Just because sandboxing is fun... here is one scenario where we could be on Turn 63:
In this simulation I tested the macro idea that we settle towards Azza and try to block him from that northern fishy penisula. Meanwhile we settle a more safe city in the east, because I think we want those whales soon online so that we have 3 luxury resources online asap and can actually grow our cities onto several cottages and keep pushing.
- City 4 settled on T50 (this is pretty much set)
- City 5 settled on T61
- City 6 settled on T62
- We finish our 6th worker in Cornelius EOT63
- We have granaries in our first 4 cities
- Our western defenses (cornelius + F) consist of 1 archer, 1 metal unit, 3 warriors and enough cash for one emergency upgrade
- We just finished Sailing
- Capital is size 5
- Our dotmap looks absolutely ridiculous
- Next our workers build here quite a few cottages and chop crucial infra for cities E&F
- E & F are growing on dry wheat and farmed sugar and both want granary and barrack chop+whips as soon as possible
- I would imagine that cities 7 & 8 will be founded around T70 (basically as soon as we feel that we have enough worker/military support for it to make sense), probably one in the north and one in the east.
I guess this plan will be trashed in the near future as something unexpected happens, but I just wanted to illustrate what I'm currently thinking. I could post here couple of screenshots tomorrow of our surroundings so that you can throw your ideas regarding how to approach this expansion. There are thousand ways to dotmap it all with different kind of challenges/risks/trade-offs
In this simulation I tested the macro idea that we settle towards Azza and try to block him from that northern fishy penisula. Meanwhile we settle a more safe city in the east, because I think we want those whales soon online so that we have 3 luxury resources online asap and can actually grow our cities onto several cottages and keep pushing.
- City 4 settled on T50 (this is pretty much set)
- City 5 settled on T61
- City 6 settled on T62
- We finish our 6th worker in Cornelius EOT63
- We have granaries in our first 4 cities
- Our western defenses (cornelius + F) consist of 1 archer, 1 metal unit, 3 warriors and enough cash for one emergency upgrade
- We just finished Sailing
- Capital is size 5
- Our dotmap looks absolutely ridiculous
- Next our workers build here quite a few cottages and chop crucial infra for cities E&F
- E & F are growing on dry wheat and farmed sugar and both want granary and barrack chop+whips as soon as possible
- I would imagine that cities 7 & 8 will be founded around T70 (basically as soon as we feel that we have enough worker/military support for it to make sense), probably one in the north and one in the east.
I guess this plan will be trashed in the near future as something unexpected happens, but I just wanted to illustrate what I'm currently thinking. I could post here couple of screenshots tomorrow of our surroundings so that you can throw your ideas regarding how to approach this expansion. There are thousand ways to dotmap it all with different kind of challenges/risks/trade-offs