Ribannah
Fighter Druid
No RA's, no puppeting
I'm playing this to see if the old-fashioned empire-building is still a valid option, i.e. I'm grabbing land / resources.
It is currently turn 121. We have 7 cities and just discovered Astronomy; three scouting units plunged into the deep.
London was settled on the Sugar, to have both ocean access and the opportunity to build an observatory. Our exploring warrior found no ruins (nor did the Scout we bought later), but it did find Tyre and a full-health Brute camping on a chokehold to the south. It chanced an attack and healed up twice to finally break through and meet China, just in time to sell our Sugar to them.
Civil Service was b-line, so we started on a Worker. As in most of my games, the Great Library went to the AI (to China, in fact). Civil Service took 17 turns to research. The compensation was that we did manage to get The Oracle.
Astronomy got bulbed by the free Great Scientist from the Porcelain Tower, which itself was rushed by a Great Engineer at exactly the right time.
Since turn 91, Tyre is our ally, even though we stole a Worker from them early on (a calculated risk: China wouldn't give us full price after that). They gifted us a Chariot Archer already.
On turn 107, we began a 30-turn Golden Age.
Build order in London
Cities
1 London (Sugar)
56 York (Spices, Gems - chokepoint)
73 Nottingham (Dyes)
79 Hastings (Wine, Sugar - east)
110 Canterbury (Furs, 2x Horses)
114 Coventry (Wine, Sugar -west)
117 Warwick (Marble, Iron)
We wil now be looking for new luxuries off-continent.
Policies
26 Liberty
49 Collective Rule
68 Citizenship
86 Meritocracy
107 Representation
109 Patronage (Oracle)
Technology
Trades with China
I'm playing this to see if the old-fashioned empire-building is still a valid option, i.e. I'm grabbing land / resources.
It is currently turn 121. We have 7 cities and just discovered Astronomy; three scouting units plunged into the deep.
London was settled on the Sugar, to have both ocean access and the opportunity to build an observatory. Our exploring warrior found no ruins (nor did the Scout we bought later), but it did find Tyre and a full-health Brute camping on a chokehold to the south. It chanced an attack and healed up twice to finally break through and meet China, just in time to sell our Sugar to them.
Civil Service was b-line, so we started on a Worker. As in most of my games, the Great Library went to the AI (to China, in fact). Civil Service took 17 turns to research. The compensation was that we did manage to get The Oracle.
Astronomy got bulbed by the free Great Scientist from the Porcelain Tower, which itself was rushed by a Great Engineer at exactly the right time.
Since turn 91, Tyre is our ally, even though we stole a Worker from them early on (a calculated risk: China wouldn't give us full price after that). They gifted us a Chariot Archer already.
On turn 107, we began a 30-turn Golden Age.
Build order in London
Spoiler :
Cities
1 London (Sugar)
56 York (Spices, Gems - chokepoint)
73 Nottingham (Dyes)
79 Hastings (Wine, Sugar - east)
110 Canterbury (Furs, 2x Horses)
114 Coventry (Wine, Sugar -west)
117 Warwick (Marble, Iron)
We wil now be looking for new luxuries off-continent.
Policies
26 Liberty
49 Collective Rule
68 Citizenship
86 Meritocracy
107 Representation
109 Patronage (Oracle)
Technology
Spoiler :
Trades with China
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