Dirk1302
Deity
Nothing really special happened in my set, was a bit distracted so didn't play perfectly, i'd have done a bit better if i had set research to writing after hunting. Maybe i should have pillaged the horse near Washington, wouldn't have had to research hunting in that case. Might have faced more archers in that case though.Anyway,
1800 move axe towards Washington, 2 archers there, decide not to pillage the horses. Maybe i should have because,
1760 a chariot has joined the axes. Don't have spears so take cf now, set research to hunting prepare the 2 pop whip in capital.
Built 2 axes in capital subsequently. Second city begins on a granary i think indeed wb should be next,was temped to begin with the wb but there's not that much of a hurry. I doubt if it'll find something of interest, hope for some small islands. Build/chop spear and declare again. Lin has metal connected so i need to down an axe a chariot and 2 archers. Still take Washington only losing 2 axes iirc, maybe 3. Rest of the stack snatches another worker. Lin has 2 cities left on hills. road 1n of Washington should be cut next set to disconnect metals to Boston.
Lin is out of the game now, remaining cities are on hills but we can still take him out. No need to do it now really as 6 cities is a bit much now and his remaining cities are not very well placed. We'll need to watch that he doesn't spam 3 new garbage cities though, ais can become a nuisance in those cases.
I finished masonry,after paying the set i realized i should have set research to writing after hunting but at least we can get it now in 6 turns and we can work marble. Library won't be delayed that much since there's nothing wrong with building a granary first, writing costs us some money now though. If i had begun writing we could have set slider to 0% earlier. Don't think all this matters very much though, long term build up is more important than snatching chances with early trade (we can't in this variant).
All in all we had the perfect ai on our island but the island it self is pretty bleak. If i'd gotten this in an isolated start i would have been fairly happy but for 2 ais this is a pretty disappointing turf.
I think we'll need to research writing next, then research to 0% waiting for the GS etc. The capital is very good so probably we'll need to head towards CS after nicking the marble wonders. Without those fp's i would at least consider a direct beeline to astro but i don't think it's best here.
If the southern island has a seafood resource i think we'll need to settle it soon for more profitable routes, if not it may be too bad a place to settle.
Edit:
I just knew i missed something playing this set. Now it has suddenly hit me, we were going to build Mids. Well going masonry was ok in that case but if i had realized before playing i would have pillaged the horse to skip hunting, that hurts.Probably didn't do too much harm with my other decisions as we still have enough time with the extra Lin worker to chop all forests before the wonder will (or will not) be finished.Rushing someone and building something like Mids is not a sure thing, we'll need to wait and see if we can still get the wonder.
1800 move axe towards Washington, 2 archers there, decide not to pillage the horses. Maybe i should have because,
1760 a chariot has joined the axes. Don't have spears so take cf now, set research to hunting prepare the 2 pop whip in capital.
Built 2 axes in capital subsequently. Second city begins on a granary i think indeed wb should be next,was temped to begin with the wb but there's not that much of a hurry. I doubt if it'll find something of interest, hope for some small islands. Build/chop spear and declare again. Lin has metal connected so i need to down an axe a chariot and 2 archers. Still take Washington only losing 2 axes iirc, maybe 3. Rest of the stack snatches another worker. Lin has 2 cities left on hills. road 1n of Washington should be cut next set to disconnect metals to Boston.
Lin is out of the game now, remaining cities are on hills but we can still take him out. No need to do it now really as 6 cities is a bit much now and his remaining cities are not very well placed. We'll need to watch that he doesn't spam 3 new garbage cities though, ais can become a nuisance in those cases.
I finished masonry,after paying the set i realized i should have set research to writing after hunting but at least we can get it now in 6 turns and we can work marble. Library won't be delayed that much since there's nothing wrong with building a granary first, writing costs us some money now though. If i had begun writing we could have set slider to 0% earlier. Don't think all this matters very much though, long term build up is more important than snatching chances with early trade (we can't in this variant).
All in all we had the perfect ai on our island but the island it self is pretty bleak. If i'd gotten this in an isolated start i would have been fairly happy but for 2 ais this is a pretty disappointing turf.
I think we'll need to research writing next, then research to 0% waiting for the GS etc. The capital is very good so probably we'll need to head towards CS after nicking the marble wonders. Without those fp's i would at least consider a direct beeline to astro but i don't think it's best here.
If the southern island has a seafood resource i think we'll need to settle it soon for more profitable routes, if not it may be too bad a place to settle.
Edit:
I just knew i missed something playing this set. Now it has suddenly hit me, we were going to build Mids. Well going masonry was ok in that case but if i had realized before playing i would have pillaged the horse to skip hunting, that hurts.Probably didn't do too much harm with my other decisions as we still have enough time with the extra Lin worker to chop all forests before the wonder will (or will not) be finished.Rushing someone and building something like Mids is not a sure thing, we'll need to wait and see if we can still get the wonder.
. Actually apart from the capital i don't build too much cottages either anymore, it just takes too long. For a non financial civ a non river cottage has output of 3, 4 after pp as it generally won't be a town before emancipation. Not enough. Basically in most games research comes from capital and traderoutes early midgame.
