I could not help myself and had to test a bit more.. Starting the warrior in City C immediately after granary whip is definitely the right move and things work very well! 
Here is a very rough screenshot on where we could be on T75. Last ~10 turns were played fairly unoptimized with random build orders. At this point we surely want to have at least a settling party heading towards city number 6 (island pigs or something else).
![[Image: T75%20Rough%20Version0000.JPG]](https://dl.dropbox.com/s/h8tjv6s4v6g54gr/T75%20Rough%20Version0000.JPG)
All cities either have granaries or are building them. City C has library, B & D have barracks etc. Our turns 65-75 will surely include quite a lot of tile swapping and probably more whipping than what I've done here... But I guess we don't need to worry about that yet. An annoying barb warrior will ruin our plans anyways..
Overall the situation with 5 cities will be: Our economy is not strong, but can easily take couple of more cities. However, in order to get a solid 10-14 city civ up and running, economic efforts are required: Key items include getting intercontinental trade routes in our cities, working calendar resources, getting more cottages up, courthouses in the most stretchy cities etc..
Btw, I went Archery -> Writing -> Maths in my sims. Mathematics beeline is actually not too bad as our City E has quite a lot of forests that can be then easily turned into granary+barracks. We don't really need IW just yet. We probably want it just before calendar so that we can clear those resources upfront. However, I'm wondering if we should take cheap AH after Archery/Writing (RB mod made it cheaper) and see if we have horses! It would be a pity to unknowingly build a cottage on the resource. Resource will be a bottleneck, but I think we should reach our other goals (e.g. Maths + Sailing) fairly well even if we squeeze AH in.
I.. must... stop... planning...
Here is a very rough screenshot on where we could be on T75. Last ~10 turns were played fairly unoptimized with random build orders. At this point we surely want to have at least a settling party heading towards city number 6 (island pigs or something else).
All cities either have granaries or are building them. City C has library, B & D have barracks etc. Our turns 65-75 will surely include quite a lot of tile swapping and probably more whipping than what I've done here... But I guess we don't need to worry about that yet. An annoying barb warrior will ruin our plans anyways..
Overall the situation with 5 cities will be: Our economy is not strong, but can easily take couple of more cities. However, in order to get a solid 10-14 city civ up and running, economic efforts are required: Key items include getting intercontinental trade routes in our cities, working calendar resources, getting more cottages up, courthouses in the most stretchy cities etc..
Btw, I went Archery -> Writing -> Maths in my sims. Mathematics beeline is actually not too bad as our City E has quite a lot of forests that can be then easily turned into granary+barracks. We don't really need IW just yet. We probably want it just before calendar so that we can clear those resources upfront. However, I'm wondering if we should take cheap AH after Archery/Writing (RB mod made it cheaper) and see if we have horses! It would be a pity to unknowingly build a cottage on the resource. Resource will be a bottleneck, but I think we should reach our other goals (e.g. Maths + Sailing) fairly well even if we squeeze AH in.
I.. must... stop... planning...