RedRover57
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My game with Arabia has been quite different than what you guys are describing so far. Washington settled a city 3 tiles from my capital (dyes area) very early, blocking my way to the west. He marched a settler across the map basically to do it. I probably waited too long for my first city as I waited until Collective Rule and a 5-pop capital. I still had room to settle a bunch of cities though (7, I think), so have decided to wait until camel archers to start taking him out. I even had the chance to build the NC after 4 cities since I had the production to build libraries reasonably fast (rush bought one in one city). The upside to Washington's city spamming is that it is spreading my religion really quickly (also with the help of Religious Texts, and Desert Folklore made it all initially possible). When it comes time to attack him it won't be much of a challenge since he is spread very thin and still has early units (warriors/archers). I should be able to clear out more space to expand very easily.
If this wasn't an ICS challenge I would have done a 4-city Tradition start instead based on the circumstances in my game. I could have had 4 relatively high pop cities by now and reached camel archers earlier. I don't think that ICS offers any advantages really - it's only a novelty strategy.
If this wasn't an ICS challenge I would have done a 4-city Tradition start instead based on the circumstances in my game. I could have had 4 relatively high pop cities by now and reached camel archers earlier. I don't think that ICS offers any advantages really - it's only a novelty strategy.