Awesome Harry, thanks for the sandbox! I agree with your plans, Fishing, Mining & BW should very likely be our first three techs. No room for religion beeline unfortunately. Worker first seems like a must and then it will be a combination of work boats, warriors, workers, settlers and a granary. I'm currently still travelling so sandboxing must wait a bit (I still need to install the mod as well), but here are some thoughts that I have regarding our first couple of turns.
Scouting priorities:
1. Find a spot for the second city & get as many huts as possible
2. Find neighbors & fog-bust for barbs
3. Start working towards the theoretical circumnav bonus
Other:
1. Let's not select a tech during the first couple of turns (we might get lucky with a hut)
2. Assuming SIP, I see us choosing a spot for the second city so that it can share the western fish tile for a quick start
Other vol.2:
1. Our worker can spend its spare time by mining the bare grassland hill 2E of capital (and roading towards the 2nd city)
2. We might want to briefly consider the following scout movements (SW & S-SW)
3. We could also considering settling first and then moving our scout in the hope of revealing a hut with our cultural borders
4. Regarding 2&3, probably not..
Sandboxing thoughts:
1. Damn those techs seem expensive, we are really hurting for commerce.
2. Whipping will be still powerful in the beginning. I would love to get our first whip in ASAP as the happy counter will be a main factor limiting our push from the capital.
3. This start has pretty limited options for places to settle and tech/build orders, but I'm sure that with careful examination of production & tile switches there are still things to be found
Btw, I spend a good while searching for information on barb behaviour and got answers to some of my questions (e.g. barb entering cultural borders), but do you no when animals and barb warriors start appearing in the first place?
Scouting priorities:
1. Find a spot for the second city & get as many huts as possible
2. Find neighbors & fog-bust for barbs
3. Start working towards the theoretical circumnav bonus
Other:
1. Let's not select a tech during the first couple of turns (we might get lucky with a hut)
2. Assuming SIP, I see us choosing a spot for the second city so that it can share the western fish tile for a quick start
Other vol.2:
1. Our worker can spend its spare time by mining the bare grassland hill 2E of capital (and roading towards the 2nd city)
2. We might want to briefly consider the following scout movements (SW & S-SW)
3. We could also considering settling first and then moving our scout in the hope of revealing a hut with our cultural borders
4. Regarding 2&3, probably not..
Sandboxing thoughts:
1. Damn those techs seem expensive, we are really hurting for commerce.
2. Whipping will be still powerful in the beginning. I would love to get our first whip in ASAP as the happy counter will be a main factor limiting our push from the capital.
3. This start has pretty limited options for places to settle and tech/build orders, but I'm sure that with careful examination of production & tile switches there are still things to be found
Btw, I spend a good while searching for information on barb behaviour and got answers to some of my questions (e.g. barb entering cultural borders), but do you no when animals and barb warriors start appearing in the first place?