(April 18th, 2014, 08:06)darrelljs Wrote: That was one useless road I just finished.
Darrell
Roads are never useless, they let you run away more quickly.
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Roads are never useless, they let you run away more quickly.
darrell hates building roads because he expects them to backfire when his territory gets conquered.
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 (April 17th, 2014, 07:51)darrelljs Wrote: I'm trying to think about scooter getting that Settler so fast (he really should have just PM'd Commodore) and also about Ilios asking why I grew to size 4 before starting the Settler. Maybe it was a mistake. I think I'll whip a Worker at the capital ASAP, and overflow into a Settler, then switch to a Warrior. Well your capital is working an unimproved tile, and will lose another as soon as you found your second city. This is rbmod, only starting scouts, and there seems to be a lot of room between capitals, so I don't think it would have been disastrous if you grabbed copper with your third city. And you'll need Animal Husbandry to improve the Fur anyhow, so you'll be able to grab Horses instead. (April 19th, 2014, 21:16)NobleHelium Wrote: darrell hates building roads because he expects them to backfire when his territory gets conquered. Why stay around getting conquered (or worse being insulted by a French ke-nig-it) when you can RUN AWAY! If Terry Pratchett has taught me one thing, there are many causes you can die for, but only one important enough to run away for.
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Oh and as to the tech path there is a compelling case for AH before Agriculture, so we can improve the Furs. I would probably do that with the Copper giving our Worker something to do and having to wait for a border pop anyways.. I would go AH - Agriculture - > Pottery, but really I'll be back in time for the second tech choice. I was going to grow our second city to size 2 putting hammers into a Warrior, swap to a Monument the turn before growing, and then whip it. With the Copper tile though, I would not whip until size 3, especially if you go AH before Agriculture. Might be reasonable to slow build the Monument from the get go.
After whipping the Worker at RealMadrid I would probably build a second Warrior and defog our next city site. I'd chop hammers into a Settler while waiting for AH to complete (so grow with hammers going into a Warrior, swap to a Settle every time a chop comes in). It would be nice to whip a third Worker again at size 4 before the Settler is chopped out. The dotmap is really sub-optimal, but we won't have to tweak it before I'm back. Also the above is what I'd do, but when you play the turns, you should do what you'd do  .Darrell |
. Good stuff, I'll try not to let everyone down ![[Image: Civ4_Screen_Shot0045.jpg]](http://s11.postimg.org/q46wckf7n/Civ4_Screen_Shot0045.jpg)
