First of all i'd like to say, although Im not the worst player, Im far from being an expert at Civ but playing in this multiplayer match the other day Id like to know what anyone would have done differently because I thought it was quite unfair.
FFA match, 6 players, Pangaea, Small map, Standard game speed, Ancient Era. I got China after picking random civ and my starting position wasnt too great 1 fur, 2 silk, 2 wheat, 1 sheep and the rest were either plains or tundra. After producing a scout first I looked around my area and found that I was at the most northerly point of the map with snow and tundra above me - coast was 4 tiles north of my capital and 3 tiles east.
Few turns later I find France who's capital is at max 8 or 9 tiles south west of mine (which I thought was unusually close). Around this time, 17 turns in, i'd completed a worker with my order going (scout > worker > warrior) and so started working on a warrior. After scouting his capital I saw that he has 2 warriors, 1 spearman and a scout, which is feasible as he already had 2 tradition - most likely free culture building and + growth plus he had 2 cattle. When I clicked on his city he was also making +18 GNP with around 250 gold compared to my +8 with around 120 gold (not sure how that was happening?).
So after my second warrior was complete I started work on my settler - intending to settle about 5 tiles below my capital which was a good position (gems, cattle). With 6 turns left until my settler was built, Orleans is founded in the position south of me that I was planning to go (at this point he advanced to the Classical Era while I was 12 turns away from Iron working, also having 2 spearmen, 1 warrior and a scout on my border).
When my settler finished building I settled 4 tiles north west of my capital in a terrible location (1 sheep the rest tundra, grassland, coast, snow and plains) as I had no room to expand elsewhere with his capital eating up all the land with Frances +culture bonus. When I finish my turn he declares war and destroys my warrior (alert in rough terrain with +combat bonus in rough terrain) with one attack from his spearman and one from his scout, causing minimal damage to both (Not sure how that worked?) taking my worker in the progress.
Now I found myself in the position where I was trapped in a corner with France rapidly taking all the remaining tiles, 8 turns away from Iron working, with one warrior, no worker and up against a player that was technologically, culturally, economically and militarily more advanced than me. Now i'd like to point out that I have never before quit in a multiplayer Civ V match but honestly it felt like i'd just be wasting my time waiting for him to eventually finish me off.
So if you read all of that, thank you, but I genuinely would like to know what you would have done differently in that same situation and where you think I went wrong?
FFA match, 6 players, Pangaea, Small map, Standard game speed, Ancient Era. I got China after picking random civ and my starting position wasnt too great 1 fur, 2 silk, 2 wheat, 1 sheep and the rest were either plains or tundra. After producing a scout first I looked around my area and found that I was at the most northerly point of the map with snow and tundra above me - coast was 4 tiles north of my capital and 3 tiles east.
Few turns later I find France who's capital is at max 8 or 9 tiles south west of mine (which I thought was unusually close). Around this time, 17 turns in, i'd completed a worker with my order going (scout > worker > warrior) and so started working on a warrior. After scouting his capital I saw that he has 2 warriors, 1 spearman and a scout, which is feasible as he already had 2 tradition - most likely free culture building and + growth plus he had 2 cattle. When I clicked on his city he was also making +18 GNP with around 250 gold compared to my +8 with around 120 gold (not sure how that was happening?).
So after my second warrior was complete I started work on my settler - intending to settle about 5 tiles below my capital which was a good position (gems, cattle). With 6 turns left until my settler was built, Orleans is founded in the position south of me that I was planning to go (at this point he advanced to the Classical Era while I was 12 turns away from Iron working, also having 2 spearmen, 1 warrior and a scout on my border).
When my settler finished building I settled 4 tiles north west of my capital in a terrible location (1 sheep the rest tundra, grassland, coast, snow and plains) as I had no room to expand elsewhere with his capital eating up all the land with Frances +culture bonus. When I finish my turn he declares war and destroys my warrior (alert in rough terrain with +combat bonus in rough terrain) with one attack from his spearman and one from his scout, causing minimal damage to both (Not sure how that worked?) taking my worker in the progress.
Now I found myself in the position where I was trapped in a corner with France rapidly taking all the remaining tiles, 8 turns away from Iron working, with one warrior, no worker and up against a player that was technologically, culturally, economically and militarily more advanced than me. Now i'd like to point out that I have never before quit in a multiplayer Civ V match but honestly it felt like i'd just be wasting my time waiting for him to eventually finish me off.
So if you read all of that, thank you, but I genuinely would like to know what you would have done differently in that same situation and where you think I went wrong?
