To give some food for the lurkers (And to increase our lead in thread views! What on earth is happening in Dark Savant's thread, he seems to be posting all the time?!) I will try to give some insight to our micro plan.
First of all, here is picture from our current micro plan on t39.
Our first settler will go to north and be settled directly on copper. That 3 hammer spot was just too good to pass, and as it requires minimal worker support our workers can split to chop stuff in capital and to develope our third city. Copper city will first make a WB and then start producing settlers and workers for the empire. In long term planning it will be decent commercial city that grows some cottages for capital, but the fast start was the real seling point for us.
The third city will be settled east of gems two turns after the second. This was probably the most discussed city location in our chat, see FT's micro challenge from the previous page for details. The main purpose of this city is to produce the commerce we need to get early tech fast, but it will also be a good production city with all the green hills in later game.
Our fourth city will go to the ph south of the warrior, it will get the second sheep to work when cap pops borders. It will represent the start of our push to the contested land between us and a presumed neighbour in East. And it is a fine foodhammer city on its own.
Overall we have tried to make most of our leader that we did not need, but that we deserved by rerolling the maximal number of times. So we try to leverage IMP to get really fast opening, and prioritize foodhammers over commerce everywhere except in the gems city. In later stages of the game we can tech to MC early and build forges everywhere. We might also make a play for some wonder, quite early henge is in cards, for example. But all those later plans are still in discussion stages.
To finish, I would like to summarize our citizen and production management plan with the following, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8cqzAUsArM
First of all, here is picture from our current micro plan on t39.
Our first settler will go to north and be settled directly on copper. That 3 hammer spot was just too good to pass, and as it requires minimal worker support our workers can split to chop stuff in capital and to develope our third city. Copper city will first make a WB and then start producing settlers and workers for the empire. In long term planning it will be decent commercial city that grows some cottages for capital, but the fast start was the real seling point for us.
The third city will be settled east of gems two turns after the second. This was probably the most discussed city location in our chat, see FT's micro challenge from the previous page for details. The main purpose of this city is to produce the commerce we need to get early tech fast, but it will also be a good production city with all the green hills in later game.
Our fourth city will go to the ph south of the warrior, it will get the second sheep to work when cap pops borders. It will represent the start of our push to the contested land between us and a presumed neighbour in East. And it is a fine foodhammer city on its own.
Overall we have tried to make most of our leader that we did not need, but that we deserved by rerolling the maximal number of times. So we try to leverage IMP to get really fast opening, and prioritize foodhammers over commerce everywhere except in the gems city. In later stages of the game we can tech to MC early and build forges everywhere. We might also make a play for some wonder, quite early henge is in cards, for example. But all those later plans are still in discussion stages.
To finish, I would like to summarize our citizen and production management plan with the following, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8cqzAUsArM