T139 GA T4 continued
Carrying on with the south, and then south west city overviews and planned terrain improvements.
Size 8, making 24hpt at Guilds/Caste, growing there pretty much on max food and a forge. This will require 92 food, so should be done relatively quickly, especially if I steal the flood plain (it's a possibility, but it basically comes down to available worker turns, growth is quicker here than in ST because this is lower pop).
3S is a bit weird. It can go to size 10 and 28hpt, or it can build a lighthouse, work the two lake tiles and reach size 12 and work an extra workshop for 32 hpt. I'm tempted to go with the quick lighthouse here, because it will help with the growth from the lakes, and make the two coastal tiles useful to not delay growth on lower food tiles. There are going to be spare tiles no matter what I do (and I can swap some tiles around with ATAT if I want to and even both out at 28hpt). Given neither city is actually a safe one, I'm not sure it matters that much how I plan it right now.
Size 13 and 28hpt? Given 3 of the tiles are just plains farms, that is an awful lot of food just to get a good rounding. Size 10 (and save 66 food!) is more realistic.
Size 11, 3 farms (fp and 2 grassland), fish, and a bunch of specs as the backup GP generator. Not exactly a safe location, but not like there is much else to do with this city. It will steal the plains hill to knock out the courthouse at some point though.
Overview. In a note to T140 and reaching top score, none of this land was guaranteed to be mine. OH could easily have settled 3S himself and sealed it off, keeping 2 happy res away from me.
The next two cities are easy though:
Because of how I need to irrigate the corn for HWD, MiF has a food surplus of 9, then works 3 workshops to drop it to +4 and nothing to sink it into except specialists. Therefore Merc isn't entirely relevant to this city, it will always run an engineer just because of the way rounding will work: Size 10, 20hpt and 1 lake tile, clam, cow, 3 workshops and 2 farms
Just going to keep HWD small: Size 10 and 24hpt, or size 6 and 20hpt. Given that it will reach Guilds after HWD reaches size 6 (and it therefore would only be at 16hpt) I'll just grow it on the coast and allocate worker turns as they become available.
Best bit of this screenshot: borders popped in OH's front city Free At last. But because of the monument, the clam won't be lost.
Carrying on with the south, and then south west city overviews and planned terrain improvements.
Size 8, making 24hpt at Guilds/Caste, growing there pretty much on max food and a forge. This will require 92 food, so should be done relatively quickly, especially if I steal the flood plain (it's a possibility, but it basically comes down to available worker turns, growth is quicker here than in ST because this is lower pop).
3S is a bit weird. It can go to size 10 and 28hpt, or it can build a lighthouse, work the two lake tiles and reach size 12 and work an extra workshop for 32 hpt. I'm tempted to go with the quick lighthouse here, because it will help with the growth from the lakes, and make the two coastal tiles useful to not delay growth on lower food tiles. There are going to be spare tiles no matter what I do (and I can swap some tiles around with ATAT if I want to and even both out at 28hpt). Given neither city is actually a safe one, I'm not sure it matters that much how I plan it right now.
Size 13 and 28hpt? Given 3 of the tiles are just plains farms, that is an awful lot of food just to get a good rounding. Size 10 (and save 66 food!) is more realistic.
Size 11, 3 farms (fp and 2 grassland), fish, and a bunch of specs as the backup GP generator. Not exactly a safe location, but not like there is much else to do with this city. It will steal the plains hill to knock out the courthouse at some point though.
Overview. In a note to T140 and reaching top score, none of this land was guaranteed to be mine. OH could easily have settled 3S himself and sealed it off, keeping 2 happy res away from me.
The next two cities are easy though:
Because of how I need to irrigate the corn for HWD, MiF has a food surplus of 9, then works 3 workshops to drop it to +4 and nothing to sink it into except specialists. Therefore Merc isn't entirely relevant to this city, it will always run an engineer just because of the way rounding will work: Size 10, 20hpt and 1 lake tile, clam, cow, 3 workshops and 2 farms
Just going to keep HWD small: Size 10 and 24hpt, or size 6 and 20hpt. Given that it will reach Guilds after HWD reaches size 6 (and it therefore would only be at 16hpt) I'll just grow it on the coast and allocate worker turns as they become available.
Best bit of this screenshot: borders popped in OH's front city Free At last. But because of the monument, the clam won't be lost.