Timeline for a Henge build:
The micro is the same for the workers and city build up to the completion of worker3 eot32, however we need to research Mysticism after BW. The micro is the same for the second city, two workers hooking the plains sheep and then one worker hooking the grass sheep.
Henge is completed eot40. One worker mines the second plains hill, and worker3 chops two forests for a 120/120 Henge. Settler2 is then completed eot44 with a further 2 chops, and 2 forests remaining. Agriculture and Wheel done eot38 and eot43, however there are only 3 workers. Pottery due eot47-48. This would delay an Oracle gambit.
Whilst I prefer the straight push to Pottery and the extra settler and worker compared to the uncertainty of Henge, I'm struggling to see a good third city location that doesn't have to wait until T50 anyway to get a food resource. In fact, if we did land Henge in the capital, this would bring forward hooking the SE corn for any city that had it in the outer ring.
The micro is the same for the workers and city build up to the completion of worker3 eot32, however we need to research Mysticism after BW. The micro is the same for the second city, two workers hooking the plains sheep and then one worker hooking the grass sheep.
Henge is completed eot40. One worker mines the second plains hill, and worker3 chops two forests for a 120/120 Henge. Settler2 is then completed eot44 with a further 2 chops, and 2 forests remaining. Agriculture and Wheel done eot38 and eot43, however there are only 3 workers. Pottery due eot47-48. This would delay an Oracle gambit.
Whilst I prefer the straight push to Pottery and the extra settler and worker compared to the uncertainty of Henge, I'm struggling to see a good third city location that doesn't have to wait until T50 anyway to get a food resource. In fact, if we did land Henge in the capital, this would bring forward hooking the SE corn for any city that had it in the outer ring.