Ha, awesome, thanks! My earlier version (and the version I benchmark my tries) used the same path as your version two:
It seems to be some food behind in the 2nd city, but 1 pop ahead in the 3rd city. 4th city is one turn earlier up, but pigs will be improved later (I think I shared the corn from 2nd city pretty soon).
Here is the save stack if you want to take a look!
I will check your versions now and possibly try something new!
EDIT: One difference that is not evident from my saves, you complete the first warrior earlier while I do it after the 2nd worker is born. This leads to getting the 2nd worker out one turn earlier and thus settler will be chopped nicely when 2 chops come in simultaneously on T31
It seems to be some food behind in the 2nd city, but 1 pop ahead in the 3rd city. 4th city is one turn earlier up, but pigs will be improved later (I think I shared the corn from 2nd city pretty soon).
Here is the save stack if you want to take a look!
I will check your versions now and possibly try something new!
EDIT: One difference that is not evident from my saves, you complete the first warrior earlier while I do it after the 2nd worker is born. This leads to getting the 2nd worker out one turn earlier and thus settler will be chopped nicely when 2 chops come in simultaneously on T31