...and just as I'm about to go to work I'm told "Don't rush". Figures.
Bit more detail:
Phase 1: building Settler1. All this is pretty much set in stone. Build 2 warriors on way to size 4, build worker for 2 turns after reaching size 4, revolt to slavery, whip the worker, build the settler eot30. Worker1 improves sheep and plains hill mine, then chops one grass forest and moves to the grass fores 2W of the capital. Worker2 chops a northern grass forest (2N of capital) and then moves to the same grass forest as Worker1.
Phase 2: Improving city 2 and building Settler2. With the stacked workers chopping the grass forest on T32, and city 2 settled on the plains hill on T33, both workers remain stacked and pasture the sheep T34. If we go Wheel third, the micro is a bit cleaner, so I'll use that example: on T35, the stacked workers road, and then on T36 on worker moves to improve the grass sheep, and the other moves to mine the grass hill.
Meanwhile at the capital, it builds Worker3 (completed with the stacked forest chop eot32, worker4 (eot36) and then settler2 eot40. Worker3 moves to the grass forest E of the capital and chops T36, and then moves to the forest SE-S of the capital whilst Worker4 moves to the forest SE of the capital and chops that, both forests complete T40 and are used to overflow into Settler3: Both workers can then road to the drycorn/fp site, or just immediately farm the corn after a partial road, that decision is irrelevant at this point. Depends how much we need the trade route gold.
Phase 3 is removing the workers from city 2 to chop forests to get the granary at the capital. The workers are actually ahead of where they need top be so I figure they can each burn a worker turn putting down a road, and then they chop the two remaining grass forests on T45 along with a single pop whip to complete settler3 eot45 and the granary eot47 with 14 food in the box. Pottery should complete eot45 with a turn of saving some gold if we have a trade route to city 3, or close to 0 gold if the workers just farm the corn first instead. At that point all the workers have unallocated tasks, but we don't know the terrain at city 3, we need one worker to cottage the fp and overlapping grassland between the capital and city 2 and we do need to use some worker turns to get a third cottage down at the capital but due to worker positions that's really flexible.
City3 should be built T42-43 depending on location, and the corn farmed T44-46 depending on roads and city location. If we are aiming to cottage the flood plains, then we need to dedicate only one worker to that IMO, so we have two workers essentially free to improve city 4.
I don't really see a way to improve on this in a strategic sense: the granary in the capital is essentially built out of forest chops and worker turns that we can't use for anything else except roading to a fourth city location, the granary pays back the one pop slave by growth to size 5 and opens up the option of a triple whip from size 6>3 for the next settler. The forests are all grasslands that we need to chop for cottage locations anyway, if we wait for Maths we are waiting until T80 at the earliest so better to get the hammers out now. We don't need a fifth city that early either, even with incidental commerce it will be a net drag on the way to Priesthood, only starting to pay back around the time we need to be completing the Oracle.
We only really need to see where copper is, and scout around the capital for the next two good city locations.
Bit more detail:
Phase 1: building Settler1. All this is pretty much set in stone. Build 2 warriors on way to size 4, build worker for 2 turns after reaching size 4, revolt to slavery, whip the worker, build the settler eot30. Worker1 improves sheep and plains hill mine, then chops one grass forest and moves to the grass fores 2W of the capital. Worker2 chops a northern grass forest (2N of capital) and then moves to the same grass forest as Worker1.
Phase 2: Improving city 2 and building Settler2. With the stacked workers chopping the grass forest on T32, and city 2 settled on the plains hill on T33, both workers remain stacked and pasture the sheep T34. If we go Wheel third, the micro is a bit cleaner, so I'll use that example: on T35, the stacked workers road, and then on T36 on worker moves to improve the grass sheep, and the other moves to mine the grass hill.
Meanwhile at the capital, it builds Worker3 (completed with the stacked forest chop eot32, worker4 (eot36) and then settler2 eot40. Worker3 moves to the grass forest E of the capital and chops T36, and then moves to the forest SE-S of the capital whilst Worker4 moves to the forest SE of the capital and chops that, both forests complete T40 and are used to overflow into Settler3: Both workers can then road to the drycorn/fp site, or just immediately farm the corn after a partial road, that decision is irrelevant at this point. Depends how much we need the trade route gold.
Phase 3 is removing the workers from city 2 to chop forests to get the granary at the capital. The workers are actually ahead of where they need top be so I figure they can each burn a worker turn putting down a road, and then they chop the two remaining grass forests on T45 along with a single pop whip to complete settler3 eot45 and the granary eot47 with 14 food in the box. Pottery should complete eot45 with a turn of saving some gold if we have a trade route to city 3, or close to 0 gold if the workers just farm the corn first instead. At that point all the workers have unallocated tasks, but we don't know the terrain at city 3, we need one worker to cottage the fp and overlapping grassland between the capital and city 2 and we do need to use some worker turns to get a third cottage down at the capital but due to worker positions that's really flexible.
City3 should be built T42-43 depending on location, and the corn farmed T44-46 depending on roads and city location. If we are aiming to cottage the flood plains, then we need to dedicate only one worker to that IMO, so we have two workers essentially free to improve city 4.
I don't really see a way to improve on this in a strategic sense: the granary in the capital is essentially built out of forest chops and worker turns that we can't use for anything else except roading to a fourth city location, the granary pays back the one pop slave by growth to size 5 and opens up the option of a triple whip from size 6>3 for the next settler. The forests are all grasslands that we need to chop for cottage locations anyway, if we wait for Maths we are waiting until T80 at the earliest so better to get the hammers out now. We don't need a fifth city that early either, even with incidental commerce it will be a net drag on the way to Priesthood, only starting to pay back around the time we need to be completing the Oracle.
We only really need to see where copper is, and scout around the capital for the next two good city locations.