Thought a bit more and worked out some smother micro for the northern cities:
Growth@2 eot74. T75 work deer and plains hill forest, granary 20/60, food box 2/24. T76 build worker, chop lands, worker 36/60. T77 whip worker, work plains hill forest, worker 81/60, overflow 15 hammers. T78 build granary, new worker 7 moves to plains hill forest chop, granary 38/40, T79 forest chopped, granary 61/60, food box 10/22. Growth@2 eot82 with 11 food saved.
As we aren't grabbing Sailing, I want the granary so we can prepare for a galley double whip. City 4 can also double whip a galley, but we have no western coastal cities, so this is the only place we can build one for scouting purposes, and to settle the island.
Continue to work grass farm, tundra forest furs. Worker on furs chops plains forest T78. Granary whip T79 with 13 food in the box. T80, T81 work grass farm, food box 19/22. T82 (as we now have 3 workers again) corn is farmed, work cor, growth@2 eot 82 with 11 food saved and 2 overflow for foodbox of 13/24.
I think this is the quickest way to get both of these cities productive. Even depending on how we want to prioritize growth between these cities, we can get them to size 4 by eot89 IMO. I think we want to get JJ to size 4 working the plains sheep, plains hill mine and both furs unless we can drag it to size 5 and working the grass farm to slowly accrue food and prepare for the incoming galley whip, and it can maintain size 5 from T88 anyway. BCR can maintain size 5 from T90, and it only really needs the corn to work 3 grass hill mines and a plains hill mine for stagnation purposes, otherwise it might as well just work deer, corn and whip a little. The reality is that the corn has to be swapped between BCR and JJ, but once they are grown we should be capable of keeping both of them close to the happy cap. Between the two cities, we could realistically get 15bpt from research builds and two double whips every 10 turns.
This just leaves the SW as the only vulnerable position remaining, but LBJ should get some units out to help with that, we can retreat the scout and use that as a fogbuster to the NW in the medium term, and the chariot in Kalamazoo can reach MtK in 2 turns. If we need to, we will have to whip MtK before the units can reach there from LBJ but we should have around them in position in 10 turns or fewer. Meanwhile MtK could overflow into an archer on T76 and would be able to whip that as an emergency if needed (might not even need to whip it, might be able to just finish it naturally due to the overflow hammers from teh library and natural production.
Growth@2 eot74. T75 work deer and plains hill forest, granary 20/60, food box 2/24. T76 build worker, chop lands, worker 36/60. T77 whip worker, work plains hill forest, worker 81/60, overflow 15 hammers. T78 build granary, new worker 7 moves to plains hill forest chop, granary 38/40, T79 forest chopped, granary 61/60, food box 10/22. Growth@2 eot82 with 11 food saved.
As we aren't grabbing Sailing, I want the granary so we can prepare for a galley double whip. City 4 can also double whip a galley, but we have no western coastal cities, so this is the only place we can build one for scouting purposes, and to settle the island.
Continue to work grass farm, tundra forest furs. Worker on furs chops plains forest T78. Granary whip T79 with 13 food in the box. T80, T81 work grass farm, food box 19/22. T82 (as we now have 3 workers again) corn is farmed, work cor, growth@2 eot 82 with 11 food saved and 2 overflow for foodbox of 13/24.
I think this is the quickest way to get both of these cities productive. Even depending on how we want to prioritize growth between these cities, we can get them to size 4 by eot89 IMO. I think we want to get JJ to size 4 working the plains sheep, plains hill mine and both furs unless we can drag it to size 5 and working the grass farm to slowly accrue food and prepare for the incoming galley whip, and it can maintain size 5 from T88 anyway. BCR can maintain size 5 from T90, and it only really needs the corn to work 3 grass hill mines and a plains hill mine for stagnation purposes, otherwise it might as well just work deer, corn and whip a little. The reality is that the corn has to be swapped between BCR and JJ, but once they are grown we should be capable of keeping both of them close to the happy cap. Between the two cities, we could realistically get 15bpt from research builds and two double whips every 10 turns.
This just leaves the SW as the only vulnerable position remaining, but LBJ should get some units out to help with that, we can retreat the scout and use that as a fogbuster to the NW in the medium term, and the chariot in Kalamazoo can reach MtK in 2 turns. If we need to, we will have to whip MtK before the units can reach there from LBJ but we should have around them in position in 10 turns or fewer. Meanwhile MtK could overflow into an archer on T76 and would be able to whip that as an emergency if needed (might not even need to whip it, might be able to just finish it naturally due to the overflow hammers from teh library and natural production.