Couple of random dot-mapping thoughts:
- I suggest settling #3 before #2. #2 only gets plains cow as a new resource, while #3 gets fish and bunch of riverside grassland. I really would like us to start developing a decent commerce city out of #3 asap. We will need it.
- I believe also that we have to take #3a instead of #3b. Yeah, we lose 3 river tiles, but food in the first ring is kind of a must have at least for our first 5-7 cities.. And then #3 can work gold as well.
- In order to not fall further behind (or even catch up), lets make it one of our micro targets that #3 gets immediately fish hooked up when we settle the city. (I can live with 1-turn delay, but not with much more)
- Based on our current map knowledge our expansion opportunities are quite limited. It seems that we need to settle some fairly stretched cities if we want any decent locations. Our 5th and 6th cities will probably be targeted towards E unless we find attractive island sites
- It seems we end up needing our UU (Bowman)
We might well have opponents just couple of tiles in the fog (N, NE, SE, S..) and "the river valley" gets contested. And even if our opponents are not bugging us, I can't see us having enough fog-busters in the near future so that we will have to fend off at least some barbs. Actually quite many if we stretch us towards E.
- And that #4 is terrible
One random micro note:
- In my earlier 2-worker sims I found it useful to chop first the forest SE of the capital, and thus move our worker NE-SE next (T29). That way our 2 workers can chop the forests W-W and W-SW (from our capital) at around ~T37 and be in position to support our 2nd city more comfortably
EDIT2: What were your plans on next worker movements?