[SPOILERS] Team Unpronounceable Unicode Symbol: True Grit

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Mine was in PB7, and not a team game. Davy is a good person to read -- try his pbem17 too -- because he does a great job explaining what he's thinking for strategy. And he's entertaining

Did you really go 3 workers before a settler? Wow, I don't think I've seen that done before

Thanks! I've been really enjoying your exploits over in PB8 as well.

Yeah, I did. I can't take full credit; Ceil suggested Warrior-3x Worker-Settler, then I modified it to Worker x3-Warrior-Settler. The issue was that literally every tile in my BFC was either forested or a resource that I lacked techs for. Most everyone else seemed to have started on the coast, so they could workboat while researching worker techs (or, vice versa, started with worker techs and could improve tiles while researching fishing), but that wasn't an option for me. My only relevant starting tech was Mining, as I lacked Hunting resources. It seemed to me from my early simming that my best bet was to double down on my lumber-heavy start and get out a team of workers while I researched techs to actually improve the resources, who would then be able to get my future cities up and running that much faster.

Was this my best possible option? Probably not. I'm sure if one of RB's vets had this start, they'd have done it better (and for all I know the lurker thread has discussion on how to do just that and will make me feel very silly postgame). I still think it was a "good" opening; not the best, not even fully optimized within itself (Ceil pointed out just a few posts ago how I could have gotten improved corn up a turn faster, which would have put me at 22 food and size 2 several turns earlier), but I hope to be competitive with my fellow newbies .

As for it never having been done before...


Time will tell.