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The reason I like 1-4 better is the possibility to our scout move 8-7 next turn if we don't wanna explore more east.
We can explore our coast tiles later, right now we want to decide city#2 location and make fast contact, I guess. So, as you said, we want explore North and North-West region. And 1-4 could allow us to go 8-7 or 4-?, depends on what we see from the hill. And it seems on a coast too.
The reason I like 1-4 better is the possibility to our scout move 8-7 next turn if we don't wanna explore more east.
We can explore our coast tiles later, right now we want to decide city#2 location and make fast contact, I guess. So, as you said, we want explore North and North-West region. And 1-4 could allow us to go 8-7 or 4-?, depends on what we see from the hill. And it seems on a coast too.