prince game, so persevere and you shall prevail!
With Squatting Bovine, my guess is that you will need to squeeze every last drop of great person-producing fecundity out of his oversized Philosophical testicles, lacking as you do any other means of getting a tech advantage. Furthermore, as somebody said already, you need that gold as a matter of no small urgency. You have access to a shitload of flood plains which ain't bad.
Stake out some lebensraum ASAP, but watch the accounts and make sure the books balance.
Yared
That Guy
yes but I think he'll have calendar (researched or traded) by the time he gets bureaucracy, dontcha think?
Ignorant Teacher
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What happened to this game?
Vox de Villainy
Chieftain
Real life reared it's ugly head.
As I'm going on a brief sortie to the Netherlands tomorrow, I imagined I'd revitalise it upon my glorious return; around Wednesday next week. The round is played!
As I'm going on a brief sortie to the Netherlands tomorrow, I imagined I'd revitalise it upon my glorious return; around Wednesday next week. The round is played!
attackfighter
Emperor
u should reload 2 4000 bc and take my advice
I agree with attackfinder.
You settle on the plains hill, get animal husbandry then beeline pottery for those three food squares to the north, then bronze working to chop trees.
The extra hammer will help you knock out a worker sooner, and with those cows you'll have enviable production and reasonable food very early on. Before the border pop, work that wine tile (as you're building a worker at this point, the extra hammer means production won't be too poor and the extra commerce should help establish early techs) Once the border pops work those three food plains tiles. This should help you establish a second city two north one east of the horse quickly (trees to chop to knock out totem pole to pop the borders, some grasslands for food, and of course the horses as well as the plains hills). You should end up with some very good commerce from this...
Which will help pay for the expansion acquired from the chariot rush. (If you get the timing right)
The land to the south should be secured simply by the positioning of your cities. Even if you don't quite get the rush, you'd have a very strong position.
Expanding to the sea won't help you till you get sailing. Once you have sailing, the rivers will help establish trade routes.
You settle on the plains hill, get animal husbandry then beeline pottery for those three food squares to the north, then bronze working to chop trees.
The extra hammer will help you knock out a worker sooner, and with those cows you'll have enviable production and reasonable food very early on. Before the border pop, work that wine tile (as you're building a worker at this point, the extra hammer means production won't be too poor and the extra commerce should help establish early techs) Once the border pops work those three food plains tiles. This should help you establish a second city two north one east of the horse quickly (trees to chop to knock out totem pole to pop the borders, some grasslands for food, and of course the horses as well as the plains hills). You should end up with some very good commerce from this...
Which will help pay for the expansion acquired from the chariot rush. (If you get the timing right)
The land to the south should be secured simply by the positioning of your cities. Even if you don't quite get the rush, you'd have a very strong position.
Expanding to the sea won't help you till you get sailing. Once you have sailing, the rivers will help establish trade routes.
Vox de Villainy
Chieftain
Ladies and Gentleman, my sincerest apologies.
Real Life has had me rapt; wrapped around it's little finger! In what meagre CIV I could play, I have completed several Prince-level games, so I appear to have gotten over my block quite off my own back.
In recognition of this, I will, in a week or two (more holidays), try my hand at Monarch!
...and this time, I'll actually do it!
Real Life has had me rapt; wrapped around it's little finger! In what meagre CIV I could play, I have completed several Prince-level games, so I appear to have gotten over my block quite off my own back.
In recognition of this, I will, in a week or two (more holidays), try my hand at Monarch!
...and this time, I'll actually do it!
