I played this game and I am working on a nice report with pictures etc. that I will put up on a web page. However I have not had time to finish it. So for now I will post a very short summary.
I was another person who started out building a worker. Sullla calls this out as a very risky move, but after going back and trying to duplicate Gideon's game, I don't think it has to be. The trick is to keep your scout close enough that you can get him to your capital before any enemy warriors that show up. Since you have double their movement you can still do some decent scouting. It appears that if you leave your capital wide open, warriors on a scouting mission will attempt to take it, but if you move your scout into it they will not attack and will instead go back to scouting.
Anyway, I didn't know any of this at the time and I think I set my scout far enough away that I could have easily been eliminated. But luck prevailed, for me at least.
I captured my first city (Bombay) in 1480 BC, and eliminated Gandhi in 1150 BC. I finished the Forbidden Palace in 1454 AD. I had 17 cities at the end of 1502 AD (one which was captured that turn). I won a conquest victory in 1520 AD.
Sullla mentioned on one of the other reports that he was happy to see people reporting who had found their way here through the Civ IV Walkthrough and Cuban Isolationists. I'm another person on that list
I was another person who started out building a worker. Sullla calls this out as a very risky move, but after going back and trying to duplicate Gideon's game, I don't think it has to be. The trick is to keep your scout close enough that you can get him to your capital before any enemy warriors that show up. Since you have double their movement you can still do some decent scouting. It appears that if you leave your capital wide open, warriors on a scouting mission will attempt to take it, but if you move your scout into it they will not attack and will instead go back to scouting.
Anyway, I didn't know any of this at the time and I think I set my scout far enough away that I could have easily been eliminated. But luck prevailed, for me at least.
I captured my first city (Bombay) in 1480 BC, and eliminated Gandhi in 1150 BC. I finished the Forbidden Palace in 1454 AD. I had 17 cities at the end of 1502 AD (one which was captured that turn). I won a conquest victory in 1520 AD.
Sullla mentioned on one of the other reports that he was happy to see people reporting who had found their way here through the Civ IV Walkthrough and Cuban Isolationists. I'm another person on that list
